Re:The Cost of Dirty Money
by someguydave on Saturday February 09, 2019 @08:57PM
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Don't forget:
- Rationalizes the creation of a massive bureaucracy to control (and centralize) what beforehand was considered normal and local in scope.
- Rationalizes universal surveillance by unaccountable individuals in federal bureaucracies against the entire population. This can and has been abused in the case of bank disclosures required by anti-money laundering laws: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/us-arrests-treasury-...
(Note that the so-called "suspicious activity reports" she leaked were merely transactions that met some criteria like being above a threshold amount).
- Lazily creates an appearance of addressing a problem by going after a sometimes-associated activity
- Collateral damage to activities that aren't necessarily wrong, but that upset some group
- Only affects the little guy (to the major players, it's just a cost of doing business)
- Creates a purportedly-neutral cover on what is essentially political persecution
- Based on the God delusion that assumes some ambient authority is capable of passing correct judgment on every situation