Imagine you hold a high seat in power. Then separately consider the following two scenarios:
1) One day you are accused of a very serious crime. Which you know you did not commit. And it looks certain the accuser is going to succeed in the frame up. Would you use your position of power to get yourself off? That is would you get yourself off even if that meant using corrupt means such as calling in favours with the judiciary, DPP, home office or police? You may not have to sink that low, but you may have to to mitigate the injustice and you would use your power for as far as it didn't make matters worse. You might do it if the rest of your life might be ruined if you did not use your power.
2) Same scenario, except this time, you did commit the crime. Isn't it true that you would absolutely 100% use your power to get off the hook, without a second thought. You have knowingly commited a crime. Why hold back now?
The second scenario is what I think we're seeing with the appalling protection of criminals at the BBC, in government offices, the judiciary, police force and so on. Even corporate power is a perpetrator of corrupt power.
Power always corrupts. I realise this is a way overused phrase. But it's not even that there's a tendency for power to corrupt. There are no exceptions to the rule is what I'm saying.
If you get power, you have to be on constant guard. Because you will eventually become a perpetrator. How can I be so sure? I've seen it many times with my own eyes as an elected member and from within the network I nurtred over several decades. With my own eyes - primary evidence.
So what's the remedy? Never accept a position of power. Leave that to the lesser and more insecure mortals. Sure, this means inevitable systemic problems. Well these things happen already while you try so hard to fix them, right?
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