A funny time on the USTAFISH.

There were dozens of fire extinguishers on the boat. The basic parts are the canister, handle, pull pin, and tamper seal.

Someone started to break the tamper seals and the local naval reactors reps started to find this as a recurring deficiency.

Our solution: Inspect more frequently. Every two or three hours.

Looking back it was kind of funny.

Nothing has changed.

“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 the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means-to declare that the government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal-would bring terrible retribution. Against that pernicious doctrine this court should resolutely set its face.”

Mr. Justice BRANDEIS (dissenting)  OLMSTEAD v US 1928