We all know that politicians lie.

We all know that bureaucrats lie.

And we all know that the media lies.

Consider Springfield, Ohio. According to actual video testimony as assembled and published by an alt-media site (Horn News), Haitian “refugees” are indeed eating cats and ducks and geese, stealing them from parks and other peoples’ homes. And a city of 60,000 has been overrun by 15,000 to 20,000 Haitian immigrants placed there by the regime of Uncle Joe.

Yet the media is attacking various people – notably but not only Trump and Vance – for reporting and repeating this. The city’s elected officials and police leaders are denying this. But are all these people lying in testimony before their government officials?

They could be. Because…

We all know that people who testify to government boards frequently lie. And exaggerate. And cite others (such as politicians and bureaucrats and media) who lie.

At least those of us at TPOL know that from bitter personal experience in working for clients who want to do something with their land and property that other people think is wrong or bad or even evil. So the opponents choose to fight evil with evil: by lying and quoting people whom (we are reasonably sure they know) are lying.

But back to the point at hand. (We realize this is a frequent theme recently for The Price of Liberty. But remember a wise Man once said, “You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” The opposite is also self-evident: Lies enslave you.)

Last week’s debate and so-called “fact checking” were full of lies. By all parties. At campaign rallies, we hear more and more lies. The media even lies about what it has reported – even though these days it is very easy to verify what was said days, months or years ago. By almost anyone.

The war in Ukraine is also the subject of countless lies by media, politicians, military spokespeople and others. The sheer volume is astonishing. We expect nations at war to lie about everything. But these lies come from supposedly neutral and disinterested observers.

Even though many of the lies around COVID-19 have been rebutted – and sometimes even admitted by those who uttered them or passed them on, the lies about public health and pandemics and vaccines continue to roll out: old and new.

To put it bluntly? There is no limit to the lies that people can and will tell. They have already told so many lies to us, and to themselves, that one more – or a hundred more – mean nothing. As long as they are not held accountable for it. They lie and lie.

Why? To win people to their side. To get people to obey them. To get people to respect them – at least in what they blissfully believe is a good way. But obedience is more important than respect, to be sure. (Honesty compels us to state that those politicians and government officials whom we respect can be counted on one hand.)

Businesses and the media lie for various reasons: some indirectly dealing with government. But the reason for a lie is really a moot point.

The challenge, of course, is not just to detect the lies, but to figure out what the truth really is. Mama Liberty (Lady Susan) was fond of saying “we’ll never learn the whole truth.” But today, it is harder and harder to figure out what any of the truth is about many many incidents and the conditions. Both Stateside and outside the Union. And even in your own town or neighborhood.

Absent finding out the actual truth, all we can do is take into accounty what we know, what we hear and see, and then judge the media, the politicos, and the government thugs and advocates and activists based on some common sense and reason.

But if it smells fishy – or too good to be truth – it is likely we are hearing (and seeing) a lie.

We must have the courage to respond accordingly. And pray.