"I want to believe public officials, but there’s just too much consistent evidence that they lie about everything."

As Wil Wheaton goes, so goes the nation.

WIL WHEATON dot TUMBLR, No Surprise. Oakland Police Chief Lied to Discredit Occupy Oakland.:

"When Jordan received an update that crime was actually down 19 percent in the last week of October, he wrote an email to one of Mayor Jean Quan’s advisers. “Not sure how you want to share this good news,” he wrote. “It may be counter to our statement that the Occupy movement is negatively impacting crime in Oakland.”

...This is why I never take any public statement from any police force at face value. I want to believe public officials, but there’s just too much consistent evidence that they lie about everything."