Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Oxymoron; accountable public servants

Given:

  • It is impossibly difficult to hold public servants accountable for their conduct and competence as public servants; and that,
  • The more powerful a public servant is; the more impossibly difficult it becomes to hold them accountable for their corruption and incompetence.
Consider for example the leadership of the APS.

Within the system, if you lodge a complaint against an administrator or board member, the complaint is adjudicated by a fellow administrator. As is any appeal. Even the appearance of a conflict of interest, and a potential for a lack of impartiality is ignored, deliberately.

In the legal system, if you lodge a complaint against an administrator or board member, you will come up against the Modrall Law Firm. The firm is related to the school board by marriage. They feed at a bottomless pit of taxpayer support for "education". They have no qualms about using loopholes, technicalities, and legal weaselry in an effort to win at any cost. They make a couple of million a year litigating exception to the law for APS administrators and board members.

It stands to reason;
If an organization lacks accountability to meaningful standards of conduct and competence; the organization will populate itself with people who will take advantage of than lack of accountability. The organization becomes riddled with people who are incompetent and or corrupt.

It stands to reason;
Corrupt and incompetent people will insulate themselves from accountability. They will create a system that they can manipulate to escape the consequences of misconduct.

It stands to reason;
Voters will never be offered the opportunity to vote out corruption and incompetence. They will never see a ballot choice that reads;
Should the terms of public service include honest accountability to meaningful standards of conduct; under systems over which public servants have no control.
Yes / No

The corrupt and the incompetent in the leadership of the APS will be exposed by an impartial administrative accountability audit. They will oppose such an audit as if their jobs depended on it.

If enough people went to a board meeting, and demanded an immediate and impartial forensic audit of the leadership of the APS; there would be an audit.

There will never be enough people, for so long as
Charlie Moore and Bill Slakey conspire with APS leadership
to keep the issue from public discourse.

They will continue to refuse to print the truth
for as long as they cannot be held accountable
for their corruption.

They will continue to refuse to print the truth
for as long as there is a privileged class, and
a great unwashed that tolerate their privilege.

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