Why Do Our Leaders Persist In Being Tyrants?

If you want a tried and true answer to this character building question, look no farther than the front page. You'll see a series of stories about men in high places being indicted for crimes that would earn persons of lesser stature years in prison whilst these characters escape with a slap on the wrist.

Now, the higher up the food chain you go, the lower the punishments are. That is capitalism and the litigation system. Once you reach the national leadership, punishment may as well not exist. There is no-one independently given power to arrest national leaders if they break the law. They must be litigated out of office and to even attain office necessarily makes them the very finest litigators in the country.

What this country, it would seem, needs is a group given power to remove a man from office without oversight from the President. A wholly independent group with no ties to government of any kind. Strictly ruled, with very precise guidelines, but still completely independent. The main difficulty with this is that governments would be the only ones likely to have the power and resources to create and approve such a group and the litigants who run the power structure would not like the idea of being removed from power should they corrupt it.