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Originally posted by dewhorse:
To quote her " that's some Ukrainian bullshit right there"

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So, its ok, according to your principal, for a Gang, even an individual to profit off of illegal activity?

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Originally posted by wrightd:
I had to carry 10K in cash once to deposit at my bank. I was nervous carrying that amount of cash and it wasn't my choice to receive that money in the form of cash but it was the way it ended up. Funny thing though I wasn't afraid of being robbed or having the cash stolen in a hospital or a morgue after a car accident. I was afraid of the police taking it, legally or otherwise during a traffic stop, unlawful search etc. These days I'm more afraid of police officers than common criminals. I would probably feel differently if I lived in a bad part of town but I don't. I don't encounter police very often since I'm honest exceedingly boring and pitifully law abiding, but based on the spotty quality of people being hired these days and the low character and poor ethics displayed by a generally predictable percentage working in government, I no longer automatically trust police in general and sometimes fear them outright. You know our policing and justice systems are screwed up when law abiding citizens of good character fear the police, justice systems, and governments more than any common criminal or scammer.

I know this will piss off our good officers in this thread but my rif isn't about the good people in policing, justice, and governments. It's about the high percentage of very bad apples in all three. The proportion of honest people in these fields should be equal to or higher than the rest of us honest and hard working six pack joes, but unfortunately it's lower and sometimes by a lot. It's hard to resist a criminal with a gun when the criminal is exercising their crime on behalf of their government employer. Disgusting isn't enough to describe it.

There I said it so let the arrows fly.