No, I was applying common sense. Something many on the left fail to do most of the time. The 5th amendment is provided to prevent one from being forced to incriminate themselves. In order to plead it, one has to have something that would probably result in ones incrimination of a crime. Therefore, most rightfully believe that when someone pleads their right not to incriminate themselves, they have something to be incriminated for.
But, on the other hand, aren't we all? We just haven't been told by the government what crime we have committed, yet.
IRS are losers, they are the hand of an tyrannical government designed specifically for the sole purpose of income redistribution.
others who have taken the 5th to avoid incriminating themselves and their co conspirators... http://www.listafterlist.com/tabid/...s/Famous+People+Who+have+Pleaded+the+5th.aspx Jack Abramoff - Government - Lobbyist, friends with Tom DeLay Mumia Abu-Jamal - Criminal- Free Mumia With Every Purchase Jim Bell - Activist - Assassination Politics Conrad Black - Business - Rapacious newspaper mogul David Bohm - Physicist - Particle physicist Joe Bonanno - Criminal - Bonanno crime family Christian Brando - Relative - Son of Marlon Brando Stokely Carmichael - Activist - Black separatist, Pan-Africanist Willis Carto - Activist - Founder of Liberty Lobby, IHR Miss Cleo - Paranormal fraud - Psychic fraud takes VISA, M/C Edwin Corr - Diplomat - US Ambassador to El Salvador, 1985-88 A. C. Cowlings - Football - O.J.'s best friend Edward Dmytryk - Film Director - The Caine Mutiny Bernard Ebbers - Business - CEO of WorldCom, 1985-2002 Eminem - Rapper - White rapper star of 8 Mile Robert Evans - Film/TV Producer - The Kid Stays In The Picture Andrew Fastow - Business - Disgraced CFO of Enron Ari Fleischer - Government - Former White House Press Secretary Ernie Fletcher - Politician - Governor of Kentucky Mark Fuhrman - Government - Former LAPD detective, O. J. Simpson case Sam Giancana - Criminal - Chicago Mafia boss, 1957-66 Monica Goodling - Government - DoJ spokeswoman Lloyd Gough - Actor - Blacklisted character actor Richard Grasso - Business - CEO of the NYSE, 1995-2003 Maurice R. Greenberg - Business - American International Group ex-CEO Dashiell Hammett - Author - The Maltese Falcon Patty Hearst - Victim - Kidnapped by SLA Lillian Hellman - Playwright - Little Foxes Lon Horiuchi - Government - Sniper who killed Vicki Weaver Webb Hubbell - Criminal - Whitewater casualty H. Wayne Huizenga - Business - Waste Management, Blockbuster E. Howard Hunt - Criminal - Coordinated Watergate break-in Bernard Kerik - Government - NYC Police Commissioner, 2000-01 Don King - Boxing - Boxing promoter for Mike Tyson and others Ken Lay - Business - CEO of Enron, 1986-2002 G. Gordon Liddy - Government - Watergate criminal cum talk-show-host Lee Malvo - Criminal - One of the two Washington Snipers Karen Morley - Actor - Gabriel Over the White House Willie Nelson - Country Musician - The red-headed stranger Oliver North - Military - Perjuring Iran-Contra figure Dorothy Parker - Author - Constant Reader known for her acerbic quips Scott Peterson - Criminal - Murdered pregnant wife Laci John Poindexter - Military - Iran-Contra criminal Frank Quattrone - Business - Troubled securities banker Susan Ralston - Government - Former Abramoff, Rove aide John Randolph - Actor - Prizzi's Honor Denise Rich - Socialite - Marc Rich's ex-wife Paul Robeson - Singer - 20th Century renaissance man Ethel Rosenberg - Relative - Executed for being married to Julius Rosenberg Julius Rosenberg - Spy - Leaked atomic bomb secrets to USSR George Ryan - Politician - Governor of Illinois, 1999-2003 Richard Scrushy - Business - Imprisoned CEO of HealthSouth Bobby Seale - Activist - Co-founder of the Black Panther Party O. J. Simpson - Football - Searching tirelessly for the real killers Jeffrey Skilling - Business - Disgraced CEO of Enron Gale Sondergaard - Actor - Anthony Adverse Marylin Star - Pornstar - Ex-Pornstar, insider trader Parnell Thomas - Government - HUAC chairman James Traficant - Politician - Ohio Congressman now in prison Linda Tripp - Government - Monica Lewinsky's confidant Richard Trumka - Labor Leader - AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Janet Ventura-Arvizo - Relative - Gavin Arvizo's mother Sam Waksal - Business - CEO, ImClone Wallace Wilkinson - Politician - Governor of Kentucky, 1987-91 Read more: http://www.listafterlist.com/tabid/...e+Who+have+Pleaded+the+5th.aspx#ixzz2TyZkkfPI
NBC Harwood: worst thing for White House if she pleads the fifth: <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/XrRGyvoJDyU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Expect to hear Cindy Thomas name next. IRS Chain of Command Suggests Scandal Not Limited to 'Low-Level Employees' After the IRS revealed it had wrongly targeted hundreds of conservative and Tea Party groups, the agency claimed that the misconduct was limited to "low-level employees" in its Cincinnati office. Yesterday, the attorney for Lois Lerner, the head of the IRSâs tax-exempt organizations division, told the House Oversight Committee she would invoke her Fifth Amendment rights, making that explanation much less credible. Now the local Cincinnati Fox affiliate, FOX19, has done some digging and uncovered information suggesting that top officials at the IRS weren't too far removed from the six low-level employees identified as making unjustified inquiries. Fox19 has not only identified all six IRS agents in question, it turns out that they all have only one supervisor in common: When an application for tax exempt status comes into the IRS, agents have 270 days to work through that application. If the application is not processed within those 270 days it automatically triggers flags in the system. When that happens, individual agents are required to input a status update on that individual case once a month, every month until the case is resolved. ... So who in the chain of command would have received all these flags? The answer, according to the IRS directory, one woman in Cincinnati, Cindy Thomas, the Program Manager of the Tax Exempt Division. Because all six of our IRS workers have different individual and territory managers, Cindy Thomas is one manager they all have common. Cindy Thomas's name is significant, because Thomas is the woman who leaked nine tax documents to the journalism outlet ProPublica last year. The leaking of pending tax documents is a clear violation of the law. After having uncovered the nature of Thomas's involvement, FOX19 looks at her place in the IRS chain of command: Former Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller⦠retires Joseph Grant, Commissioner of Tax Exempt and Government Entities... retires. Lois Lerner, Head of Exempt Organizationâ¦says she will invoke her 5th amendment right to not incriminate herself when called before Congress on Wednesday. Holly Paz, Director of Exempt Organizations, subpoenaed to Washington to be interviewed by members of Congress. All of this IRS leadership, in Washington D.C. Then one level down is Cindy Thomas, the highest ranking employee in Cincinnati in this Tax Exempt and Government Entities Department that no one in Congress is talking to... yet. http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs...l-not-limited-low-level-employees_728777.html
You're the one being dense. Why else would someone invoke the 5th. It so you don't incriminate your self. Only a guilty person can do that.
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6wXkI4t7nuc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Long but interesting and well worth it.
In the rightie bubble if you exercise your 2nd amendment rights you're a patriot.If you exercise your 5th amendment rights your a criminal LOL !!!!