Why Not Following Illegal Orders Is Important

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11. The S**t usually hits the fan with the order to fire on your own countrymen.

When Gorbachov was kidnapped and the hard liners sent Russian troops into Moscow itself, the babushkas came out and the mothers holding nursing babies.. and said 'Don't shoot us'. Yeltsin climbed on a tank with a megaphone, and the revolt collapsed.

When Marcos was desperate, two million Philipinos in the streets of Manila, including the Cardinal of the city, Marcos ordered his head general to go out and clear the streets. Instead, the general led his troops out to join the demonstrators. Marcos got on the next plane out of the Phillipines, and Imelda lost her shoe collection.

Kent State is another case. The biggest military scandal of the 70's was the Reserves never deployed. Instead they were staffed with sons of the rich and powerful, and sports figures. (Whispers GWB). No one knows how the firing started, but they didn't hit any of the demonstrators. All the deaths were at 200 yards and further: e.g. not aimed shots.

Heck, if the Russian military couldn't stomach it, I have hopes our own military understands things better than Fox and the GOP