From lowest cop to highest ranking military officer- one is 100 percent morally responsible for everything they do, saying “following orders” or “just going by procedure/ the letter of the law” is not, and never should be even the slightest mitigating factor.
“Obeying, or enforcing, a bad law is every bit as bad as having written it. IMHO.”
So when we had people in the squadron who claimed GW Bush wasn’t legally the President and they did not need to deploy, should we have let them?
If Barack Obama doesn’t like immigration law, should he be allowed to “interpret” it his way?
Where does it end?