He was sentenced to five years and eight months in prison after pleading guilty to three charges including theft and sharing with members of the press documents classified as secret.
  • Riddick3001@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    And still whistleblowers are being sentenced, jailed, prosecuted by Gvements ( and sometimes killed)

    I get the security thing, but war crimes and industrial crimes should be measured on another different scale altogether. Most of those guys should get a medal, imo. WTF?!

    • circuscritic@lemmy.caEnglish
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      5 months ago

      The previous coalition government started this persecution, but Albo’s Labor government drove it home.

      So it seems like governments love prosecuting whistleblowers would be the correct take on this situation.

      Edit: Just to be extra clear, Australia’s current government is Labor (center left party), but the previous government was a coalition of the Liberals (mainstream, yet still far right party) and the Nationals (deep fried crazy far right party).

      So the unjust prosecution of David McBride started under the previous rightwing coalition government, but the current left leaning Labor government continued the prosecution and got the conviction.