The successes and failures of whistleblower laws by Robert G. Vaughn

By Robert G. Vaughn

Drawing on literature from a number of disciplines, this enlightening booklet examines the background of whistleblower legislation through the international and offers an analytical constitution for the most typical debates concerning the nature of such legislation and their capability successes and screw ups.

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57 He examines the abuses at Abu Graib and compares the institutional context there to the Stanford Prison experiment. THE MY LAI MASSACRE The My Lai Massacre tragically illustrated the concerns of Milgram and Zimbardo about the capacity of ordinary people to commit evil deeds. 58 According to accounts, these murders were accompanied by rapes, scalpings, and other abuses. ’60 Troops used rifle fire, bayonets, and hand grenades; some victims were lined up in ditches and shot. S. ’61 The public exposure of the killings at My Lai occurred between the spring and fall of 1969,62 and Seymour Hersh’s Pulitzer-prize winning book on the massacre appeared in 197063 – after the first public discussions of Milgram’s obedience experiment, but before his 1972 book and before Zimbardo's Stanford Prison experiment.

Daniel Bell, a professor of sociology at Harvard, noted in a comment in the New York Times the attention that Milgram’s study had received on CBS’s 60 Minutes. 23 Bell condemned the experiment as cruelly deceiving and manipulating the subjects, describing it as a ‘stacked situation’ with no recourse to independent judgment. ’ Marcus believed that Milgram muddled the internal state of the individual acting as an agent of the institution and the external influences. Milgram simply applied insights that might more ably be described by Freud’s concept of the superego.

1 Protesters may attack police or other security personnel who seek to impede or limit the protest. Nonviolence and civil disobedience can also be correlated concepts as they were in the civil rights movement. Unjust laws regarding segregation were violated knowingly, but without violence. The violence of state authorities and others in the face of peaceful, often lawful, protests was met with nonviolence. In cases of protests and demonstrations the line between nonviolence and civil disobedience is often obscured.

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