Comments on: we’re all liars https://matttodd.ca/?p=831 sharing ideas on community and democracy Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:37:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: ld https://matttodd.ca/?p=831&cpage=1#comment-1119 ld Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:41:42 +0000 http://matttodd.ca/?p=831#comment-1119 The lie: tertiary importance – human vs corruption-everyone lies, it’s humanistic to a point where personal benefit supersedes humanistic characteristic’s. A lie created to deflect accountability, perpetuated by culprit for over 2 months with no “human” beneficial validation provided for perpetuating that particular lie- humanistic or corrupt for personal benefit? Any lie could have been chosen randomly to end the entire situation from the start while protecting the identity of originator of the email: “I regret to inform the voters of White Rock that one of the volunteers on our team has sent out an email without my authorization. We will take care of this situation internally. This is not how we do business. My sincere apologies to everyone”. This is what a lie created with the intention of protecting someone looks like. The action: secondary importance-McCarthism/Salem witch hunts - create partial information based upon partial documentation for accusation/create completely fabricated evidence, select targets, disburse accusations publically. We are unbelievably privileged in Canada to have democracy, rights, laws, and the liberty to speak. Travel abroad to where any of the above do not exist to remind yourself of why privilege needs protection. The law: first importance – democracy- the evolution of fair democratic process in BC has been evolving for over 150 years. An example of this is the newly written Bill 42 which relates to Provincial elections. As technology changes to enhance communication for example, the legislation and laws need to be periodically reviewed and updated to reflect those changes. A law was created (the local government act) to protect the voting public from lies and actions created and perpetuated for personal gain/power/greed. Without laws governing fair democratic process, anyone can anonymously print fliers, pay to have them distributed to every household the day before an election, containing any lie such as “ candidate X is a child molestor, include a fabricated story with downloaded pictures”. All candidates know what the law is when they decide to run for public office. Included in all three : public interest, ethics, public trust, accountability, power, greed – everything you’d find in Shakespeare. The lie: tertiary importance – human vs corruption-everyone lies, it’s humanistic to a point where personal benefit supersedes humanistic characteristic’s. A lie created to deflect accountability, perpetuated by culprit for over 2 months with no “human” beneficial validation provided for perpetuating that particular lie- humanistic or corrupt for personal benefit? Any lie could have been chosen randomly to end the entire situation from the start while protecting the identity of originator of the email: “I regret to inform the voters of White Rock that one of the volunteers on our team has sent out an email without my authorization. We will take care of this situation internally. This is not how we do business. My sincere apologies to everyone”. This is what a lie created with the intention of protecting someone looks like.

The action: secondary importance-McCarthism/Salem witch hunts – create partial information based upon partial documentation for accusation/create completely fabricated evidence, select targets, disburse accusations publically. We are unbelievably privileged in Canada to have democracy, rights, laws, and the liberty to speak. Travel abroad to where any of the above do not exist to remind yourself of why privilege needs protection.

The law: first importance – democracy- the evolution of fair democratic process in BC has been evolving for over 150 years. An example of this is the newly written Bill 42 which relates to Provincial elections. As technology changes to enhance communication for example, the legislation and laws need to be periodically reviewed and updated to reflect those changes. A law was created (the local government act) to protect the voting public from lies and actions created and perpetuated for personal gain/power/greed. Without laws governing fair democratic process, anyone can anonymously print fliers, pay to have them distributed to every household the day before an election, containing any lie such as “ candidate X is a child molestor, include a fabricated story with downloaded pictures”. All candidates know what the law is when they decide to run for public office.

Included in all three : public interest, ethics, public trust, accountability, power, greed – everything you’d find in Shakespeare.

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