Short excerpt from a YouTube video by TJ Walker critiquing Pete Hegsett’s apparent endorsement of the Nuremberg 'just following orders' defense. Walker argues that in the U.S. soldiers have the right (and duty in the face of illegal orders) to refuse unlawful commands and says Senator Markelli’s point defended that principle.
Pete Hegsett is essentially saying the Nuremberg defense should work in America. At Nuremberg, soldier after soldier said, I was just following orders. Wasn't my idea to kill Jews or 6 million other people either. And it's considered by everyone to be despicable. If you are a soldier in the United States or any country where people honor and respect human dignity, you have the right to ignore illegal orders. That's all that Senator Markelli was saying. SA.
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