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Thu 17 Mar, 2005 10:45 am
It seems no country and no government are free from stories of corruption and scandal.
We are innunadated with stories of corporate scandal, government waste, fiscal irresponsibility, and accusations of high ranking officials padding the bank accounts of their high placed friends and other interest groups.
In Canada, several stories have emerged where the PMO (Prime Minister's Office) has been suspiciously at the heart.
Opposition critics during such events bask in an nirvanic PR dreamworld whilst forgetting the scandals their side has been responsible for in the past.
My question is this:
Can a governement and the people it is comprised of ever be truly free from corruption?
Granted, not every politician is corrupt, but is the temptation, the lack of direct accountibility, the vast sums of money, the invisible paper-trails, the power etc. too much to pass up once embedded within the political/lawmaking infrastructure?
An authoritarian dictatorship is the only possible way to avoid corruption.
If all of the power is in the hands of one, or a few good people, than it is much easier to ensure that the people with power have integrity. It also makes it much easier to punish people in society that abuse their limited authority.
When you spread power around it is probable that someone without integrity will have power. This is a recipe for corruption.
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