Babylon 5 John Sheridan Interrogation scene from "Intersections in real time"
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* In an equity court -- which is all there is since there are no more courts 'of law' -- when we are asked, "Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you God?", we must respond "No" -- not to be contemptuous but rather because the 'truth' can not be told. Courts of equity can neither see nor hear 'truth'. They are courts of fiction and cannot have any truth within. If indeed one tells the 'whole truth' the cat will be let out of the bag and he will thereby be in contempt and go directly to jail. We must tell 'our' truth, which is that we accepted and returned their offer, (more later), yet telling 'the' truth will land us in jail very quickly. Remember that Martha Stewart got herself into trouble not by having anything to do with 'insider trading' but by lying. Since there is no law against 'lying', the only way she could be convicted was for her to have made it a crime to lie. The only way that she could have made 'lying' a crime is by contracting and agreeing not to lie. The only way she could contract and agree to that was to 'swear to tell the truth' -- it was her 'swearing in' that created the contract which she later breached by lying -- which convicted her. Had she never agreed /contracted to 'tell the truth', she never would have been convicted. Her conviction had nothing to do with 'insider trading' OR 'lying'; it had everything to do with contracting.
