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Why Terror Financing is So Tough to Track Down
An anonymous reader writes "After a recent Slashdot story detailing the errant investigation into a credit card holder's dept payment, comes this article from the Christian Science Monitor discussing the commoditization of terrorism, its relationship to crime, and the difficulties encountered when trying to track "bad" money."
Which I address in this post (albeit with bad html), below.
What we need to do is get some meaningful strides made towards legalization so we can cut the flow of cash away from common thugs to farmers who need a crop to grow.
If, by some miraculous event, marijuana were to be legalized in the US, I'm going to laugh my ass off when the same people wanting legalization today end up complaining that the evil Altria and ADM have cornered the market on it and have put the mom-and-pop hydroponic basement pot growers out of business.
My post was pretty damn relevant! There is evidance showing a large sum of money going from PETA to a convicted arsonist, who Ingrid Newkirk (president of PETA) has publically complimented (I forget her exact words, something like "a fine upstanding man"). They refuse to condemn tactics such as firebombing research labs performed by people like ALF (Animal Liberation Front - ie, people fighting for freedom of animals), stating they "understand" it.
They finance people directly involved with applying terrorist tactics against people who don't agree with them.
No wonder it's difficult to track terrorist funding, idiots mark posts like this as "troll". Just because they're fighting for animals, doesn't make them any less dangerous.
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Can any slashdotter tell me why despite the fact that Katrina was known to be coming, and that it would be huge, there was so much devastation amid confusion without clear leadership?
Actually, a more interesting question I'd lie to pose is exactly how the hell did Katrina die down before hitting the big easy, only to picks back up immensely in power? I watched that hurricane nonstop from start to finish, watch it degrade, upgrade, and more. how the hell does a storm go from tropical storm right before landfall into a Cat4 hurricane again? Not to sound weird, but perhaps we're messing with weather-control technology? I don't think it'd be too hard, either. Just heat up some area of our atmosphere, and watch the temperature change cause climate-related problems and abnormalities. *EndConspiracyTheory # 499*
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
There is plenty of blame to be shared by all. Days before Katrina hit Louisiana it was known that the hurricane was going to be big, it was also known that a big hurricane could cause the New Orleans levee system to catastrophically fail. The blame starts with the people of New Orleans who could evacuate, but didn't. I am not clear whether people who needed transportation were offered evacuation transportation prior to Katrina (and whether the availablity had been communicated). Hospitals and nursing homes had not been evacuated. Hospitals and other essential buildings had their generators located IN THE BASEMENT and were susceptible to flooding. Blame then goes to the mayor of New Orleans and the governor of Louisiana who thought that using the Superdome as a shelter was a Good Idea and then not equiping and stocking the Superdome as a shelter. Also, the American Red Cross had not certified the Superdome as a public shelter. Then the blame goes to whoever engineered the public safety communications system in New Orleans. Then we get to FEMA, which is the Federal organization responsible for coordinating rescue response efforts. FEMA used to be an independant organization that had shown that it could handle domestic emergencies. FEMA should have been the über organization that coordinated resue efforts after Katrina. Local and state law enforcement took it upon themselves to seal off the state and not allow rescue and medical people in to help, FEMA should . There were many Bona Fide medical organizations who had tried to volunteer personnel and equipment to help, most were turned away, even though the medical assistance was badly needed. FEMA had been put under the Department of Homeland Security and the Undersecretary of Emergency Preparedness and Response (aka FEMA director) was a Bush political appointee; Google for "Michael Brown"+Katrina for information about why Michael Brown and FEMA was inefective during the first critical days after Katrina hit. There are even more alegations concerning Bush denying that he had been told prior to Katrina hitting that the levees could fail, when there are video tapes of briefing that clearly show that Bush had been told about the possiblity of the levees failing.
Weed is America's biggest cash crop at $25 million. I'm not sure what it has to do with terrorism.
And I'm not sure why those potential tax dollars aren't funding better schools and more afordable healthcare to my fellow US citizens right now.
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