Post by ArtRebel on Jul 3, 2013 12:25:23 GMT
Those who serve in Government should be subject to a higher standard of conduct and behavior and moral will than those in the civil population. The standards should be so high and the penalty of failure so great that those who would infest the Government with Corruption shall be appropriately deterred. To this end there should be criminal penalties associated to Public Office; the higher the office the greater the penalty for malfeasance. And the crime for which the penalty applies ought not be for those criminal acts against the Government itself, such as those committed by whistleblowers, but for those criminal acts that are committed against The People by the elected representatives and officers of the land.
Such acts as the committing of bribery are serious offenses. However, the greatest offenses are those that affect the multitude, and these offenses occur in the setting of policy that affects all of the people of the Nation. Such policies as those embodied in the tax code, that embody the relationship between the citizens and the state, foreign affairs and the relationships between Nations that can result in war - these are the categories of policy that should be carefully monitored, and thoroughly analyzed, examined, verified, triple checked and tracked for performance, sustainability and benefit to the Nation. When it is found, as it inevitably is under the current system, that certain political factions work their will with a vested interest not for the purpose of benefiting the people and maintaining the peace but instead for their own aggrandizement and personal prosperity; these should be considered high crimes and misdemeanors against The People, as they affect the whole of the people of the Nation. These crimes should carry the heaviest possible and most severe penalty. In some cases we should admit that they may even amount to treason, for which the penalty, according to the Constitution, is death.
Such acts as the committing of bribery are serious offenses. However, the greatest offenses are those that affect the multitude, and these offenses occur in the setting of policy that affects all of the people of the Nation. Such policies as those embodied in the tax code, that embody the relationship between the citizens and the state, foreign affairs and the relationships between Nations that can result in war - these are the categories of policy that should be carefully monitored, and thoroughly analyzed, examined, verified, triple checked and tracked for performance, sustainability and benefit to the Nation. When it is found, as it inevitably is under the current system, that certain political factions work their will with a vested interest not for the purpose of benefiting the people and maintaining the peace but instead for their own aggrandizement and personal prosperity; these should be considered high crimes and misdemeanors against The People, as they affect the whole of the people of the Nation. These crimes should carry the heaviest possible and most severe penalty. In some cases we should admit that they may even amount to treason, for which the penalty, according to the Constitution, is death.