In 1776, the Continental Congress ordered Esek Hopkins, the Commander-in-Chief of the United States Navy, to treat prisoners "well and humanely." In 1777, ten sailors and marines reported Hopkins for mistreating British prisoners. Congress dismissed the commodore.
Well-connected in Rhode Island, Hopkins had two whistleblowers, Richard Marven and Samuel Shaw, arrested there for libel. Congress stood by the whistleblowers.
Allison Stanger wrote in 2019, " Congress ruled that Marven and Shaw should be released. Bit the legislators went even further; on July 30, 1778, they passed the world's first whistle-blower-protection law." A professor at Middlebury College, Stanger is also a technology and human values senior fellow Harvard University's Edmund J. Safra Center for Ethics.
Stephen M. Kohn of the National Whistleblower Center wrote in a 2011 Op-Ed for The New York Times, "Armed with Congress's support, the whistle-blowers put on a strong defense, and won their case in court. And true to its word, Congress on May 22, 1779, provided $1,418 to cover costs associated with the whistle-blowers' defense."
🌟Allison Stanger maintains the Continental Congress was taking a stand against torturing enemy captives and also a stand against corruption. The American Revolution gives us an example of opposing torture and corruption--and protecting whistleblowers!
Well-connected in Rhode Island, Hopkins had two whistleblowers, Richard Marven and Samuel Shaw, arrested there for libel. Congress stood by the whistleblowers.
Allison Stanger wrote in 2019, " Congress ruled that Marven and Shaw should be released. Bit the legislators went even further; on July 30, 1778, they passed the world's first whistle-blower-protection law." A professor at Middlebury College, Stanger is also a technology and human values senior fellow Harvard University's Edmund J. Safra Center for Ethics.
Stephen M. Kohn of the National Whistleblower Center wrote in a 2011 Op-Ed for The New York Times, "Armed with Congress's support, the whistle-blowers put on a strong defense, and won their case in court. And true to its word, Congress on May 22, 1779, provided $1,418 to cover costs associated with the whistle-blowers' defense."
🌟Allison Stanger maintains the Continental Congress was taking a stand against torturing enemy captives and also a stand against corruption. The American Revolution gives us an example of opposing torture and corruption--and protecting whistleblowers!
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