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   Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (_thegeoff@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 05:21:16 JST Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

   If the govt do somehow pervert the legal system enough to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, I feel sorry for the RAF pilots who will be ordered to do it. There's no way commercial airlines will take part in something so toxic, so it has to be military flights. Imagine being that pilot. You could have refused on the grounds that it is an illegal order, but the govt have recently changed the law specifically to get around that. It's immoral.

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     Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (_thegeoff@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 05:21:28 JST Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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     "Do this."

     "That's illegal, sir. It is wrong. I swore an oath not to do things like that. I realise it may harm my career, but I am duty bound to refuse that order."

     "OK...hang on a minute...OK, it's legal now, you have to do it."

     How do you deal with that? Other than submitting to military punishment for refusing a "legal" order?