I had a pretty strong reaction to the discovery of Judy Keith’s fraud earlier this week. That might seem strange – I don’t know her, and I’ve never worked with her in any capacity. She’s just a face on a website to me, so why should I care even a little about what she does, let alone enough to get all excited about it?
Well, there is a reason for that.
I grew up in an environment permeated by lies. Lies are, in fact, one of the tools of the trade – mind-control programmers use lies with the same profligacy that doctors use latex gloves, and I have been lied to and manipulated all my life.
As a result, I am sick to death of lies, and I despise liars. I despise all liars, even though most are not remotely in the same league of skill as the programmers, and even though most of the lies told in the world do not touch me in any way.
I despise liars because every lie is intended to manipulate someone, even if that “someone” is not me. Lies are the mark of someone who can’t accomplish what they want by honest means (either because honesty won’t lead to what they want or because the honest route is too difficult to pursue), but for some reason they believe that what they want is so important that it’s okay for them to use dishonest means to get it.
They may think so, but I disagree.
There is nothing that makes it permissible for anyone to manipulate others to get what they want, or to tell lies in order to garner agreement in a situation where the truth can’t be relied upon to bring the desired support. If the truth can’t do it, then it shouldn’t be done.
And I hate to see anyone profit by a lie – this, to me, is the very definition of receiving an undeserved reward.
But it does give me great satisfaction when a liar is revealed, especially when they are revealed by their own lies – when their own stupidity and arrogance expose them for the manipulative frauds that they are.
I feel that this is truly justice served – when the liars are trapped by their own dishonesty, their own contradictions, their own unjustified superiority in believing that they can dupe the rest of the world (or any group, or any individual) into believing their lie over the truth.
It is hugely satisfying when the world turns out to be not quite as gullible as a liar expects them to be.
Life is full of people gaining undeserved rewards and receiving undeserved punishments.
But sometimes, people get exactly what they deserve.
Hopefully, the case of Judy Keith will be one of those times.
I am with you on this one. I disbarred an attorney once.
I also hate being put in a position of lying. I swim about every day at a hotel pool. The waitress there said I could go to breakfast free and just tip well. Good deal for me. It is not good for me. Not the way to start my day.
In my job as a consultant I lose lots of clients and money as I am honest in representing them to the state. Those that do not are not going to suffer for it, they are not going to get caught.
Realistic is sometimes seen as negative. When Edward Kennedy died I though of Mary Joe and her family. I thought of Rosemary who had a lobotomy which her father signed for even though she was 23. I have no problem with the Kennedy’s being a political force it is the they are good human beings is what upsets me.
I not only hate liars I hate those that blindly believe them.
I try and go with the idea that I am better of concentrating on those that are not liars than those that are. Hard as it seem those that don’t lie are rare.
I did happen to look at Judy Keith’s web site. I wrote her off as a hack. Lots of hacks have advanced degrees.
It drives me nuts when I read about Jaycee Lee Dugard. That it is not understood it is not rare it is rare when someone is caught. Kinda obvious you really have to screw up to get caught. The wife so far is getting a free ride. She was there at the abduction. She knew what was going on. Pretty soon there will be the questions about why she did not escape. I know.
Comment by MFF — August 28, 2009 @ 3:32 pm
hi Michael –
Yes — liars AND those who blindly believe them. AND those who see what’s happening and just figure it’s someone else’s problem, so they don’t do anything about it (as in the Dugard case).
Most times, I try to focus more on the non-liars too — especially if the lies are more of the obnoxious sort where nobody’s really getting hurt except the idiot telling the lie, I make every effort to disregard them and just move on by — but as you said, non-liars are rare.
And sometimes, whether the lie touches me or whether it doesn’t, I just can’t let it go by. Sometimes it is hurting someone, or manipulating someone, or causing unfair damage to someone — and in those cases, I can’t turn a blind eye and pretend it doesn’t matter. Those liars deserve exposure and public castigation, and if nobody else is going to do it… then I will.
So — some of my posts for the next little while might digress from the usual theme of this blog — but then again, there’s no reason why they can’t.
The thing is, there’s a situation going on right now where Kelly (aka Secret Shadows) is telling egregious lies in an attempt to damage someone else — (not that this is new, it’s been going on for a year, she spreads lies across the internet, then apologized and takes them back, then goes on a rampage again, wash-rinse-repeat) — but she’s taken it to a different level now, because apparently now she’s gone official. *rolls eyes* Since she’s already admitted she spreads lies in public places, I don’t know how far she thinks she’s going to get with THAT, but the point is… in media like the internet, where people can spread gossip or invent lies and present them as if they were truth, even with with absolutely no evidence — sometimes the liars need to be exposed.
Because sadly, most people don’t bother checking out what they read, or even bothering to notice if it CAN be checked out. So sometimes, there’s nothing left but a “what’s good for the goose is good for the gander” policy — spread the truth the same way she’s spreading the lies. So please bear with the digression — it won’t be permanent.
Comment by RockerGirl — August 31, 2009 @ 9:17 am