Dingo News published an article about this injustice, before David McBride was sentenced and imprisoned.
Career Guide for kids – Whistleblower or Traitor? – Mick Lawless – a whimsical piece underlaid with a toxic appraisal of the Labor government’s role in this discriminatory injustice.
No other news outlets seem capable of asking the hard question, “Why is McBride (a whistleblower) and not a former MP found guilty of espionage, rotting in prison?”
Apparently, the Australian people have no right to know the name, gender or political affiliation of this treacherous former MP. Nor if this traitor is still the recipient of a pension and Super payout.
ASIO, (a subsidiary of the USA’s intelligence services) is performing a similar role in the disgusting persecution of Daniel Duggan.
In a letter from prison, seen by AAP, Duggan said he believed his activities weren’t illegal and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) and the US Naval Central Intelligence Service (NCIS) knew of his work.
“Neither ASIO or NCIS made any claim or gave any warning that the activity was considered illegal,” he wrote.
When he offered not to return to South Africa or China to intelligence agents, he said they were “indifferent” about his work and told him they didn’t want to interfere with his business in the region.
And it was ASIO agents who brought up being able to meet Chinese generals and the topic of intelligence in a 2012 interview, leading to him believe they were trying to recruit him as a spy, Duggan said.
ASIO said it was unable to comment because the matter was before the court. [Ed: Seems to be the sort of mitigating evidence that is presented to a court]
Our Attorney General Mark Dreyfus, is more concerned about people protesting Israel’s ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people, than matters of real injustice. He could quash these politicised persecutions in an instant, but prefers to concentrate on an imaginary Australian pogrom.
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