Those Who Do Not Fess Up when They Mess Up
From Casey Anthony to Roger Clemens
Several media agencies have compared Casey Anthony to Roger Clemens because they are both on trial for lying. Yesterday for our local newspaper, I wrote an editorial titled, "Clemens should get a life sentence." Allow me to explain.
"I'm not upset that you lied to me. I'm upset that from now on, I cannot trust you anymore." Friedrich Nietzsche (German Philosopher and Scholar)
Lies. They weave a web of deceit and oftentimes entangle the innocent victims in the wake of the web. Sir Walter Scott once said, "Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive."
Roger Clemens started out on the right track. Like any train that has the potential to derail, his alleged lying about steroid use derailed his train. In 1992, he and his wife began the Roger Clemens Foundation to help children from all walks of life. The kids who looked up to him, believed in him and wanted to emulate him. He let them down.
Any number of athletes these days are choosing the easy road and showing children that hard work and sweat don't win the games. We don't expect them to be perfect but we do expect and demand that they play fair and hard.
This is where I propose the Life Sentence. For the rest of their lives, to quote Mr. Nietzsche, "I cannot trust you." You, Mr. Clemens, are now a marked man along with Casey Anthony and Tiger Woods and all of the others who chose to weave a web of deceit.
I urge you to "tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth" from here on in because in the end, it's the only thing that will set you free. Even a jury in Florida cannot totally free you.
Sources:
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/dailypitch/post/2011/07/roger-clemens-trial-jury-selection-questions/1
Published by Michele Starkey
Optimist who enjoys writing, laughing and spreading good news. If I have but one life to live, I hope to make mine memorable. My epitaph will read: she lived, she loved, she left. View profile
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63 Comments
Post a CommentGood article. Unfortunately you cannot get people to tell the truth. They would then have to pay the consequences.
Yes. The truth is valuable.
Great Nietzsche quote, Michele, and a great piece. Thanks!
Well said!
Honesty truly is the best policy... and "the truth will set you free."
Michele, you couldn't be righter. Is "righter" a word? Well if it isn't, it should be.
So true. For us all, too, not just those in the public eye.
Good article. I think the outcry against Casey Anthony spells a tipping point for our broken judicial system. Things are now weighing too heavily in favor of possible criminals with little regard to victims. I think people are tired of that and they are finally standing up and saying enough. However, I don't think taking things out on the jurors, who did what they were instructed to do with regard to reasonable doubt, is the right answer. Anthony deserves to be punished but the jurors don't deserve death threats, being fired from jobs and the like. That is just as wrong!
Wow, what a trial-----What bothers me is that people who have commited very minor crimes are in prison for the longest time and then there are others who get away with murder.
Very well said. I think we have all lied at one time or another, but there is definitely a difference in lies like Casey Anthony and ones about how much I weigh! ha