Michael1942's Blog

Recent reports show that 2000 plus people have been convicted and incarcerated on  perjured testimony and suspect evidence, this is reminiscent of som early convictions and death from our country’s early history. That time period in the 1600’s was perilous for many since the paranoia of living in a new world along with the religious and personal baggage brought from  the old country. This type of condemnation by supposedly credible witnesses caused the exile, maiming and sometimes death of people who may have had special powers or who were not considered main stream (normal). We now have arrived at that time period again with the advent of  mass media, it is worse even though there have been no mass hangings , tortures or dunking to extract confessions of guilt. What we currently have is political and high profile business people who castigate the sitting administration creating the same atmosphere as the witch hunt era. This neo witch hunt has factionalized the people with uninformed, misstated facts and outright lies. Our political system has reverted to name calling, slander and ineffectiveness. The public has been misinformed for so long that the truth  appears disingenuous . I have found that I have to read several papers to get a true idea of what is real and what is not, even with this amount of reading I have to use my common sense in understanding what the real (not correct) information is.  As long as we (voters) allow our elected officials (et al)  to perpetuate  these  myths and misinformation, we will always have witch hunts.