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Rikard's avatar

That's the trouble with military law, and law in general: even if you are in the right against legal authority, you are in the wrong.

Even if the order was illegal, or twisted by the commanding officer into making the soldiers thinking it was mandatory and a legal order, if you refuse that's still insubordination. Disobeying or refusing an order is what it is, and that's military law.

(Small wonder I was cashiered at conscription, when I stated that I would never comply with orders I though ethically or morally wrong. The military psychiatrist doing the evaluation noted "Compulsive anti-authoritarian" in my papers.)

If the police order you out of your car, for no good or even legal reason and you refuse, you are guilty of refusing the orders of a policeman. I can guarantee that there's not a nation of Earth that doesn't function that way - Authority must be absolute and its enforcers must be able to act without fear of repercussions for state-made law to function at all, is the underlying judicial philosophy.

(Which is why most attorneys et c are the leading bleeding edge of compliance with ever-increasing authoritarian politics all over the West; it grants them more and more power and higher and higher income, just by being compliant.)

I hope this soldier is not alone, and I hope he somehow manages to bring suit against the military proper, for its actions. A scandal like that is precisely what the Bundeswehr needs right now, given that they are desperately scrambling for young German men willing to die in Ukraine to ensure a million arabs, africans and the like can continue to move into Germany ever year.

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ExcessDeathsAU's avatar

I have a massive empty internment camp up the road from me. Yes, I would say what happened during covid was the same.

The final stages of Stanton’s Ten Stages of Genocide are “preparation, persecution and extermination.” The final stages begin with lists: victims are identified and separated from the group, tortured and displaced and finally killed. Before this begins, however, victims are disarmed and incapable of self-defence to ensure the dominant group has total control.

We were one step away from 'finally killed.'

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