W5 D6

A Stool Pigeon
The day Messiah, The Anointed One, came to Jerusalem the populace welcomed the prince with great jubilation. As a mark of respect the president let all the prisoners free. Rabbi Benn Weiss was there to watch the festivities. While talking with Mordecai the security chief, whose office had become redundant, the rabbi saw how one prisoner on coming across the much dreaded police chief jumped in panic. The security chief commented he was a prisoner who was shut up for revealing the secret nuclear program of the government. “He blew the whistle loud and clear.”he said.
“You mean he told the truth?” The rabbi could not believe it. Later they met one who sidled up to the chief and said,”I have some news to inform. Wanna hear?”
“ Shoo! Scram!” bellowed Mordecai. The rabbi asked if he wasn’t interested in hearing him. “Now I am a free man. I don’t wish to hear from a stool pigeon even if it were truth.”
One statesman ( I think it was Winston S. Churchill) once commented that for security reasons truth must be concealed in a tissue of lies. Would it mean then that a lie has much to be recommended for? No far from it.
Our finite factor shall always trip us up where we wax eloquent over Truth. Today in the face of a perceived threat civil liberties shall be curtailed and you shall be called to dissemble and lie because security of the nation is at stake. It has set a precedent. From it shall follow for any government to raise the bogey of terrorist threat or something else in order to perpetuate its misrule. All these are unjust and pendant on the ‘lie’ let to stand. Every truth we simplify must create a host of lies, which must in the long run cause more mischief and irreparable tear in the national fabric.
The tyranny of the majority is thus a great evil and an antidote which I think, lies with an individual than with the whole. Truth of action thus shall have different emphasis with the nation and with individual. Where are the pioneers who dare to think for themselves?
Hello, Tom Paine here I salute you!
benny