Lesson Five on Fighting Tyranny: Remember Professional Ethics #StopFascism #TheRevolutionHasBegun From: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/on-tyranny... - ThreadSky

funchefchick.bsky.social • 36 days ago

Lesson Five on Fighting Tyranny:

Remember Professional Ethics

#StopFascism
#TheRevolutionHasBegun

From: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/on-tyranny-graphic-edition-timothy-snyder/1137597473

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funchefchick.bsky.social•36 days ago

(Rose here) This section seems especially critical RIGHT NOW. Federal employees are being pressured to resign, or to submit to the PFOTUS (Predicate Felon of the United States)'s demands, immediately. Overwhelmingly THEY ARE REFUSING. These are OUR Federal employees; SUPPORT THEM. Be proud.

funchefchick.bsky.social•36 days ago

This chapter of the book goes into great detail about how Hitler chose lawyers to oversee the occupation of Poland, the annexation of Austria, etc. etc. Lawyers were vastly overrepresented among the commanders of the Einsatzgruppen (paramilitary death squads). Cont'd

funchefchick.bsky.social•36 days ago

Doctors took part in ghastly medical experiments in concentration camps. Civil servants, from ministers down to secretaries, oversaw and recorded it all.

"If lawyers had followed the norm of no execution without trial, if doctors had accepted the rule of no surgery without consent.." Cont'd

funchefchick.bsky.social•36 days ago

"if businessmen had endorsed the prohibition against slavery, if bureaucrats had refused to handle paperwork involving murder, then the Nazi regime would have been much harder pressed to carry out the atrocities by which we remember it."

From: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/on-tyranny-graphic-edition-timothy-snyder/1137597473

funchefchick.bsky.social•36 days ago

"When political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become more important. It is hard to subvert a rule-of-law state without lawyers, or to hold show trials without judges. " 1/2

funchefchick.bsky.social•36 days ago

" Authoritarians need obedient civil servants, and concentration camp directors seek businessmen interested in cheap labor." 2/2

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