The Ostrich Policy

"Since no one has seen me, I can do whatever I like and I'm on secure ground."

How many of us, how many times, happen to "soliloquize" and echo the very quoted sentence?

I bet every  breathing human being does utter it, on different situations and ages. As a child, when breaking a vase, one can just put his/her hands on the face and then s/he secure. Or maybe the child goes into hiding behind his/her mom's apron, then security is well-achieved. In a classroom, students  artfully search for hiding places  whenever asked to do a roleplay or, say, "show and tell" activity. More interesting is the fact that most students of different levels compete for the seating chairs most unseen  so that their eyes could not meet those of their teachers.

Politicians, too,
do adopt the above soliloquy. Frequent embezzlements happen "thanks to" the very special feeling of security. It is like hide-and-go-seek game where such people hide and go seek money then hide it or even go themselves to the hide-out. What a sage policy! Daylight robbery but none can  move neither heaven nor earth. 

In my mind's eye, this is exactly what the ostrich does if frightened or perplexed. That tall and plumb animal thoughtlessly opt for burrying its head, secure in the knowledge that nobody, particularly, hunters would get sight of it. Such a stupid-clever act is what the child, the student and the corrupt politician do. Hiding the head, yet the "corpse"  is so visible to the naked eye.