The defense at Nuremberg was totally unacceptable for atrocities performed in a prison. A guard and a solider are NOT the same thing.

And it is a fact that we have these provisions in UCMJ. This VERY slippery slope that becomes overloaded with politics, as noted by Irish, and the contradicting necessity of having a ready protective and defending force to move decisively without question, is there. It also is EVALUATED in a quiet room, before a court-martial board in dress uniforms.

Unfortunately, the ACTIVATION of this provision sometimes happens where the air is alive with the smell gun powder and blood. Yes, blood has a very definite SMELL. It’s suppose to be made by a 20 year old kid that doesn’t even know he peed his pants a ½ hour ago, and doesn’t know the strange feeling surrounding his entire body isn’t because God is coming for him. It’s just every hair standing straight up. It does do that. It’s a physiological thing. It is suppose to be done by somebody who’s only contact with bamboo, until now, was a fishing pole with a pieces of string and a bobber at the end.
Wouldn’t it be nice if everything went as laid out in the book.

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