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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 02 2012 @ 12:01 PM EDT |
"But you can't expect people to think for themselves, can you?"
Agreed on "just following orders" shouldn't be a defence, but what do
you then do about all the soldiers who have committed murder?
Though that would be a rather amusing trial. The president of the USA up for
"conspiricy to commit murder". Shame it's less liekly than the
"war crimes" one though. (I've never really understood that term, all
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| Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, October 02 2012 @ 12:10 PM EDT |
Another example of this is what happened during the 2010 G20 summit in Toronto.
The police committed a variety of illegal actions against people because a
superior misapplied a law from back in the WW2 days that was intended to stop
saboteurs. Large numbers were locked up or detained, along with some violence.
On the other hand, while most of the protestors were peaceful, there were a
small number of those who were there simply to commit violence.
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- You too, huh...? - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 02 2012 @ 01:41 PM EDT
- About Pepper Spray - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 02 2012 @ 09:51 PM EDT
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| Authored by: hardmath on Tuesday, October 02 2012 @ 02:17 PM EDT |
The Nuremberg trials upheld the notion that soldiers have an
obligation to
discern lawful from unlawful orders, and that
the unlawful order does not
excuse an unlawful act.
The application of military legal principles to a
police
action is not without some jeopardy, but note that the
settlement
followed a finding by the Yolo County District
Attorney that no law had been
broken by the
pepper-spraying officers.
The settlement is therefore
best understood as avoiding the
risk of a civil lawsuit. Liability for abusing
discretion
on the part of government officials is often limited and
imposed
only on a finding of willful or reckless disregard
of potential harm. However
the University itself might have
been at risk of substantial costs as well as
ultimate
liability that involved officers avoided.
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