RANT: So if Hunter Biden can’t invoke the Fifth, then it means all his “co-conspitors” are in jeopardy

Wednesday, December 4, 2024

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/3246790/pardon-fifth-amendment-trouble-hunter-biden/

Pardon means Fifth Amendment trouble for Hunter Biden
By Kaelan Deese
December 2, 2024 12:37 pm

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In the hours since the pardon, Republicans, along with legal experts, have elevated the significance of what the younger Biden’s pardon means for their long-standing investigations, contending that it opens up the playing field for lawmakers to question him on nearly everything he has now been pardoned from over the past 11 years.

Under the Fifth Amendment, people can refuse to answer questions if their responses might incriminate them in criminal cases. However, with all criminal liability now erased by the pardon, Hunter Biden could face contempt charges if he refuses to testify before congressional panels.

“Well, this now makes it much easier for a GOP Senate/House to call Hunter as a witness about his and his dad’s connections to Ukraine, etc. because the pardon prevents Hunter from asserting the Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself,” Mark Smith, a constitutional attorney and host of the Four Boxes Diner legal analysis show, wrote on X.

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If I was at all connected to Hunter Biden, then I’d be worried.

See he has a BIG Get Out Of Jail Free card.  Unless you have one, you’re screwed.  He’ll have to testify against you.  

(Don’t know what happens if he refuses?)

So, like when the authorities go after any organized crime, they flip the bottom run to testify against the next rung up.  Until they reach the top.

I’ve often thought that in the cases of election fraud, get the underlings, arrest them, and threaten them with prison and watch how fast they will turn states evidence against their boss.  Or bosses. 

It should be very entertaining to see whose hands are “dirty”.

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VETERANS: Sailors were used as lab animals

Wednesday, December 4, 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/25/san-francisco-navy-lab-human-radiation?mc_cid=7283492361&mc_eid=0da2484634

Frisco Navy Lab’smHuman Radiation Experiments 

San Francisco Public Press & The Guardian

  • Revealed: how a San Francisco navy lab became a hub for human radiation experiments
  • Operations at a cold war lab exposed at least 1,073 people to radiation. Risks to the nearby communities persist

Chris Roberts, San Francisco Public Press
Mon 25 Nov 2024 14.00 EST

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Between 1946 and 1963, this article reports, lab scientists knowingly exposed at least 1,073 servicemen, dockworkers, lab employees and others to potentially harmful radiation through war games, decontamination tests and medical studies at the U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory at San Francisco’s Hunters Point naval shipyard. A review by the San Francisco Public Press of thousands of pages of government and academic records as well as interviews with affected servicemen reveal:

    … [T]he lab conducted at least 24 experiments that exposed humans to radiation, far more than past official reviews acknowledged. Safety reports also note dozens of accidents in which staff received doses in excess of federal health limits in effect at the time. Researchers at the lab tracked the exposure of workers trying to clean ships irradiated by an atomic bomb test. Soldiers were ordered to crawl through fields of radioactive sand and soil. In clinical studies, radioactive substances were applied to forearms and hands, injected or administered by mouth. Top US civilian and military officials pre-approved all of this in writing, documents show. The records indicate that researchers gained limited knowledge from this program, and that not everyone involved had their exposure monitored. There is also no sign the lab studied the long-term health effects on people used in the experiments or in surrounding communities, either during the lab’s heyday or after it closed in 1969.

This article reports that the Navy’s San Francisco lab was “a major cold war research facility with a unique focus on ‘radiological defense,’ techniques developed to help the public survive and armed forces fight back in case of an atomic attack. It was one node in a nationwide network that encompassed universities, hospitals and national labs that had permission to handle dangerous radioactive material.” 

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No study of the “long-term health effects on people used in the experiments or in surrounding communities, either during the lab’s heyday or after it closed in 1969.”

Well, let’s go back and studied it NOW!

This is “Yet Another Example” of how the Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats treat Veterans and the general population.  Like lab rats.  Not even given any human dignity.  Let alone “informed consent”.

It’s not too late to rectify this grave error.  

Maybe if the guilty get punishment, the it could deter future bad behavior?

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