Scientific analysis and long public experience prove that there are two distinct psychological profiles in the public sector: the true public servant, and the bureaucrat. Those who have dealt with the good and bad in officialdom know the glaring difference
Public servants are at the opposite end of the psychological universe from bureaucrats: they are good, honest, trustworthy, conscientious, and a pleasure to deal with; they serve their country and their communities faithfully and well; they are good stewards of our taxes and our rates. They genuinely care about people. They know they are there to give us the best possible service, they strive to do that and they do. As one wonderful public servant once said to me, 'When you get me you get the best.' She was not boasting; she was simply describing her mainspring, the reason she went to work each day.
But bureaucrats have the same psychological profile as those who commit crimes against the person. Bluntly, they are thugs, but their weapons are not fists and boots and clubs and guns. Their weapons are policy, process, lies, and time.
That is either benign policy and process invented by public servants, which the bureaucrats have made malign; or malign policy and process invented by bureaucrats, who are psychologically incapable of inventing anything else--you cannot get benign policy and process out of malign heads.
Lies are their normal language. They begin by assaulting us with a lie, and when they are challenged they protect their initial lie with a string of serial lies. The truth is not in them.
Then there is time. We should not have to fight the hired help, but they abuse us by fighting us, using our money to fund their thuggery--and they can wait us out, for years, even decades. And they delight in doing it. As Victor Hugo said, 'The malicious have a dark happiness.' They are wasteful, profligately wasteful--of our time, of our money, of our lives. They consider themselves our masters, not our paid servants.
'Thug' and thuggery' are the right words for them and their actions against us; because it comes from the Hindi word 'thuggee', which means 'deceivers', and that is what bureaucrats are. Deceivers. They deceive themselves about what they are, and about the presumptuous power of their titles, and in that self-deceit they deceive us. They lie about themselves to themselves; therefore they lie to us. The modern meaning of thug is someone who commits crimes against the person, so the word very neatly contains both meanings: deceit and assault. They are thuggish deceivers.
True justice, truly just decisions, decisions that are truly fair and right, are decisions made solely and wholly in accordance with the truth of fact, the truth of language, the truth of logic, and the truth of just Acts of Parliament. Any decision made outside the truth is tyranny, thuggery, bureaucracy.
Official thuggery is rampant in New Zealand. Hordes of bureaucratic officials are making decisions about us on their vanity, on their arrogance of title, on their mad notions, on destructive ideology--far outside the truth--and thus on nothing to do with justice and right.
Therefore we the people need a powerful legal weapon to stop that corruption. We need an additional sub-section in the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990, which would have bureaucrats dismissed when they thuggerise us by acting outside the truth.
Because the only thing they fear is losing their precious titles--the psychological crutch which compensates for their lack of a psychological backbone. They care nothing for people, for the truth, for anything just and right--they care only for that title, with which they plume their vanity and justify their thuggery--'I have an official title; therefore everything I say is official; and therefore all you little people-things must bow to me, must bow to me and my will.'
To give us a powerful legal weapon to put a stop to that, and to steadily remove that rotten wood, we must add a sub-section to Section 27 of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act, sub-section (4)(a)to(e):
(a) the truth of fact; and
(b) the truth of language; and
(c) the truth of logic; and
(d) the truth of just enactments, which means;--
(i) firstly the first seven Constitutional Enactments in the Imperial Laws Application Act 1988 (the last two are concerned only with Royal succession), in particular the Royal promise in the second, 'we will not deny or defer to any man either justice or right'; and
(ii) secondly this Bill of Rights Act; and
(iii) thirdly the dictates and provisions of the particular Act or Acts under which the administrators in question have duties and powers; and
(e) any administrator who does not act in accordance with the obligations laid down above in (4)(a) to (d) shall be summarily dismissed, and shall lose any benefits connected with that position; and that dismissal shall be recorded by the Department of Justice in a file called Administrative Dismissals, which shall be open to public enquiry; and that person shall not again be employed anywhere in the public sector for a period of at least five years; and then if that person again offends against the obligations in this section the ban shall become permanent.
If we do not get that high-level statutory weapon, the corruption of bureaucratic thuggery will continue, and get worse, because bureaucrats hire bureaucrats not public servants. The bureaucrats, of course, will try to stop that law from happening. With serial lies, as always.
