The 5th Amendment and You
Ignorantia juris non excusat
In court, you only have the rights you claim.
If you have a right, but don't claim it, it is as if you never had that right.
That is a pretty good rigging technique, no surprise it presented early on in the history of 'the law'.
Well, this applies to most everything else, too.
IF you don't drive your car without your seatbelt, you have lost that right.
If you don't roll through a stop sign when it is safe to do so, you have lost that right.
When you don't record everything in public, you have lost that right.
You are the best cop they have, and you don't even get free donuts, let alone a free car with flashylights on top.
The Fifth Amendment:
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
The Fifth Amendment contains some of the most critical protections in the Constitution for those accused of crimes, safeguards that help keep a tyrannical government at bay.
In total, it declares five separate but related rights to all citizens.
The first right mentioned is that of a grand jury which is a group of citizens, typically 16-23 members, assembled by a prosecutor to determine if there is sufficient evidence to charge someone with a felony.
It is called a grand jury because it has more jurors than a trial jury.
Importantly, it is not a court proceeding.
Its history dates to the Magna Carta in 1215 and was part of the English common law present in colonial America.
Its intention is to shield the people from frivolous government accusations.
Interestingly, only two nations still conduct grand juries, the United States and Liberia.
The so-called “Double Jeopardy clause” protects citizens from being accused and going through the rigors of a trial twice for the same offense.
Our Founders considered this principle a matter of fairness and compassion.
Although this doctrine is a bedrock principle of our legal system, there is one key exception.
Namely, a person can be tried separately by the federal government and a state jurisdiction for the same offense.
The third section is privilege against self-incrimination, know to us today as “taking the Fifth.”
It is arguably the most fundamental right of those found in the Fifth Amendment.
At its base is the natural right to self-preservation.
This concept was part of English common law and its roots trace to the practice of religious orders extorting confessions through torture.
By the mid-1700’s, coercing answers from prisoners had largely died out in England and men like James Madison wanted to guarantee the same right to Americans.
In 1961, the Supreme Court in Miranda v. Arizona held that authorities must inform a suspect of this right against self-incrimination before proceeding with questioning.
Otherwise, any testimony would be inadmissible.
The fourth section is referred to as the “Due Process clause” and protects life, liberty, and property from impairment by the federal government.
The Fourteenth Amendment grants the same protections from the states.
This language means that the government must follow proper procedures and not violate any Constitutional rights when seeking a conviction or that conviction will not stand.
Basically, it makes the government accountable in how they act towards the people.
The final right granted in the Fifth Amendment is the “Takings clause.”
In essence, it requires the government to provide “just compensation” for private property taken from any citizen.
We know this concept as “eminent domain.”
This right could have gone even further by forbidding the forceful taking of a person’s private property regardless of the compensation.
However, our Founders knew that sometimes societal needs must outweigh individual rights.
My post today is about how you surrender your 5th amendment rights whenever you id yourself to a cop.
Simply having an id is repugnant to the 5th amendment.
The cop is going to tell you that you have to identify yourself, likely under an 'officer safety' exception to your rights.
He will likely threaten you with arrest.
This is clear evidence that the agent of the state you are talking to is a traitorous, corrupt, uniformed criminal, scumbag.
His entire chain of command should be jailed for allowing this guy into uniform.
Ask him to recite the 5 rights mentioned in the 1st amendment.
When he can't list them, you know for a fact that it is not possible for this agent of the state to fulfill his sworn oath to uphold the constitution.
Clearly, for him to continue to represent himself as an agent of the state, here to protect your rights, is a treasonous act.
The agent may be a dupe.
These are common.
But in the high pressure situation of being accosted by an armed agent of the state it won't really matter one way or the other.
Either, you can redress this agent of the state to amend his traitorous ways, or he violates your 1st amendment rights, too.
Don't expect a gov't agent to ever teach you these things in the 'sacred halls' of education, teaching the slaves to read is long known to be a bad idea.
You have to learn these things on your own.
You will have to sharpen your skills in actual defense of your inherent, god given right to be free from coercive control.
You should, imo, start the next time that a cop asks you to identify.
Remind him that god gave you the right to not testify against yourself.
The 5th amendment bars HIM from compelling you to be a witness against yourself.
He should know that, as a 'legitimate' agent of the state.
See how far you get with the low grade morons that they hire today, maybe you will win the lottery and get one that knows AND honors his oath.
But, better to learn the techniques you will need to do all your legal work on the fly, imo.
Defending yourself in court is not common knowledge.
Common english is not spoken there.
If you are fighting for your rights in court it is better to catch them with their pants around their ankles, rather than the other way around.
The odds of you getting a non-criminal judge are slim, you have to know how to go over his head, otherwise that judge does whatever the hell he wants and you have no recourse, because you are ignorant of your 'rights' under 'the law'.
Way to go, citizen!
From now on we call you slave.
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Are you are tired of paying your masters to bomb children in far away places?
Perhaps it is time you pushed back on that.
A simple way that anybody can do that is to hoard your coins.
The fed buys coins at face value from the mint.
A dollar of change in your pocket is a dollar of value out of the banksters' pockets.
Stop playing in their shell game that allows them to play in the amusement parks from hell and shop in the human grocery stores.
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I have met a few cops. I haven't met any that were honest men (or women). I have been arrested, and I prefer not to be arrested. In fact, I will go to pretty great lengths to avoid being arrested. I do not think that makes me a coward. I think that makes me not foolish, because it is foolish indeed to lose everything you own naively expecting corrupt cops, corrupt courts, and merciless thieves to debate policies in good faith. One of earliest lessons I learned about politics is that cops murder people for money, and normies wouldn't believe it if they watched it happen, so corrupt courts and politicians support those murderers and claim they are blameless. In such circumstances, it isn't wise to debate legal precepts with cops pointing guns at you. In fact, it's best to not get to the point they draw guns on you at all.
I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm saying whoever is pointing the gun is in charge.
Thanks!
Yep, if you are gonna be an activist, you have to pick your battles.
Not battling at all is what has led us here.
They can only lock us all up in our own minds.
We need more people breaking free of their invisible bars.
I won't be holding my breath,...
Breathe, my friend. Guzzle the free air you have earned by your courage to speak truths that peel blinders from the eyes of prisoners, that they can see through the truth to their freedom you reveal.
I can count on one hand how often I met the police. And when I did, it was in my younger years within traffic. They were usually nice and helpful in those times and think many of them are still. One day I was driving to visit my mom and had already mastered over hundred kilometers when my second back light went off. I did not notice, of course, until a police car stopped me. They asked if I knew about the back lights and I said "No". They wanted to know where I was heading and I told them I have only 20 kilometers left to my destination. They decided to give me an escort and drove behind me until I got home. Even though they easily could have told me to park the car and see myself how to solve the problem, they did not. In Germany, you usually were not lectured by cops, rarely was implications of "how dare you to brake the law" but rather a cool attitude towards speeding or driving without belt and just shrug shoulders on both sides (exceptions confirmed that rule). Sometimes I was even unfriendly to them, but they kept being polite to me. Dunno, maybe because I was a young woman.
In the States my experiences with cops were quite different. They seemed way more scary than our cops and also liked to lecture when stopping our car. How it is nowadays here or there, I cannot really tell.
Where police de-escalate they do a good job. Where there are bad apples amongst them, they increase violence and high emotions. Public gatherings are a different matter, though.
Police face an insoluble dichotomy. Where public safety, such as your lights breaking, is best facilitated by the service you received, an entirely separate system and training are required, while investigating crimes is something else completely. Since criminals inevitably seek to control law enforcement, for obvious reasons, law enforcement in the USA has suffered far longer infiltration by criminal gangs than has Germany, because modern Germany and it's institutions is so much younger than the US states.
The only solution to this dilemma I can see is the elimination of institutional power that is beginning as the decentralization of the means of production eliminates the advantages of centralization by eliminating parasitic losses of wealth endemic to centralized production.
You raise something very important, thank you. Well said. When public safety is at risk, it is often not because ordinary citizens deliberately and maliciously endanger it. The service the police provided in my case was the best option of all. They helped instead of aggravating. It was such a good experience because they did not make me feel like a criminal and because they solved the problem in the most elegant way.
When people don't treat each other like criminals, a lot is gained.
The dichotomy for a sincere police officer to turn against his fellow citizens and treat and prosecute them like criminals is one I'm sure many have found themselves in over the years.
How the decomposition of moral principles can occur is not easy to answer. But I think it has to do with the fact that modern people are brought up to be immature in matters of conscience, or that we people in modern societies do not believe in anything that gives us an inner compass.
Finding spiritual orientation can be a task that serves as a counterpart to what we find insoluble in the world.
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I don't like when a cop ask for ID whit a high hand.
Read your constitution.
Demand that it be respected.
Few will care, but you will have 'done the right thing'.
This can be a bad advice when the one who knows his rights meets someone who gives a shit. If you are not serene as a jester, not friendly as a priest and not cool like a poker player, you might get yourself into a situation you wished you never would. There is the right things to do for the right moment and estimation. But if the estimation and moment is wrong, you can lose a lot more than you can win.
I can do the right thing but I might regret in doing so if I am not acting out of faith but out of something lesser.
We each have to pick our time and place to not comply, otherwise we are slaves.
What percentage of enslavement we tolerate is also in need of a choice.
This is how they control us, they split us up into parties of one, make us aware that nobody else gives two shakes, and we capitulate like the slaves we have been bred to be.
Less slave breeding here on turtle island, ergo, more rebellion.
None of us can be free alone.
To notice that one is being used, it takes obvious acts where people are being exploited. If one still does not realise what is being played, it is probably because one did not want to or otherwise wished to be ignorant. For many people, there is only something to catch up on or learn when they are visibly and obviously deprived of their rights. I actually believe that there is a kind of uninvolved middle and that it has always been and still is a few who actively oppose machinations that arise over their heads. When these few take the lead, the others usually follow. There are other things involved that are not obvious but rather a non-obvious form of resistance. But that would take us too far here.
Yes, many of us don't want to know.
To defeat rule by force, we don't really need them.
Only the few enough to tip the boat are needed.
At some point the point of no return is reached, this must be our goal, if we wish to see change.
Most people don't like getting pushed around by bullies.
As the iron fist tightens its grip, more will slip through the gaps the worse for wear.
I sat in traffic court one morning, because I had a speeding ticket.
They called me very near the end.
I bet I watched a dozen people come in with smiles on their faces expecting that their excuse would be good enough to get off.
None of them left smiling.
Most got up and said, 'Yeah, I did it, but,....'
Admitting guilt is not a good defensive strategy, imo.
It kinda ties the judge's hands.
I just paid the money.
My goal was to tie up court time and resources.
Now I know better how to do that.
Then, not so much.
I beat my last speeding ticket.
No objections.
I think what normal people can do is to support other normal people in the way they react towards them as "policemen" and "desk-workers" and try to bring forward the best of each other, not the worst. Easier said than done. But I attended a court session where a friend of mine had her case discussed and I think that what she told the judge and what the listeners took with them was quite impressive and important to state in such a public place as a court.
It's good to be a first hand witness of those instances. And not always reading about them but attending oneself.
So, it's good that you do that, too.
My friend was in more than one trial, she lost one and she won one.
Marc Stevens on utub is a good resource.
https://yewtu.be/channel/UCRSlvevwU3ppuB7rGvZK0Cg/videos
That anonymizer has been on the fritz, but the dev said he would have time to work on it next week.
You can simply search his name.
He's gotten out of the business of helping people, for the most part, but his videos is how I learned.
At the time he had a skype and a forum, but they weren't paying the bills, so they have gone away.
I'm sure he will still sell you his books if you email him.
Does your friend chronicle that online somewhere?
I see organized crime members, some knowingly, some ignorant of reality.
Neither with 'the right' to force their will upon me.
There is no 'government', simply an organized gang of men and women that force others to pay and obey systematically.
True. These things only work where the law is being upheld. What do we do when the law enforcement mob is the offender ?
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Pitchforks and/or torches.
We get as much tyranny as we tolerate.™
Love the passion. Seems we tolerate quite a lot.
Some of us love freedom more than others.
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