Wednesday, January 9, 2013

letter to editor published waikato times 08/01/2013


Barry Ashby letter 050113 a time for ethics echoes a heartfelt plea which until recently fell on deaf ears.

Profound personal experience has shown that whenever people in management or, high office or rank profess to support codes of ethics or conduct, their word is of little substance.
Lies proliferate.
Truth fails initially to compete.
Laws are broken.
Morality ignored.
For they succumb to the effects of power, ego and “position” blinded by their perceived but false grandiosity.
Failing in every case to recognise that absolute power doesn’t build character it exposes it.

Look no further than the behaviour of a number of those in parliament (or public office, financial sector or corporate), and the stance each took, typically first the truth was ridiculed with disingenuous replies, then violently opposed until once displayed in the proper forum; it is accepted as being self evident.

So Barry I applaud your wishful thinking, and the desire for your voice to be heard, it is the stuff of revolution,


now who the hell am i actually talking about 


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