Hero, Murderer, or Setup? The Ben Roberts-Smith Case || Masculine Intelligence EP 1 #warcrimes

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]the whole saga of Ben Robert Smith.

[00:00:05]Just a few years ago, he was being celebrated as a national hero, an icon of incredible courage, physical power, size, and now he's being degraded down to being labeled a murderer and a thug.

[00:00:22]So the whole case against Ben Robert Smith, if just one juror has a small amount of doubt, the jury cannot convict. So without a crime scene or a body, or without all of that additional evidence, no weapon, it's just basically he says, she says, how is a jury ever going to convict?

[00:00:44]So what's really happening here? Why is this charade playing out? Why was Ben Robert Smith arrested in such a public place? See, these offenses that he's being accused of are many years old, like 12, 15 years ago. And it's taken the Australian Federal Police that long to build their case. So, what have they been doing? What have they been analyzing? They've spent over $300 million building this case. Ben Robert Smith, I believe, is a deeply honorable man. Now, this podcast is all about masculinity. Soft times create soft men and soft men create hard times.

[00:01:26]And welcome to masculine intelligence, episode one. I've stepped up. I've rebranded my Good Bloke Not Woke podcast because I want to step into something a little more powerful and a little more purposeful. Rather than resisting something, I want to build something.

[00:01:42]And a great way to start this out is to sit and have a conversation with you about the whole saga of Ben Robert Smith. Just a few years ago, he was being celebrated as a national hero, an icon of incredible courage, physical power, size, awesomeness, really pos.

[00:02:06]And now he's being degraded down to being labeled a murderer and a thug. And so I got very very interested in this because I couldn't understand it.

[00:02:16]Soldiers go to war. They have to endure terrible conditions and then they come back and people start pointing fingers.

[00:02:23]Now I put my hand on my heart for a start and say I've never been a soldier.

[00:02:28]I thank my lucky stars that just because of the year I was born, I seem to miss all of that and was never called upon to serve my country. So, I have no clue how I would respond in some of those situations. But what I do know, I would have been scared to death in some of those situations. I'm a big guy. I'm a powerful guy. I can handle myself. But when you've got to look death right in the eye and walk towards it, that's something very different. And so, this intrigued me. And I've listened to so many podcasts and read so many documents trying to understand what's really going on here. Now, I'll say from the start that I don't believe that this case will ever go to trial. How could it? Because if you look at it from a point of view of studying murder cases, for a murder case to be analyzed, you've got to have a crime scene. You've got to have a body. You've got to have a weapon that was used to commit the murder. You've got to have DNA and other factors that science can analyze to broaden the story and get more understanding of the story.

[00:03:37]None of those things exist. So that's number one. Number two, in Australia's criminal justice system, we have an incredible safety valve and it's called a jury. Now, in this case, I think there'll be 12 jurors. And the way it stands is there has to be a unanimous vote that what gets presented to the jury is beyond all reasonable doubt. If just one juror has a small amount of doubt, the jury cannot convict. So without a crime scene or a body or without all of that additional evidence, no weapon, it's just basically he says, she says, how is a jury ever going to convict? So, what's really happening here? Why is this charade playing out?

[00:04:24]Why was Ben Robert Smith arrested in such a public place, not even in the state in which he lives? Now, it's clearly known that he had contacted the federal police on a number of occasions saying, "I know you're running an investigation. If you want to arrest me, please let me know and I will come in."

[00:04:44]There was no need for him to be arrested publicly. But then we see this charade where he's getting off a plane coming back from a holiday in front of his teenage daughters and he's arrested in front of thousands of members of the public with the media all lined up ready to capture the whole thing and broadcast it across Australia. Now I do try not to be cynical but I think to myself what in hell is someone trying to achieve out of doing that? Now, this podcast is all about masculinity. You know, Mark Twain wrote many years ago that hard times create hard men, hard men create soft times, soft times create soft men, and soft men create hard times. And over the last 15 years, Australia has become very leftleaning. And we have politicians who believe in socialism. And without stating it upfront and being very clear with the voting public on their intentions, they are slowly, seemingly caressing us into a place where they can inflict a socialist rule on our societies. Now, the only thing standing in the way of that level of evil intention is powerful men. Men who stand up and say, "Not on my watch. You're not doing that." And so we have in our country this incredible wave of young men who are inspired by a more conservative viewpoint. They're training in the gyms. I see them in the gym myself every morning working hard, getting strong, building themselves, trying to embrace their own masculinity.

[00:06:24]They're inspired. And so what happens when you take one of Australia's greatest icons of masculine power and turn him into the devil? Really consider that for a moment. It's shocking. So the whole case against Ben Robert Smith starts way back in Afghanistan. The Australian government agreed to send our troops in to fight this war against terrorism. Afghanistan was supposedly a hotbed and a lot of those things are disputable, but let's just assume that it was a hot bed of terrorism and our soldiers were sent in there to work as part of an international force. They weren't defending Australia. Australia wasn't under any real threat. So, they were going in there to work in another land. Now, that itself is fraught with a whole lot of variables. My question is, how did the Australian SAS shift from being one of the most respected reconnaissance teams in the world where in Vietnam the North Vietnamese used to call them marong, the phantoms of the jungle because they moved in such ways that they were undetectable and they got deep into enemy territory so they could signal back locations of ammunition bunkers, fuel dumps, areas that needed to be bombed. They were incredible at it. How did they move from that to be turned into kill squads? Nobody's talking about that. But so these soldiers got sent into Afghanistan. And I think a lot of people have got a lot of confusion around it because you see the Taliban is not an organized army.

[00:07:59]They do not wear military uniforms. They fold in amongst the normal citizens of the Afghani life in the villages in the mountains and nobody knows who is a fighter and who is not. And so there is this constant threat for the soldiers who are working over there. Every time they see a person, a Taliban person, they don't want an Afghani person, they don't know whether they're a Taliban fighter or not. So they're playing an incredible game of Russian roulette just being there constantly on edge. Then we learn about rule of engagement 429 alpha published by the British and with international agreement. This ro29 alpha allows soldiers allows for soldiers to be ordered to go in find people and kill them. It removes the requirement of soldiers having to act only when in self-defense. That was when war was honorable. I guess soldiers could not kill unless they were defending themselves. But with ROE429 Alpha that got taken away. And troops of soldiers just like Ben Robert Smith, their teams were given photographs of Afghani people and told to go and find them and kill them. And it didn't matter whether those people were hiding and shooting at them or whether they were digging a crop in a field. It did not matter. They were told to find them and kill them. That's amazing. So now we have these troops, these teams of soldiers, Australian soldiers out there in basically a hell hole, not knowing where the next threat or the next attack is going to come from. And so it's really important that every single member of those teams is capable.

[00:09:49]They've got to be capable. They've got to be courageous and they've got to be able to perform even when they're feeling terrible fear. And every now and then one of them failed and they would need to be removed from the team which means an end to their career. Now I've known a few SAS soldiers in my life and I've heard the stories. I know what they have to go through to even qualify to be in the Australian SAS. So to then make it and find yourself in a war zone where all of a sudden the leader of your team says, "You're out. You're no good to us.

[00:10:23]You're out." Basically, that person has to walk through life with the humiliation that they had to be removed from an SAS squad. That would be difficult. Now, you know, I played a lot of footy and I loved my footy. And when I was 19, I did a preeason with Fitzroy Football Club in the then VFL and I worked as hard as I could and I was really accepted and made good friends there. Got all the way through the preseason and I was feeling really good about myself because I thought I was going to be able to play that season for Fitzroy Football Club. Probably just in the seconds, but maybe I'd get a crack at the firsts. And on the Tuesday night before the first game, I got tapped on the shoulder to say, "Sorry, mate.

[00:11:08]You're not going to make it." I was the last one to go. I cannot tell you how humiliated I felt and how embarrassed I was and how angry I was. Angry at my circumstance, not at people, but I was angry. And I didn't know what to say to people. So, I didn't say anything. I just quietly went back to my old football club and didn't talk about it because I just wanted those feelings to go away. And you know, a few years later, I was playing senior football in what was then the VFA and I'd done the work to build myself into the position of the first ruck roll in the team and I was blossoming. The coach was really good. He'd really helped me with some things and my game was really moving.

[00:11:50]And then all of a sudden the administrators of the club recruited a player who was a former VFL player and a good player and he was a ruckman and they brought him in basically unannounced and I lost my spot and I hated him. I didn't know the guy but I hated him and I was so angry and I was so felt so displaced and I felt cheated.

[00:12:13]So we have these emotions when situations like that come up. We have feelings and what we do with them is important and if we don't handle them they can turn into deep deep resentment.

[00:12:25]And you see when you look at Ben Robert Smith's civil trial where he was suing the nine network the main witnesses for channel 9 were former soldiers. All of them soldiers who Ben Robert Smith allegedly kicked them out of the teams because they were cowards. Some of them admitted it under cross-examination in the trial. And there was lots of other soldiers who wanted to testify at that trial, but they were blocked from testifying because the lawyers for Channel 9 found videos of these guys partying on a bit of a stress relief weekend and they tend to party hard. And the judge looked at the videos and thought, well, these people are not reliable witnesses. And blocked them from testifying. So we had soldiers who had, you know, a chip on their shoulder about Robert Smith testifying against him and the soldiers who wanted to support him not allowed to testify. And if you look right through that civil trial, there's a whole lot of things that raise your eyebrows. But because he lost that lawsuit, a lot of people have decided, well, he must be guilty. It's not a criminal law case. It's a civil dispute that means nothing. If you believe it means something, then it's time for you to go and look a bit deeper and understand that this whole thing is a mess. So then we go a little further.

[00:13:45]When the investigation started a long, long time ago, see these offenses that he's being accused of are many years old, like 12, 15 years ago. And it's taken the Australian Federal Police that long to build their case. So what have they been doing? What have they been analyzing? They've spent over $300 million building this case. I know you as somebody who's listening to this can probably think of a lot of other things in our society that could have used that $300 million. But no, it was spent on chasing down one man. And a lot of Afghani people were interviewed by the police and many of those have now been moved to Australia and promised a lot of things. Money, housing, so convenient.

[00:14:33]They spent over a year holed up in a hotel in Afghanistan because, you know, those locals once they start talking to white people, they're in danger. And so they'll put him in a hotel and the company employed security guards to keep an eye on them. And of course, a lot of those security guards operating over there are former soldiers. You know, they talk about Stockholm syndrome where, you know, prisoners start talking to their captives. Well, in this case, these people weren't prisoners, but they couldn't leave. And they started talking to the soldiers and started revealing things that perhaps Channel 9 and the Australian government wouldn't want people to know about, revealing things about promises of money, promises of housing once they get back to Australia.

[00:15:18]And so, are these witnesses really reliable, or are they just singing from the right song book so they can get the things that they've been promised? And you know, one of the key witnesses is a man who said he saw Ben Robert Smith kick a guy off a cliff. On closer examination, this man can hardly see.

[00:15:36]His eyesight is so bad. And then other soldiers have been back to that location and said, "There is no cliff there. It's a small hill." He pushed him down a hill. He didn't kick him off a cliff.

[00:15:47]They're two very different things. So somehow Channel 9 have been trumping up this story for what purpose? Now, it's clear that over the last few years, Channel 9 has become very left-leaning.

[00:16:01]In fact, I can't watch it. I have to laugh that, you know, for a long time, they've been producing 3 AWS's news in Melbourne. Now, 3AW was once my favorite radio station. And I couldn't believe it. The morning after President Trump claimed victory in the last US election, Channel 9 on their 3AW news broadcast, their lead story was Kla Harris wins California. No mention of Trump claiming the presidency. So that says a lot. So when you've got a leftleaning media company that's partnering up with an extremely left-leaning government, you've got to ask yourself, what is the real intention here? And all the while pushing ideology that confuses people, the gender ideology which confuses people and tries to water down the definitions of what it is to be a man and what it is to be a woman. And in doing so, they weaken the wall of defense that could be standing there as they push their covert, sinister agendas onto our society. I don't know. If I couldn't laugh at it, I'd probably cry.

[00:17:11]And all the while they tied up in the all the stuff about the the environment and creating fear amongst the public, especially among women. And we've got this incredible formula for a change in our society that we may not like when it arrives. So what's my role in this?

[00:17:30]Well, I would like to inspire every man out there to get more interested. Listen to the podcasts. listen to. I'm going to put the different podcasts in my links.

[00:17:41]You can go and follow it yourself and hear the real stories from all of these people who know the actors, people who were there on the ground, people who know what's going on, and you can decide for yourself. And then when you see what's really going on, you might choose to stand a little stronger and say no.

[00:18:01]And when you're sitting talking with your women, ask them questions. Ask them, "Do you want to rid the earth of powerful, strong, masculine men?" Is that what you want? Is that what you want for your sons? Because that appears to be the aim of a lot of these exercises. Ben Robert Smith, I believe, is a deeply honorable man. He's disciplined. He's obviously profoundly courageous, but there's also an elegant decency about him. And for him to be cast as a murderer who just killed vulnerable people, that is an extraordinary slur. And as I said, I don't believe it will ever go to court, but it doesn't need to because the slur is there and it's probably likely to stick for a long time or maybe forever.

[00:18:47]We need strong men in our society. We need to keep things balanced and we need to hold our political parties accountable to get more strong men back in there. Men who have got a backbone and an unshakable moral compass who can stand and make a decision. Because there's one final part to this. As we know from watching enough television shows where murder is the central theme from Homicide and Division 4 when I was a kid right through to shows like CSI and NCIS that there are accessories to murders before the fact and after the fact. The person who tries to hide the murderer is an accessory after the fact.

[00:19:28]The person who aids and abetss the murderer beforehand is an accessory before the fact. So if you're going to charge these soldiers for committing these supposed crimes, what about the people who gave them their orders? What about the people that said to them, "Go and find this guy and kill him. Doesn't matter where he is, even if he's sitting feeding his child, kill him." What about those people? What about the politicians that made the decisions to send these guys off to war? because this whole process is so disgusting through the investigation. So I'm now being led to believe the investigators who went into the army to interrogate all these soldiers and they interrogated I believe about 400 of them sat them in a room for hours and hours on end and put in front of them the photographs of people that they had killed and forced them to relive the event and tell them the story. all of this to break these men down and try to get a piece of evidence that they could use in some way. How many of you would like that done to you in your life? A lot of these soldiers spent years trying to forget some of those things and it was forced back into them and that in itself creates more PTSD. And somebody made the decision to do that to those soldiers. It wasn't somebody acting on a whim. It was somebody high enough up making those decisions. So really, what is this about? It's not about war crimes. It can't be about war crimes. There's something so much more sinister at play here. And I don't think that any of us should buy into it at all. If I had my way, I'd ask every decent man in Australia to turn Channel 9 off in his house and ask his family to turn it off as well and let them know that what they've done is intolerable. It's not part of who we are as Australians. And I believe that what's been leaking out of our society for some time now is the Anzac spirit. Even though Anzac Day is still attended by so many people, even the attempts to water it down with multiple welcome to countries um in the one ANZAC ceremony, moving away, just deflecting, distracting people from the real purpose of that event, embracing the Anzac spirit, teaching our sons, teaching our grandsons, teaching the young guys that we look after in our football clubs, in our cricket clubs, helping them to aspire ire to what it means to be a good, decent, powerful Australian man who stands up for the welfare of his friends, for the welfare of his family, for the welfare of his community, and for the love of his country. And you see, right now, I think there's a division in our society. And it's not left versus right. It's not Labor versus Liberal. On one side are the people who love their country and on the other side are the people who are infatuated with their ideology. Only one of those has a stable future. So I call upon you harness all of your masculine intelligence. Get together with your friends. Have conversations about this.

[00:22:40]Listen to the podcasts. hear the firsthand accounts so you can decide what's really happening here and you can make your decisions about how you are going to step up and carry this forward.

[00:22:52]Thanks for tuning in.