TEK operates in secret with extraordinary powers and no one reliably independent of the current governing party can review what it is doing when it uses its most potentially abusive powers.
Recent news reports suggest that the Chinese Communist Party is considering abandoning one of its longest-running and most abusive practices: its reproduction planning policy, commonly known as the one-child policy.
Asked whether she took any television lessons from her year as a judge on American Idol, she replied, "Oh, it was the most abusive experience," picked up her champagne glass and said, "You've just driven me to drink".
"It's among the most abusive factory-farming practices used today," said Paul Shapiro, a director of the Humane Society of the United States, who leads a campaign to ban the practice.
We found few cases of physical or frequent abuse, although those with the most abusive behaviour may have been reluctant to report it.
The main trade association of for-profit colleges, APSCU, seems to exist for the purpose of protecting the worst, most abusive, most predatory conduct by its member companies.
Malaysia occupies a strategically important position in global shipping routes, but its government has a long history of supporting some of the most abusive forms of human trafficking, earning it a spot on the State Department's official list of the worst abettors of modern slavery.
Before that, I'd already embarked on my own way of dealing with it by very politely thanking the most abusive anonymous emailers for offering such strong support.
The Fed already is responsible for writing consumer-protection rules, but it did not prohibit some of the most abusive mortgage and credit card lending practices during the housing boom.
