Truth is the indispensable moral sanction for a healthy society.
Whenever there is deception, or the misrepresentation of truth, the moral order required by society is wounded.
Our nation is experiencing a massive and pervasive pandemic of deception.
We must respond to the crisis of deception and dedicate ourselves to the principles of honor, integrity, and truthfulness.
America Demands Truth
All human activities demand sincerity, candor, and veracity. These virtues must be the iron-clad barriers against deceitfulness, duplicity, and hypocrisy.
Truth is a servant of justice, which can never be served by falsehood, slander, perjury, or calumny.
Lying is a direct offense against truth and a profound injustice. It violates an individual’s right to reputation, honor, and dignity.
Whenever anyone has the right to know the truth and is deceived, the harmony of a moral order is undermined.
Lying is contemptuous and deserves condemnation because it violates justice, charity, and trust.
When lying becomes normalized, the bedrock of trust required by society is violated.
Trust in society is impossible without truth as its foundation.
Deception: Destructive to America
On Monday, March 27, the U.S. Attorney’s Office District of New Jersey released a statement providing insight into America’s culture of deception.
This statement focused on the sentencing of jewelry store owners for their roles in an international $200 million credit card scheme.
Yet, it clearly highlights the pervasive deception taking place throughout America, causing a rotting of the moral order from within.
In this case, two individuals were the heart of a scheme to fabricate 7,000 false identities to obtain tens of thousands of credit cards.
Participants, according to the official government statement, “doctored credit reports to pump up the spending and borrowing power associated with the cards. Then they borrowed or spent as much as they could, based on the phony credit history, but did not repay the debts-causing more than $200 million in confirmed losses to businesses and financial institutions.”
The statement on this case concludes with sobering statistics memorializing massive fraud taking place throughout America.
Over the past three fiscal years, the U.S. Department of Justice has filed more than 10,000 financial fraud cases against nearly 15,000 defendants. This includes more than 2,700 mortgage fraud defendants.
The Con against America’s Senior Citizens
Compounding the deception throughout America highlighted in the aforementioned, the FBI has concerns for senior citizens.
