Thursday, September 04, 2008

If it is made impossibly hard to end public corruption

public corruption will never end.

If a complainant has evidence of public corruption,
and in order to gain a principled resolution of that complaint
must make impossibly difficult sacrifices
public corruption will never end.

If a teacher must risk the destruction of their career, their emotional, physical, and financial well being, in order to hold a corrupt and incompetent principal, accountable for his corruption and incompetence;

there will always be corrupt and incompetent principals.

Unless the least powerful can hold the most powerful
honestly accountable for corruption and incompetence,
and without retaliation,
public corruption will never end.

The system has to level the field.
The system must be a level field.


No public servant is accountable for their conduct and for their competence, if there are not;

  1. meaningful standards of conduct and competence, and
  2. honest accountability to those standards
(by an impartial system, powerful enough to hold even the
most powerful public servant, accountable to those standards,
even against their will.)


Everything else is just talk.

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