BBC – Prisons inspector Nick Hardwick: ‘You shouldn’t do this job for long because you get used to things you shouldn’t’

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jan/29/prisons-inspector-nick-hardwick-interview

MY PERSONAL CONGRATULATIONS WITH YOUR DECISION.

LIKE POLICE OFFICERS, DETECTIVES, PARAMEDICS, FIRST RESPONDERS, FIRE FIGHTERS, ER. DOCTORS, PRISON GUARDS, AND YES… DARE I SAY PSYCHOLOGISTS, PSYCHIATRISTS THERE COMES A TIME WHEN WHAT ANCHORS YOUR SENSES AND GROUNDS YOU TO WHAT MOVES YOU WITH PASSION GETS EXTINGUISHED BY THE MUNDANE REPETITION OF HORROR. THERE ARE MANY MORE THAT I CAN THINK OF TOO – CHILD ABUSE FOR ONE.

WHERE YOU LOSE YOUR FINE LINE AND BOUNDARY OF SELF RESPECT BY TURNING A BLIND EYE TO EVENTS THAT YOU WOULD CONSCIOUSLY KNOW TO BE WRONG AND START ACCEPTING THEM AS EVERYDAY FACT, THEN YOU KNOW YOU ARE NOT FAR BEHIND IN BECOMING A CASUALTY OF CAUSALITY YOURSELF. IT JUST BECOMES A MATTER OF TIME THAT YOU END UP IN THE SAME BOAT BECAUSE FEAR WAS DOMINANT AND COURAGE SUBMISSIVE TO A SYSTEM THAT HAS NO MIND, ALL POWERFUL AND INFLEXIBLE TO HUMAN AFFAIRS. LAW AND ORDER SERVES AS A GUIDELINE, BUT WHEN IT BECOMES HARDENED ITSELF TO ALL HUMAN LEVELS OF EXISTENCE WITH IT’S VAST DIFFERENCES, IT CANNOT ITSELF DISTINGUISH RIGHT FROM WRONG AND ESPECIALLY EXCEPTIONS TO RULES. ALL ARE TREATED THE SAME. PERIOD.

GROUP PEER MENTALITY OF COVERING EACH OTHERS BACK IS THE WORST FORM OF CORRUPT COLLUSION THERE IS. BECAUSE NOW THE HERD MENTALITY OF BRUTAL HARASSMENT, BULLYING INTIMIDATION AND INDIGNITIES BECOMES STANDARD FARE AND PAR FOR THE COURSE. THE EVIDENCE OF ONE PERSON AGAINST THOSE OF MANY VOICES IS DROWNED OUT AND BECOMES IRRELEVANT AND EXPENDABLE TO SAFEGUARD A SYSTEM THAT DEPENDS ON CONTINUED SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST MODEL.

BEST CASE IN POINT ON THIS TODAY – CORRUPTED HIGH ECHELONS OF POWER, GOVERNMENTS WHO RULE BY FORCE OF DEATH.

JUST LIKE COMPUTERS. PROGRAMMED TO DO ONE THING WELL – ONES AND ZEROS PUT THERE SO MANY YEARS AGO, YET STILL RUNNING IN THE BACKGROUND AND MAKING IT SO – NO QUESTIONS ASKED.

WHEN YOU START ACCEPTING HORROR AS STANDARD FARE, YOU KNOW YOU’RE IN TROUBLE. SOUL HAS SLIPPED ALMOST OFF THE PRECIPICE WITH NO SAFETY LINE TO SAVE YOUR REAR END IN CASE OF A FALL.

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