COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY OLIVIA BLAIR IN THE INDEPENDENT
I think the most fascinating and overlooked aspect of the
Hillsborough disaster is the way it is was easy for those in authority to
enforce for decades an "official view" of the event, a view which we
now know was completely different from the truth.
You might not think at first it possible in so large an
event involving many deaths for officials to succeed as they did in lying, but
they did succeed and for decades.
It could serve to teach us all a lesson about what goes on
at a higher level in our governments day-in and day-out.
The public is fed and it swallows the same kind of garbage
explanations about even more serious events, such as the real nature of the war
in Syria or the downing of airliner MH-17.
If officials decide on an explanation for something - and
the press colludes in supporting it, which it always does - then that becomes
history, and the truth does not exist.
