Sunday, July 11, 2004
 
The Personal Is The Political

Count this as a victory for the agitators of the 1960s: personal things take on political overtones, such as getting fired:
    One day after she was fired, former U.S. Park Police Chief Teresa Chambers accused the Bush administration Saturday of silencing dissenting views in the rank and file.

    Chambers' departure may not garner the same spotlight as those of former counterterrorism expert Richard Clarke and former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, but it appears to fall into a similar category: officials who leave or are forced out after questioning Bush administration policies.
Just Jo Functionary doing the job to the best of her ability, but fired because she was a maverick who didn't follow the book? Well, yes:
    Chambers said that she didn't expect to be fired seven months after the Interior Department put her on administrative leave with pay for talking with reporters and congressional staffers about budget woes on the 620-officer force.
You know, we here in the private industry world would get canned and possibly sued if we were to disparage our employers in the media. In government, you get seven months of free money without having to pretend you're working and a gold bullhorn to trumpet the iniquity of it all.


- posted by Brian J. @ 1:05 AM
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