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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but “I was only following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg Trials.

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"I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws," he wrote. "Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that 'an unjust law is no law at all.'" ~MLK

Who what where and when will there ever be trials? The day Putin goes on trial might mean liberation day for the US but I wouldn’t hold my breath. Maybe Putin hands you lot to China to toy with for a few centuries. Remember who ran the Nuremberg trials. The US. Who is going to try the fascists now.

Unfortunately, it's nothing to do with having to follow orders. There's a lot of nasty bastards with badges & guns. They've been given the chance to do what they've always wanted to, with no comeback or consequences. They do it because they like it.

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced nazi or the committed communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and wrong, no more exists." Hannah Arendt (1906-1970)

Thus it is known in English as the "Nuremberg defense" an expression for an attempt to avert responsibility for the most horrible crimes by claiming they were only following their leaders. These perpetrators will need to face justice sooner than later.

And as shitty and non-functional that defense is, it's made even more so by the fact that Republicans refuse to say whose in charge of doge, what their actual structure is, who their staff is, what their legal authority is. It's a mysterious, supernatural force that comes from nowhere, but it's fine

It doesn’t matter that they don’t share whose in charge everybody is accountable for their own actions so if you’re the guy that pushed the button that ended Social Security and people suffered or died as a result you will be tried and found guilty. And you will have no problem naming your boss!

In 2023 we visited two important historical sites in Germany, the Nuremberg Courthouse (Nuremberg Palace of Justice) and Dachau. I think of this experience a lot these days. I encourage everyone to at least visit the courthouse and spend several hours exploring its very moving presentations.

In case Trump orders military action against Canada and Greenland, this principle should be applied to the military people (from the very top to the very bottom), who obey Trump's orders.

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In many countries soldiershave the right to reject unlawful orders. In Germany every soldier must reject unlawful orders. Don't go through the same ugly school the Germans did. Learn from their lessons from history.

The new Jags ‘apparently want to make the army less restricted by the laws of armed conflict, to follow more aggressive tactics and be more lenient in charging soldiers with battlefield crimes’..

We might be able to get a head start on it with some of these civil service firing cases. There are mid-level stooges who clearly committed perjury by stating that probationary workers’ performance was reviewed when it definitely wasn’t. Contempt or perjury charges now could avert violence later.

I personally believe that some career agency personnel made the deliberate decision to leave OPM language intact in the firing letters *because* they knew it was illegal, & they are *hoping* to be subpoenaed or sued so they get a chance to reveal all in their own defense.

If I was the sort of person that analyses stuff. MAGA's fall into one of 4 categories: - Money is your God. * - Religion is your perversion. * - You're a fascist, racists, bigoted, misogynist, Nazi POS. * - You are an uneducated, ignorant, f*****g moron. * * Can be all of the above!

If that day happens, and you are aligned with this regime, cyanide pills will be one escape. Russia will be another. The question will be the method of execution as punishment. Hanging was used during the Nuremberg trials. Obviously, it was not an adequate deterrent.

America is being destroyed by a Nazi while rewarding himself billions in taxpayer dollars, your president is threatening political opponents and universities alike, and wants to expand to Canada, tourists are being sent to ICE camps! Americans can't stop pretending there is nothing to see here

Yes it was: and here’s a little something about reporting it instead of turning into a complete animal. You know this all about Grandpa VonShitzenpants ego do NOT become a criminal. 💙🫶🏻

Exactly this! We need people to defy orders! Willing to break command. They cannot, for example, fly good humans to an El Salvadorian prison camp if no one will shackle them, no one will load them like animals on planes, no one will fly the airplanes! Democracy dies with a whole lotta help. RESIST!