Pleading the 5th

[J.A. Terranson]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Anonymous wrote:


You may invoke the 5th for *any* question that *may* tend to incriminate
you, in *any* way.  Certainly these hypotheticals apply.  What scares me
is the use of "involuntary immunizations" by persecuters to get around the
invocation...

> I pose two questions: > 
> If called to testify in a criminal case, and asked the question "Are you 
> known by any other names" (or a derivative of that question), could one 
> plead the fifth in order to prevent the disclosure of a pseudonym?
> 
> If asked the question "have you ever communicated with [third party]", 
> could one plead the fifth if that communication was made through a 
> pseudonym, and tying that pseudonym to oneself could potentially be 
> incriminating?

-- 
Yours, 
J.A. Terranson
sysadmin at mfn.org

If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they
should give serious consideration towards setting a better example:
Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of
unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in
the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and 
elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire
populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate...
This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States
as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers,
associates, or others.  Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of
those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the
first place...
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