« Don't get me started on "money laundering." It's a completely artificial crime. It wasn't even heard of 20 years ago, because the "crime" didn't exist. Now, everyone speaks of it as though it were a real crime, like murder. It's ridiculous, and further proof of the totally degraded state of the average person worldwide, absolutely including US citizens what we used to call Americans. The government proclaims something as a law, and "sheeple" robotically assume it's part of the cosmic firmament. If an official tells them to do or not to do something, they roll over on their backs like whipped dogs and wet themselves out of fear. The War on Drugs may be where "money laundering" originated as a crime, but today it has a lot more to do with something infinitely more important to the state: the War on Tax Evasion. »
Oh their god, this is a marvelous quote!
he forgot to mention the war on child porn... that's what takes away a large chunk of our freedoms these days.
maybe that's too touchy a subject even for casey.
no man in his right mind would touch that with a ten foot pole.
What does that mean? You support violence on people for having or sharing information about crimes committed by others or you don't support that violence, but don't want to say?
What I had in mind (and I think also paybt.c had this in mind) was that saying things like: "look, child pornography is used as an excuse to sneak in all kinds of liberty-reducing laws and regulations" is very dangerous because your "enemies" can then easily say stuff like: "look, this scumbag is promoting child pornography". You're making yourself an easy target.
For example there has been lengthy discussions a while back in germany about dns censoring using a secret blacklist. It was specifically argued by the proponents that this was to "stop child porn" (of course the real motivation was likely quite different). Opponents argued (rightfully as I think) that such a secret list would be a slippery slope to other types of censoring (even politically motivated). It's very dangerous for a public figure to argue "We can't introduce mechanisms to enable censoring child pornography" because that can destroy your public image easily.
That's what I was getting at by saying "no man in his right mind would touch that with a ten foot pole."
