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Money is money, it's not clean or dirty. If the government has a problem with how money is obtained, it should go after the illegal activity itself and leave the money alone. It's nobody's business where it came from.

bobevenson wrote:Money is money,

Truly, you are a prophet, reverend Bob.

bobevenson wrote:it's not clean or dirty. If the government has a problem with how money is obtained, it should go after the illegal activity itself and leave the money alone. It's nobody's business where it came from.

Well, there was a story doing the rounds a while back that claimed that 95% of bank notes in circulation in London were contaminated with cocaine. Seems a lot, but who am I to argue with statistics? Anyway, your reverence, money laundering means to set up a business; bars and clubs are popular, especially those with pole or lap dancers, and have your 'clients' come in and spend money that you or they have obtained by drug smuggling, extortion, kidnapping, theft, robbery or any other way that money is obtained that the meddling government takes a dim view of. Once the money has been spent in a 'legitimate' business, it is clean, because it isn't practical for the IRS (Inland Revenue) to demand that you explain where all your customers get their money from. It's one in the eye for Big Brother and yet another way that free market capitalism makes the world a safer and happier place.

Again, it doesn't matter where the money comes from. Police often assume that people with a lot of money in their car are involved in drugs, and confiscate the money with no charges being filed. It's the police who belong in jail, my friend, or as Mick Jagger says, "Just as every cop is a criminal and all the sinners saints."

bobevenson wrote:Again, it doesn't matter where the money comes from. Police often assume that people with a lot of money in their car are involved in drugs, and confiscate the money with no charges being filed.

Crikey. Policing sounds fun. Does it matter where the police get their money from, reverend Bob?

bobevenson wrote:It's the police who belong in jail, my friend, or as Mick Jagger says, "Just as every cop is a criminal and all the sinners saints."

Is that the same Mick Jagger who said: "Rape! Murder! It's just a shot away"?

Again, attack crime, not money.

bobevenson wrote:Again, attack crime, not money.

I hear you, reverend Bob. So, since 'every cop is a criminal', shall we start with them?

uwot wrote:

bobevenson wrote:Again, attack crime, not money.

I hear you, reverend Bob. So, since 'every cop is a criminal', shall we start with them?

Yes, especially the ones that hide behind signs and ticket drivers for speeding just to increase fines in lieu of raising taxes.