General Principles of Government Service
CCOs have an obligation to the United States Government and its citizens. CCOs must therefore be familiar with the following principles of ethical conduct as established in Executive Order 12731 and as codified in 5 CFR 2635.101.
"Conflict of Interest
One of the most basic ethical and legal principles is that CCOs may not take official action on a matter that could affect their personal interests, as noted in 18 United States Code (U.S.C.) 208). CCOs must remember that “the general rule is to avoid strictly any conflict of interest or even the appearance of a conflict of interest in government-contractor relationships” (FAR 3.101-1). This rule prohibits an employee from participating personally and substantially in an official capacity in any matter in which that employee—or any person whose interests are imputed (connected) to that employee—has a financial interest if that matter will directly and predictably affect that interest."
http://www.acq.osd.mil/dpap/ccap/cc/jcchb/HTML/chap_1.html#conflict
Tweety Twump is immoral and unethical. His obvious lack of concern for who he hurts is a clear message. His impulsive mindless tweets are used to bully weak people, and harm strong people, 18 year old college students, SNL actors, news media, Rep. Lewis, M. Streep, A. Merkel, etc., and spread lies / misinformation, should be noted by supporters before it is too late. Tweety's attempt to destroy reputations of good people is a warning to you all.
Tweety can bully anyone he wants as long as we have Free Speech in America, but as President, he holds the most powerful job in the world and what he tweets can destroy anyone or anything, like NATO and the European Union, while coddling America's and Democracies worst enemy, Putin and Communism.
I only say this because of what he says and does. Tweety Twump is a bully, literally lies to America, delivers misinformation, and debases almost all of humanity.
I understand his supporters like his populist, action oriented fervor because they hope he will put money in their pockets. Tweety Twump, however, is at best. a cruel, unfeeling person, and, as President, may be far worse, even criminal. His worst trait is being a bully.
"Writer Liel Leibovitz Calls Trump's Victory 'A Moral Crisis'"
November 18, 20164:26 PM ET
Heard on All Things Considered
NPR's Kelly McEvers interviews Liel Leibovitz about his piece in Tablet magazine called "What to Do About Trump? The Same Thing My Grandfather Did In 1930s Vienna."
http://www.npr.org/2016/11/18/502616415/writer-liel-leibovitz-calls-trumps-victory-a-moral-crisis
"LEIBOVITZ: So the first is, you know, treat every poisoned word as a promise. Don't try to analyze, overthink it, kind of really try to get down to the bottom of things. If someone says hateful, horrible things, if someone threatens hateful, horrible actions, believe them.
The second principle is treat people like adults. Treat people with respect. Do not condescend to them, which means hold them accountable for the consequences of their actions and demand that they behave like citizens.
MCEVERS: And you mean in particular people who voted for Donald Trump, you treat them as adults to, you know, take them at their word. They did this, you know, don't think, oh, they just didn't know what they were doing. Is that what you mean?
LEIBOVITZ: That's right. They are adults who made a choice.
MCEVERS: The third piece of advice that you take from your grandfather is refuse to accept what's going on as the new normal. What do you mean?
LEIBOVITZ: I mean that people may evoke nuance, they may argue quite reasonably that some of the things that this administration does - it may not be so terrible, that some of the appointments that they make may be quite good. All that is possible, but I don't believe that this is a political challenge. This is a moral crisis.
MCEVERS: But, like, millions of people - millions of people made this choice, and to say that their choice is a moral crisis is going to be alienating.
LEIBOVITZ: I understand that. And yet I think at the same time, saying that this sort of decision, the decision to look at a political candidate and decide that talk of registering people based on their faith or disqualifying judges based on their ethnicity is not a deal-breaker, that is something that if we treat those Trump voters like adults, like responsible adults, we need to hold them accountable for.
Now I am all hope, and in fact I firmly believe because I believe that the people of this country are truly very good, I believe that many people, including many people who voted for Donald Trump, would join this great awakening that we've been having this past week and a half and begin to mend all that has been torn."
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"Noam Chomsky on Whether the Rise of Trump Resembles the Rise of Fascism in 1930s Germany"
in History, Politics| May 30th, 2016 25 Comments
What we learned about Tweety Twump BEFORE he was elected should have told people he was not a nice man, and a bully, at best, and definitely very cruel.
And here is the sad and ugly part of a Twump election: his supporters are HIM!
"What I learned writing Trump’s biography"
My tour inside the peculiar mind of the GOP front-runner.
By Michael D'Antonio, 9/26/15, 11:50 AM CET
http://www.politico.eu/article/what-i-learned-writing-donald-trumps-biography/
"Donald Trump is not a man apart. He is, instead, merely one of us writ large. Given his intense desire to distinguish himself as special, he is likely to find this conclusion disturbing.
A few years ago, some in the psychiatric profession proposed that narcissism, which had long been regarded as malignant, be reconsidered. “Narcissism is not a disease,” suggested psychiatrist Peter Freed of Columbia University. “It’s an evolutionary strategy that can be incredibly successful — when it works.” Who would better represent this successful strategy than Trump? Consider the flourishing of all-about-me technologies that have been adopted by so many hundreds of millions of people. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and even the selfie photographs that bloom by the millions online are all expressions of the kind of self-promotion that Trump has practiced for profit throughout his life. The only difference is that he did it first, and on a much grander scale. In a world where many habitually broadcast photographs of their sandwiches just before they are eaten, we no longer agree that intense self-regard is a sign that something is wrong. It may, instead, be a reasonable reaction to life in a society where extension of the self, through media, is an accepted way to escape feeling insignificant. Donald Trump is not a man apart. He is, instead, merely one of us writ large. Given his intense desire to distinguish himself as special, if not sui generis, he is likely to find this conclusion disturbing. It is, for the rest of us too."
Tweety Twump's conflict of interest issues due to his NOT divesting his investments and NOT establishing the necessary BLIND TRUST are at their core, about ETHICS more than th elaw. What is Tweety Twump? Is he ethical?
Bottom line: Tweety does not understand ethics, and he has no idea that his behavior as President of the United States requires a higher standard, termed "the appearance of ethical behaviors."
I learned abut the appearance of ethical behavior in my 44 years in defense acquisition. It is not a hard concept, but it eludes Tweety Twump.
We called it "procurement integrity" and demanded the higher standard of every defense contractor. We always said, if it looks bad, it is bad.
"Conflict of Interest
One of the most basic ethical and legal principles is that CCOs may not take official action on a matter that could affect their personal interests, as noted in 18 United States Code (U.S.C.) 208). CCOs must remember that “the general rule is to avoid strictly any conflict of interest or even the appearance of a conflict of interest in government-contractor relationships” (FAR 3.101-1). This rule prohibits an employee from participating personally and substantially in an official capacity in any matter in which that employee—or any person whose interests are imputed (connected) to that employee—has a financial interest if that matter will directly and predictably affect that interest."
