Former Atlanta Public School (APS) superintendent Dr. Beverly Hall’s denials about anything about the rampant cheating at APS schools and Rupert Murdoch’s spectacular denial about the phone hacking going on at his global company have me really thinking about who’s in charge of these powerful organizations and who’s accountable for the intricate malfeasance which is wreaking havoc on innocent people’s lives.
Even if these two “really” didn’t “know” what was going on in their organizations, how could they have occupied top leadership positions? Their denials do nothing to absolve them of wrongdoing, but simply make them look superbly incompetent and sad, sad, sad. I mean, if you’re sitting on a shit pile, how can you not smell the stink?
No government investigation or hearing, threats of retribution, or pie in the face can do enough to make these scoundrels pay for the havoc they leave in their wake. And shame on us for being too apathetic to see that no one was minding the store until things got out of control.
