TYPES OF ABUSE

This is a very sensitive area of abuse. While it can certainly involve many of the other areas discussed, it is in one specific area that it causes great concern. That is the drafting and passing of legislation that govern the people. So often politicians draft laws into being without looking at the possible consequences of their actions. Thus we see laws put in place to protect certain groups of people (usually minorities but not always) that then severely disadvantage others or even penalise them. Countries that allow retrospective legislation (that is laws can be backdated to cover event years or even decades earlier) show a serious type of abuse, because it means that things done legally at the time and with all good faith, suddenly become illegal and can attract severe penalties. Another area of political abuse is legislation designed to protect certain groups of people, but the legislation then allows others to legally abuse people or the system (or both) because of the loopholes provided. Because they are politicians, they are protected from being charged with abuse. In most western countries, politicians and government as a whole, are not answerable in any way. They argue that there are elections, but that is little comfort because both sides of the system are usually just as bad.