Crime is Contagious. There is a Vaccine.

“Decency, security and liberty alike, demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the Citizen. In a government of laws, existence of government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the potent, omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole by it’s example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of law that the end justifies the means…would bring terrible retribution. Against that pernicious doctrine this court should resolutely set its face,” Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, Olmstead v. U.S. 277 U.S., 438,465 (1928).