Question Everything: Michael Mearan, Margaret Temponeras, and COVID
Truths, half-truths, and lies. What is up? What is down? What is real? What is factual? What is false? If it’s too good to be true, it’s not true. We’ve all heard that saying.
Recently, I perused a large bookstore in Columbus. A plethora of nonfiction books about deceit, fraud, and greed caught my eye. Books touting the real story about government coverups, pharma lies, corrupt practices for profit, military misdeeds, business scams, and the list goes on and on. As time passes, secrets surface. Lips loosen. Silenced individuals speak. Government documents become declassified. Stories reveal the bare-naked truth or perceptions of the bare-naked truth.
Knockoff brand clothes, shoes, and purses abound. Products that copy the physical appearance of items – illegally. Counterfeit consumer goods. Bootleggers R US. Beware of reproductions of antiques at flea markets posing as authentic. All that glitters is not gold.
Several years ago, I reported my employer for alleged Medicaid fraud. Long story short, two men in long black coats, black sunglasses, driving a black SUV came to my door for further information. It’s true – there are men in black from the government.
Let’s look closer to home. “Visiting Judge Patricia Cosgrove conducts the arraignment of Michael Mearan, 74, prominent attorney, via video. Mearan and his attorney, Richard Nash, were in Scioto County Common Pleas Court in Portsmouth, Ohio. Mearan was being arraigned on 18 charges related to sex trafficking, Monday, Oct. 26, 2020. Cosgrove set bond at $300,000,” according to a 2020 story in The Columbus Dispatch. Why did it take decades to arrest Mearan? Why haven’t the other alleged perpetrators been arrested?
According to the website (2019) by the Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Ohio, “The owner and physician at Unique Pain Management in Wheelersburg, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to serve 84 months in prison. Margaret Temponeras, 55, of Portsmouth, Ohio, was sentenced for conspiring to distribute a controlled substance through the pain clinic and dispensary.”
Back to the bookstore selection. An entire section on books about COVID. Authors proclaiming their stories are the real stories. Conspiracy theories abound. Will the truth please stand up? Is it any wonder why many Americans mistrust the vaccine? Citizens need to question anything and everything before they allow a needle full of particles to be inserted into their body.
Freedom of speech includes questioning the motives of those in power and yes, questioning science, especially concerning the current coronavirus crisis. And those that try to silence the questioners are violating the rights of American citizens.
Question everything. Search for truth. Discern lies. And question everything.