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Sunday, May 09, 2004 |
George, Rummy -- listen up
From Justice Louis Brandeis's dissent in Olmstead vs. United States:
... Decency, security, and liberty alike demand that government officials
shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to
the citizen. In a government of laws, existence of the government will
be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our
government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill,
it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the
government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites
every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. ..."
11:57:45 PM 
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© Copyright 2004 Dan Brekke.
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