--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, maybe insufficeint, but pocketing the original money would > have been a problem for the bribe-happy Spanish officials, because > there was a paper trail on the money they confiscated from Leon > generated by the fact that they arrested him, and it would have > either had to go on to trial or they would have had to return the > money to Leon. By bringing in a new suitcase of money for the > bribe, the officials just put the new loot in their pockets > without issuing a receipt and then got a receipt from Leon or > whoever when they returned the old money after dropping the > charges "in the interest of justice" after a "thorough | > investigation."
While true, it avoids the point of the discussion. The TM movement, which poses as proponents of and practitioners of "Natural Law," was more than willing to smuggle money from country to country to avoid paying taxes and duties on it. I was personally asked several times during the time I worked for TM National in Los Angeles to smuggle suitcases of money from the US to Switzerland. I refused every time, *not* at the time because I was being moral but because I was more than aware that because of my hippy past and dossiers on me that existed with law-enforcement agencies I was the perfectly *wrong* person to do such a thing. What escaped me at the time was that the very thing I was being asked to do was bloody *wrong*, and that the organization that was asking me to do it was bloody *wrong* in *asking* me to do it. Even then (mid-70s), they had convinced themselves that they were so "in tune" with "Natural Law" that they had the right to violate actual law. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
