If anyone in our country caught with a bit of marijuana, he is treated like a criminal. A drug lord who parked his 100 million to a local bank, is always welcome. If a child is raped and murdered, every time is a knee-jerk calls for the imposition of the death penalty. If a dictator disgrace an entire nation and tens of thousands - including children - can be murder, then his billions are still being received with open arms by our banks. A 17-year-old shoplifter who was caught for the second time in case of theft (one T-shirt, once Pafüm) was sentenced in Vienna some time ago to two years in prison without parole. When a billionaire a few million vorbeischmuggelt the Treasury, the government steals millions, the money is still welcome.
money does not stink, no matter where it comes from, no matter how gory it is. An Austrian who was apparently involved in the theft of tax data, has died in Switzerland in custody. The Swiss authorities had - contrary to international law - not the Austrian authorities informed of the arrest. The family knew nothing about it. During interrogations apparently the Swiss secret service was involved. Whether suicide (who knows what methods were used during the interrogations), murder or natural causes. This stinks. This stinks huge.
"Society is criminal in nature, otherwise they would not exist." (Joseph Conrad, in a letter, 1899)
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