Oaths and Bonds

[palani]

Election season is coming nigh again so we are again finding political ads and rhetoric increasing. Gov likes to beat the bushes to get out the most votes possible yet as a result of all this voting nothing ever really seems to change for the better. I thought I would bring up the issue of accountability again.

If you cast your ballot in an election you are giving up your right to complain about the performance of a politician. His oath is given to the members of the body politic who do not choose to exercise the elective franchise. The ones who do vote agree to abide by the outcome of the election.

So either the politician you voted for got in office or the politician you didn't vote for got in office. Either way you have no standing to hold him accountable for his actions while in office.

Now the flip side. Say you rescinded your voter registration and fail to vote. Someone is going to take office. You don't really care whether the occupant is democrat, republican or gheko. You do care that his performance be according to the specifications for the job ... the constitution for that body politic. If he fails to perform properly then that is why he has a bond ... to protect the political society from causing an action that damages someone.

Feeling damaged by one of these politicos? Go after their bond. But don't try it if you VOTED. Your vote is your consent to be governed.

[Twisted Titan]

We pledge Our lives,fortunes and our sacred honor.........


The only one that ment something.

[chad]

so what are you advocating? mad max? waterworld? the road?

[palani]

so what are you advocating? mad max? waterworld? the road?


Even more ancient.


We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

Why are Governments instituted? ...... To secure certain unalienable rights.
Where do Governments derive their just powers? .... From the consent of the governed.
How do you consent to be governed? ....

[palani]

As to what is advocated:


"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion." [William Ralph Inge, "Outspoken Essays," 1919]


In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.
~ Bill Bernbach, Bill Bernbach said ... (1989).


Reality is an illusion that occurs due to the lack of alcohol.
~ W.C. Fields

Well, maybe that last one really doesn't fit.... :whip