Re: Cartoons cause attacks, threats against EU, Denmark, Norway

Recklessly refusing to invoke the Fifth Amendment, on 7 Feb 2006
07:13:09 -0800, "Lothar Frings" <da_lodda@xxxxxx> wrote:

ronniecat wrote:

Recklessly refusing to invoke the Fifth Amendment,

Someday I'll find out what I'm not invoking here.

It's a reference to the Fifth Amendment to the United States
Constitution:
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#Am5
which deals with a number of rights of those accused of criminal
offenses. While it covers a lot of things, "invoking the fifth" or
"taking the fifth" in everyday usage refers to taking advantage of the
right of a defendant to refuse to answer a question in court that
would incriminate him or herself ("nor shall be compelled in any
criminal case to be a witness against himself").

The right to refuse to respond to avoid incriminating ourselves in one
way or another is something very few of us on Usenet take advantage of
:)

Oh boy. And it's getting worse, ironically such that it
could be covered in this NG: An Iranian newspaper
plans to launch a cartoonist contest with cartoons
about the Holocaust! They mistake Denmark for
Germany and the Holocaust for the Inquisition[*].
Could'nt Allah enlighten them a little?

Oh, they know the difference. They also know that if they solicited
cartoons offensive to Christ, the reaction would be... unsatisfactory
for their purposes. Instead the paper is are going for the biggest,
most sensitive sacred cultural cow the West has - the Holocaust -
knowing it will invoke the most hurt and outrage among many
Christians, Jews, agnostics, atheists, you name it, in the West, while
conveniently also giving the radicals a chance to kick their very
favourite and most hated target, Jews.

ronnie
.

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