Yup, and the folk that guarded the concentration camps and shovelled jews and communists and homosexuals an gypsies into the gas ovens were also just doing their job. "Befehl ist befehl" was not considered a defence in Nuremburg, and while this is obviously a different degree, it is the same issue.
Doing something illegal because your employer tells you to is no defence in law. Of course, if the employer is the US Government, somehow no-one gets to prosecute you (torturers, purveyors of child sex slaves, illegal wiretaps, ...)
Yup, and the folk that guarded the concentration camps and shovelled jews and communists and homosexuals an gypsies into the gas ovens were also just doing their job. "Befehl ist befehl" was not considered a decence in Nuremburg, and while this is obviously a different degree, it is the same issue.
Doing something illegal because your employer tells you to is no defence in law. Of course, if the employer is the US Government, somehow no-one gets to prosecute you (torturers, purveyors of child sex slaves, illegal wiretaps, ...)
Yup, and the folk that guarded the concentration camps and shovelled jews and communists and homosexuals an gypsies into the gas ovens were also just doing their job. "Befehl ist befehl" was not considered a defence in Nuremburg, and while this is obviously a different degree, it is the same issue.
Doing something illegal because your employer tells you to is no defence in law. Of course, if the employer is the US Government, somehow no-one gets to prosecute you (torturers, purveyors of child sex slaves, illegal wiretaps, ...)
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Re: Re: Keep up the pressure (as Paul)
Doing something illegal because your employer tells you to is no defence in law. Of course, if the employer is the US Government, somehow no-one gets to prosecute you (torturers, purveyors of child sex slaves, illegal wiretaps, ...)
Re: Re: Keep up the pressure (as Paul)
Doing something illegal because your employer tells you to is no defence in law. Of course, if the employer is the US Government, somehow no-one gets to prosecute you (torturers, purveyors of child sex slaves, illegal wiretaps, ...)
Re: Re: Keep up the pressure (as Paul)
Doing something illegal because your employer tells you to is no defence in law. Of course, if the employer is the US Government, somehow no-one gets to prosecute you (torturers, purveyors of child sex slaves, illegal wiretaps, ...)
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