Posted on 04/18/2024 7:22:49 AM PDT by Starman417
When I was 12 years old, we moved to the Navy base on Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. We moved in the summer and by the time school started I’d made friends and was feeling pretty comfortable. One day during the first week of class, I was sitting in the back of Mr. Scroch’s Social Studies classroom before he arrived. While we waited, some friends and I were messing around, throwing erasers at one another and calling each other names. Then we noticed a man sitting in the front row. We immediately settled down, but I remember ducking my head and yelling something to the old guy about how he must have failed a lot to be there with us.
Moments later, Mr. Scroch walked in the door. After he had settled behind his desk the man in front stood up, pointed out the three of us, and said “Mr. Scroch, would you please send these three gentlemen to my office at the end of the day.” As my eyes bugged, Mr. Scroch said, “Students, I’d like to introduce our vice principal, Mr. Andrews.”
We dutifully went to Mr. Andrews’ office after school and somehow, inexplicably, I found myself laughing at him when he asked if we thought we were funny. I protested that class hadn’t started yet, but he was having none of it. He then called my dad to come pick me up.
And that’s when I learned something about the military, or at least how it was decades ago. Apparently, when you’re a kid in a military family, particularly when living on a military base, your dad is held accountable for your actions. Basically it’s his job to keep you in line, and if he can’t do that then his career can be impacted.
Although this is where things get a bit blurry as to my actual punishment, what’s not blurry is that I learned that having your dad called to pick you up from school was a bad thing… and I don’t think he ever had to again… From that point forward, I knew that I was being held responsible for my actions, and I behaved accordingly.
Clearly, forty some years later, that lesson stuck: Actions have consequences.
Sadly, however, that lesson doesn’t apply so much today. At least not everywhere.
One place it often does is the private sector. Doctors have to carry mountains of insurance in case they make a mistake and someone dies or is harmed by them. Architects carry insurance in case one of their buildings collapses. Supermarkets carry insurance in case someone slips in the produce aisle and breaks their arm. And you and I and most Americans carry car insurance in case we run a red light and T-bone a Chevy Impala at the corner or First & Main. Americans, eschewing Shakespeare’s advice to “Kill all the lawyers”, are a litigious people. Why? Basically because – other than a sizable army of grifters – most Americans think one should be held responsible for one’s actions.
But you know where that rule almost never applies? Government. From politicians making promises they break as soon as they take their oath to schools that fail to teach students to a Pentagon that can’t seem to account for $220 billion in gear, someone could write a book about all the failures of government driven by incompetence and negligence.
While there is no dearth of examples of government being unaccountable for its actions, there is perhaps one place where government accountability should be the rule more than any other: the Judiciary. In particular, District Attorneys, parole boards and judges as they relate to violent criminals. Unlike when the Pentagon loses a hammer or when a transportation department builds a road to nowhere, when criminals are let back out on the street to terrorize citizens, there are real consequences for real people. But regardless of the gravity of those consequences, the people who created that circumstance are never held accountable.
We see it almost every day across the country, where some career criminal with a rap sheet as long as your arm kills someone or rapes someone or pushes someone in front of a train, and we soon discover they were let out early on parole or were sprung via a laughably low bail or walked out of a jailhouse after no bail was required.
Invariably those failures result in blood on the streets or victims in a hospital or bodies in a morgue.
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The Code of Hammurabi
5. If a judge try a case, reach a decision, and present his judgment in writing; if later error shall appear in his decision, and it be through his own fault, then he shall pay twelve times the fine set by him in the case, and he shall be publicly removed from the judge’s bench, and never again shall he sit there to render judgement.
Leftists never ‘pay’.
They are all about using other peoples’ money. Never their own.................
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Lots of them in congress.
One of the reasons people become leftists is to make other people pay for it all.
It’s a real shame that people have to write columns like this because the head of the snake is billionaires like Soros and Zuckerberg manipulating the and funding the campaigns of marxist District Attorneys and judges and the indoctrinations in schools and social media. If these anti-Americans and thier ideas weren’t jacked up in the eyes of the public with endless advertisments and programs, maybe these “set-all-protected-identies-free” jackals would not get elected in the first place.
I’m all for capitalism; but someone smarter than me has to figure out this “funding by communists” thing.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again - WE are the (Neo) Marxists now. If you are in the government and in the Party, there is no accountability. If you are outside the power structure, make the slightest mistake, and you will have your ass handed to you.
Leftists in the Justice System Should Pay For What They Unleash On Society
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In a remotely just world they would, but they are waaayyyy to insulated from the consequences of the decisions they make.
The most feared word in DC is accountability. When they pass laws or write regulations they always include clauses that will ensure they can't be held responsible for any negative outcomes.
Its also why they continually expand government. The more layers of management you add the further removed department heads are from accountability.
There must be a “like” button on FR somewhere!
Yeah, I always liked that one too. :)
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