Originally Posted by monitor
It's hard to buy any arguments that raise comparisons between private misdeeds as does law dawg or inspectors in other countries as does TSAMGR without the thought constantly coming to mind that these are people who have been sworn to serve and protect us.
Over the years I have maintained friendships with relatively high level law enforcement officials who themselves would have found these actions beyond abhorrent and, if they happened in their bailiwicks, would have considered it such a humiliating blot upon their services that they would never stop dealing with the problem until the culprits were expunged and there was reasonable certainty that there would be no recurrence.
Here, all we have is bald faced expressions of "See, it happens everywhere" and bloated out-of-control ad hominem attacks on critics.
Ad hominem attacks? I argue with facts, figures and examples. We may disagree about the what and when but I have not attacked you except when you do things like call feds criminals, sacks of ballast, etc. I also was the first to say thank you for your apology and noted I could raise the bar a little as well in the discourse.
As far as malfeasence, I am all for catching and punishing culprits. What I find silly though is the unrealistic expectation of perfection and, when that unrealistic standard is not met, to demand the agency's disbanding. There is no such thing as perfection and never will be.
And I find it somewhat hypocritical to accept one standard for one group and another, particularly unrealistic one, for another group.
You seem to only demand higher levels of conduct from gov't types. I demand it from ALL people in positions of authority, business, gov't or otherwise.