The attitude and the responsibility for that attitude stems from the top; it's not only me who's surprised that experienced, intelligent, skilled, 'professional', bureaucrats like Mrdak and Hawke allow the situation to continue. They must know that there are other competent 'reform' oriented, acceptable folk out there. To persist with the current 'top layer' (and it's catamites) is fraught with peril, unless of course they require a donkey on which to pin a tail. Someone has to carry the can for the existing mess. Pel Air alone should have forced men of good conscience to act for the common good etc. Servants of the people and all that.
These bureaucrats are the 'Presidents body guards', their role is to serve and protect their leader, at all costs, and they do not fear the bullet of a a sniper, nor do they fear the 'toot toot' of the Styx riverboat as it beckons.
They care not for any industry collateral damage, and will under no circumstance be swayed a mere inch. No, these guys will loyally serve their Master to the full, until such day as they are killed in the line of duty (perhaps in a smoking hole of
their making), or until they reach that age where they can no longer run alongside their Presidents armour plated vehicle ( but in this case a Boeing 737, VH-TROUGH), or until they retire with a fat bank account, fully indexed pension and numerous other plump perks, all c/o the IOS tax payments of course.
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