-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The mentally challenged in the audience couldn't figure out what McVeigh was saying with his Brandeis quote at the sentencing hearing. I think we can probably figure it out. It is from Brandeis' dissent in OLMSTEAD v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438 (1928) one of the first *wiretapping* cases. Here is the whole of the concluding paragraph with the quoted portion in square brackets: http://www.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=277&invol=438 "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. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means-to declare that the government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal-would bring terrible retribution. Against that pernicious doctrine this court should resolutely set its face." DCF -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM/NfhoVO4r4sgSPhAQG8XQP8DfOeKWDInfWuXvsEEALGXJnbq+TQSnCX IJpYgeH87AyOYGq2wu61RVbO62/MQxCdhhn07y0xKJzqbHpP0YRvQawrirkUwYYv CfKeZMnZGnI/uPp3g2VA7KfcXyTP91YFfZ90GtDjs1cmmSE+0zFI4w1ht4UJPBzn JUqo72HE0/c= =XdDT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----