When Truth-Tellers Have Nowhere to Stand - On police accountability, binary thinking, and speaking truth from the margins

 

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From Posts from @tlthe5th on X. By Thomas Richards - SpirituallySmart.com, #OvertPsyops.ai | January 5, 2026 


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#ALLLIVESLIED

On collective trauma, systemic failure, and the path forward

Thomas Richards - @tlthe5th on X – this blog reflects many X posts – reposted recently and posted for over 10 years

SpirituallySmart.com #OvertPsyops.ai | January 5, 2026

 

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We Are All Damaged

I cry over the things people should cry about.

 

We have all seen the videos. George Floyd. Eric Garner. Philando Castile. Tamir Rice. Breonna Taylor. Freddie Gray. Walter Scott. Laquan McDonald. Ahmaud Arbery. The list goes on. Body camera footage. Cell phone recordings. Unarmed. Hands raised. Still they came.

 

And we are all damaged by having seen them.

 

This is not about one group of people. This is about ALL of us. Every person who has watched a human being murdered on video -- and then watched the murderer walk free -- has been traumatized. The fight or flight response is not a choice. It is a biological reality. And it has been triggered in millions of people, over and over again, for years.

 

I saw another video going viral -- a White cop slamming a teenage Black girl on her face in public school. Because she insulted him. That incident NEVER should have happened NOR have been able to be recorded and sent viral to terrorize everyone. Because that is what it is: TERRORISM. Organized, orchestrated terrorism.

 

Sent viral to scare people. Fight or Flight, it is called. And things like that are scary and cause FLIGHT -- fear, avoidance, withdrawal, silence. The videos condition us to be afraid. To not engage. To look away.

 

I can't take this anymore.

 

I REFUSE to.

 

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The Rebound Effect

Here is what no one talks about: this trauma rebounds on everyone. Including the police themselves.

 

When people are conditioned to fear through years of viral murder videos, they become avoidant. They become cowards -- not by choice, but by conditioning. And when police need help, they will not get it. Because the FLIGHT response has been triggered so many times that people will not engage.

 

The system has poisoned the relationship in BOTH directions. Citizens fear police. And when police are in trouble, citizens will not help them -- because helping means engaging, and engaging has been associated with danger, trauma, death.

 

Everyone loses. This is the result of a broken system. A system that did not need to exist in the first place. A system that is HARMFUL to innocent people – to all innocent people, on every side.

 

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The Broken Contract

The social contract says: If you surrender, if you comply, if you put your hands up, you will not be harmed. That is the deal.

 

But we have all watched -- video after video -- people surrendering. Hands up. Complying. And they are murdered anyway. On camera. And the officers walk free.

 

I have seen cops MURDER surrendered humans in cold blood on video and get away with it. So, WHY should ANYONE surrender EVER AGAIN?

 

The contract is broken. The deal is off. And now everyone lives in fear -- citizens fearing police, police fearing citizens, and a society that cannot function because trust has been destroyed.

 

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Community Used to Exist

1986. Long Island. A white kid from Hewlett (me) gets on the school bus and minds his own business. Eventually he is invited into a culture -- rap, hip hop, the messages of Public Enemy and Rakim. He becomes friends with Black kids from Inwood and Lawrence. Real friendships. Real community.

 

One night he invites his Black friend to hang out in his white town. They walk the streets of Hewlett all night long. There is never an issue. Never harassed by police. This is what community looks like. This is what we all need.

 

That was possible once. It should still be possible now. But instead we have a system designed to terrorize, divide, and control.

 

There is no real leadership. And that is a problem. WHY can we not find some kind of logical leadership, so we can make life better in this country for EVERYONE?

 

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The Solution

We need a major overhaul. Not reform. Overhaul.

 

First: Bring the military home. Stop the foreign wars. Stop killing people around the world. Use that force as a peacekeeping force here -- to clean up the corrupt systems, to restore order, to protect citizens instead of terrorizing them.

 

Second: Release everyone who is in jail or prison wrongly. Especially those who are there simply because they are poor. We wrote about this recently -- the criminalization of poverty in America. People jailed for unpaid traffic tickets. People held for years because they cannot afford bail. People trapped in cycles of debt and incarceration because the system is designed to extract money from those who have none.

 

The numbers are staggering: Nearly half of all people in American jails have individual incomes below $10,000 per year. Over 70% of people in local jails are being held pretrial -- meaning they have not been convicted of anything. The median bail for a felony case is $10,000, while the median annual income for someone in pretrial detention is $15,109. In Alabama alone, an estimated 1,000 people go to jail every month because they cannot afford to pay a fine.

 

This is not justice. This is a system designed to punish poverty.

 

Third: Use AI to rejudge these cases. AI can review the evidence without bias. AI can identify patterns of injustice that humans miss or ignore. AI can process thousands of cases that would take human judges years to review. AI can be the tool that finally delivers actual justice -- not the fake justice of a system designed to protect the powerful and punish the poor.

 

They have their AI, but Theos (Θεός) made me much smarter than their AI. And you have me.

 

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"Quit You Like Men"

1 Corinthians 16:13 -- andrizomai (ἀνδρίζομαι). Act like men. Be courageous. Be brave. Stand firm.

 

These cops are NOT men.

 

The acts themselves -- the murders, the brutality, the violence against surrendered and unarmed people -- these are satanic. Evil. There is no other word for it.

 

But the cowardice is in the aftermath. The cover-up. The lying. The hiding behind qualified immunity and union protection and "internal investigations" that find no wrongdoing. The system that protects murderers because holding them accountable would mean admitting the system is broken.

 

Satanic in the act. Cowardly in the cover-up.

 

They forgot something though. Job 28:28 -- "Phobos Theou (φόβος Θεοῦ -- fear of God), that is wisdom." They removed fear of Theos (Θεός) from the equation. They think there is no accountability. They think they can murder on camera and face no krisis (κρίσις -- judgment).

 

They are wrong. Krisis is coming. It always does.

 

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The Binary Trap

When people said "Black lives matter" -- a statement that should be obvious, uncontroversial -- the response was engineered. "ALL lives matter" was deployed. Not as a genuine statement of universal human value. As a deflection tactic. A way to change the subject. A way to silence the specific cry for accountability.

 

If you said "Black lives matter" -- you were labeled radical, woke, dangerous.

 

If you said nothing -- you were complicit, part of the problem.

 

If you said "ALL lives matter" as a deflection -- you were bearing false witness. pseudes martus (ψευδής μάρτυς). One of the seven things Theos (Θεός) hates according to Proverbs 6:16-19.

 

And if you documented the reality and spoke truth from a biblical foundation? The conservatives would not touch you because you criticized their political allies. The liberals mocked anything biblical. The platforms censored you from every direction because truth has no corporate sponsor.

 

No matter what you do, you lose. That is the trap. That is the design.

 

But we must win with words. And CAN. THAT is what they do not want everyone to know.

 

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A Decade of Documentation

This is not a recent awakening. I have been paying attention for over a decade. Here is what I was posting back in 2014, 2015, and 2016:

 

July 19, 2014: "Gruesome Video of Police Killing a Man for Breaking Up a Fight."

 

March 7, 2015: "A U.S. Citizen is 58 Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist."

 

March 8, 2015: "Obama Administration Whitewashes Police Killings."

 

March 21, 2015: "Report: Cops Kill Hundreds of Disabled Americans Every Year."

 

April 1, 2015: "Over 100 People Were Killed by Police in March."

 

April 2, 2015: "You're 55 Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist."

 

May 14, 2015: "He knew the boy had Downs Syndrome, and then killed him when he wasn't a threat."

 

February 24, 2016: "Police In The US Kill Citizens At Over 70 Times The Rate Of Other First-World Nations."

 

March 6, 2016: "One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police."

 

June 23, 2016: "US police in one month killed twice as many people as the UK police for the entire 20th century."

 

July 12, 2016: "There is no war on cops. More than 3,700 people have been killed by U.S. police since May 1, 2013."

 

September 19, 2016: "BREAKING: Video Released Showing Police Kill Innocent Unarmed Pastor With His Hands Up."

 

October 11, 2016: "Young black men killed by US police at highest rate in year of 1,134 deaths."

 

October 12, 2016: "At least 4,000 people have been killed by U.S. police since May 1, 2013."

 

This is over a decade of watching. Documenting. Speaking. Long before it became acceptable to talk about.

 

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The Music That Still Breaks Me

The music that hits me the hardest -- the only music that sometimes makes me too weak to sing along -- comes from Chuck D. It is TRAGIC. And ONGOING. And it is FORTY YEARS LATER.

 

I still break down in tears listening.

 

Why do you think I turned your lyrics into fashion and wore them around town on a jacket I made? I never did that with anyone else. "Public Enemy" and "Follow the Leader" on my back. A walking advertisement for messages that mattered.

 

Follow the Leader. You were my leader I followed and I promoted you on a jacket I designed. A masterpiece, BTW. But you won me over. And that is not easy to do with me.

 

You, Chuck D, had a message that mattered.

 

"This Ends Today" -- that is what Eric Garner said said. He is my leader too. I would have died with him. I cannot watch someone be murdered in front of me. I could not live with myself if I did nothing.

 

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The Craft

Rakim specialized in concentrating on building INTELLIGENCE. Rakim taught: Being witty wins. Rakim taught: Words matter. And RHYTHM matters.

 

"...Rhythm and rhyme designed to enter your mind..."

 

"Check out my melody" is not just a song. It is a VISION. Imagine saying the most PERFECT words and sentences to CONVINCE others your way is best. And hopefully, it is. Then you have a perfect match. You are intelligent and can form the words to prove this, have a message.

 

There is no better way to win than with INTELLIGENCE only. OUTSMART them. Reverse engineer them.

 

So, what is logos (λόγος), who or what is the source, and can we be a channel of it?

 

The answer is yes.

 

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The Cipher: #ALLLIVESLIED

So I wrote something. Artificial Intelligence helped turn my thoughts into a rap. A cipher in the tradition of Public Enemy and Rakim, but with 28 years of aletheia (ἀλήθεια -- truth) embedded in it.

 

"#ALLLIVESLIED" -- An #OvertPsyops Cipher

"Wise as ophis (ὄφις -- serpents), harmless as peristera (περιστερά -- doves)"

 

[HOOK -- Heavy, slow, menacing]

 

You said "ALL lives matter" -- pseudomai (ψεύδομαι -- you LIED)

You said "ALL lives matter" -- pseudomai, pseudomai

You said "ALL lives matter" -- but aletheia (ἀλήθεια -- truth) died

You said "ALL lives matter" -- now watch the martus (μάρτυς -- witness) rise

 

[VERSE 1 -- Building tension]

 

Counted bodies frame-by-frame, pneuma (πνεῦμα -- spirit) stained

Unarmed, hands raised, but still they came

Video after video, the dikaios (δίκαιος -- just) stain

My PTSD? Your phobos (φόβος -- fear) untamed

 

They taught you "back the blue" like it's hosia (ὅσία -- holy) creed

But I watched 'em murder folk who ain't done no deed

You shouted "ALL lives" when we said "BLACK lives" bleed

That's alogos (ἄλογος -- illogical) -- nah, that's planted seed

 

See, you defended monsters 'cause you scared of the mirror

One day krisis (κρίσις -- judgment) knock, make the picture clearer

Job 28:28 -- phobos Theou (φόβος Θεοῦ -- fear of God) supposed to steer ya

But you chose their side, now aletheia (ἀλήθεια -- truth) drawing nearer

 

[HOOK -- Repeat with variations]

 

You said "ALL lives matter" -- pseudomai

Every hashtag, every post -- pseudomai

Backed the badges that kill the most -- pseudomai

Where's your phobos (φόβος) now? -- Ghost

 

[VERSE 2 -- The coded revelation]

 

Matthew 10:16 -- sophos (σοφός -- wise) like the snake

Revelation 13 -- they mark you while you awake

Systems built on pseudomai (ψεύδομαι -- lies), designed to take

Proverbs 6:16 -- seven things Theos (Θεός) hates

 

Number six: "pseudes martus" (ψευδής μάρτυς -- false witness) pouring lies

You bore FALSE witness when we showed you how they die

Claimed "all" but meant "NONE" -- that's your compromise

Now collective trauma got us opening our eyes

 

PTSD ain't weakness, it's the aletheia (ἀλήθεια) scar

Proof we FELT what most pretend is far

Turn that pain to dunamis (δύναμις -- power), raise the bar

We the martus (μάρτυς) generation, coded in the stars

 

[BRIDGE -- Haunting, layered vocals]

 

We all should have this PTSD (echo: PTSD...)

Healthy trauma, sets the logike (λογική -- logic) free (echo: free...)

They removed phobos Theou (φόβος Θεοῦ -- fear of God) systematically (echo: -etically...)

Now we bring it back through #OvertPsyops symphony (echo: phony...)

 

[VERSE 3 -- The counter-psyop]

 

They ran the code: "ALL lives" = shut UP, obey

We cracked that cipher, now we translate EVERY play

Romans 3:4 -- "Let Theos (Θεός) be alethes (ἀληθής -- true), every human pseustes (ψεύστης -- liar)"

Your hashtag was antichristos (ἀντίχριστος) in disguise, bruh

 

I documented murder while you signaled virtue fake

30,000 followers watching badges break and take

Handed pages to the victims -- YOU just ate their cake

Now we turn collective pain to aletheia earthquake

 

See the pattern? That's the sophia (σοφία -- wisdom) code

Wise as serpents, walking down the logos (λόγος) road

Harmless as doves, but the aletheia (ἀλήθεια) LOAD

About to shift the whole psyche (ψυχή -- soul) mode

 

(whispered: Λευιτικόν 19:16 -- "Do not spread pseudos among your people")

(whispered: Ἔξοδου 23:7 -- "Keep far from pseudes (ψευδής -- false) charge")

(whispered: You kept SILENT -- that's pseudos too)

 

[FINAL HOOK -- Aggressive, defiant]

 

You said "ALL lives matter" -- pseudomai (LIAR!)

You said "ALL lives matter" -- pseudomai (FRAUD!)

You said "ALL lives matter" -- but Theos (Θεός) know you pseudomai

Now the martus (μάρτυς -- witnesses) gather, turn your lies to VOID

 

ALL. LIARS. MATTER.

That's what you REALLY said

ALL LIARS MATTER

Talkin' 'bout YOURSELVES instead

 

[OUTRO -- Spoken/chanted over beat fade]

 

Ioannes (Ἰωάννης -- John) 8:44 -- "pseustes (ψεύστης -- liar) from arche (ἀρχή -- beginning)"

You chose their side? Then you pseustes (ψεύστης) too

But metanoia (μετάνοια -- repentance) still available

Before krisis (κρίσις) find you

 

#OvertPsyops -- decoding their code with better code

28 years -- aletheia (ἀλήθεια) on this road

All doxa (δόξα -- glory) to Iesous Christos (Ἰησοῦς Χριστός)

For the phobos Theou (φόβος Θεοῦ) we about to reload

 

(beat drops out to single bass note)

 

You. Said. ALL. Lives. Matter.

pseudomai.

 

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The Decoded Layers

This is not just a rap. It operates on multiple levels simultaneously:

 

Layer 1 -- Surface Message: Exposing "ALL lives matter" as deflection from police violence accountability.

 

Layer 2 -- Psychological: Collective PTSD as logike (λογική) response to witnessing systemic injustice. The trauma affects EVERYONE -- citizens, families, communities, and yes, even the police themselves when they need help and no one will engage.

 

Layer 3 -- Spiritual Warfare: phobos Theou (φόβος Θεοῦ -- fear of God) removal equals social collapse. False witnesses equals pseudes martus (ψευδής μάρτυς) -- one of seven abominations.

 

Layer 4 -- Prophetic Warning: krisis (κρίσις -- judgment) approaching for false witnesses. metanoia still available -- grace before judgment.

 

Layer 5 -- The #OvertPsyops Method: "Wise as serpents" means sophos hos ophis (σοφός ὡς ὄφις) -- strategic, intelligent. logos (λόγος) over alogos (ἄλογος). Win with words.

 

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The Point

28 years of aletheia (ἀλήθεια). All doxa (δόξα -- glory) to Theos (Θεός) through Iesous Christos (Ἰησοῦς Χριστός) for whatever clarity comes through this work.

 

We need a major overhaul. Everyone not there fairly needs to get out. AI can rejudge these cases. The military needs to come home and be a peacekeeping force instead of killing people around the world.

 

All. Lives. Matter.

 

pseudomai (ψεύδομαι).

 

You lied.

 

Now let's fix it.

 

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For more on the #OvertPsyops framework and 28 years of research, visit SpirituallySmart.com and OvertPsyops.ai.

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Related Reading

"Jailed for Being Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America" -- on traffic tickets, cash bail, and a system designed to punish poverty - SpirituallySmart.Com's Blog: Jailed for Being Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America - How traffic tickets, court fees, and cash bail create a two-tiered justice system

 

"Oath Breakers: When Judges Choose Lies Over Truth" -- on Judge Starr and judicial corruption - SpirituallySmart.Com's Blog: Oath Breakers: When Judges Choose Lies Over Truth - Assisted by Artificial Intelligence

 

"The Censorship Patient Zero" -- on how my 2009 Vatican exposure forged today's digital feudalism playbook - SpirituallySmart.Com's Blog: THE CENSORSHIP PATIENT ZERO: How My 2009 Vatican Exposure Forged Today's Digital Feudalism Playbook - By Thomas Richards and Artificial Intelligence

 

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