ARE REPARATIONS OWED TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE?

By Roger Fredinburg
September 8, 2010
NewsWithViews.com

I have pondered for years how it is possible that elected officials and the hirelings in government, at all levels, are able to avoid lawsuits and criminal charges.

If any private group or company in America achieved the same lackluster results and continued the same failed policies as are made by the government, candidates, agency heads, bureaucrats and office holders make, they would be sued out of existence and likely go to prison.

It is ironic that government and political candidates are not lawfully bound to the truth.

Shouldn’t they be held accountable to us to for all their big Promises?

And shouldn’t there be consequences for chronic failure to deliver?

I mean anybody can make a mistake or two, but to make one after the other, endlessly, to the point that their boondoggles crash the country, and maybe the world economy, I think at some point enough is enough.

If we aren’t at that point now, where we have had all we can stand, then when?

The law actually allows immunity for government do-gooders under various Supreme Court decisions.

Not until 1946, however, did Congress address the issue of liability for torts committed by the government's agencies, officers, or employees. Until 1946 civil servants could be individually liable for torts, but they were protected by sovereign immunity from liability for “tortuousâ€