Excellent article on the website for the Offices of the United States Attorneys
by Patrick Fitzgerald
U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois
http://www.justice.gov/usao/briefing_room/fin/corruption.html
Please read the article referenced above, he makes some great points - especially "The Culture of Acceptance".
Some of his key points are:
- There are financial consequences to corruption.
- Corruption changes the face of a community.
- The most harmful consequence of endemic public corruption in a community is the apathy that it engenders – the culture of acceptance.
- The public’s refusal to accept corruption is the first line of defense in the fight against it.
- All residents of a community should know that they can have a voice in stopping corruption and that they need not accept corruption in any degree—at any level of government.
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