Re: It's not just them.. And yeah, the guy Atom Smasher helped replace was a bastard. But two wrongs don't make a right.
Again, it's not like Black Adam was a horrible ruler. Until the Four Horsemen attacked, things were going great in Khandaq.
Plus, Atom Smasher helped get Adam's family killed thanks to an ambush he helped execute.
If anyone was to blame for what happened, it was Amanda Waller (she was the one who forced Atom Smasher to do it, and who doctored the footage and released it to the media).