From: Tony Williams 

Well put, Gary. I don't often agree with you but I think you nailed it this time.

Not that our police/gov are perfect of course, but in my experience the
notion of serving the community is the norm in our various layers of
officialdom rather than the exception. It makes for a much healthier (in
all senses of the word) society.

--
Tony

Gary Britt wrote:
> And the Mexican government is very corrupt.  I've come to believe that one
> of the biggest problems with freedom and democracy succeeding in a
> particular country or location is the degree to which corruption of police
> and fire services and local government officials exists.  I think it goes
> beyond the degree of this corruption however to the expectation of the
> public in general that police, fire, and local politicians will be or should
> be corrupt.  If the population expects these positions to be occupied by
> corrupt individuals then its like they lose the will to root out the
> corrupt.  Further, any person from the general population who takes one of
> these positions is likely to expect to be corrupt and to become a
> beneficiary of the corruption as opposed to a person determined to protect
> the population and root out the corruption around him/her.
>
> One doesn't have a true appreciation for the level of non-corruption,
> honesty, and selflessness of our police forces in the USA until traveling
> through a country like Mexico where the police are totally corrupt by
> comparison.
>
> Gary
>
> "Geo"  wrote in message
news:449cd85b{at}w3.nls.net...
>> "Adam"
<""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near the
bridge"> wrote
>> in
>> message news:449879d8$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> Geo wrote:
>>>> "Adam"  wrote
in message
>>>> news:4497bf4d$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>
>>>>> ?? Why is that? We (in the EU) rescue illegal
immigrants drifting in
>>>>> boats all the time e.g. at the mo Italy & Spain
have a big problem
>>>>> with
>>>>> this.
>>>> There is a difference between that and setting up a
floating rest stop.
>>> Isn't the floating rest stop red & white & doesn't it
have "US
>>> coastguard" painted on the side?
>>
>> No, the thing I was complaining about was some humanitarian group setting
>> up
>> water stations to help mexicans who were trying to cross the desert into
>> the
>> US illegally.
>>
>>
>>> You could try making mexico such a nice place that they worry about
>>> white immigration much like those to the north of them did.
>> The problem with mexico is the government has too much control over the
>> people.
>>
>> Geo.
>>
>>
>
>

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