Monday, June 09, 2014

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark; even the Journal editors can smell it.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, wikilink.  Even the Journal editors can smell it.  They describe what the stink smells like, but they have no interest in doing anything about it.

It would appear, an APS administrator has done something wrong.  Maybe even criminally wrong.

APS employed its publicly funded private police force to investigate.

They have found something that warrants a transfer, does not include criminal charges, and will be kept completely secret from interest and stakeholders.

The leadership of the APS are acting like they own the findings.
They own the truth about the wielding of public power, the spending of public resources, and about their public service.

The law; the standards of conduct that every higher standard is higher than, allows them to not tell the truth and that is their choice.  It is their deliberate decision to not be candid, forthright and honest with interest and stakeholders; the people.

They will not tell the whole truth,
they will not tell the ethically redacted truth.
They will tell the "legally" redacted truth and only then after spending however much money they want to spend, in an effort to litigate an exception for themselves from the law.  It is litigation against the public interest.

They are hiding the findings of every investigation investigation that has ever been done, that names the names of APS administrators or school board members who have broken the law.

Search APS award winning website for "audit findings",
you won't find any.

There is only one reason to not tell the truth;
to avoid the consequences of telling the truth.

In APS, there is an added dimension.

You don't get to be an administrator unless you're one of the boys.

In plain terms, being one of the boys means you are willing to carry around guilty knowledge of public corruption and incompetence involving other administrators and school board members.

An added advantage of the guilty knowledge, is that when one of them gets caught doing something wrong, all they have to do is threaten to tell what they know if someone wants to fire them.

So, they "transfer" them instead.

They get away with it because the Journal editors think
the answer to even the most egregious appearances
of impropriety and conflicts of interest is an editorial harrumph.

And spanked 'em good, they did.

And that's the end of it.
... as far as the leadership of the APS and
their friends at the Journal are concerned.

I think the victim and his lawyer see a different end.

APS (taxpayers) will end up paying him and his lawyers and their lawyers a bunch of money.  The leadership of the APS will sign off on a settlement wherein they admit no guilt for anything.

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