Unwatched Madness

Nearly everyday somebody can turn on their tv and find out about some important leader doing some ridiculous and disturbing thing. I mean even now in the time we live in where people believe everything is perfect when evil, corrupt people are being given the opportunity to run city's and sometimes even entire governments. I mean usually things are kept pretty tight and the people in the government here in the US, but even here knavish people make it into the US government. Just think about how easy it is for someone to take power in other countries. In other places power isn't always given, it's taken and most of the time taken by a unprincipled, terrible person. That's why checks and balances are so important, and here in the US they are used righteously, and it is the UN's job to try and take care of torn down countries, and be their checks and balances.

"Madness in great ones must not unwatched go." This is true for any age. If people of power don't have to adhere to any set of rules there is a chance that they will commit awful crimes. Between 1967 and 1998 Mohammed Suharto embezzled about 35 billion dollars and nobody was there to stop him. I mean throughout time there have been bad people who happen to have power and its still the same today. It really doesn't matter what time period we look at. There will be a ruler who has power and abuses it.

Suddam Hussien is another great example. Hussein's regime killed, tortured, raped and terrorized the Iraqi people and its neighbors for over two decades. Hundreds of thousands of people died because of Saddam, he even killed his own relatives. Suddam had even been known to use chemical agent on Kurdish villages. Suddam had had some kind of power in Iraq's government since 1963. It took 40 years for him to finally lose his position of power, even though everyone knew he was a terrible man. This all occured because the checks and balances were unused. Eventually he was brought to justice, but it just took way too long.

Even the governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich, has been under investigation for taking bribes and giving up state contracts. The federal investigators recently began wiretapping his phones and he was heard taking bids for Obamas vacant senate seat. He has also witheld funds to a childrens hospital until he donated to his campaing. This just goes to show that it can happen in any circumstance and even though we do have checks and balances people fall through.

The US government has their three branches which is how nobody really gains too much control. In other countries power is split up in different ways to make sure nobody ever has more power than anybody else. But in some places there are no checks or balances or the balance is skewed by a certain group taking control. In these instances death and hardship usually follows. It just goes to show how truly important it is for the "great ones" to be looked over and watched carefully.