Nazis and other Americans

Americans agree: heinous German Nazis back in the 1940s, them that gassed all them 15 million Jew men, women, and children, were scum. Them nazie a-holes where scumbags.

That view is held here in the U.S. except in the rural South. And the "great" midwest. Nazis are pop'lar down and over there. Hardcore neocons are pop'lar in Texas. I digress. We'll address trailer living neocons who vote against their own interests some other day.

Your boss tells you to do something. From experience, you know. You just know. You KNOW: boss (including "company procedure") is dead-wrong morally, ethically, spiritually. Let's say you know you're smarter than your boss (fat chance) and there's no law against boss's directive. Still. It doesn't feel right. Maybe you like your job and (these days) you need your job. What do you do?

Let's say...

It's the 1940s.
You're in the military. You're a guard guarding prisoners. Your boss/supervisor/immediate uppity-up says your job is: turn that wheel when all the prisoners get in. You know that turning the wheel locks the door. And on the other side is a gas chamber.

It's the late-1950s.
You're in Selma, Alabama. You're a police officer. Hired to "protect and serve." Your boss says: sick the dogs if little "colored" kids show up. Little kids show up... kids not all that different than yours. You got a gun. Or a water hose. Or a rabid dog foaming at the leash?

It's the 2005s.
You're a member of the U.S. Military. You're told to "do whatever it takes" to get information from the "sand niggers, whatever it takes."

It's the 1950s thru to the current time.
You're a taxi driver. Your boss says: "drive by niggers, regardless of how they are dressed."

It's the 1800s thru to the current time.
You serve on a prison parole board. Your boss says: go easy on the whites, give blacks the max because, as everyone knows, blacks lie all the time.

It's March, 2009.
You're a police officer. Your partner totally brutalizes a teenage WHITE GIRL in a holding cell.

(The real problem emerges.)

It's March, 2009.
Within a limited sub-set of Americans, in the midst of the most perilous economic times in the U.S. since the 1920s, on national radio you hear someone saying he wants the president, the symbol of America, to fail. In other words, he wants a less than "white" America to fail.
___________

It would be so funny if people weren't losing jobs and homes.

Those subhuman white German Nazis were tried in German Nuremberg, convicted of "crimes against humanity," and EXECUTED. Why? Supposedly... supposedly because they just didn't have the guts, the common decency, to say "hell naw" when their boss was being an amoral, inhumane and unethical idiot.

So... what you gone do?