Truth, Policy & information terrorism

Rosemarie & Mike - thinking the best of politicians as disinterested public representatives acting for the public good with an inevitable bias toward their own consitituents (i.e. suspending horrible reality for the purposes of argument), one can still argue that the Truth and Policy can be DE-COUPLED. 
 
I argued this recently in a long meeting with a very decent Federal politician who clearly understood what I was saying. We recognize that "political realities" (polls, the ignorant prejudices of the voters brainwashed by the Murdoch and other Bush-ite media, voter fear and greed etc) determine what is (acceptable) "policy".  
 
It takes real leadership (e.g. a JFK or FDR) to transcend this pig-sty political reality and fly with humane ideas. 
 
However, I argued to the National Parliament Representative , while recognizing the political realities, the Mainstream media brainwashing, the lobbies, consensus, vested interests etc that prevent humane Policy (e.g. stopping the killing of 1 infant every minute in Occupied Iraq and Afghanistan) - it should STILL be possible to actually tell the Truth (e.g. that the passive killing of 1 infant every minute in Occupied Iraq and Afghanistan is happening every minute of every day, week, year - as anyone can readily confirm by simply Googling "UNICEF" and going to Country info statistics). 
 
There should be zero tolerance for lying by omission and as well as lying by commission in public life - it is dangerous denial that acutely threatens humanity and in current parlance "information terrorism".

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