Word: disobeyance
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...this Army base south of Seattle Thursday, lawyers for Lt. Watada used the opportunity to put the war itself on trial, trying to prove he was right to see the war as "manifestly illegal," and as a result, to refuse to participate. "A soldier has an obligation to disobey illegal orders," said Francis Boyle, a Harvard-trained professor of international law who testified on behalf of Lt. Watada and whose mentor wrote the Army's field manual for land warfare. "Under the circumstances of this war, if he had deployed, he would have been facilitating a Nuremberg crime against peace...
...interest within this majority, or with misrule by the majority.” Though Chertoff is now accused of being an architect of President Bush’s drive to increase executive authority, at Harvard he wrote that a philosophy of adherence to the sovereign abrogated the right to disobey “bad laws.” “Benthamism cannot even provide us with a basis for disobedience of the type that would make disutilitarian bad law void,” Chertoff wrote. “Even if a sovereign enacts a law that goes against...
...rules have long been wiped from Harvard’s rule books, Magnuson and his roommates see no reason why coed rooming shouldn’t be an option for all students. Even without administrative approval, many students skirt the rules and live in coed rooms.Though heterosexual couples might disobey rules to live together, gay students have had an easier time requesting coed rooms.“I think our masters were definitely more receptive to our proposal considering that Benet is gay,” says Azzurra S. Cox ’06, one of Magnuson?...
...participant in war crimes. Even if he and Anderson can never attend family members' weddings or funerals back home, they are certain they are doing the right thing. Hinzman says, "They tell you in boot camp that if you are given an illegal order, it is your duty to disobey it." No matter what anyone else might call them, in their own minds, Hinzman, Anderson and their peers are still good soldiers, just following orders. --Reported by Steven Frank and Paul Gains/ Toronto and Sandra Marquez/ San Diego
...self-improvement tapes are played during meals, and the teens spend hours charting their behavior. Instead of receiving classroom instruction, they work their way through a self-guided academic curriculum. Residents who follow the rules move through the program's progress levels and are granted more leniency; those who disobey receive demerits and lose privileges. About 20% of the students are on behavior-related medications, prescribed by a visiting psychiatrist. Licensed therapists are available, at a fee beyond the hefty $3,085 a month it costs to keep a kid at Spring Creek. The average length of stay...