Lies and False Allegations

I was brought up Christian. The truth was truth.  The whole truth.  My mother was the great lie detector in the home.  It was better to ‘own’ up than lie in my home.  

“Billy did you spill the milk?” The answer was ‘yes or no’.  I would be corrected once for the fault and two for any lie.  There were no ‘extenuating circumstances’ in my home. That might well affect punishment but not culpability.  My dad was a scientist and the truth wasn’t philosophical and escpecially not Marxist.  “Hand me a Phillips Screwdriver was a distinctly different request than “hand me a flat head screwdriver.”  I was expected to know and under the car with oil dripping in his eyes my father wasn’t patient with error and certainly didn’t want an ‘explanation” or a discussion.  Later working in surgery I found my father’s training in the ‘truth’ prepared me for surgeons and their impatience with errors of accuracy. “I said pass me the forceps not a needle driver,”  the tone sometimes suggesting the addition epitaph, “you fool” As the patient was bleeding out and the surgeons eyes were being blinded by sweat. ”. The nurse had her hands full of truth and service and I was learning a world beyond ‘blame’.  In clinical work we wanted the truth solely because lies killed.  

Politicians and marketing people lie. Certainly the CIA and CSIS night lie. The entertainment industry is full of lies especially magicians and reality shows. Certainly the ‘fact checkers’ on social media are either outright liars or stupid on most occasions.  The sad truth is that history is written by the winners.  The truth of victims was once rarely heard though in modern tines the victimizers are commonly demanding that they be seen as the victims too .  The bully gets praise as the winner and double praise as the victim of the resistance of the prey to be bullied.

I don’t like ‘false accusations’. In ny life I’ve defended myself repeatedly against false allegations. It doesn’t matter that I’m vindicated. It does’t matter that I’ve lost hundreds of thousands of dollars and what seems like years of my life defending myself against liars lying is the norm now in Canada.  People tell me truth is ‘relative’ and it’s all perception.  I’m old and remember a time when liars were punished and false accusation paid. I like being in the US knowing that ‘perjury’ is still punished and that the false accusers can be made to pay for their aggression. In Canada the PM lies more than any I’d known before.  Indeed the word salad disassembling that is his normal response has result in questions routinely being put to him as ‘yes or no Mr. Primeminster’.   Being a trust fund kid with a mother who was a drug addict and insane he obviously didn’t get the education I got in home and church.  Listening to the American politics I just hear increasing communism and communism the religion of aetheism doesn’t believe in ‘truth’ per se as ‘truth’ is whatever the dictatatorship says it is.  That was the lesson learned when we had access to the East German police files after the wall fell and learned Marxist communism was essentially lies upon lies and all the records of deaths were falsified.  The public health data today is confusing.  

It seems the person with the most money makes up the truth and justice is decided by bank account.  

I don’t like liars.  I don’t like false accuser. I don’t like false accusation,  I like logic and science and silly words like duty and service.  When I worked in the jails I saw Everyman for himself reality like the street reality and the reality of the crack house.  I liked Canada before Justin Trudeau.  I like Harper and Chretian, Martin, Mulroney and Turner. I liked the music of the 60’s and 70’s and 80’s too.  

Maybe I’m just getting old and truth is a lie. Like the new black is orange.  Whoever has the gun can say what anything is.  That’s obviously why the governments want to disarm the citizens. Thats what the Nazi’s and Communists do. They are into power. I don’t feel very powerful today seeing myself as a truth teller in a world of lies and liars.

But then evolutionary biologists say the big brain developed because of the need to tell the truth and tell the lie and recognise the truth and the lie. Apparently an early experience t in which a human wanted to eat a saber tooth tiger didn’t work out well.  Cannibals later developed and were more successful with deceptions.