| Comment Number: | OL-10504914 |
| Received: | 3/10/2005 12:59:53 PM |
| Subject: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment |
| Title: | National Security Personnel System |
| CFR Citation: | 5 CFR Chapter XCIX and Part 9901 |
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Comments:
As a career DoD employee I perform to the best of my abilities when directed by objective expectations which are clearly communicated to me in a respectful way. The unilateral conspiracy and dictatorial implementation of the NSPS process violates the fundamental concepts of respect for employee rights, objective performance, and union representation for the appeals process. I therefore choose not to entertain or dignify the NSPS process any further by categorically speaking to specific sections in these comments. How do you categorize the odor of a skunk? I thank God, but NOT Congress, that I am near the end of a DoD career which has been both frustrating and rewarding. During my career I have been exposed to inexperience, ineptitude, and human weaknesses which sometimes polluted and semi-paralyzed the DoD workplace. I have also rejoiced in the strength, dignity, and willingness of most of us to perform, despite those adversities. Of Dachau, the German concentration camp, the question was asked, Where was God?. In reply the theologians answered, Where was man? In regard to NSPS I ask the question, Where is Congress? And where are the principles and philosophies upon which this Country was built? The sacrifice of human dignity, spirit, society, and the character of DoD will be too great in this rush toward a new and hastily contrived defense posture: NSPS, in the name of Country.