Thread: SHABBIEST OF ALL LIES: SILENT ASSERTION OF AMERICAN’S FUTU

SHABBIEST OF ALL LIES: SILENT ASSERTION OF AMERICAN’S FUTURE



By Frosty Wooldridge
December 31, 2007
NewsWithViews.com

Back in 1860, one of my favorite authors, Mark Twain said, “Almost all lies are acts, and speech has no part in them. I am speaking of the lie of silent assertion; we can tell it without saying a word. For example: It would not be possible for a humane and intelligent person to invent a rational excuse for slavery; yet you will remember that in the early days of emancipation agitation in the North, the agitators got but small help or countenance from anyone. Argue, plead and pray as they might, they could not break the universal stillness that reigned, from the pulpit and press all the way down to the bottom of society--the clammy stillness created and maintained by the lie of silent assertion; the silent assertion that there wasn’t anything going on in which humane and intelligent people were interested.

“The universal conspiracy of the silent-assertion-lie is hard at work always and everywhere, and always in the interest of a stupidity or sham, never in the interest of a thing fine or respectable. It is the most timid and shabbiest of all lies…the silent assertion that nothing is going on which fair and intelligent men and women are aware of and are engaged by their duty to try to stop.â€

Many need to be on trial before the American people... Many, the American people will only know the true damage from this president many years down the road

This article is so true. My sister personifies the apathy that Woolbridge writes about. She lives in San Diego, CA, in an upper-middle-class neighborhood. Illegal immigrant day laborers loiter on the corner near her house, and they live in the canyons surrounding her neighborhood.

I ask her why she puts up with it, and she just shrugs and says, "I just ignore it. It's not my problem."