Good. Betraying your country is one thing but betraying it for a fascist state like Russia is another.
Why does the government like having Russian spies working for it? 🤷♀️
Why does the government like having Russian spies working for it? 🤷♀️
Send this traitor to Russia if he loves them so much.
if it was vice versa, UK would cry out that he was just a journalist.
Jail?
I was told there would be public entertainment.
Sad, he’s not going to be able to afford the cosmetic surgery he needs to appear attractive to George Clooney.
So treason now gets less than 15 years
He’ll be out in under 7
Sorry but treason should carry a whole life sentence unless there is mitigating factors
I think this is slap on the wrist. It’s one thing I would support capital punishment for if proven beyond reasonable doubt – or at very least life in prison without possibility of early release.
Everyone working in a embassy is a spy. that where you put spy.
Should bring back capital punishment for this clown.
Don’t they do security checks on people to stop this…
This guy got off lightly. Compare to sentencing for dealing in controlled substances or fraud. Doesn’t seem like a serious deterrent.
In anti-death penalty… except in cases of treason…
Take no chances
I don’t understand why everyone is so bloodthirsty about this and talking about the death penalty. That’s the kind of barbaric response you’d expect from a totalitarian state, for example Russia.
10+ years seems appropriate to me for what he did. Ultimately he’s a nobody and the information he shared doesn’t seem important or critical.
Betraying the UK I can excuse but betraying it to the Russian Federation??
Treason.
I hate our policy towards Russia and Ukraine as much as the next guy, but I wouldn’t sell out my country for a foreign country no matter how much I disagreed.
He got off very lightly. If this was an American case, he could expect to be spending the rest of his days in a supermax prison, like ADX Florence.
I’m glad he was caught, they need to check for others.
There’s a lot of bloodthirsty armchair patriots in here.
Meanwhile, some blokey was posted out in a foreign country, was drinking heavily, and expressing distaste for *something* about the UK. What caused that? It’s all well and good chatting shit about locking away someone who divulged information to the russians, but without putting proper support systems for individuals who feel personally or generally wronged by the state, this sort of shit is just going to happen again.
I mean, haway. He was literally openly admitting this in front of employees. How obvious does a need have to be before we get on top of it?
What about the big fish still stinking up the system?
It was probably the roundabouts that turned him against the UK.
This guy was pro-Russian because he opposed the Tory government? But reddit’s always telling me the Tories are pro-Russian and funded by Russia.
Where has all these intense, pro capital punishment and death penalty for treason come from?
Cant wait for the netflix movie about this to come out
Right. Now what about all the ones in British Parliament
>Smith, a former aircraftman with the RAF, had **married a Russian-speaking Ukrainian** who had returned to the **Donbas** region in July 2018, leaving him alone in his flat, drinking up to seven pints a day, he told the court.
>
>On the inside of his locker at the British embassy was a cartoon of Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, in a military uniform, **holding the neck of the former German chancellor Angela Merkel, in a Nazi uniform, and the words in German: “Russia, please free us once again.”** There was also a dictionary of Russian obscenities.
What the hell of it?
There is many many more, all funded by Russia, mostly in Tory party 👍
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Good. Betraying your country is one thing but betraying it for a fascist state like Russia is another.
Why does the government like having Russian spies working for it? 🤷♀️
Why does the government like having Russian spies working for it? 🤷♀️
Send this traitor to Russia if he loves them so much.
if it was vice versa, UK would cry out that he was just a journalist.
Jail?
I was told there would be public entertainment.
Sad, he’s not going to be able to afford the cosmetic surgery he needs to appear attractive to George Clooney.
So treason now gets less than 15 years
He’ll be out in under 7
Sorry but treason should carry a whole life sentence unless there is mitigating factors
I think this is slap on the wrist. It’s one thing I would support capital punishment for if proven beyond reasonable doubt – or at very least life in prison without possibility of early release.
Everyone working in a embassy is a spy. that where you put spy.
Should bring back capital punishment for this clown.
Don’t they do security checks on people to stop this…
This guy got off lightly. Compare to sentencing for dealing in controlled substances or fraud. Doesn’t seem like a serious deterrent.
In anti-death penalty… except in cases of treason…
Take no chances
I don’t understand why everyone is so bloodthirsty about this and talking about the death penalty. That’s the kind of barbaric response you’d expect from a totalitarian state, for example Russia.
10+ years seems appropriate to me for what he did. Ultimately he’s a nobody and the information he shared doesn’t seem important or critical.
Betraying the UK I can excuse but betraying it to the Russian Federation??
Treason.
I hate our policy towards Russia and Ukraine as much as the next guy, but I wouldn’t sell out my country for a foreign country no matter how much I disagreed.
He got off very lightly. If this was an American case, he could expect to be spending the rest of his days in a supermax prison, like ADX Florence.
I’m glad he was caught, they need to check for others.
There’s a lot of bloodthirsty armchair patriots in here.
Meanwhile, some blokey was posted out in a foreign country, was drinking heavily, and expressing distaste for *something* about the UK. What caused that? It’s all well and good chatting shit about locking away someone who divulged information to the russians, but without putting proper support systems for individuals who feel personally or generally wronged by the state, this sort of shit is just going to happen again.
I mean, haway. He was literally openly admitting this in front of employees. How obvious does a need have to be before we get on top of it?
What about the big fish still stinking up the system?
It was probably the roundabouts that turned him against the UK.
This guy was pro-Russian because he opposed the Tory government? But reddit’s always telling me the Tories are pro-Russian and funded by Russia.
Where has all these intense, pro capital punishment and death penalty for treason come from?
Cant wait for the netflix movie about this to come out
Right. Now what about all the ones in British Parliament
[According to the Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/17/british-guard-david-smith-jailed-13-years-spying-for-russia-at-uk-embassy-in-berlin):
>Smith, a former aircraftman with the RAF, had **married a Russian-speaking Ukrainian** who had returned to the **Donbas** region in July 2018, leaving him alone in his flat, drinking up to seven pints a day, he told the court.
>
>On the inside of his locker at the British embassy was a cartoon of Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, in a military uniform, **holding the neck of the former German chancellor Angela Merkel, in a Nazi uniform, and the words in German: “Russia, please free us once again.”** There was also a dictionary of Russian obscenities.
What the hell of it?
There is many many more, all funded by Russia, mostly in Tory party 👍