The Inadequacy of Law and Order; The Branch; Eddy Durant and
The Muscle for Rank
You see, however good cops are at shooting black suspects, and arresting trailer park peckerwood tweakers; they have far less weight that they can not let the people at large be fully cognizant of. Even at their higher levels of competency, they still have little power in the way of enforcement.
An example, a couple of years back I am clicking on to a website; then malware, a trojan horse and a FBI warning to pay the fine, for underage porn, wired to an offshore account in the Caribbean.
Immediately calling the FBI in Dallas TX to file a criminal complaint. The lady there said they were aware of the scam, and suggested to first have the malware scrubbed, then file a complaint. I am like "What? How can I file a criminal complaint of attempted extortion if I remove the evidence of the crime itself?" (Removing the malware was easy enough with some over the phone technical advice; after first swearing off porn and nothing more than Sports Illustrated Swimsuits).
But actually, with the volume of criminal cases, from over 4,000 federal statutes that are subject to prosecution. That this might make the money for the lawyers, however for cops at the local, state and federal levels, they just lack the adequate resources to pursue the would-be investigations and prosecutions. Doing just enough to fill their quota to keep their job security and paychecks.
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Boston MA. December 1987 through March 17, 1988. Invoking "By any means necessary", but primarily by refusing to get a steady, regular job was how I was holding out of a shotgun marriage.
It was quite a laugh by all, I would concede on the grounds of: a test run of a baker's dozen of the sorority girls, with leftovers for my friends and relations; coffee and cigarettes as I was work striking from the labor pools of daily pay etc. et al etc.
It was both banal and unsettling to think of a hereditary society with a silly club name of The Branch based in New York City. They did have an operating protocol, a means of, that was a practice going far back at least to the days of the Roman Republic; wealthy families keeping criminal gangs on retainer to use as enforcers when needed.
Eddy Durant, out of Texas, who was ambitious to be more than a gang of thugs when needed. Eddy was the master of the low-ball, having his hooks into a number of business people. Starting with just selling merchandise that fell off a truck. And working his way as a sphere of influence, impacting and compromising the highest echelons of wealth and power.
For he taught me well - I, blessed or cursed with the inability to be awed by power and prestige and money to buy lots of stuff like the bubble-headed US consumer be - that to maintain their hierarchy; anything and everything done under the sun. And a toss-off into the Boston Harbor would never ring change to what is known county to county, North and South, as The Chain.
Reminds me of a joke I heard from a comedian on the radio in North Carolina "Grandma and her Alzheimer's...every time there is an Amber Alert she thinks its the same girl ' Why do they keep letting that little girl get into that man's car?'"
To paraphrase Henry David Thoreau; as boys who cannot get at The Man, will abuse the softer target of his dogs. --- copyright 2017 Diogenes Ltd.
The Muscle for Rank
You see, however good cops are at shooting black suspects, and arresting trailer park peckerwood tweakers; they have far less weight that they can not let the people at large be fully cognizant of. Even at their higher levels of competency, they still have little power in the way of enforcement.
An example, a couple of years back I am clicking on to a website; then malware, a trojan horse and a FBI warning to pay the fine, for underage porn, wired to an offshore account in the Caribbean.
Immediately calling the FBI in Dallas TX to file a criminal complaint. The lady there said they were aware of the scam, and suggested to first have the malware scrubbed, then file a complaint. I am like "What? How can I file a criminal complaint of attempted extortion if I remove the evidence of the crime itself?" (Removing the malware was easy enough with some over the phone technical advice; after first swearing off porn and nothing more than Sports Illustrated Swimsuits).
But actually, with the volume of criminal cases, from over 4,000 federal statutes that are subject to prosecution. That this might make the money for the lawyers, however for cops at the local, state and federal levels, they just lack the adequate resources to pursue the would-be investigations and prosecutions. Doing just enough to fill their quota to keep their job security and paychecks.
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Boston MA. December 1987 through March 17, 1988. Invoking "By any means necessary", but primarily by refusing to get a steady, regular job was how I was holding out of a shotgun marriage.
It was quite a laugh by all, I would concede on the grounds of: a test run of a baker's dozen of the sorority girls, with leftovers for my friends and relations; coffee and cigarettes as I was work striking from the labor pools of daily pay etc. et al etc.
It was both banal and unsettling to think of a hereditary society with a silly club name of The Branch based in New York City. They did have an operating protocol, a means of, that was a practice going far back at least to the days of the Roman Republic; wealthy families keeping criminal gangs on retainer to use as enforcers when needed.
Eddy Durant, out of Texas, who was ambitious to be more than a gang of thugs when needed. Eddy was the master of the low-ball, having his hooks into a number of business people. Starting with just selling merchandise that fell off a truck. And working his way as a sphere of influence, impacting and compromising the highest echelons of wealth and power.
For he taught me well - I, blessed or cursed with the inability to be awed by power and prestige and money to buy lots of stuff like the bubble-headed US consumer be - that to maintain their hierarchy; anything and everything done under the sun. And a toss-off into the Boston Harbor would never ring change to what is known county to county, North and South, as The Chain.
Reminds me of a joke I heard from a comedian on the radio in North Carolina "Grandma and her Alzheimer's...every time there is an Amber Alert she thinks its the same girl ' Why do they keep letting that little girl get into that man's car?'"
To paraphrase Henry David Thoreau; as boys who cannot get at The Man, will abuse the softer target of his dogs. --- copyright 2017 Diogenes Ltd.
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