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by readhn 3530 days ago
Ohh that BS war on drugs again! How come banks get to get away with measly fines for laundering cartel drug money for do long? 100s of billions of dollars per year of drug money flow through the banking system, sure its profitable to pay the fines when you have so much guaranteed cash flow every year. Banks Get caught red handed laundering drug money. Banks don't Get shut down, CEO s don't go to jail?! Wtf? Ohh no messing with banks is hard , let's just wiretap every potential criminal in the country citizens won't do anything to resist this any way. They will just swallow this BS war on drugs story. I'm just a regular citizen I got nothing to hide!
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Banks are currently 'too big to fail' to borrow some words. The ramifications for normal people would be too disastrous.

So I hear anyway.

Ironically, even as you protest the war on drugs, you seem to defend its expansion and hardening. There's always people we don't like, and brutality always seems more reasonable if it's against them. That's what got us into the current mess.
Banks have better lobbyists.
Scarface was not too far from the truth. Except these days they don't bring in bags of money through the front door.... Well I take it back. May be in Mexico it it's still the case! Lol