Word: disobeying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Army who commits an atrocity should be judged more harshly than a storm trooper. All the sanctions of his state, his education, his training were brought to bear on the Nazi soldier to obey any order, including the killing of civilians; it was more difficult for him to disobey. An American butchering non-combatants must act against all he has been taught...
Repeat that, please. Have you told them what it means to disobey orders under fire...
...advantage of such orders is that they can bring students to justice much faster than if the university goes through the sometimes interminable process of disciplining them itself, or has them arrested for trespassing. If the students disobey the order, they may be tried on contempt-of-court charges within a matter of days. The judge who issues the writ may also hear the charges, and the accused often has no right to a jury. If convicted, students may be sent to jail and fined. If they repeatedly defy the court order, they may be cited for contempt any number...
...Union was founded at Fort Sill, Okla., in 1967 by Pvt. Andrew Stapp, who has since been discharged from the Army. The A.S.U. (total membership about 5,000) advocates a program that includes election of officers, an end to saluting, and recognition of the right to bargain collectively and disobey "illegal" orders...
Must we not justify them all? If a student has a right to break the conscription law, does this not give the Klan the right to disobey the Civil Rights Act? There is a confusion here between the tolerance of all speech, and the tolerance of all actions. I would argue that all promulgation of ideas by speech or press whether odious to us or not, should be tolerated without distinction; that we, as citizens, should defend someone's right to speak stupidly (even while we expose that studidity), that whatever "harm" may come from bad ideas...