Truth flows when the mind is free. Men, especially good ones, are slaves to duty, not truth, and institutional instructions, not their own values.
On Wednesday, September 12, 2012 8:11:17 PM UTC+5:30, archytas wrote: > > Families who lost people at the Hillsborough disaster kept up a 23 > year campaign to reveal the truth about this soccer match > catastrophe. The report is damning. Politicians are apologising with > more practised sincerity than banksters. The cover-up has been > exposed, with lies told by all relevant authorities and government. > It's good to see the families and victims vindicated. > > The big question is why we didn't get the truth at the time. Others > include why so many "good people" lied or stayed quiet. > Statistically, we should ask whether these lying cover-ups are what we > get from public services, banks and big business over such matters as > Baby P, the BP Gulf and Bhopal disasters. I know of plenty of such > disgusting cover-ups and struggle to think of any honest approaches. > > There are already people saying things have changed for the better > over 23 years. I don't believe that. Virtually every worker who > tries to blow the whistle is sacked, degraded and made out as an > incompetent malcontent. We don't know who was responsible for 9/11 > and after two enquiries have no clue why we are in Afghanistan or > Iraq. US carrier activities are at an all-time high around Iran. The > 'war on drugs' leaves the crap on our streets and kills in South > America on a war scale. > > Due process isn't working. > --
