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Old 27th Feb 2013, 08:05
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fish CASA judge jury and executioner

CASA judge jury and executioner
A fundamental requirement of justice is the division of power. This is why we have police, lawyers, juries and judges.

Vest these powers in one organisation and the inevitable outcome is injustice.

As Lord Acton noted "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

The corrupting nature of power is discussed on the ActionInstitute website:

"But, apparently, the only way they can think of to do this “good” is to impose more restrictive laws.

Now, obviously, there is no point in passing a law which requires people to do something they would do anyhow; or which prevents them from doing what they are not going to do anyhow. Therefore, the possessor of the political power could very well decide to leave every person free to do as he pleases so long as he does not infringe upon the same right of every other person to do as he pleases. However, that concept appears to be utterly without reason to a person who wants to exercise political power over his fellow man, for he asks himself: “How can I ‘do good’ for the people if I just leave them alone?” Besides, he does not want to pass into history as a “do nothing” leader who ends up as a footnote somewhere. So he begins to pass laws that will force all other persons to conform to his ideas of what is good for them.

That is the danger point! The more restrictions and compulsions he imposes on other persons, the greater the strain on his own morality. As his appetite for using force against people increases, he tends increasingly to surround himself with advisers who also seem to derive a peculiar pleasure from forcing others to obey their decrees. He appoints friends and supporters to easy jobs of questionable necessity. If there are not enough jobs to go around, he creates new ones. In some instances, jobs are sold to the highest bidder. The hard-earned money of those over whom he rules is loaned for questionable private endeavors or spent on grandiose public projects at home and abroad. If there is opposition, an emergency is declared or created to justify these actions."

(Power Corrupts | Acton Institute)

CASA has absolute power and is absolutely corrupt. It can't be anything but!

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