• njm1314@lemmy.world
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    The National Guard of this country has murdered American citizens on numerous occasions in our country’s history without a peep about prosecution later on from anybody. Don’t expect it to change this time. And really don’t expect them not to fire. These Weekend Warriors love the idea of killing Americans. It’s what they dream of.

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    Nazis are Nazis. They knew what they were doing from the get go. They were just too cowardly to say it out loud.

    Punch Nazis. Or they will punch you.

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    The only reason such a rationalization was ever brought forward is because they were brought to face judgement by a group of powers seeking to enact some form of justice for the atrocities committed.

    IOW, “just following orders” will never be a defense offered if there’s nobody to put them on trial.

    It’s a huge assumption that there will be anyone to put those kind of people on trial in the US and dispense any meaningful justice at this point. Current dems won’t do anything. Current judges can’t seem to pass sentences that stick.

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      Won’t or can’t. The dems are minorities in all branches. A bit late to be beating the blame game on the dems after they were voted out of literally all power.

      And the only judges who are doing anything right now is a trump and bush appointed judges in which are just facing appeals. So that’s not on the dems either.

      You really need to stop blaming dems for all the reps doing bad things.

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        I didn’t blame the dems for doing bad things. I blame the dems for doing nothing, or doing ineffective things. Especially when they did have the opportunity to do so.

        Yeah, they can’t do anything now because they didn’t take advantage when they could.

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          So then by your own admission you do know they can’t do anything now. So why are you blaming the dems now? It can’t just be always the dems at fault even when the reps are clearly in the wrong here. It’s just a waste of energy and distraction at most from dealing with what is going on right now.

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            I don’t need to re-explain what I said.

            And I disagree with your forcing a binary choice to remove attention from the dems. I can be pissed at the dems/DNC for helping, or at least not more forcefully opposing, the events that lead us to this point AND deal with “what is going on right now.”

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              You’re not looking for solutions. You’re looking to blame and be helpless and a perpetual victim. That’s your choice and I won’t waste more of my own time on such a person who chooses to spend their time in such a way.

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    I mean we’re talking about the US here which explicitly reserves the right to invade the Netherlands if any of their soldiers end up in The Hague for any reason.

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    I will NOT thank you for your service, I will resist you and shame you to my final breath for letting the allure of guns and patriotism lead you into at best complacency towards fascism.

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    The British soldiers at the Boston Massacre and Nazi war criminals of the Holocaust had their day in court.

    That’s what due process is. Everyone -everyone - enemy or not, gets a trial. That’s how it should be, that’s how it needs to be, or there is no justice.

    That’s why “expedited removal” is nothing but fascism. No due process, no justice at all.

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    While true, most of them are likely one paycheck away from having their family living in the streets. That’s a powerful deterrent against refusing orders that the US has somehow mastered. That too.

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        Of course, but most people will prioritize their own family members over others. It’s an explanation, not an argument against being moral.

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          My go-to in nuance situations that require clarification is “explanation is not justification”

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        Except it will. As will “I was just following orders”. It works for cops. It worked in Vietnam. Hell, it even worked for the majority of Nazi’s; only a small percentage actually faced reprocussions for their actions.

        Welcome to real history, where the good guys don’t always win and the bad guys don’t always lose.

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    It is important to add that even though the US has committed atrocities, for decades, from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos through Iraq, Afghanistan, and Gaza; illegal invasion, torture, genocide, war crimes; nothing meaningful ever came from it. There has never been Nuremberg trial equivalent for the United States, and there never will be. Every single president since Eisenhower, every single one, no exceptions, has been a war criminal by the standards of the Nuremberg trials and the Tokyo tribunal, and not one of them ever spent even a day in court for it.

    There are no consequences for war crimes committed by Americans. None. Aside from 9/11, but the ones who died, the ones who suffered, were not the ones responsible for the atrocities committed by the US. So sure, “just following orders” isn’t a valid defense, but you won’t need one anyway.

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      Skipped right over killing 25% of the Korean population that just happened to be so unlucky to live in the northern half at the time, as is tradition. No one remembers the Korean war for some reason.

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        I remember, but pragmatism wins over factual correctness sometimes. If you’re trying to convince someone that American imperialism is bad, and they get a whiff of what they might misconstrue as being pro North Korean, they dismiss what you’re saying outright.

        I also didn’t mention Indonesia, Timor, Guatemala, Chile, Cuba, and so and and so forth. And that’s not because I don’t think America is responsible for truly gut wrenching things there (I think Guatemala is especially egregious), but because people aren’t as familiar with these as they are with the Vietnam War and the war on terror. And the latter two have the added benefit that it’s generally agreed upon by liberals (after the fact, of course, never during) that they were a bad thing.

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        It’s known as the forgotten war for a reason, mostly because it wasn’t as big as WW2 and not as much of a clusterfuck as Vietnam. For all the shit that happened it basically just returned to status quo, honestly out of all the non Korean participants it was most notable for the Chinese. For UN forces it was a test run and for the Soviets it was a decent area to test new post WW2 tech and dump some surplus.

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      The Nuremberg trials did not happen because the Nazis were wrong. They happened because the Nazis lost the war.

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        Bullshit, I’ll take Alan Turing and Einstein over any german ww2 scientists, I call BS this is a narrative people want to be true and frankly it is a creepy impulse.

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            As long as you are saying that, I just fear without that context it becomes a dangerous narrative that also totally ignores the genius of so many people who fought against fascism that we have swept under the rug.

            In Alan Turing’s case the sweeping under the rug involved being murdered by the English government for the crime of being gay even though he fucking handed the war to the allies and invented a functioning computer.

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              The US did and UK not fight against Fascism because it disliked Fascism. In fact they gladly cooperated with Adolf. Churchill shared many of Hitler his antisemitic ideas.

              They fought Fascism because the Fascism was attacking them. and wanted to take over their power.

              It was primarily Russia which fought WW2 to begin with. Germany was defeated at Stalingrad in 1943 which could be considered the turning point of WW2.

              America swooped into Normandy in 1944 when the war was was basically already won by Russia and Russia was gaining ground on Nazi Germany.

              Of course the pretense used by the US and the UK politicians was that it was all about liberation. As they will do for every war, just (against the Nazis) or unjust (Afghanistan, Iraq etc).

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                Yes, in a way that destroyed his wonderous mind, it was murder by english fascists afraid of the power of queerness, plain as day.

                Strange that he couldn’t be a hero while literal fascists were publicaly “rehabilated” (read “normalized”) in the US and UK :( ??

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    That’s only partially true.

    For starters, nearly everything German soldiers did was legal under German law.

    Side tangent: GDR soldiers who killed civilians trying to flee the country could easily be prosecuted after reunification because this was explicitly illegal under GDR law.

    It’s harder to prosecute “legal” crimes. It requires establishing there are “natural laws” which stand above any law humans put in place. For instance, slaughtering civilians is one such violation of “natural law”. It’s more complex but that’s the rough summary.

    Besides, most German soldiers simply became prisoners of war and faced little to no legal consequences. The Nuremberg trials were mostly for those who gave the illegal order - no one has time for millions of legal cases.

    I have little to no clue about US law but as far as I can tell, executive orders are legal until deemed illegal by a court. The order would therefore have to violate “natural law” - not the constitution - or be so obviously illegal beyond any reasonable doubt to allow for prosecution of those who follow it. Both of those are a very high bar to clear.

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      This is a reason why I kinda like the psudo religious concepts that back US founding documents.

      Now before everyone gets to typing about annoying evangelicals or whatever (trust me I understand) you don’t have to believe in christianity or any other religious institution for the “natural law” concept to work. All it takes is an understanding that human rights are a default and don’t magically disappear because your area’s govt says so.

      It’s summed up nicely by this quote from John Locke.

      “And where the Body of the People, or any single Man, is deprived of their Right, or is under the Exercise of a power without right, and have no Appeal on Earth, there they have a liberty to appeal to Heaven, whenever they judge the Cause of sufficient moment.”

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        All it takes is an understanding that human rights are a default

        Unfortunately, there is considerable disagreement about what the default human rights are.

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    The US literally sanctioned the ICC judges. There’s not gonna be a Nuremberg trial for them lol.

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      Could change rapidly. I doubt Nazi Germany started under the purview of the ICC. (I think ICC was created in response.)

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        There was no jurisdiction at the time. The Nuremberg trials were essentially kangaroo courts with no solid basis in law, performed because the gravity of the Nazi crimes was so great something had to be done. As such some of the judges were uneasy about handing down death sentences, as many of the crimes they were charged with were not crimes in the Third Reich, and international law hadn’t developed sufficiently to take over.

        The ICC came around in the 1990s, partially in response to calls from those involved in the Nuremberg trials for provision for a more robust and legal process, that didn’t rely on conquest first.

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      American soldiers aren’t in the jurisdiction of the ICC or any international court anyway.

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        That really isn’t how that works. The US has declared that they won’t allow the international courts to get involved, but that doesn’t necessarily prevent those courts from disagreeing.

        “Jurisdiction” is only a thing when a court answers to some higher authority who has limited what that court can do. Since the international courts theoretically don’t answer to the US government, they can make any ruling they like.

        They’re unlikely to bother, since they probably won’t be in a position to enforce any ruling against typical foot soldiers, but they absolutely could if it came to that point

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        America isn’t in the jurisdiction of the ICC, but American soldiers who commit crimes within ICC countries are. This means that American soldiers according to international law can, for example, be prosecuted for crime they commit in support of Israel’s genocide.