Glenn Beck: As An American Citizen Shahzad Should Be Mirandized

To see what Glenn Beck had to say visit http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/checker.aspx?v=Xd6UuzSUaG.

Just to point out, there is actually a good originalist argument to be made that Miranda v. Arizona, which is the basis for the right to be mirandized and have confessions not count as evidence until that takes place, actually had no basis in the Constitution. Justice White began his dissent in that famous case by declaring, "The proposition that the privilege against self-incrimination forbids in-custody interrogation without the warnings specified in the majority opinion and without a clear waiver of counsel has no significant support in the history of the privilege or in the language of the Fifth Amendment. As for the English authorities and the common law history, the privilege, firmly established in the second half of the seventeenth century, was never applied except to prohibit compelled judicial interrogations."

That being said, it is a right afforded to every American citizen based at least on Supreme Court precedent, and Beck has a valid point in that the right that one American citizen has should not be denied to another. Tweet