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user-inactivated  ·  4293 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "Why Should I Care That No One’s Reading Dzhokhar Tsarnaev His Miranda Rights?"

Blah blah blah, okay, this is a decent history of the Miranda exception although it hasn't made an argument yet, okay, yes--

    Because when they can make their own rules, sometime, somewhere, they inevitably will.

--uh, oh. Way to close the article with a sentence so ridiculously not up to the standards of journalism that you lose all credibility with anyone. That's the point of the article? "This is all fine, but actually someday someone's going to do something wrong soitsnotfineafterall."