Its not something that I have ever needed but then Im not a gangster with a mass of criminality to cover up. Like Donny.
In America we are presumed innocent until proven otherwise, why give the prosecution anything to work with? A good lawyer will make sure you don't step foot on the witness stand. The whole idea that you have never needed it is stupid on it's face.
The 5th my help the guilty however it protects the innocent from a overbearing government and it's reach. So you can believe the BS you believe but we that hold the Constitution above political parties, it is a blessing and I hope you are never falsely accused,
Television and movies teach us that only guilty people “take the fifth.” The Fifth Amendment right itself is often referred to as the right (or privilege) against self-incrimination. In fact, the most...
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FTA: The Fifth Amendment covers a broad range of critical but separate rights designed to protect Americans from a potentially overbearing government.
Chief Justice Warren offered this historical explanation for why the Fifth Amendment is designed precisely to protect the innocent from overzealous and unscrupulous accusers:
"The privilege against self-incrimination is a right that was hard-earned by our forefathers. The reasons for its inclusion in the Constitution—and the necessities for its preservation—are to be found in the lessons of history. As early as 1650, remembrance of the horror of Star Chamber proceedings a decade before had firmly established the privilege in the common law of England. Transplanted to this country as part of our legal heritage, it soon made its way into various state constitutions and ultimately in 1791 into the federal Bill of Rights. The privilege, this Court has stated, “was generally regarded then, as now, as a privilege of great value, a protection to the innocent though a shelter to the guilty, and a safeguard against heedless, unfounded, or tyrannical prosecutions.”"