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One of the 'problems of communism' that keeps cropping up around the
world is the problem of nepotism. That's right. How many of us
commies have even given it any thought?
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CB: Actually , I just drafted an anti-nepotism ordinance for the City of Detroit as
follows:
Summary
This proposed ordinance amends Chapter 2, Article IV of the Detroit City Code by
adding subsection 2-6-67 (B) to prohibit the hiring or appointment of relatives by the
hiring or appointing authority.
By COUNCIL MEMBER NICOLAS HOOD
AN ORDINANCE to amend Chapter 2, Article IV of the Detroit City Code by adding
subsection 2-6-67 (B) to prohibit the hiring or appointment of relatives by a public
servant.
IT IS HEREBY ORDAINED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF DETROIT THAT:
Section 2-6-67 is amended as follows:
Section 2-6-67 Self-interested regulation prohibited.
(A) A public servant shall not make a loan of public funds, grant a subsidy, fix a
rate, issue a license permit or certificate or otherwise regulate supervise or
participate in a decision that pertains to an entity of which the public servant or a
member of his or her immediate family has an ownership interest.
(B)
(1) A PUBLIC SERVANT SHALL NOT HIRE , APPOINT, OR RETAIN BY CONTRACT FOR PERSONAL OR
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES A RELATIVE FOR EMPLOYMENT OR APPOINTMENT WITH THE CITY OF
DETROIT
(2) NOTHING IN THIS SECTION SHALL PROHIBIT THE INDIRECT APPROVALS BY THE CITY COUNCIL
, BY VIRTUE OF A VOTE, OR ACTION BY THE DIRECTOR OF THE HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT
OF HIRES, APPOINTMENTS OR CONTRACTS FOR PERSONAL OR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES IN OTHER
BRANCHES, DEPARTMENTS OR AGENCIES
But people really hate nepotism in politics. And a system that
seems dependent on it, or that is promoting it in some form or another,
quickly loses the people's political respect. In the US, I can name
4 huge examples right off the cuff.
Dubya! Dummie son, reads off cheat cards, daddy got him off......
and in. Brother stole the election for dummie. Couldn't do shit
on his own.
Hillary! Feminist shrew. The brains and balls behind slick
willlie, tom cat.... got his dick stuck in a thong. Oh my god, could
she be the next president? PC, NOW, New CiC....of US.army with its
balls cut off! Tame, and slightly chubby, kind of like big mac
hubby. Say a prayer.
Patty. Little girl my foot. Married her body guard. Daddy's
little girl. Out in no time. Brainwashed by SLA.
Boo-hoo-hoo..... Citizen Kane.
Kennedy Klan. Cherub faced, pontificating papist-betrayers of the
cause. Hate that namby, wamby accent. Clean cut catholic school
kids with their nasty little wanks. Onassis. Rapist. Got off
scott free with drowning and beach affair, and White House affairs.
Young and part of the beautiful people. Martyrs, JC on the cross
with MLK. Mafia. Cruising on, Joseph.
But none of these nepotic families totally dominate the national scene.
Not yet, at least. But what about the brothers two, dad and son, and
he and she (and their idiotic family, as Andrej put it)? The
'hardliner-wife'? Discoteque kiddy. Sandinista sunglasses.
Setting The Balkan pace?
And the island? How stable is a new society run by brother? Think
about it from a Cuban perspective. Is it all in the family? And
nothing more?
Korea. The inheritance. Father to son...... Meanwhile people
are asked to sacrifice and suffer for the national good?
These are not good situations. We may like to sluff it off, but
other, less generous souls will not. They will see it as an immense
form of corruption.
A new society has to build on more than this. It is a 'problem of
communism' in degeneration/ stagnation.
Tony
P.S.- Lou, I am sorry if I am weak on the Lexis-Nexis approach to
politics. ________________________________
I must stress the importance of documenting such charges, since so much
of the perception of Yugoslavia and Milosevic seems framed by
free-wheeling assertions. Unless we can substantiate charges such as
dragging Yugoslavia into war through material from scholarly histories
or Lexis-Nexis, then the discussion simply will consist of mere
opinionating. As Jonathan Swift once said:
"That was excellently observed," say I when I read a passage in another
where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, then I pronounce him
to be mistaken.
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