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To: American Spirit who wrote (64563)	5/4/2006 11:42:20 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 173976

"Well then, we agree. Every corrupt politician has to go ASAP, some prosecuted and imprisoned, regardless of party. Agreed. Am I off ignore now? That wasn't much of a sentence...

To: American Spirit who wrote (64563)	5/5/2006 3:20:44 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 173976

Why should we? In principle, a representative is under social contract to serve the interests of their constituencies even when it may conflict with material interests of their own. Those being represented have in essence lent their trust to the representative and it is this trust that forms the basis of the social contract. Consequently an anti-corruption law should focus on any breach of this trust relationship as a violation of the social contract. Generally corruption flourishes when conditions are favorable for government or corporate representatives to serve their own interests rather than perform their duty to serve the interests of their constituencies. So any form of private or group advantage that is brought to bare as an influence on conduct of a representative threatens as a potential breach. It becomes a breach, when it influences the representative to do anything other that represent the best interests of the representative's constituencies. We seem to have developed a high tolerance for influence peddling and patronage in this country. These are very corrupt practices which seem rampant to the extent of acceptance as habitual practice. We have less tolerance for things like bribery, fraud, extortion, and embezzlement but there have been examples of these also.