Actually, this saying is ITSELF one of the LEAST “true” statements of all time… as we are all too painfully aware, “
coming clean” to the powers-that-be (i.e., parents, teachers,
policemen, etc.) seldom if ever actually gains or maintains your “freedom”; in fact, usually the **exact opposite** occurs whenever you bravely/penitently reveal your shameful secrets like this --- rather than their extending any significant “charity” (i.e., mercy or forgiveness) to you in response to your trustingly/naively-admitted revelations of past
transgressions, these hypocritical and out-of-touch-with-reality sadists generally do everything they can to
CURTAIL your freedom and otherwise make you as miserable as possible, such as giving you an extended time-out,
grounding you for an outrageously-long period, making you stay in from recess, throwing you
in the slammer for a few days, and so on. So unless there is some serious injustice that your silence is maintaining (such as that an innocent person is being blamed/punished for something that you did), it’s usually wise to follow Will Roger’s advice to “never pass up a good chance to shut up”… contrary to what these authority-figures may try to assure you, they generally do **not** “have your best interests at heart”… about all they actually wanna do is try to soothe their **own** perpetually-gnawing consciences by being overly hard on anyone under their care!
My conscience was
pricking me after hearing the local minister preaching about “the truth shall
set you free”, and so like the total
dumba** that I am, I went to the police station and admitted to the desk-sergeant about my having swiped a few candy-bars and a couple bottles of soda from the local Circle-K over the past six months; rather than just smiling and praising me for “being a good boy” to be so honest, though, the officer merely slapped da
cuffs on me and made
me cool my heels in jail for 48 hours! Talk about a
letdown --- he didn’t even seem to care about my protests that he was blatantly going against what the preacher had just said was supposed to happen when we admit our sins! I think I’ll sue that minister for misrepresentation and deceitful speech --- I shoulda merely kept my big mouth shut, just as I always have in the past regarding stuff like this! And then he wonders why he has such a hard time gaining or keeping church-members!
