THIS is about the nurse who refused to continue force-feeding Guantanamo inmates. Earlier this week I read a post equating the rapidity with which a discussion will devolve down to comparing item X to Hitler. The point being that overuse of that meme weakens its usefulness. Some of us knew from (cf. Hunter Thompson) that 9-11 would open the floodgates to the full force of American Imperialism (cf William Appleman Williams and American Empire). So after the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of men, women and children, huge environmental depredation, the maiming of hundreds of thousands more, the destructions of hundreds of thousands of homes, thousands of infra structures and the torture of uncounted others, we come down to MAYBE looking at American guilt and responsibility. And no one remembers Vietnam and the many incursions before that. I emerged from my own childhood with PTSD from my fathers crushing cruelty AND awareness of the holocaust by age 11. Real life is worse than any LSD nightmare that I may have experienced. And its true, when youre having a bad trip, one becomes totally convinced that you are living in a perpetual and infinite hell But life itself is so much worse, because every day is a reminder that the human beast goes on relentlessly, eating its young and ACTING LIKE ITS THE FIRST TIME. FROM: rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Defense The Nuremberg Defense refers to a legal strategy employed by many of the defendants at the Nuremberg war crimes trials seeking to convict Nazi perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Second World War. Many of those defendants claimed that they were not guilty of the charges against them as they were only following orders. Eichmanns speech Adolf Eichmann was one of the most prominent Nazis to use this defense at his trial (held in Israel in 1961). “”I cannot recognize the verdict of guilty. . . . It was my misfortune to become entangled in these atrocities. But these misdeeds did not happen according to my wishes. It was not my wish to slay people. . . . Once again I would stress that I am guilty of having been obedient, having subordinated myself to my official duties and the obligations of war service and my oath of allegiance and my oath of office, and in addition, once the war started, there was also martial law. . . . I did not persecute Jews with avidity and passion. That is what the government did. . . . At that time obedience was demanded, just as in the future it will also be demanded of the subordinate.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 21:10:48 +0000
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