Breaker Morant


It was time for another viewing of this early-80s "Australian Renaissance" flick, the true story of Harry "Breaker" Morant and his compatriots who were tried and executed for the murder of Boer civilians in South Africa.

In war, ordinary, good people do terrible, terrible things. It's right to hold them responsible, but we should START with the assholes who put them in that position in the first place.

How about a new rule that says that you must prosecute commanding officers and vigorously as their subordinates? And, conviction of subordinates may be used as evidence of guilt? So, the only defense will be to claim active insubordination: I told them not to and they did it anyway.