In Modern America, the Season of Truth is Usually Followed by the Season of Lies

   HERE’S A QUESTION FOR YOU: Are you willing to report to a government agency everything said to you by your neighbor?

   Say, for instance, that the Department of Homeland Security published a “Statement Reporting Form” and the Feds passed a law requiring anyone overhearing certain “statements of interest” to report it on one of these forms. The definition of qualifying “statements of interest” is published, but only as part of a 3.5 million-word code.

   At the same time, it has been made clear to you that the Feds very much want every statement reported to them. And failure to report statements that actually qualify is a crime.

   The reporting form requires a signature under penalty of perjury attesting to the signer’s knowledge and belief that any reported statement qualifies under the law. Lying about “knowing and believing” that the reported statement qualifies is a crime.  But like most everyone else you know, you’ve never personally read the code, and so cannot actually know or believe that any given statement qualifies.

   Under these circumstances, could you — in good conscience — report to the government everything your neighbor said to you? Or anything your neighbor said?  Would you?

   WOULD IT MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE in your answer to this quest ...

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