SC rules 1st doesn't cover lies [CNN] (fwd)
Jim Choate
ravage at ssz.com
Wed Jan 21 21:39:48 PST 1998
Forwarded message:
> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 23:47:05 -0500
> From: Declan McCullagh <declan at well.com>
> Subject: Re: SC rules 1st doesn't cover lies [CNN]
> Reply-To: austin-cpunks at ssz.com
>
> Clarification on the Subject: line -- the court's ruling, at least as
> described below, applies only to government employees. It is the
> state-as-employer, not the state-as-sovereign, role the court is discussing.
>
> In other words, we're still free to lie, cheat, and steal[1].
> >> "A citizen may decline to answer the question, or answer it
> >> honestly, but he cannot with impunity knowingly and willfully answer
> >> with a falsehood," Rehnquist said.
So you have to be an employee of the government to be a citizen?
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