Congress Is Quietly Abandoning the 5th Amendment
23rd December 2012
What everyone must understand is that American politics doesn’t work the way you’d think it would. Most people presume that government officials would never willfully withhold penicillin from men with syphilis just to see what would happen if the disease went untreated. It seems unlikely that officers would coerce enlisted men into exposing themselves to debilitating nerve gas. Few expected that President Obama would preside over the persecution of an NSA whistle-blower, or presume the guilt of all military-aged males killed by U.S. drone strikes. But it all happened.
It’s not selling out if you get nothing in return….
“Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.”