Well I've already made it clear that it's a matter for individuals in exercising their own judgement, their own consciences to speak freely on matters of policy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Individual consciences are fine but individual consciences have to be made manifest.
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.
Obviously everybody is accountable for their own actions, and everybody has to make judgments based on their own conscience as to whether or not they believe what they were doing is right or wrong.
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience.
Public opinion is a second conscience.
It's really important that policy be properly designed. It's not enough just to.. .get angry over a subject.
If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.
There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.