Testilying

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
- I.F. Stone

It never ceases to amaze me when the Minions of the Beast circle the wagons and perjure not only their oaths of office, but an oath to tell the truth when they testify. It is so common that there is term describing it: Testilying.

In Stumpy's suit, there were not only lies, not just damn lies, but bald lies, told by every government witness.

The assistant prosecutor cannot tell the truth if it were to save her own life. Here is a list of what she testilied to at trial: She did not get angry. She did not lunge across the conference table. She did not slap her hands on the table. She used foul language, but did not admit what she actually said. She did not have the court clerk's file in the conference room with her. She did not throw documents that were supposed to be filed into the clerk's file into the trash.

Part of the evidence that the judge in this case did not allow was testimony or evidence that a few months after the assault, at a court hearing in the criminal case, the AP denied having access to the videotape of the airport incident. Stumpy had sued the airport authority to secure a copy of the tape and was getting stymied by the attorney for the airport authority. Several months after the AP said there was no way she could get that tape, the attorney for the airport authority handed Stumpy the videotape and begged her to dismiss her FOIA suit.

The bailiff testilied that he was in and out of the conference room, when he was there the entire time. He testilied that he did not recall the conversation being heated (as he did at the deposition), or any of the cursing or lunging or yelling by the AP. He further testilied that if any of those things had happened in his presence, he would have remembered them.

We resisted having the court administrator testify, as he was not a witness to any of the events surrounding the assault. He was allowed to testify about court procedures. He testilied that it was impossible that the court clerk would refuse to file a document when presented at the window. He testilied that it was impossible that the AP could take the case file from the clerk's office and have that file in the conference room. He denied that he was present in the courtroom when Stumpy told the judge that the AP had thrown documents in the trash that Stumpy had wanted to file, but could not because the AP had the file. He testilied that he was ordered by the judge to retrieve those documents.

And you dutifully pay your taxes to ensure that these fascists can do the same to you and yours.

The solution: Pass legislation that every public building have video cameras installed into every room. No audio, just video. This way, we can monitor what they do. After all, we pay them to do it, we should be allowed to see how their time is spent while they spend our taxes. Also, enact legislation that people who want to bring personal audio recording devices into public buildings be allowed to do so with proper notice to the "authorities." I would have loved to see a copy of a video of the AP screaming at Stumpy.

Audio and video recording equipment are the new firearms in this war against tyranny.