Are We All Criminals Now?

American Thinker ^ | 6 Oct, 2024 | J.B. Shurk

[MtnClimber]

How ready will any of us be to resist government tyranny when the guns are right outside our doors?

If Western nations replaced their respective fiat currencies with digital versions (as many advocates for individual liberty fear they will soon do), would organized crime disappear?

If the answer is, “No,” why not? Don’t human traffickers and international drug cartels depend upon a supply of paper currency that they can move back and forth across borders and launder through unrelated businesses for future use? If there were no money except for the digital ones and zeroes created and monitored by national governments, surely major criminal organizations would have no way to operate and nowhere to hide.

How could prostitution and corner drug sales survive within a system that traces all digital transactions in real time? How could black market trades in illicit commerce or between sanctioned nations continue if Western central banks actively surveil each digital dollar that changes hands? Surely the imposition of government-mandated digital currencies would usher in a more peaceful planet that is relatively free of crime…right?

If you’re still not convinced, let me suggest what might be tripping you up: your instincts tell you that criminals will find a way to skirt any future digital surveillance. Somehow, human ingenuity will succeed in creating effective workarounds to government-imposed central bank digital currencies. The sale of illegal narcotics, weapons, and other banned materials will continue around the world because, at the end of the day, humans adapt and overcome whatever obstacles stand in their way. Crime will continue to exist because criminals will continue to exist, and criminals will continue to exist because in every generation some faction of the human race behaves immorally, disregards social mores, or flat out refuses to obey.

[maro]

Because they are easier to control.

[bert]

Within the coalition of City States ruling America, there is a coalition of Mobs, robbing it blind

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Whenever its advantageous to the government, we are criminals. As someone posted, they create criminals when they need them.

[trfree98]

Show me the man I’ll show you the crime.
Lavrentiy Beria

Not what we wanted, or our father’s fought for...

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***They seem interested in controlling honest people.***

That has been the democrat goal all along, even thousands of years ago! Their goal is to burn the US down so they can rule over the ashes.

“Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.”
– Aristotle

[Theophilus]

I read the Femocrats are already sad that there isn’t going to be a “peaceful transfer of power” in January.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“The left does not seem to care about controlling criminals.”

Part of Cloward-Piven. The only bright spot about our government collapsing and taken over by Marxists is criminals, transgenders, gays, the intelligentsia and useful idiots will be the first ones purged. It’s been that way since the beginning of time. It’s all part of the revolution and there is empirical data to support it.