In philosophical, theological, or moral discussions, corruption is spiritual or moral impurity or deviation from an ideal. In economy, corruption is payment for services or material which the recipient is not due, under law. This may be called bribery, kickback, or, in the Middle East, baksheesh. In government it is when an elected representative makes decisions that are influenced by vested interest rather than their own personal or party ideological beliefs.
The word corrupt (Middle English, from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrumpere, to abuse or destroy : com-, intensive pref. and rumpere, to break) when used as an adjective literally means "utterly broken".
Political corruption is the abuse of public power, office, or resources by elected government officials for personal gain, e.g. by extortion, soliciting or offering bribes It can also take the form of office holders maintaining themselves in office by purchasing votes by enacting laws which use taxpayer money.Systemic corruption is the complete subversion of a political or economic system. Governmental corruption of judiciary is broadly known in many transitional and developing countries because the budget is almost completely controlled by the executive. The latter undermines the separation of powers, as it creates a critical financial dependence of the judiciary. The proper national wealth distribution including the government spending on the judiciary is subject of the constitutional economics. It is important to distinguish between the two methods of corruption of the judiciary: the government (through budget planning and various privileges), and the private.
Heather Rose Brooke (born 1970) is an American journalist and freedom of information campaigner. Resident since the 1990s in the UK, she is best known for her role in helping to expose the 2009 United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal, which culminated in the resignation of House of Commons Speaker Michael Martin.
Brooke is a visiting professor at City University's Department of Journalism in London. She is the author of Your Right to Know (2006), The Silent State (2010), and The Revolution Will Be Digitised (2011).
Brooke was born in Pennsylvania in the United States to parents originally from Liverpool, England, and has dual United States/United Kingdom citizenship. She grew up in Seattle, Washington (where her mother worked for Boeing) and graduated from Federal Way High School.
According to The Scotsman, she briefly moved to England as a teenager, but returned to the United States when she was 15. She attended the University of Washington Department of Communication, where she graduated in 1992 with a double major degree in journalism and political science. While there, she wrote for the student newspaper, The Daily, covering news stories and acting as the paper's sex columnist, writing with what she called a "feminist" slant.
Plot
"The devil is an ass to think that he can corrupt the human race. They are already more corrupt than he." Pug, a lesser devil, come to London for the time of two days with the hopes of corrupting the denizens there. When he arrives he finds that they are more dishonest, more deceitful and more evil than hell could ever make them. Infact, they are the embodiment of iniquity.
Keywords: based-on-play, ben-jonson, classic-literature, corruption, demon, english-literature, female-nudity, high-society, independent-film, london-england
Hell is a grammar school compared to this!
What's Your Vice?
From the drip drip drip of the teardrops
To the chink chink chink of the cash
To the end end end of the friendships
To the wack wack wack of the bash
Corruption corruption corruption
Rules my soul
Corruption corruption corruption
Rules my soul
From the tick tick tick of your time's up
To the yes yes yes of 'I'll sell'
From the fact fact fact of the souless
To the pact pact pact with hell
Corruption corruption corruption
Rules my soul
Corruption corruption corruption
Chills my bones
Corruption corruption corruption
Rules my soul
Corruption corruption corruption
Chills my bones
From the scream scream scream of the babies
To the retch retch retch of the youth
From the lie lie lie of the righteous
To the lost lost lost way I feel
Corruption corruption corruption
Rules my bones
Corruption corruption corruption
Chills my bones
Corruption corruption corruption
Rules my soul
Corruption corruption corruption
Rules my soul
Corruption
Corruption
Order in the court
Decision to abort
The monkey wants to speak
So speak, monkey speak
Speak monkey, speak
Speak monkey, speak
Speak monkey, speak
Everything leads to corruption
Everything leads to corruption
A fire from the sky rains brimstone from above (no god no truce)
A whole world implosion got too close to the sun (no god no truce)
Veins of power struggle explode into a bloody mess (no god no truce)
Rupturing the nation's core, bursting from the stress (no god no truce)
The atheists get in line await the coming destruction (no god no truce)
Religious dogma corrupted and curruptor (no god no truce)
With a man made of sin leads a full scale invasion (no god no truce)
Drains the life from the skins abrasion (no god no truce)
No restoring order in a full scale attack (no god no truce)
There's no fucking vision, There's no voice it's all black (no god no truce)
And then you break down with a villainous call (no god no truce)
The lowest form of life that's crawling in our streets
From seedy dope pushers to the politicians we meet
The sorry religious vomit that infests in our TVs
The weapons that we sell to the trash in the middle east
Murderous drug smugglers pay their way to pass
They look the other way when they take the kickback
We've got to put a stop to this senseless bullshit
Take all these people and throw them in the pit
Let us know! Where our tax dollars are spent
Tell us how! How much it costs to repent
Time has come! For us to take a stand
Let us know! When you meet our demands
You can take this all to hell
Shove it up your ass where the sun ain't shining
We know now what it takes to defend
If disaster strikes then they'll be hiding
You can take this all to hell
Shove it up your ass where the sun ain't shining
We know now what it takes to defend
If disaster strikes, then they'll be hiding
Corruption!
Corruption!
Corruption!
Corruption
From laundering money to hookers on the make
There's always a scandal, someone's on the take
They payoff for secrets, sell plans to a spy
They cover their asses and say it's a lie
Society cries when the vermin go free
When they're done, what's left for me?
This social disorder that's causing us pain
Indecent disease, it's they who are to blame
Let us know! Where our tax dollars are spent
Tell us how! How much it costs to repent
Time has come! For us to take a stand
Let us know! When you meet our demands
You can take this all to hell
Shove it up your ass where the sun ain't shining
We know now what it takes to defend
If disaster strikes then they'll be hiding
You can take this all to hell
Shove it up your ass where the sun ain't shining
We know now what it takes to defend
If disaster strikes, then they'll be hiding
Corruption!
Corruption!
Corruption!
I read in the papers everyday articles about the results of your ways
Unemployment is still there but you don`t really seem to care
And you don`t even plan to change it you`re only in for the profit
And you don`t even plan to change it you`re only in for the profit
Refrain:
I smell corruption
You take your piece of the cake and the slices get bigger for your sake
You get richer while we stay poor it makes me sick, more and more
I see you laugh behind our back I hate your guts you fucking ratpack
I see you laugh behind our back I hate your guts you fucking ratpack
But you should never forget
That you were just elected
And one day we will pay you back
Cause you`re just fucking corrupted
Corruption
This world is full of Corruption (na, na, na)
Corruption
This world is full of so much vice and crime
Prostitution, revolution
Another scandal every day
Sneaky deals on Wall Street
They got the whole wide world in a mess
Corruption
This world is full of corruption (na, na, na)
Corruption
This world is full of so much vice and crime
Vote for me, I'll set you free
That's what the politicians say
Makin' promises they can't keep
They got people living, dying in the streets
Corruption
This world is full of corruption (na, na, na)
Corruption
This world is full of so much vice and crime
Epidemics, oh look at A. I.D.S.
Got the whole wide world in a rage
Where did it come from, somebody knows
I guess you reap what, what you sow
Corruption
This world is full of so much corruption (na, na, na)
Corruption
This world is full of so much vice and crime
Go to the market for your daily bread
Somebody says you got poison instead
Sex an' violence, murder, suicide
Who can you trust, everybody's takin' a bribe
Corruption
This world is full of corruption (na, na, na)
Corruption
This world is full of so much vice and crime
I've got the solution, do you want to know
I've got the solution, everywhere I go
Love your neighbor as you love yourself y'all (na, na, na)
Love your brother
As you love yourself y'all (na, na, na)
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
love your sisters and brothers as you want them too
Too much hate
Thou shalt not steal
Thou shalt not steal
Think about it just one time
What I'm telling you
It's Easy Money Baby
It's Fast And Easy Honey
It Only Hurts The First Time
It Puts You In The Big Time
Oh Corruption
Corruption
So Misunderstood
Corruption
Corruption
Makes You Feel So Good
Filling massively the ballot box
Just participate
In democracy people talk
You are within your rights
The mayor steals but no one cares
Reclassifies lands
Councillors, priests, and TV stars
Everybody get a piece of cake
CORRUPTION - in your city hall
INFECTION - of our freedom
Lets talk about the terrorists
And leave the thieves
It doesn't matter, it's not the meeting
Spanish freaks can't be sent to jail
(If) I scratch your back you must scratch mine
That's not a crime
One for you and three for me
The money of their democracy
CORRUPTION - in your city hall
INFECTION - of our freedom
Burn your parliament! Riots are the way!
I can't see how you love me.
I can't believe that you would die for me, die for me.
I can't see how you love me.
I can't believe that you would rise for me, rise for me.
I sent him to his death, I spilt the blood of Christ today.
Can you forgive me for my sins and what I've done to make you pay.
You gave Your life for me so that I could be free.
The least that I can do is live my life for You.
I can't see how you love me.
I can't believe that you would die for me, die for me.
I can't see how you love me.
I can't believe that you would rise for me, rise for me.
I don't deserve your lve Jesus I'm not a worthy man.
You take me in your arms and I begin to understand.
You gave Your life for me so that I could be free.
Oh do not die, for I shall hate
All women so , when thou art gone,
That thee I shall not celebrate,
When I remember, thou wast one.
But yet thou canst not die, I know,
To leave this world behind, is death,
But when thou from this world wilt go,
The whole world vapours with thy breath.
Or iff, when thou, the world's soul go'st,
It stay, tis but thy carcase then,
The fairest woman, but thy ghost,
But corrupt worms, the worthiest men.
Oh wrangling schools that search what fire
Shall burn this world, had none the wit
Unto this knowledge to aspire,
That this her fever might be it?
And yet she cannot waste by this,
Nor long bear this torturing wrong,
For much corruption needful is
To fuel such a fever long.
These burning fits but meteors be,
Whose matter in thee is soon spent.
Thy beauty, and all parts, which are theee,
Are unchangeable firmament.
Yet 'twas of my mind, seizing thee,
Though it in thee cannot persever.
For I had rather owner be
Concerning the things that TV Has been telling me Showing the bloodness on lies and hapened my dreams The prince of this social disease Believe me, it attacks to kill and speaks something about respect and love destroys all my dreams!
I am waiting for no minute longer All the nights they will want more And pervert in my conscience make me the past, with coins im my eyes!
Refrão: They shake their heads and they don't look for To those who needs them And find an easy way out to come back to streets someday better wake up before!(x2)
Oh Oh oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh ohhh!(x2)
Wolf disguised in sheep always persecuting me Ahead up one fect that will bleed and deceiving the bore Believe me, it attacks to kill and speaks something about respect and love destroys all my dreams!
I am waiting for no minute longer All the nights they will want more And pervert in my conscience make me the past, with coins im my eyes!
Refrão
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I am waiting for no minute longer All the nights they will want more And pervert in my conscience make me the past, with coins im my eyes!
Refrão
Oh Oh oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh ohhh!
I must confess I fell in love with the devil
I beg you father
Bless me
I'm still not sure
Was it a dream?
Or was it reality?
I saw the devil dancing in a white dress
Stepping forward and back
I joined in
It's not a sin
Not even a blasphemy
Then she said she would always love me
If I could do something instead
She kissed my lips
Casting the spell
So I should follow her to hell
Lucy
Lucy was always fair
Lucy Fair
We made love
Her caresses burnt with fire
I didn't want her to stop
Some hours passed
I heard the chime
And she said
My love - it's time
Her shining eyes reflected my misfortune
That I was going to face
If I escaped, left her alone
I knew I'd die before the dawn
Lucy
Lucy was always fair
Hey you - behind the window
Do you want to tell me, what's your game?
Hey you - behind the glass door
Tell me what's the deal?
You sell yourself to demons
And you're ready to wake the dead
To fulfill your sick ambitions
The rest remains unsaid
Hey you - you're so pretentious
And so artificial when you swear
To make my life much better
Because you really care
I have no understanding for these fairy-tales and I bet
Your obligation to the whole nation
You will son forget
Hey, what's the game that you really want to play?
And you know what I have in mind
Anything you say
Anything you swear
Any promise
One more cliche
Code for today is corruption anyway
And you know what I really mean
Your reality
And your specialty
Everlasting state of immortality
Hey you - look in the mirror
Do you remember this indifferent face?
Hey you - congratulations
You're a master of disgust
None will forgive your swindles
Cause nobody ever should forget
Execution in retribution
Only solution
Hey, what's the game that you really want to play?
And you know what I have in mind
Anything you say
Anything you swear
Any promise
One more clich�é
Code for today is corruption anyway
And you know what I really mean
Your reality
And your specialty
Everlasting state of immortality
For your dirty tricks
There is no future
For your sick ambitions
There is no future
For your broken words
There is no future
For your lies and yourself
There is no future
We're coming
To suck your life
To burn your soul
Malicious
Corruption
Unbelievable
Unforgivable
Undeniable
You know it
You feel it
We gonna rape your sanity
To make you give in to
Unbelievable
Unforgivable
Undeniable
99% of evil
99% of hell
69 ways to become the devil
666 say it before you die
You're raging
In torment
In jaws of hate unlimited
Now you are confronting
Unbelievable
Unforgivable
Undeniable
99% of evil
99% of hell
69 ways to become the devil
666 say it before you die
And you wish you would be in sweet, sweet heaven
And you wish you would sing in the angels' choir
And you wish that your God would be listening to
And you wish that your sins were forgiven
99% of evil
99% of hell
69 ways to become the devil
We dont need no politicians, thieves and liers
We dont want no promisses no fucking lies
We must hold that bastards who chockes
our unique lives
We must hold together against corporate flags
Only those jesters tolds us the truth
Dont be patetic fools
Corruption
We dont need no politicians, thieves and liers
We dont want no promisses no fucking lies
We must hold that bastards who chockes
our unique lives
We must hold together against corporate flags
Subject: Chaos Grin
Status: Mercenary
Have no fear, no feelings
Followers or leader
Guided by instinct
Fed by insecurity
Smell the sweet scent of opportunity
On my right sleeve
I carry
The signs of my ancestory
My left cheek still bleeding the kisses of my enemies
Availability
To the highest bidder is never cheap
Disposability
I have no use for long term loyalty
I'm their heroine
An answer to their prayers
Care and safety
From what they've done
What they've become
I'm their heroine
In a world of make-believe
I'll sort out everything
That they have done that they've become
And I know you know it
Subject: Chaos Grin
Status: Mercenary
Have no fear, no feelings
Followers or leader
Guided by instinct
Fed by insecurity
Smell the sweet scent of opportunity
See these leeches
Vein creatures
Treacherous dreamers
Arse lickers,
Power worshippers
Behaving like sheep
They are my prize pigs
My special treats
My favourite love buddies
Junkies, freaks
I sell them dreams
And milk them till they bleed
I'm their heroine
An answer to their prayers
Care and safety
From what they've done
What they've become
I'm their heroine
In a world of make-believe
I'll sort out everything
That they have done that they've become
And I know you know it
Dear God, what have I done today
I tried to behave