Ye, Kurt Waldheim, Salonika and Lies:"It never happened."

The Theory of Silence: Ordinary Men lie and ordinary men follow liars. We honor liars:"It never happened."

“It never happened.”

We honor and admire rogues and liars. I chose Kurt Waldheim and Ye to be my first rogues because the elements are public and easy to understand. For a writer, it is the preponderance of the evidence. I am not an attorney seeking a “guilty’ or a “not guilty” verdict pretending that a “not guilty” is evidence of innocence.

Guilt and in…