Baring False Witnesses

By William L. Garvin

“There are six things that the Lord strongly dislikes, seven that are an abomination to Him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.”  Proverbs 6:16-19

There is a quote attributed to Winston Churchill:  “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”  In today’s age of instant communication, that lie would make it ALL the way around the world!  One should look at how and why those lies are perpetuated, who is financing the canards, and who profits by their dissemination.  It is important to lay bare those who are bearing false witness.

Lying and cheating are rampant in our society.  “If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t competing,” as young folks say.  Lying seems to be a prerequisite for political office in this country despite the ninth commandment:  “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.”  There’s the infamous “I did not have sex with that woman.”  False.  “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.”    False.  “Hands up, don’t shoot” is false, a lie perpetuated by members of the congressional Black Caucus, by athletes on sporting fields, and “protestors” throughout the land.  A similar path is coursed by those same parties with the false narrative “I can’t breathe.”  There’s the ROLLING STONE story on gang rape at the University of Virginia.  False.  The Lena Dunham Republican rape story.  False.  The Duke lacrosse team rape story.  False.  The Tawana Brawley rape story.  False.  The Benghazi murders were caused by a videotape.  False.  “There’s not a smidgeon of corruption (in the IRS).”   False.  “Your health insurance premiums will go down by an average of $2,500 per family.”  False.  Because there are no timely consequences for any of these lies, unethical, immoral, and illegal behavior is not only condoned but encouraged.

It makes no difference that the Obama administration lied about the Benghazi videotape story or the false premises on which the Affordable Care Act was enacted.  It makes no difference when an American president can lie on live television to the American people about his sexual peccadilloes and remain fabulously wealthy and popular.  It makes no difference that three separate autopsies prove Michael Brown’s hands were never up.  It makes no difference when you say eleven times you can’t breathe, which is proof positive that you CAN breathe.  It makes no difference that the autopsy of Eric Garner showed no damage to either his windpipe or his neck bones, that he did NOT die of asphyxiation on the street but of cardiac arrest while in the ambulance.  For all the race hustlers in the grievance industry, it makes no difference that the crackdown on selling “loosies” in New York was ordered by the highest ranking black officer in the NYPD, Chief of Department Phillip Banks.  As the NEW YORK POST catalogued, Banks ordered the crackdown, black business owners lodged the complaint, a black officer ordered the arrest, and a black, female sergeant supervised the arrest.   None of that makes any difference and will be ignored because it doesn’t fit the liberal media narrative.  Just as Michael Brown’s strong arm robbery is deemed irrelevant, so are Eric Garner’s thirty-one previous arrests (eight for selling loosies in addition to assault and grand larceny).

So who profits by fanning these flames of racial unrest by bearing false witness?  Certainly Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, the NAACP and every politician who practices racial politics by playing to a core constituency of grievants.  Certainly the popular media with its liberal propaganda (such as “white privilege”) will profit in ratings for live coverage of assaults, looting, and arson.  Looters certainly profit.  Young idealists profit in a search for meaning and significance by identifying with “causes” whether real or imaginary.  Certainly the political forces abroad and at home that would love to see the “Great Satan” humbled are once again dancing in the streets.

And finally, there’s the Obama administration that has already seen the national debt exceed $18 TRILLION while simultaneously presiding over 92 million unemployed and record numbers of food stamp dependents.  Millions have illegally crossed our porous borders.  Iran marches unimpeded towards a nuclear arsenal while Putin continues to pugnaciously rattle his jingoistic saber.  The US has over 4,000 “boots on the ground” in Iraq for a war with no apparent strategic coherence.  China has replaced the USA as the premier economy and the Democrat party is divided and diminished.  False witnesses, breathing lies, sowing discord among brothers may be just the profitable distraction the doctor ordered…even if it’s an abomination!