Government corruption can take place at three levels.
at the international level, this involves the acts of government using tax payers money to advance selfish interests of those in powers. It also includes participating in scams,piracy and infringements of copyrights rights, and also funding and receiving money from internationally proscribed groups such as drug lords and terrorists.
at the departmental level, it touches on tendering processes as well as in the justice systems,and the police.
at the citizen level, it involves, fostering a culture of impunity and bribery between it and the citizens.
The oldest of eight children, Ida B. Wells was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Her parents, who were very active in the Republican Party during Reconstruction, died in a yellow fever epidemic in the late 1870s. Wells attended Rust College and then became a teacher in Memphis, Tennessee. Shortly after she arrived, Wells was involved in an altercation with a white conductor while riding the railroad. She had purchased a first-class ticket, and was seated in the ladies car when the conductor ordered her to sit in the Jim Crow (i.e. black) section, which did not offer first-class accommodations. She refused and when the conductor tried to remove her, she "fastened her teeth on the back of his hand." Wells was ejected from the train, and she sued. She won her case in a lower court, but the decision was reversed in an appeals court.
Thomas Hobbes
In this state, every person has a natural right to do anything one thinks necessary for preserving one's own life, and life is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" (Leviathan, Chapters XIII–XIV).
