Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me thrice and you must be the US government.
by Kevin Boykin
09/28/2026
Get this- in a US court of law, a witness who has proven dishonest can still take the stand. That tracks. They refuse to dismiss the witness. The jury is instructed to question their credibility basically. Would you drink from a fountain that sometimes was poisonous? When someone insists on deception, on dishonesty consistently then their word becomes worthless to me. Not just questionable, worthless. As in no value. The dishonest wield their lies as weapons making them net negatives on the world. There is dubious value even of the truth from a liar. A truth sets them up for further deception, positions them better to work their voodoo. It can be a deception itself obviously- truth as a lie. We can’t even believe them when they swear they’re lying.
I’ll apply that standard here.
While the common man is held to the letter of the law, to hell with the spirit of it, government officials face no such consequences. Joe Sixpack gets pulled over by cops looking for something to issue a citation or worse for. “Give me the man and I will give you the case against him”- Andrey Vyshinsky. The official apparatus – the agencies, the experts, the official spokespersons will have been impeached. Their character as failed truth-tellers exposed, revealing truth- something rarely afforded to the American. Patterns of deception so consistent, so systemic, eliminates their credibility.“The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!”
-Tennessee Williams
Double standards- our government intends to educate us on the concept through exposure. The plausibility of their argument matters not at all. In fact even if they bring gospel truth, undeniable fact it would come from a tainted source. This is why witnesses that have been eliminated are not suddenly reconsidered when they decide to become honest. The average person might say to himself: ‘What am I to say? Our government is a lying sack of monkey ****.’ They’ve been been caught lying repeatedly about everything from the targeting program to national security to public health. No sense in telling the truth when a good lie will do, even when it’s not needed. It’s good practice.
This is where we have arrived when it comes to the credibility of the United States government. I disregard their “evidence” not because I’m inherently contrary, but because I apply basic evidentiary logic. The witness has been impeached by prior dishonesty. For example in regards to the vaccine their explanation about excess deaths – about “overwhelmed healthcare systems” and “delayed care” – is testimony from a discredited source. I can hear that average person from earlier now: ‘Hey US govt- if we want any crap out of you we’ll squeeze your heads!’
I’m suggesting our government is less than perfect- I must a conspiracy nut, right?!! Except this isn’t conspiracy thinking; it’s what every rational person should do when confronted with information from a known deceiver. Persons who are not rational should get that way. Before content of testimony can be considered, content of character must survive critique. Easy rule: when the source has no credibility, the information has no value.
They can present charts, graphs, expert testimony, statistical models – it doesn’t matter. They can Powerpoint us until we’re blue in the face, lecture until the cows come home. The witness has been impeached. Their testimony is inadmissible.
The Mexican-American War (1846) – President James Polk deliberately lied about Mexican aggression, ordering US soldiers into disputed territory to provoke an incident that would justify invasion. The result was a war of conquest that seized massive territories from Mexico.
The Vietnam War – The Pentagon Papers revealed systematic deception about an unwinnable war. From the Tonkin Gulf incident to claims about troop deployments, the government lied at every level while knowing the conflict was hopeless. This deception cost 58,000 American lives and created what one source calls “a chronic mistrust of the government that, for many, continues to this day.”
The JFK Assassination Cover-up – The official narrative about Lee Harvey Oswald has been challenged as a lie that enabled the expansion of the Vietnam War (which Kennedy opposed) and the rise of Israel as a nuclear power (which Kennedy also opposed).
Watergate – Fifty years ago, the nation was rocked by revelations of “dirty tricks” that showed how deception had become “a legitimate political tool.” This wasn’t an isolated incident but part of a pattern of government deception.
Iraq WMDs (2003) – Unlike previous deceptions uncovered decades later, this lie unraveled in real time. By 2004, it was clear the US had launched a war costing over 4,400 American lives and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives based on lies that “fooled no one except those who chose to believe them.”
Operation Northwoods (1962) – The proposed scheme included hijacking American planes, bombing US cities, sinking American ships, and staging terrorist attacks to be blamed on Cuba – complete with fabricated casualty lists. While never implemented, it reveals the mindset of officials willing to lie about anything.
The War on Drugs – One of Judge Napolitano’s 17 major government lies, this myth has been used to justify policies that have devastated communities while failing to achieve stated goals.
John Mearsheimer noted: governments “don’t often lie to their allies and adversaries, ‘but instead seem more inclined to lie to their own people.’”
Philosopher Sissela Bok wrote, “deception of this kind strikes at the very essence of democratic government.”
But who are we fooling? Democracy is easily swayed, and in its purest form provides a government with the most control it can possibly have: a population that believes in its chains. We are not speaking about occasional mistakes or policy disagreements. The pathology displays a systematic pattern of deception aimed at securing public support for policy and defeating opposition at home. The witness hasn’t just lied a few times – lying is their method of communication.





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