[Scoutmaster]

My initial reaction was to agree. On second thought, the Fifth Amendment Right against self-incrimination is a individual's Constitutional Right ~ a protection against the government no less important than the First Amendment rights of freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom of association, and the Second Amendment right to bear arms (and all four of those, in my opinion, given the broad interpretation I give them and not as they've been nibbled away at by federal courts and Congress).

Do I want US citizens and legal US residents to be required to give up their Constitutional protections for the right to gain employment by the US government? Are my rights as a taxpayer so much greater than the rights of the to-be-employed citizen or legal resident that I can demand him or her give up his or her Constitional rights to serve me as a government employee?

When I view the issue in that light, my response is, in the name of the Federalist Papers, yes, yes, yes, public servants, public official, and public employees should be allowed to assert their Fifth Amendment protections, just as I can't defend the work of pornographers and trash journalist, but I'll defend their right to produce their work under the freedoms of free speech.

You may not agree, which is another freedom we have ~ and I am not belittling your position in the least.

[eyeamok]

Well reasoned, and I am torn on this issue, however let me ask you this.
Every court in America REQUIRES Citizens to Give Up Certain “Inalienable Rights” protected by the US Constitution every single day in America as part of an “agreement” to accept some term of Probation or Parole and participate in “Regular Society”.

Is it not within the Rights of the Citizenry to DEMAND the Same of our “Public Servants” as a condition for the “Privilege” of being a “Public Servant”?? To give up Certain Inalienable Rights??