Conscious Deception Reveals a Lack of Moral Conscience

CONSCIOUS DECEPTION REVEALS A LACK OF MORAL CONSCIENCE

by Elaine Miller

"Deception refers to the act—big or small, cruel or kind—of encouraging people to believe information that is not true. Lying is a common form of deception—stating something known to be untrue with the intent to deceive."
- Psychology Today

Most of us are guilty of telling white lies, those falsehoods we tell our friends, family, coworkers, in order to maintain social manners and courtesies. These white lies are often considered harmless because small or inconsequential matters oftentimes will not lead to a real threat to our overall well-being. It is the degree and intent of the lie that separates the white lie from the real lies. Real lies are destructive and researchers have found them to have malicious intent. Real lies benefit the liar whereas white lies are viewed to be protective. Societies do not condone lying as part of the moral constructs of ethical behavior since it leads to the destruction of a moral conscience. This is a universally accepted principle which dictates the value of right versus wrong; which leads us to the intrinsic values of the FAA and the lack thereof.

The FAA has a playbook by which they do not deviate. This includes the deliberate decisions to consciously deceive the public into believing that their practices are doing no harm to the environment and people are safe from any hazardous noise and air emissions. Their methodology is to lock the public out of any meaningful engagement and when presented with evidence based research, deny, deny, deny the results or just not accept studies because they were not conducted within the agency itself. Either way, it fits into their design.

The manipulation of data is another strategy used to deceive the public into believing the repetitive high decibel noise emitted from low flying aircraft has no significant impact and that a 65DNL is an accurate measurement; keep hammering that message! We are led to believe that the evidence we see and hear is just a figment of our imaginations which does not fit into their tactic.

So, let us pretend that this barrage of overflights is not really happening and convince the impacted communities they have always lived under these conditions by showing slides of how the flight paths have not changed.

Let us use the same runway for days on end with no relief and say it all depends on the weather and use runway closures as a backup plan for the unrelenting bombardment of overflights; formulating solutions to end this abuse, we will claim that it cannot be done, or better yet, it will take years.

The continued use of leaded fuel in private planes can be delayed for several more years even though we know lead is a killer. The latest statement released by the FAA regarding the expansion of runways for general aviation airports protested by the residents claiming that the increased number of aircraft will have a significant impact on wildlife, so let us take a page out of our playbook and make a blanket statement that "there will be no significant impact on wildlife." A ploy that works every time.

The FAA, a captured federal agency, has eviscerated our communities, laid waste to our quality of life and exposed people to unhealthy levels of noise and air emissions The more we play into their conscious deceptions the more we are the victims of an agency that has no moral conscience. We must combat the dark web of real lies by shining the light of truth.

"Stand up for what is right even if you stand alone. Stand up for truth, regardless of who steps on it." – Suzy Kassem

Elaine Miller and Plane Sense 4 Long Island work with federal, state and local officials to reduce the severe impact of noise and air pollution from aviation which residents are subjected to on a daily basis. Plane Sense 4 Long Island worked with state representatives to pass a law directing the Department of Environmental Conservation with the assistance of other departments, to conduct a study of the health impacts of JFK and LGA.