Could this be the End of Information Flow

At the recent Senate Committee hearings, Dr. Anthony Fauci continuously invoked his 5th Amendment right to not answer any questions whatsoever about his involvement during the COVID pandemic crisis.  He, at the time, was the Chief Advocate of masking, double-masking, social distancing, school closures, church closures, quarantines, and panic spreading.  Every crisis needs a designated panic-spreader, and he happily stepped into the role, and performed it with flair.

There were many questions about how the coronavirus originated, which he refused to answer.  Will we ever find out if the horrible virus was created in the Wuhan lab, allegedly partly financed by Fauci and his team of schemers?  Probably not, now that the gag strategy has been successfully employed.

But how does this 5th Amendment invocation foretell about the ability to get necessary information in the future?  In the past, panic generators were held accountable for their misbehaviors and shenanigans.  Many inadvertently tripped over themselves, answered questions a bit too honestly, and ended up doing jail time, or at the very least, disgracing themselves forever in the public eye.  Often, they said they were sorry… sorry for saying anything in the first place.

But Fauci has tried a new tactic, a rope-a-dope approach, that sets a new precedent in trying to thwart efforts to get to the bottom of mischief-making.  He just kept repeating the 5th Amendment protection blurb.  When asked if the chair he was seated in during the Committee hearing was comfortable, he responded that he was advised by Counsel to use his 5th Amendment right to not answer for fear of incrimination.  Later, he said that there could have been slivers in the chair which could have caused him to perjure himself.

The bigger picture is that Fauci’s silence gives a path forward to anybody not agreeing to answer questions to any authority for any reason.  Why put yourself at risk whatsoever?  Why bother?  No upside, plenty of downside.  There could be some naive people who might say they just want to tell the truth.  But after imagining the badgering they’d get by the Congress people, they would probably rethink it.  In the meantime, insiders expect to hear a lot of that 5th Amendment bail-out blurb in the future.

 

Disclaimer:  all stories in Bizarreville are fiction, even the ones with a slight element of truth in them.

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