While reading my criminal procedure assignment, I came across a very applicable quote in Mapp v. Ohio quoting Mr. Justice Brandeis in Olmstead v. United States. The quote speaks to the danger of our government ignoring and manipulating the law. The Bush Administration continues to circumvent, ignore, manipulate, and override environmental laws and precedent in order to impose their agenda.
Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example….If the Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
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