tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post5435538703790731871..comments2024-03-26T14:20:38.103-04:00Comments on The Thought Criminal: The Constitution is lying on the Capitol floor and it won't get up again Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-25086727698038853692018-05-10T17:47:43.581-04:002018-05-10T17:47:43.581-04:00Oaths only work that way when we want them to; oth...Oaths only work that way when we want them to; otherwise they don't. Oaths are very convenient that way.<br /><br />Actually, I think of them rather the way I think of the 19th century idea of "God" as being necessary to keep the rabble in line, but otherwise discardable (and interesting how much decent reporting on non-evangelical Christians is starting to be common at Daily Beast and Vox. But I digress.....). The oath pretty much functions that way: an idea we publicly swear fealty to, privately laugh about as completely useless and as dead as the dodo. After all, if you lie to the FBI, you're in trouble even though you didn't answer their questions "under oath." Well, you're in trouble if they want you to be; otherwise, you aren't.<br /><br />Back to that matter of how oaths are enforced, which is pretty much how everything criminal is enforced.....or not.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.com