"Kenyan launches anti-bribe website"

So, Obama is finally hitting Congress?

Is this a new version of that 'Nigerian Royalty' Scam?

I'm not falling for that again.

He's definitely not going to end up in a ditch. I absolutely cannot see that happening.

Nice anti-bribe site you got 'ere. 'Shame if somethin' was to, uh, 'appen to it...

Starts with bribes, then escalates into threats.

"You got a lot o' nice tanks 'ere Colonel. Be a shame should summat happen to them."

I hope something like this catches on in the US. It's worth a try.

Like people don't already know that every last official in any developing country takes bribes. They're the ones who give them.

mortimer_ford: I hope something like this catches on in the US. It's worth a try.


What is the eBay comments section you speak of?

Been reading the Indian ipaidabribe site for quite some time now. I've heard it's actually helping reform the culture of corruption there.

I lived in India on a student visa for 6 months. The village police department said we had to give them our passports -- there were hundreds of us Westerners, so we just did what they said. (Yes, I had misgivings, but what was I supposed to do?) When my visa was up in March 1986, I went to the police station to retrieve my passport so I could fly back to the States. They refused to give it to me the first two times I went, and kept telling me to come back in a few days. Finally, the third time I went back I got a little more insistent because my flight was leaving in two days. The three cops standing behind the counter in the small office just sort of looked at each other and shrugged, then handed me my documents.

It wasn't until many years later I realized they were looking for a little baksheesh to make the gears of bureaucracy turn more quickly. I was young privileged American girl -- it never occurred to me that I had to make an illegal payment to some official to make him do his job. They finally gave up on me, the poor guys.

So I like reading the stories on the Indian site. /csb

Well it is a start, the 'net is great for being able to point a finger at people who are antisocial in terms of being greedy.

But to make a real difference to human affairs, economics departments in universities, must start to teach that economics is not about money, but is about resource management.

Then we can possibly do something about the fifth of our species who do not have enough food to live on, or the luxury of clean water.