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.
