Big Brother really is watching
Foundation for Economic Education
by Sheldon Richman
03/14/08
I’ve been reading the news about soon-to-be-ex-New York Governor Eliot Spitzer with mixed feelings. Yes, mixed. On the one hand, there is something satisfying in seeing an insufferably self-righteous, politically ambitious, ham-handed, and ethically challenged former prosecutor lose his grip on power because he did what he used to prosecute other people for doing. On the other hand, he was caught in a victimless crime because the ludicrously named Patriot Act requires banks to inform the IRS when their depositors engage in ’suspicious,’ that is, unusual, financial activity...
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=1946
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Eliot+Spitzer
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sheldon+Richman
by Sheldon Richman
03/14/08
I’ve been reading the news about soon-to-be-ex-New York Governor Eliot Spitzer with mixed feelings. Yes, mixed. On the one hand, there is something satisfying in seeing an insufferably self-righteous, politically ambitious, ham-handed, and ethically challenged former prosecutor lose his grip on power because he did what he used to prosecute other people for doing. On the other hand, he was caught in a victimless crime because the ludicrously named Patriot Act requires banks to inform the IRS when their depositors engage in ’suspicious,’ that is, unusual, financial activity...
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=1946
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Eliot+Spitzer
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sheldon+Richman
rudkla - 17. Mär, 12:06
