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ICAC: purpose without follow through : Comments
By Binoy Kampmark, published 15/5/2014What is the purpose of the Independent Commission Against Corruption? A legal oddity, a body with considerable stretch and power on the one hand, without the prosecutorial bite that could be expected
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I don't think they are implicated in reducing the political class to residual muck, they simply needed no extra help achieving that outcome!
If ICAC is to be effective, honest politicians must come to the fore, and oblige the courts to prosecute the guilty, to the full extent of the law!
Rather than try to whitewash or justify odious behavior, with this or that lame brain excuse.
Corrupt politicians should be treated no different than drug peddlers, with their ill gotten gains and properties seized, even those thought to have been made safe by transferring to a rallie or a spouse.
And deprived of influencing wealth, asked to serves some really punitive jail time, as an example, that will give others cause to pause and time to consider, whether the possible pain is worth the gain!?
And if ICAC or its other state or Federal equivalents, had the power to hand out substantial rewards for information that led to convictions!
The corrupt class could be completely eliminated from the political scene!
And wouldn't that be a very pleasant change from the current filth expose!