Truth is not "inconvenient"- an echo opinion letter

Classic reason for speaking truth to power is to combat "Inconvenient truths" (classic oxymoron) 

Letter to the editor of the Annapolis newspaper the Capital Gazette

You only have to look at the news from time to time to be convinced some people only want to believe in “convenient to them truth.”

Al Gore has been talking for years now about the “Inconvenient truth” of global warming. Scientist are becoming more and more alarmed about the changes they see coming in our planet’s climate. But you don’t need to be a scientist to be alarmed if you have been on this earth for more than forty years or so. You can see it for yourselves — if you don’t mind facing an inconvenient truth.

Then look at what happened with the Brett Kavanaugh hearings. Anyone who saw the credible testimony given by Dr. Blasely Ford and then watched as Justice Kavanaugh stumbled through his testimony could see whose truth was convenient to whom. 

Who changed their testimony from what they swore under oath, from one time to the other?

Truth matters whether it is convenient or not. The excuse that everyone lies is no excuse at all. But especially in our leaders, and in people to whom we are trusting the dispensation of justice. How can there be justice without a commitment to the truth? How can we do something about all the world problems if we are not dealing with the truth? Will it matter to the results we get if we only accept the convenient truths?

I wish I could tell everyone that I have always accepted the truth in everything. But that wouldn’t be truth. However, I do try; to keep trying is the best any of us can do—and should do.

If you want justice —nobody should be disingenuous with the truth—no matter what that truth is. If you want leaders you can trust — you do not accept “alternative facts.”

Believing only the truths that are convenient is in no one best interest. From Alejandro Tamargo, Annapolis