An Australian court rules for the victims of Clown World.

Yesterday Justice Anthony Besanko handed down his ruling in Afghanistan war hero Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation case in the Federal Court in Sydney.

Justice Besanko released a summary of the judgment, agreeing to delay releasing his full reasons until next week, so that it could be vetted by the federal government to ensure that it did not contain any sensitive national security material.

Justice Besanko dismissed Roberts-Smith’s case against Australian media – on the basis that the most serious defamatory allegations made by the press, namely that the soldier was a war criminal and murderer, were substantially true.

The trial – dubbed “the defamation case of the century” – ran for over 100 days, and the legal costs are thought to exceed $15 million for each side. Roberts-Smith will now have to pay the costs of both parties. This was an absolutely disastrous result for the war hero – or, perhaps more accurately, former war hero.

Roberts-Smith, an SAS soldier who won a Victoria Cross fighting in Afghanistan, sued The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Canberra Times, and three journalists, over articles published in 2018 alleging that he was a war criminal and complicit in the murder of six innocent Afghan civilians.

It would be difficult to come up with a more Anglo name than “Roberts-Smith”. Which one says “Old Winchester” better? Ah heck, just link ’em together! Even in this late day, all SAS soldiers are hard men, and this one in particular looks the part, like an ancient knight hurled into the post-modern insanity. Like the USSA, England, France, and Germany, Australia is being overrun with foreign invaders. How much better it would have been to have men like Roberts-Smith actually defending their home nation rather than trotting the globe wrecking other nations for the Clowns. There are lessons to be learned, here, if there is still time.