"If you know the truth and don't speak out, then your voice becomes heard with the lie. Silence is a lie when you know the truth. If you know the truth but say I'm not going to get involved, I'm going to remain neutral, then you are siding with a lie. There is no neutrality when you know the truth."
There are so many instances where the truth is known but routinely hidden.
Prosecutors withhold exculpatory evidence from the defense; police observe the 'blue code' of silence to shield each other from censure, dismissal or prosecution; witnesses refuse to testify out of fear of reprisals from perpetrators.
And as yet, we have not found out what really happened on 9-11, and who were the conspirators.
And then we have Bill Bennett knowingly spouting his false 'truth', - "I do know....if you aborted every black baby, the crime rate would go down."
Also athletes who feel pressured to take performance enhancing drugs, just to compete with those who are already doing so, but successfully hiding it.
The lie by BushCo about WMD's in Iraq and the need to go to war, and the shameful complicity of Colin Powell and others, in rubber-stamping this lie.
The media routinely censures 'inconvenient truths' in order to lie from silence.
For years, baseball's management ignored rampant steroid use, to benefit from enhanced athletic performances, resulting in increased media ratings and much higher profits.
Rape is one of the world's most prevalent but underreported violent crimes.
Racist whites, routinely lie and say they are not racists.
What is clear, is that there is much more lying, than truth-telling going on, and few would argue with this.
"Evil flourishes when good men do nothing to reveal and further the truth"
2 comments:
most everything you say is true, and that is why i would like to become a police officer in my town. good will over come evil and i want to be a part of it!!!!!!
if you know something and don't say it you are as equal to the dishonest as they are!!!! intimadation is nothing!!!!
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