The Game Plan

There are standards, and there is accountability.

Given;

standards must be meaningful, and
accountability must be inescapable.

And that;

although it is in the public best interest for public servants
to be inescapably accountable to meaningful standards
of conduct and competence, they are not.

And further that;

for all practical intents and purposes, it is impossible
to change that reality by any imaginable means.

On the other hand,

it is at least within the realm of possibility, that by means of
public pressure, role models could be held accountable as
role models of a higher standard of conduct than the law.

If the school board could be held accountable as role models,
they would at once, be accountable as public servants as well.

Having set a precedent;

that public servants can actually be held accountable
to meaningful standards of conduct and competence,

public pressure could move to the next least powerful body
of public servants; perhaps the mayor and city council,

and then the county commission,

and then the governor and state legislature,

and then who knows; maybe the president and congress.


It all begins with holding the first body of public servants
honestly accountable to a higher standard of conduct than the law;

which is the lowest standard of conduct among civilized people,

and is which is on its face,
wholly inadequate for protecting the public interests,

from corrupt and incompetent public servants.




The second body will be easier, the third, easier still.