"Cowardice asks the question...is it safe? Expediency asks the question...is it politic? Vanity asks the question...is it popular? But conscience asks the question...is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because it is right." ~Dr. Martin Luther King

Thursday 18 March 2010

Declaration of Office. A Pale Replica.



Evelyn:

Can you please provide the Oath of Office taken
by all members of Council?

Verbatim if you please


I found it. cut copied and pasted it, and was sternly admonished not to do that any more.




It's now called " Declaration of Office". "Malfeasance" is no longer the operative word.. That marvelously expressive medieval term has been replaced by mediocre reference to Conflict of Interest.

Is nothing sacred?

Even the Oath has been modernised and dumbed down. Despite the effort, there are those among us still who do not understand the term " Conflict of Interest"

Some declare it when they shouldn 't. Others don't when they should.

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