Citizens should have the right to sue politicians who lie. Most of these cases could be handled in small claims courts, without lawyers, because most of the individual lies only have a minimal dollar impact on individual citizens.
Make it possible to sue politicians who lie
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It was my impression that it is illegal to lie on purpose to citizens by any public employee.
"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the
people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie.
It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to
repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by
extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State." -- Dr. Joseph
M. Goebbel