Monday, January 07, 2008

As Simply and as Succinctly as I am Able.

All waste in government,
all perversion of the public interest,
begins with incompetence and/or corruption.

End incompetence and corruption; end waste.

Incompetence and corruption are not invulnerable.

Accountability is fatal to corruption and incompetence.

The power that belongs to the people is adequate
to provide honest accountability to meaningful standards
of conduct and competence.

The people who wield the power of the people,
have betrayed the public interest.
They have refused to hold themselves accountable
for their conduct and competence as public servants.

There is no more compelling proof that the people have lost control over power that is fundamentally their own,
than that public servants can simply refuse to answer legitimate questions about the exercise of that power,
and about the public interest.



Control over power is not relinquished voluntarily.
If the people want control of their power back,
they are going to have to take it back.


If perhaps a million people showed up at congress,
and intended to stay there until congress began
an honest audit of the public power and resources;

and until, congress created for themselves,
a system of honest and transparent accountability
to meaningful standards of conduct and competence,

control over the people's power and resources
would be restored to the people.

Public servants in Washington would find themselves
honestly accountable to meaningful standards
of conduct and competence; even George Bush.

If a hundred thousand people showed up
at the legislature in Santa Fe with the same intention,
there would be the same result.

Even Bill Richardson.

If ten thousand people went to a city council meeting
with the same intention;

public servants in city government would find themselves honestly accountable to meaningful standards of conduct and competence in their public service.

Even Marty Chavez.

If "x" number of people show up at a school board meeting with the intention of not leaving until the leadership of the APS has begun an honest audit, and instituted a system under which they are honestly accountable to meaningful standards of conduct and competence

the result would be the same.

Even Paula Maes.


How many is "x"?

The only thing I know for sure is, one person at a time doesn't seem to be having much affect.

1 comment:

Joseph Lopez said...

A Mobious Loop. It has one side, one boundary only. If you mark it down the middle and keep the pen firmly pressed down as you try to find the other side, you will just get back to where you started.

Many educational administrations, and their twisted reflections in all the various forms and levels of government, seem exactly like this. All the Good Ole' Boys are on the same side. Any part of the mobious loop is the same side - either for or against, very Manichaen, huh?

They are enigmas wrapped inside a puzzle. Or merely enigmatic warped yuppie edu-Nazis? You decide!