From the Desk of Terry Lynch
DATE: Feb. 3, 1999
FROM: Terry Lynch
POB 241035
Montgomery, AL 36124-1035
E-mail: TerryLynch@aol.com
Internet site: The Pyrotechnic Pen
Additional Information: Lynch Links
Letter to the Editor - For Immediate Release
Please publish and distribute copy of this letter to all US Senators!
SUBJECT: Finding of Facts Corrupts Nature of Truth
or President Is Truthful on Majority of Issues
Open Letter To US Senators
House managers seem to think that a search for the truth means
asking the same question over and over again until you get the
answer you want, then keeping it and disregarding all other
testimony. Is not this badgering of the witness to obtain a
selective view of the truth a deceitful process? Indeed, is not
any absolute finding of fact a lie!
When making a scientific investigation, if you observe an event a
thousand times, each time you make a measurement and determine an
average value which includes what is called standard deviation,
the amount above or below the mean which the value varies. There
is no truth or lie, only the probability you will obtain a given
answer when making a quantitative measure. In fact even in
qualitative measure any finding of fact which disregards
variation and incorrectly states truth as an absolute creates a
lie!
How many times do GOP Clinton prosecutors need to hear Monica
Lewinsky say, "No! The President didn't ask me to lie," before
they believe her? Ms. Lewinsky has given the same answer 24 ñ x
times. But just because upon occasion her story may have varied
slightly, that ominous "x" of standard deviation, you don't
discount the other two dozen times she testified to a given
truth.
The same is true when questioning Vernon Jordan, Sidney
Blumenthal or President Clinton. The truth they tell is not
absolute, only approximate. Of course House managers and GOP
lawyers unschooled in scientific methods are very uncomfortable
with this idea. They want truth to be black or white, "yes" or
"no," 100% pure gold. They want to hear what our legal system
calls, "The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so
help you god!"
Yet scientifically there is no such thing as an absolute truth
which does not include variation in how events are observed,
recorder or remembered. In real life events are always tainted
with a degree of probability. Different perspectives, poor
recollection, bad record keeping, poor investigation or even
lying does not help matters any. And the existence of god, taken
as a given when testifying under oath, taints the whole truth
finding process, for there is no scientific proof god exists!
Because the measure of truth often equates to the honesty of a
man, the dignity and respect of witnesses, it is important that
we understand truth is not absolute. President Clinton may be
honest 99% of the time. The fact he was deceitful 1% of the time
regarding an extramarital affair does not make him a dishonest
man, a poor role model or unsuitable for office. It is merely a
fact of life that no man or woman is perfect. We ought to be
glad that on the majority of issues President Clinton is an
honest man!
Sincerely, Terry Lynch
Montgomery, AL
3 Feb. 1999
CC: US Senators, President Clinton, WWW.
Lynch is creator of the Help Bill website which is a non-partisan grassroots effort to express support for President Bill Clinton.
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