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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, February 10 2013 @ 10:35 PM EST |
But their job required the the indictments be accompanied by a document that
sets out charging options and explains the charging decision.
If this, presumably public document, actually existed then it should have been
provided to congress directly and as such there would be no need for congress be
briefed in a closed room.
Handle such issues in closed rooms allows the law and democracy to fade into the
night and fails our principled legal and democratic systems which need the light
of day shining on them to avoid corruption and keep them true to course. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 11 2013 @ 04:53 AM EST |
That wasn't any protection from those who set up the Berlin wall though.
"Just following orders" got a lot of people executed.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 11 2013 @ 06:26 AM EST |
That's a really bad comparison. The guards on the Berlin wall really were just
doing their jobs and it was a miscarriage of justice when some of them were
prosecuted for doing something that was perfectly legal under applicable East
German law, and would have been legal under US law, too, even if it wouldn't
have been legal under West German law. (We're talking about "firing at a
fleeing suspect" here. UK police won't do this; US police will. It's
uncivilised, but it's not really a human rights violation.) The prosecution of
border guards was particular galling since the people who gave them their orders
were not prosecuted.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 12 2013 @ 12:46 AM EST |
It appears, that Aaron Swartz himself wrote something about the good guys and
the bad guys, those who where just following orders: "The Intentionality of
Evil". I do not know, how to set links, so I put the URL:
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/intentionalevil.en
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