"I'm just doing my job." The Adolph Eichmann defense

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Kiersten Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security explains they are just doing their job of protecting the country.

Jeff Sessions is not only just doing his job, but has an even higher power he’s following orders from. God himself.

John Kelly, just doing his job by defending the ‘need’ for Trump to do HIS job.

Stephen Miller, just doing his job of helping Trump do HIS job.

Mike Pence, just doing his job gazing lovingly at the back of Trump’s head who is blaming the Democrats for making him do his job. We all know how the Democrats have forced Trump to do stuff.

Sara Sanders just doing her job of supporting Trump and as a devout Christian following God’s orders too.

Giuliani doing his job of supporting all things Trump. But also using slippery wordsmithing to hedge his opinion by distancing himself, no doubt in case God is listening.

Kellyanne Conway, using alternate facts as always.

Donald Trump. Just. Doing. His. Job.

[C_U_L8R]

1. Fate will have her way, again.

And these enablers, collaborators, and co-conspirators may find themselves on the wrong side.
I wonder if they'll ever realize that... or like so many criminals before, deny everything to the very end.

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3. I think they won't deny what they did

They’ll definitely claim they must be innocent because ”They were doing their job.”

They will deny they ever had a choice.

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2. This what he said.

“There is a need to draw a line between the leaders responsible and the people like me forced to serve as mere instruments in the hands of the leaders,” pleaded Eichmann — the Nazi war criminal who oversaw the lethal logistics of the Holocaust — in a letter dated May 29, 1962, the day that Israel’s Supreme Court rejected his appeal.

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9. As a participant in the Wannsee Conference

Eichmann must have been grasping at straws if he said he was just serving as an instrument. The Wannsee conference was made up of the people who designed the eradication of Europe's Jews. It was not a meeting of unwilling or reluctant participants. They just figured they'd never find themselves on the receiving end. Of course, in 1942, Eichmann figured there would never be such a place as Israel. Otherwise, he would have started his one-way (or so he thought) trip to South America a few years earlier.

The similarity to the Trumpadors is scary. Some of these people are just downright sadists, and would gladly accept any position that lets them oblige their urge to be cruel to defenseless people.

Others, I'm sure, are proud to be "serving" the Trump administration, and think they are being useful. Had Sessions been a German at the Wannsee Conference in 1942, he would have been there, planning the extermination of millions of people, and not have the slightest idea that he was doing something wrong. That is the scariest mentality of all. They plan and execute atrocities and crimes against humanity, without the slightest notion that what they are doing is indeed a crime.

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4. .

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5. And so they did

Until the day they were no longer in power. At that time a bunch of antifa activists held them accountable for just doing their job. This time around we need to make sure that we don't let them off scot-free by looking forward to the future. Because every time we let these criminals get away with it, they come back to commit even worse crimes. I shudder to think what the next Republican administration after Trump's will do if the Trumpistas aren't held accountable, charged, tried, convicted and sentenced. Sure, if you win the presidency, you want to enact your agenda and get shit done, but leaving the crimes of the past unprosecuted just makes the criminals more emboldened for the next time.

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6. I have no problem believing what they'll do next if they can

Genocide. Period.

You’re absolutely right. This time we can’t just move on without doing something about the crimes.

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7. "I was just following orders." The most common

failed excuse for evildoing by far.

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8. And people wonder where we're headed

It’s as plain as day. This is a much travelled road. There no need for such puzzlement.

[Hortensis]

14. For sure no need. Those who refuse to wonder

where we're headed are a huge part of the problem. The shockingly large numbers who studies say are willing to sacrifice democracy to retain white privilege are just a whiny minority if the rest of us refuse to empower them. Big if, of course, but it's starting to be waking up time.

[Frustratedlady]

10. But, who wrote the job description? That is the question! eom

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11. The job wouldn't get done without the consent of those who do it.

[Elwood P Dowd]

12. Is Stephen Miller Eichmann's grandson?

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13. Even more. He's Eichmann's soul mate

All the black, withered, desiccated, black hole souls hang together. That’s why they find each other so easily.