The three Australian Capital Territory Court of Appeal judges unanimously rejected the 61-year-old former army lawyer’s appeal against the severity of a five years and eight months prison sentence imposed a year ago.
The judges also rejected McBride’s argument that as a military officer he had sworn an oath to Queen Elizabeth II and therefore had a sworn duty to act in the “public interest.”
“It is my own conscience and the people of Australia that I answer to. I have kept my oath to the Australian people,” McBride said in the lawyers’ statement.
Absolutely farcical that McBride’s in jail while Ben Roberts-Smith is free.
They let the war criminal go free and punished the messenger. We’re also financing a genocide that like 80% of the population oppose.
Seems we’re just another corporate dictatorship masquerading as “democracy”.