Our Constitution’s Fifth Amendment protection,
Against self-incrimination is a deflection.
Our Legal System is being misused,
And the democratic search for truth abused.
We all have the Right not to self-incriminate,
But if not guilty why honesty procrastinate.
“Pleading the Fifth” and “I do not recall”
For the desperate and arrogant their sad caterwaul.
“Situational amnesia” with lawyers’ consent
A Justice travesty for democracy’s descent.
“The mob takes the Fifth” this infamous did claim,
But then with cohort insurrectionists did the same!
The Fifth has a righteous democratic intent
To protect the innocence but not the malcontent.
George Kibildis
Sparta