You will never, never, never, never see it in the MSM, but of course the whole purpose of most of the laws that are being 'broken' by these terrible scofflaw 'criminals' according to the cops here are actually laws that SUPPORT organized crime in Canada, and elsewhere, and I have very serious difficulty believing this is not intentional, although we'll never know for sure without a few little scopalomine trials - the solution to organized 'crime', of course, is to take away their money (sort of like the solution to 'democracy' they've been working on for the last 30-odd years) - remove the criminal laws from pot smoking and prosititution and gambling, and THAT is how you stop the flow of money to organized crime (not to mention increase government income by huge amounts, by ceasing all the unnecessary, and very substantial, money spent on 'enforcing' these laws few people want, and also by some judicious taxation - not through the roof like with cigarettes, but just a little user tax like cigaretttes and gas used to have, in the good ol days, that makes a lot of money through sheer volume).
And the other big revenue generator for 'crime' these days of course is cigarette smuggling - again, very direct and intentional support for whatever connections this has to organized 'crime' - get the taxes down to some reasonable rate, and voila! no more smuggling - how fucking stupid are these people? (Either very or not much, depending on whether you believe they really think they can stop cigarette smuggling while maintaining prices like they've driven the 'legal' stuff to, or if they know exactly what they are doing, and are intentionally supporting the organized crime - as always, there are undoubtedly two kinds of people, those very simple in-the-box types who believe the indoctrrination they have been fed all their lives and thus don't have much functioning 'grey' matter about things like this, and those a little higher on the food chain who know exactly what they are doing, and why.) And as for the profits buying guns etc - well, exactly why do you think most of these guns are being used? Organised crime is not a democracy, it is very 'the biggest guy wins' stuff - and that includes, since they obviously operate outside any 'laws' that bind thee and I either 'legally' or morally, getting rid of the opposition by killing them off, just like in the good ol days - and guns are, of course, the best way for killing off those you don't like (just ask the guys in the Pentagon and various other similar places) - so again, you stop criminalizing things people are going to do anyway, and you remove the incentive for 'bad' people to get involved with such activities, thus you remove the 'competition' for such activities, thus you reduce gun usage by a huge percent. Not rocket science - but then, fascist enforcers are rarely high IQ types. (although I expect their leaders are more than well aware of this little operative truth - but if you remove the incentive for 90% or more of the bad guys to have guns and go around killing themselves and others, then at the same time you remove the justification for the Big Brave Police Officers to be toting the same guns around, and what fun is being a cop in north Merica if you can't carry that big gun around?!?)
The people making the laws know very well what they are doing, however.
And as for counterfeit products like designer label or DVDs - why are the cops getting involved in a major way with protecting massive windfall corporate profits?? Why are they hassling the people who buy this stuff anyway? Shouldn't they be targetting the suppliers, who are knowingly selling phony products? If a customer is buying a cheap noname brand part for his car, then it's going to wear out faster and there's no real gain to be made by the customer - but very often, it's poor people who by this stuff, and would happily buy the 'real' and superior product if they could afford it - so once again the cops, and our society, are simply criminalizing poor people for not having enough money to participate in our 'modern advanced' society - which is something we probably ought to be talking about as a society a bit more, rather than how Paris Hilton was feeling last week. And if the cops are 'protecting' the right of big-name labels to exploit cheap third-world labor and thus get huge windfall profits in Canada or other countries by selling a shirt for a hundred bucks or whatever that cost them a buck to make and get to the store - well, maybe this would be another good thing to have a national debate over, in various ways, not least of which would be why in the hell people in general are so stupid as to be buying that stuff, for many reasons. But calling some of them criminals because they want to look like they are wearing a hundred dollar shirt while paying twenty bucks for it - well, the logic escapes me, really, aside from, as I said, protecting corporate profits, which I do not think is or should be a job for the Canadian police.
'Corporate Profits', of course, whilst always being revered by many, including ambitious politicians, has more or less officially become the new God in Canada since about 1998 and the FTA. Funny how these people are all gung-ho and hands-off about 'the market' when it means Canadian workers have to compete with workers from third world countries, and thus reduce their remuneration demands in the name of competition - but when it comes to Canadian consumers getting cheaper products from same third world countries, the 'market' suddenly takes on a different color, and suddenly serious intervention in the name of protecting corporate profits is just fine, although intervention to protect labour wages is not to be thought of. Do I smell a little hypocricy here?!?!
(and more commentary on the Canadian 'media' at On Gree Island http://www.rudemacedon.ca/lgi/ogi-home.html )
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etc. etc. and nobody would dare to raise a single finger against them, as they're "creating wealth", by stealing and robbing at both ends, from producers and users, enslaving all.
Ed Deak.