{"id":11701,"date":"2010-08-08T00:01:23","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T06:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oooorgle.com\/wordpress\/?p=11701"},"modified":"2015-08-08T05:24:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T12:24:12","slug":"just-doing-my-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/just-doing-my-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Doing My Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/c4ss.org\/content\/3436\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/images\/oooneyma.png\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" \/>C4SS.org<\/a> | This lame response is in no way limited to Nazis. In fact, it\u2019s a typical bureaucratic excuse from every government agent on earth when the inevitable abuses and horrors of such backward institutions are exposed. It\u2019s as if the simple invocation of \u201cI have my orders\u201d somehow magically absolves any bureaucrat who acts on such edicts from any and all forms of independent moral judgment. The bureaucrat, earning his or her tax-funded paycheck, is permitted \u2014 nay, expected \u2014 to behave like a wind-up toy, a pre-programmed robot incapable of any deviation from his or her master\u2019s directions. And at the end of the day, when natural rights are violated, when real human beings end up deprived of their property and\/or hurled into cages, when live people end up dead \u2014 every bureaucrat pleads \u201chelpless automaton.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tyrants throughout history have used such twisted logic to rationalize their actions. At Hitler\u2019s trial following the 1925 Beerhall Putsch, he stated openly to the German court, \u201cWhat judgment this court will render, we already know. But in the eyes of history, I have already been acquitted.\u201d Fidel Castro, on trial in Cuba for the 1956 attack on the Moncada Army Barracks issued his now famous speech, \u201cHistory Will Absolve Me.\u201d And in a less grandiose yet equally heinous fashion, all across the modern American landscape, every single day, police use such ill-crafted reasoning to justify shooting a \u201csuspect.\u201d Soldiers use it in order to clear themselves of any transgression after killing civilians either as \u201ccollateral damage,\u201d or, in some cases, deliberately. <a href=\"http:\/\/c4ss.org\/content\/3436\" target=\"_blank\">Read Entire Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Alex R. Knight III<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C4SS.org | This lame response is in no way limited to Nazis. In fact, it\u2019s a typical bureaucratic excuse from every government agent on earth when the inevitable abuses and horrors of such backward institutions are exposed. It\u2019s as if the simple invocation of \u201cI have my orders\u201d somehow magically absolves any bureaucrat who acts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[435],"class_list":["post-11701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-following-orders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}