osan
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There exists a notion which is almost utterly disregarded by people on the whole. It is ignored by teachers, college professors, politicians, parents, and the so-called "media". And yet, it is one of the most singularly significant ideas of civilized living, along with those of inherent human rights and the freedoms that they unavoidably imply with raw, implacable, and invincible force. Ultimately, it is the idea central to that of proper governance without which almost any horror imaginable may arise in the name of "government". The concept to which I refer here is that of the Public Trust. However, here my intention is not to make reference to the traditional notion of Public Trust, which speaks to the proper management of natural and other common resources such as navigable waterways, for instance. Rather, I am addressing a more fundamental, far broader, and very literal sense of "trust", which relevantly is the faith placed by one into the presumed good character of another such that the former expects the latter to speak and act in ways pursuant to the former's best interests. I speak of the duty of those in positions of governance† to act in the best interest of those to whom they swore oaths of good faith and competent service (OOGFACS), and to whom they are thereby bound in a fiduciary capacity. This alternate notion of the Public Trust constitutes a Special Trust that I refer to as being fully and unbreakably owed by those who take upon themselves that mantle of obligation, to those whom their oaths have been sworn. Here we refer to something far broader, deeper, and crucial to the interests of liberty than the usual reference. Public Trust is a Special Trust, the terms being effectively interchangeable for all practical purposes. I will add that a Special Trust, which is to say the Public Trust, is one the violation of which constitutes a felony of the most grave and unforgivable nature. It is my objective now to define the term such that it serves the purposes of freedom such that all such violations upon the liberties of men taken in the context of this definition cannot be validly justified or excused. To wit: