Quote:The main question on this thread, as I saw it, was Should a third party be punished for doing something the goverment requests them to do?If the government asks them to break the law, then yes. "I was just following orders" hasn't been a valid defence since the Nurenburg trials.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012