<nettime> A message from the police: IF YOU SUSPECT IT, REPORT IT
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On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 7:16 AM, Eugen Leitl
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Terrorists have to live somewhere.
Indeed. And so do police. And politicians, and bureaucrats and TSA gropers. Get out and talk to your neighbors and find out what they do for a living. If they're evasive, there's a good chance they work for the government. (Or are drug dealers or something, but at least in the US, the number of government employees greatly exceeds even the highest estimates of the number of drug dealers.) This information may come in useful someday.
We all work for government unless tax avoiders. Latest guesstimate is 33-45% of pay goes to governments at all levels and those subsidized by governments. Some argue we will all become full-time government workers happily having DoD do what's necessary to bring in 100% revenue by piracy. Reason: citizen tax squeeze is rising as wealthy and corporations shed tax burden by NGOs, off-shore evasion, moving HQs overseas, hiring, manufacturing and financing overseas, massaging taxation laws, bribing revenuers and office holders, increasing crackdown on citizen tax deductions, hiring more private police to intimidate those asking for better pay, offloading environmental crimes to taxpayers, buying legislators to enact favors for high-profit, high-income beneficiaries, controlling and ffixing elections to pack offices with sleazes who work for them before, during and after holding office. That's the short list. Look at your tax due instructions for the long one. Or if youngster, your student debt draconian provisions. Dream of being on the dole by holding political office, or NGO, from which you can escape the long list and shift it to citizens wondering if the increasing shit shower ever stopping. At 12:44 PM 7/17/2014, you wrote:
On 7/17/14 11:22 AM, Steve Furlong wrote:
If they're evasive, there's a good chance they work for the government.
Or they think you do.....
participants (5)
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David
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Eugen Leitl
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John Young
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Juan
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Steve Furlong