If we lie to our government it's a serious crime. Why isn't it an even more serious crime when our government lies to us? If crime is willful action that harms others, and we punish crime based on the extent of its harm, why aren't we criminalizing and severely punishing political lies, which often result in great harm - including massive death and suffering throughout the world?
Planet earth and all but a tiny fraction of her inhabitants are being systematically raped and plundered by a corporate power structure that virtually owns the US government. If there's an activity that can make money by destroying our planet or killing millions of our fellow human beings, you can bet the US government is actively promoting that activity. This immense, continuing crime against humanity (and nature) is being justified and sustained with big, fat political lies. If we don't start criminalizing political lies and severely punishing our lying politicians, we'll get more inequality; we'll get more destruction of our natural resources; we'll get more wars; we'll get even more extreme human suffering that will progress until the downtrodden of the world finally revolt in desperation.
The US political system is a deeply corrupt, criminal enterprise largely sustained by ruthless political lies. Our political system handsomely rewards liars while severely punishing truth tellers (see Drake, Manning, Snowden). In the service of political lies, the US government has flipped morality on its head.
We the people have every right to demand strict intellectual honesty from our politicians. Stop the lies, save planet earth.
Shout it from the streets, shout it from the rooftops, "Criminalize political lies, criminalize political lies, criminalize political lies..."
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