Deception for hire
by Ed Thomas and Jody Brown
February 15, 2007
(OneNewsNow.com) - - A business leadership and organization consultant says despite the seeming success of Alibi Network, an organization using modern technology and a cast of people to help facilitate lies and deceptions, God's age-old principles of honesty, integrity, and truth will win out -- and the business will sow what it reaps. Avoiding the truth, he says, eventually demands a high price on those concocting the lie.Alibi's website says the company "provides alibis and excused absences" and assists with "... a variety of sensitive issues." Those include pretending to be clerks or other employees and professionals; falsifying non-governmental documents and tickets; and forwarding phone calls from false locations. As an example of what the service can do for its clients, the website asks: "Having a discreet affair? We invent, create and provide customized alibis and excuses for attached adults involved in discreet relationships."
Alibi Network claims it was established to help its clients protect their loved ones from "undue anxiety" related to "short-term encounter[s], unrelated to our long term plans"; and to "help ensure the stability of long term relationships and financial security." The company's mission statement, found on its website, is "to invent, create and provide personalized virtual alibis for people wishing to anticipate and justify absences." The service has been featured on FOX News, The Today Show, and numerous other news programs.
Larry Matejka is a business training consultant with 25 years of experience and author of the book The Three Life Leadership Lessons. He says the Bible warns individuals will get a harvest on the kind of foundation they lay in business and all of life.
"If you're a people who are clearly breaking the principle, using deception, whatever it might be -- and it doesn't appear that it's hurting them -- everything looks fine," he says. "But in the scriptures it says 'You shall reap what you sow.' And I don't think it's by accident that the next scripture says 'God shall not be mocked.'
Because the Alibi Network fabricates life situations for hire, Matejka believes the company will have to answer for assisting people in avoiding the truth. He says Enron and other failed business companies from the last few years are examples that show impropriety will eventually be discovered.
"Eventually you're going to pay the price," he warns, "and I believe anybody that facilitates that for others is going to pay a price. This is a company that's helping other people manage and manipulate their lives to not live in the truth; and we need to be encouraging each other to live in the truth."
Matejka says it appears some people delay confronting the truth with the help of a company like Alibi Network. But without following God-created principles of honesty, integrity, trust, fairness, and truth -- he says they will eventually reap consequences of facilitating deception.
