Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Corruption
Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:06 pm
Who will watch the watchers?
I've been thinking more and more about this after becoming aware of all the corruption taking place.
Too many pigs on power trips, governments getting away with murder (per say), new stations reporting and giving false information.
And it still continues. Now they have come out with Electronic Voting. Right after Robbin Williams movie "The Man of the Year" comes out that shows electronic voting can be flawed. Electronic voting can be so easily altered. Im no computer haxor or wizard myself but I seriously believe that the right people can be bought to alter the outcome of these results. Why did we switch from something that shows and has evidence of peoples votes (voters cards), to something that can be altered with no substantial evidence, such as cards that can be brought back to show and prove final results if need be. They say that they changed to electronic voting in order to relieve the huge line ups to vote (when really, how long would it take to pencil out who you want and place it in a box?). But i think that if something as important as the future ruler of a nation depends on who votes for who, then some things such as having voter cards as evidence for later if need be, is definitely worth the extra bit of time taken to vote.
Also ive recently been a victim of police abusing their power. The pig falseified his report to show that i gave him permission to search my car and he left out the part about him damaging my car when he was looking through it. I believe there is a simply sollution for this. Outfit all police officers to wear a tiny headset camera and microphone so that whatever they do, whatever they say, it is recorded and can be viewed as evidence if need be. this would seriously deter many police officers from abusing their powers again if they knew what they were doing and saying could come back to haunt them. and if such a time comes where the pig's actions are brought back and he shows him illegally searching a car or abusing someone. then HUGE reprocussions should be taken because these are ppl that we trust and pay to protect and serve us.
As for the newsreporters. I dont really have anything to say their, or have any possible ways to show that the news their giving is misleading. Some of the time its not their fault, its because they were given the wrong facts. But how can we really prosecute those ppl who given false facts.
Anyways, this is just a subject that has been really bothering me lately and i just wanted to get it off my chest. Many of you will probably not agree, but feel free to correct whatever i have said, or suggest other alternatives or feelings on this view.
Later
I've been thinking more and more about this after becoming aware of all the corruption taking place.
Too many pigs on power trips, governments getting away with murder (per say), new stations reporting and giving false information.
And it still continues. Now they have come out with Electronic Voting. Right after Robbin Williams movie "The Man of the Year" comes out that shows electronic voting can be flawed. Electronic voting can be so easily altered. Im no computer haxor or wizard myself but I seriously believe that the right people can be bought to alter the outcome of these results. Why did we switch from something that shows and has evidence of peoples votes (voters cards), to something that can be altered with no substantial evidence, such as cards that can be brought back to show and prove final results if need be. They say that they changed to electronic voting in order to relieve the huge line ups to vote (when really, how long would it take to pencil out who you want and place it in a box?). But i think that if something as important as the future ruler of a nation depends on who votes for who, then some things such as having voter cards as evidence for later if need be, is definitely worth the extra bit of time taken to vote.
Also ive recently been a victim of police abusing their power. The pig falseified his report to show that i gave him permission to search my car and he left out the part about him damaging my car when he was looking through it. I believe there is a simply sollution for this. Outfit all police officers to wear a tiny headset camera and microphone so that whatever they do, whatever they say, it is recorded and can be viewed as evidence if need be. this would seriously deter many police officers from abusing their powers again if they knew what they were doing and saying could come back to haunt them. and if such a time comes where the pig's actions are brought back and he shows him illegally searching a car or abusing someone. then HUGE reprocussions should be taken because these are ppl that we trust and pay to protect and serve us.
As for the newsreporters. I dont really have anything to say their, or have any possible ways to show that the news their giving is misleading. Some of the time its not their fault, its because they were given the wrong facts. But how can we really prosecute those ppl who given false facts.
Anyways, this is just a subject that has been really bothering me lately and i just wanted to get it off my chest. Many of you will probably not agree, but feel free to correct whatever i have said, or suggest other alternatives or feelings on this view.
Later