Amos why was this post closed: Did you go and question authority AGAIN?


Subject: RE: BS: Obama LOVES Bush
From: Amos - PM
Date: 12 Feb 08 - 10:40 PM

. It's not up to people who are ordered to do something by the authorities to determine whether the authorities are or are not acting within the law. Federal agents don't play nice. They don't ask politely. They expect to be obeyed. If not, they can arrange for a wide variety of unpleasant occurences. One phone call to their friends over at the IRS and your tax returns for the last seven years get audited.

Unfortunately this was the exact type of defense raised during the Nuremburg trials. Being ordered to break the law, and doing so, is still breaking the law. While this makes it tough on individual conscience, it is the only rational position to take if you are to have a rule of law, rather than a rule of Unary Executive bullying.

In the final analysis, orders are not above law, and the individual citizen has to answer to his own conscience and the law. Forgiving them, because it was ordered by the same agency, in broad, as is doing the forgiving, is just convenient as all hell.

I can only pray that Obama stands for better standards when he becomes President. I'd be interested to hear his rationalization for this call, which I find disappointing, as I already said.


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