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TrollBuster9090

(5,955 posts)
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 10:08 PM Jun 2018

"We're Not Like Nazis Because We're Only Following Orders."

Irony has been dead for a long time. I can't count the number of times modern 'conservatives' have killed it. It got even deader when 'Sheriff' David Clarke made fun of Congresswoman Frederica Wilson for wearing a cowboy hat. And it got A LOT deader when ICE-Meister Thomas Homan claimed that his ICE Stormtroopers are not Nazis because they're only following orders.

Some subtle advice, Tom. Your chances of being mistaken for a Nazi go up every time you parrot the Nazi Nuremberg defence.

I'll tell you what, folks. After this is all finally over, and the Tangerine Fuhrer has drunk the poison at his bunker in Mar-a-Lago, and we're holding our own set of Nuremberg trials...I say we put THIS P.O.S. on trial FIRST.

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sandensea

(21,664 posts)
2. Due Obedience is ALWAYS claimed as a defense
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 10:16 PM
Jun 2018

by perpetrators of human rights abuses during trials after the fact.

It's been struck down in nearly every country who's tried those who committed crimes against humanity.

thbobby

(1,474 posts)
3. But We're only following orders is for benefit of Fox News Viewers
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 10:24 PM
Jun 2018

History? That is just something the elitist libtards care about.

cyclonefence

(4,483 posts)
5. Donald Trump's sitting posture makes him look like he's on the toilet
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 11:01 PM
Jun 2018

and Tucker Carlson's face makes him look like he's trying to pass a huge turd.

Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
6. Remember, the Military Code of Conduct requires that military personnel refuse to obey
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 11:35 PM
Jun 2018

illegal orders.

Taking children from their families is illegal and sending them to detention facilities is illegal.

And ask the Nazi's who were convicted at Nuremberg about how well the "I was only following orders" defence worked for them!

 

StTimofEdenRoc

(445 posts)
7. They keep bringing up people killed by "illegal Aliens" .
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 11:38 PM
Jun 2018

"This is the reason we must act."

Does anyone have any valid data on that number?
Does it even come close to school shootings?
What about other mass shootings?
Unarmed people killed by police?

Google skills failed me trying to figure this out.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,895 posts)
8. "We're Not Like Nazis Because We're Only Following Orders."
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 11:42 PM
Jun 2018

Someone knows nothing at all about Nazis, the Holocaust, and the Nuremberg trials.

Today's history lesson, boys and girls, is about the aftermath of World War II. A lot of Germans said they weren't responsible for what happened, especially in the concentration camps, because they were only following orders. Alas, for them, Allied tribunals after the war declared that "just following orders" was not a valid excuse for murder and torture.

End of history lesson.

 

bitterross

(4,066 posts)
10. The courts here keep giving them immunity from prosecution. Why should they worry?
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 12:17 AM
Jun 2018

They courts here, all the way up to SCOTUS, keep giving law enforcement in this country carte blanche to kill brown and black actual citizens. Whey should they even begin to worry about how they treat non-citizens?

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