To ALL the agents of ALL the government's we currently live under, remember, the COURT in the Nuremberg trials established that "just following orders" can and will get you executed along with your superiors ! REMEMBER your oath! A lawful order does NOT countermand the CONSTITUTION! So test your orders accordingly and make your choice! "The storm is coming ". ?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button."I was just following orders"......NOT buying it!
AnneWimsey
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June 18, 2018
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There will be more than one trial. HerrTrump can't subpoena in New York.
sassygirl3869
Level 9
June 18, 2018
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It is actually and historically a mind boggling question. At Nuremberg it was only applied to ranking officers, subordinate military personnel were not tried, which created a double standard.
It was also utilized as a general (versus military) form of defense for not fighting:
"Nuremberg defense" in a different sense. He [US General Telford Taylor] applied it not to the defense offered by the Nuremberg defendants but to a justification put forward by those who refused to take part in military action (specifically America's involvement in the Vietnam War) that they believed to be criminal" Wikipedia
Jeremy Hinzman used the "Nuremberg defense" as his part of his defense for deserting from US Military action in Iraq/Afghanistan...citing the fact the UN did not sanction either war. Hinzman was eventually given refugee status in Canada. [en.wikipedia.org]
It is also interesting to note the psychological basis for following orders pretty much rests on Stanley Milgram's famous experiments in the early 1960s which have been replicated multiple times around the world with similar results...only a minority of individual participants refused to obey the most extreme orders given in the experiment, in spite of the (fake) pleas to stop offered by the supposed victims.
cava
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June 18, 2018
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cava:
@Theskeptic This defense is still being used as it was with "Bloody Gina"
"...they say Gina Haspel, a top CIA officer whom President Donald Trump has designated to be the agency’s next director, bears no responsibility for the torture she supervised during George W. Bush’s administration."
I hope so. I've already bought a rain jacket and rubber boots.
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