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Re:Russian whistleblower was assassinated after uncovering $... by Consultant32452 on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @10:38AM (#21648732)
Recently a Mexican cartel outgunned the Mexican police and forced the release of El Chapo's son. It's hard to imagine something like that happening in a wealthy country, but it's not unheard of in the real world.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/31/americas/el-chapo-son-operati...

Re:Russian whistleblower was assassinated after uncovering $... by learc83 on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @11:21AM (#21649166)
Mexican cartels are much closer to terrorists, rebel groups, or rival states than they are to businesses operating in a functioning country.

The difference in what's basically a warlord who already has loyal troops to command, controls territory, and assets that can't be easily seized and Jeff Bezos is too much to make a comparison remotely useful.

Re:Russian whistleblower was assassinated after uncovering $... by Consultant32452 on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @02:23PM (#21651055)
Sure, it seems out of character for someone like Bezos to raise an army of armed thugs like you might expect from the Sinaloa cartel. But history is full of wealthy people getting away with obvious crimes. A more likely response from someone with Bezos' personality to some situation like this is taking a private plane to a no extradition country, bankrupt a state with lawsuits from an army of lawyers, or bribing/blackmailing low level officials. Bezos isn't an Epstein, and we did eventually put Epstein in prison, but we knew that guy was raping kids ages ago and the state of FL let him go free under very sketchy circumstances.
Re:Russian whistleblower was assassinated after uncovering $... by wayoutthere on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @12:45PM (#21650088)
It has happened (and still happens) in the US when white nationalist militias have a lot of guns. The cops don't want another Ruby Ridge or Waco; see also Cliven Bundy.