Topic Summary (from www.angelfire.com): abuse of power is that situation that exists whenever someone who has POWER over others, (that is, the capacity to impose his or her will on those others) for example, by virtue of his or her superior mental dexterity, social position, physical strength, knowledge, technology, weapons, wealth, or the trust that others have in him or her, unjustifiably uses that power to EXPLOIT or HARM those others, or through lack of action, ALLOWS exploitation or harm to occur to them.

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• abuse of power: abuse of power is that situation that exists whenever someone who has power over others, (that is, the capacity to impose his or her will on those others) for example, by virtue of his or her superior mental dexterity, social position, physical strength, knowledge, technology, weapons, wealth, or the trust that others have in him or her, unjustifiably uses that power to EXPLOIT or HARM those others, or through lack of action, ALLOWS exploitation or harm to occur to them. (from www.angelfire.com)
• Sarah Palin: It had long been clear that the official Alaska probe into the circumstances surrounding Sarah Palin 's firing of her public safety commissioner would likely embarrass the McCain campaign (from www.philly.com)
• Legislative Council: The Legislative Council approved 100,000 dollars for the investigation that will find out whether Palin was angry at Monegan for not firing an Alaska State Trooper who went through a messy divorce with Palin's sister. (from www.ktva.com)
• Patriot Act: Abuse of the Patriot Act — Several provisions of the Patriot Act were set to expire at the end of 2005 and, despite opposition from across the political spectrum and more than 400 community and state resolutions expressing concern about the Patriot Act , Congress reauthorized the law without reforming its most flawed provisions to bring these extraordinary powers back in line with the Constitution (from www.aclu.org)
• Governor Palin: Lawmakers will hire someone within a week to investigate whether Governor Sarah Palin abused her power in firing Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan (from www.ktva.com)
• Troopergate report: Troopergate report : Palin abused power: Former Gov (from www.adn.com)
• state trooper: But Palin s reformer image took a hit last month when she was accused of attempting to get a state trooper fired (from thinkprogress.org)
• Police officer: As a victim of a Police officer , your situation is very different than other domestic violence victims (from www.abuseofpower.info)
• safety options: Learn about safety options (from www.abuseofpower.info)
• National Security: Since then, the Justice Department's Inspector General found that the FBI has issued hundreds of thousands of National Security letters, a majority against U.S (from www.aclu.org)
• no legal right: The court then went on to use yet another definition, 'malfeasance is the doing of an act which an officer had no legal right to do at all and that when an officer, through ignorance , inattention, or malice , does that which they have no legal right to do at all, or acts without any authority whatsoever, or exceeds, ignores, or abuses their powers , they are guilty of malfeasance.' (from en.wikipedia.org)
• Physical abuse: Workplace bullying can include such tactics as verbal , nonverbal , psychological , Physical abuse and humiliation (from en.wikipedia.org)
• Workplace bullying: Workplace bullying , like childhood bullying is the tendency of individuals or groups to use persistent aggressive or unreasonable behavior against a co-worker (from en.wikipedia.org)
• Safety Commissioner: Sarah Palin abused her power when she fired her public Safety Commissioner this July, a state investigation has concluded. (from abcnews.go.com)
• own power: Do you ever mistakenly use your own power against yourself (from www.stevepavlina.com)
• state ethics law: ANCHORAGE, Alaska (CNN) -- Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin abused her power as Alaska's governor and violated state ethics law by trying to get her ex-brother-in- law fired from the state police, a state investigator's report concluded Friday. (from www.cnn.com)
• William Gray: Those men choose to act against the boy, Thomas Gray , son of William Gray , late of the governor's staff (from www.abuseofpower.ca)
• Crooked Paths: You might be surprised by the actions of the pirates of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, or the adventures of the masterless men of Newfoundland, because it is all here, in the third book of the Abuse of Power series, Crooked Paths , as we trace the lives of these families into the next generation. (from www.abuseofpower.ca)
• Palin says she: Though Palin says she doesn t have anything to hide and she didn t do anything wrong there, an investigation has found that one of her aides pushed the firing : (from thinkprogress.org)
• Armed Forces: The President's Constitutional position is simply not one which was ever intended to empower anyone to use the enormous potential power of the United States Armed Forces to do good or bad in the world in general (from pages.prodigy.net)

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