Hey Taco Pablo, have you and the globe heard, charges dropped from Felony, check it out, and print the facts, what worries me and most folks, is the illegals in our city, and our so called Leaders local,state and Goverment just loves them. here is a challenge for you and the globe, do a true honest check on all the local latinos stores,taco wagons,and selling cooked ?? goods in parking lots with out a license or permit, and see who is paying sales taxes, and who really has health certificates??and to keep you honest (that is funny) give names and locations of business. so we can check it out also. just to keep you honest.
Community leaders are setting bad examples
My Opinion
Pablo Candia
Dodge City Daily Globe
All the time we are seeing more and more outstanding people who play important roles in their communities involved in problems with the law, and this trend is worrisome.
Here are some cases. A pastor’s wife murders her husband in Tennessee, and the flock is shocked since the couple appeared to be two doves in everlasting love and, of course, two exemplary church leaders.
A top Friends University administrator is exposed as an internet child predator by the police, and his faculty, staff and friends are incredulous because of the decency this man displayed in his public life.
Baseball Hall of Famer Orlando "Peruchin" Cepeda is caught with drugs in his car by the San Francisco police, and the news surprises the San Francisco Giants since Cepeda is nothing less than a community liaison who speaks to children about the dangers of drugs.
And recently in our community, a Dodge City commissioner and educator was accused of aggravated battery.
What’s going on with outstanding people from whom communities expect the best? Without doubt, we are having a moral crisis, not only in the U.S. but also in the rest of the world.
If you browse the internet to read news from other countries, you will realize how many people in important positions are frequently in trouble with the law. Since the Catholic Church scandal broke out, exposing numerous priests as sexual predators preying on children, many other important people, from corporations to local and national institutions and organizations, have been involved more often in some form of scandal.
This reveals that nowadays many people, no matter their social positions, are living a double life, and that is frightening because then a disturbing question emerges: To whom can we entrust our children or our community issues? It seems that nobody can guarantee that the person you are dealing with really is trustworthy.
Living a double life also means having double morals, and even top national leaders aren’t setting good examples for their constituents.
Here is another recent case: Last April, the Bush administration refused to judge a fugitive Cuban, Luis Posada Carriles, who was accused of setting explosives in a Cuban airplane in 1973, killing more than 70 people from different countries. Instead, Posada Carriles was released on bond.
Mainstream American media, such as The New York Times and The Washington Post, among several others, warned the Bush administration that by dealing with this man in this way, the government was showing a double moral standard in the war against terrorism: "A terrorist is a terrorist when they kill innocent people, no matter if that man was a CIA contributor during the Cold War," pointed out one of those newspapers.
After seeing this official double moral standard, what would ordinary people think? Well, if our leaders practice double standards in their lives, why shouldn’t we?
Another factor in this moral decline of our community leaders is that humility one of the main qualities of leadership has become a rare practice among them.
When leaders show humility, it is a great motivation and inspiration for the people around them. Take Cesar Chavez’s humble attitude, for example. He wasn’t only a key speaker and leader; he was always traveling through the California crop fields to work shoulder to shoulder with the laborers he represented and defended.
But with this growing crisis in moral leadership, the Greek philosopher Diogenes would light his lamp again to look for an honest person in daylight.