Lying In America

Lying In America by Bill Roberts

It would seem that lying is not acceptable in America. Look what happened to Martha Stewart. When they couldn't ‘get" her for insider trading, they got her for lying to a federal investigator.

But what about when the police lie? The other night on the CBS show 48 Hour Mystery story about the Tankleff murders the lead detective stated it was OK to coerce a confession by lying to the suspect. Watch his interview.

Do we even know if the Federal investigators lied to Martha Stewart? Do we care?

And what about former President Bill Clinton? Wasn't he convicted of lying to the court? What happened to him? Oh well.

Hypocrisy is alive and well in the good ol' U.S. of A.

Right now in California we are in the final week before our primary. The political advertising is everywhere. But what about the truth? Where is it?

We have a series of propositions on the ballot, 94 through 97. They are about allowing four Indian casinos to expand their number of slots and a few other things. This will make them more competitive with Las Vegas.

What will it do for California if we allow this expansion? Well, for one thing, it will triple our anticipated revenue from the four casinos involved. We should get more than $100,000,000 per year for the next twenty years. And the casinos have agreed to "share" with the tribes and bands that don't have casinos to provide better health care, education, and housing. It seems like a Win-Win scenario.

But a certain Las Vegas casino owner and two race track owners take exception to these propositions. That's OK, they have a right to. But the advertising campaign they are running is specious at best. They say that the other Indians are against it when in fact only two tribes are against it (and they have casinos) while 70 tribes are for it. They say that the casinos will "decide" how much to pay California, but the truth is that the bills call for fully audited statements from the casinos. They say it won't help California schools. But the 9 Billion Dollars California expects to get over the next two decades will go into the general fund and education gets some of its money from the general fund (in addition to direct allocations from property taxes).

I think that politicians, government employees, police, and political "activists" need to be truthful. We can't stand this "double" standard. Enough of the lying. Stop the hypocrisy.

If you don't want me to lie, don't lie to me.

Vote YES ON 94, 95, 96, and 97. It's good for California.