No more lies

I don’t get it. If I advertise that a bottle of snake oil will make men tall, fit and handsome with no effort, and make women slim and beautiful, ditto, then I will be indicted for fraud and at a minimum have my product removed from the market and have a hefty fine levied.

And yet, when politicians lie about far weightier matters (WMD’s in Iraq; Global warming is a hoax; Tax  breaks for the rich grow the economy) they seem to have a free pass. Even when their lies are immediately shown to be untrue, and followed by other lies, nothing ever happens.

We need an institution that is free to investigate and expose these outrages. Oh yeah, it’s called a free press. And those who neck-slam or verbally attack reporters need to be shunned by every responsible person, not praised and elected (or re-elected).