Craig Spencer wrote:
>
> Julian Morrison wrote:
>
> > Here's my position on this: money laundering is a fundmental natural
> > right. It's your damn money and nobody else's business, period.
>
> Your point, properly understood, is inspiring.
>
> But that should not obscure the fact that it IS morally wrong to allow
> criminals to profit from their crimes and justice requires that we act
> to prevent them from doing so. Here I mean real criminals: thieves,
> scammers, politicians etc.
Solution: do it the old fashoned way. Catch them red-handed with the
loot. If they won't hand it back, indenture them in lieu of restitution.
The money laundering scare and regulations obscure the fact that it
always has been and always will be trivial to launder money, given a big
enough mafia. One simply instructs a few hundred peons to buy expensive,
resaleable items for which provenance is not an issue. Jewellery,
second-hand cars, shares, property, whatever. One cascades together the
money flows so transactions are always "reasonable", but end up
clustering the money into a small set of very valuable liquid assets.
Provided you have a mob.
All the fuss covers who's under attack here. The law enforcement folks
know perfectly well that without every single transaction worldwide
numbered, checked, and background-checked, any of the people they're
using as "boogeyman du jour" can run rings around them. The whole
six-ring-circus of drug barons and Russian mafiosi is basically covering
for the only easily-hit target in the show: Joe Blow, who would prefer
to keep both halves of the money he just earned.
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