It's not about stopping them. It's about arresting and convicting them.
The tangential activities that you describe, e.g. communicating, meeting, transferring funds, etc. are the means by which federal officers arrest and convict mobsters/drug dealers/terrorists/etc.
It's very rare to get a conviction on a mobster via a direct mob activity. Instead, the feds use money laundering or tax evasion laws to deal with the mob people so that they can at least do time for _something_. And if they do it multiple times, then they get slapped with RICO and do _real_ time.
First, Jackson's best shock film is Dead Alive (originally, Brain Dead).
Second, his most well-known work in the general public is probably The Frighteners (which is a solid movie in and of itself).
And third, not only is Bakshi not dead but The Onion's AV Club had an interview with him recently about his Lord of the Rings film, amongst other topics.
Job #1 at OMM is to amuse you. Their example is amusing because Gabriel Knight's puzzle was so atrocious. And at the same time it makes a point. The rest of the puzzle one trudges through are less absurd, but they're still extremely one dimensional.
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It's not about stopping them. It's about arresting and convicting them.
The tangential activities that you describe, e.g. communicating, meeting, transferring funds, etc. are the means by which federal officers arrest and convict mobsters/drug dealers/terrorists/etc.
It's very rare to get a conviction on a mobster via a direct mob activity. Instead, the feds use money laundering or tax evasion laws to deal with the mob people so that they can at least do time for _something_. And if they do it multiple times, then they get slapped with RICO and do _real_ time.
franzel
Shouldn't have called you lazy, it's not easy to speak on the fly as eloquently as you did. My apologies. Just get it right the next time :)
Second, his most well-known work in the general public is probably The Frighteners (which is a solid movie in and of itself).
And third, not only is Bakshi not dead but The Onion's AV Club had an interview with him recently about his Lord of the Rings film, amongst other topics.
Job #1 at OMM is to amuse you. Their example is amusing because Gabriel Knight's puzzle was so atrocious. And at the same time it makes a point. The rest of the puzzle one trudges through are less absurd, but they're still extremely one dimensional.