This I know to be true...

Wasn’t there a saying that had this line in it, a long time ago?

I Googled it but nothing came up in the context that I remember.

It was at least 40 or more years ago.. and if I recall correctly, it has

to do with the author, knowing these things to be true.. because they

had been true for so many years.

Seem like the last year or so, this phase has come to time, because

I feel it no longer to be true… so many things that I grew up, knowing

they were true. So many things it was taken for granted to be true.

Now no longer is…

One’s property is their own and no one can come on it unless asked..or

a warrant by the police, if that is the occasion. A lawyer can not tell anyone

what you have said, unless you give them permission.  A Priest has the same

conditions.

We are considered innocent, until proven guilty. Yet we are judged constantly,

and have to prove we didn’t do what is said. And of course the media has judged

those so many times before the person makes it to trial.

Privacy was something we all guarded so very well.. yet we have no privacy

now. By electronic, our lives are almost an open book.  Some of it is our

own fault, because we put information out there.. but there is a whole total

web of giving information on you. You have a driver’s license…you have a

social security number, and any time you go to the doctor, your insurance

company knows everything that was done and said.  It judges what your

insurance rates will be. 

Your auto insurance is not only judged by your driving record, but by your

credit rating. The insurance companies figured if you have bad credit you

must be a bad driver and a risk.  And if you don’t ask why your rates go

up, you won’t even know this is being used  against you. Oh, by the way,

you can pay your bills on time constantly.. but if you have open a new

credit card in the past 4 years.. that counts against you. If you close out

a credit card, that counts against you. If someone make inquires to your

credit rating.. that counts against you. (which that could by the insurance

company) You have no say so.. that is just the rules.

Every time I hear of another right we are having bent if not denied.. it

saddens me. Life is not what it use to be.  And that saddens me too…