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To: longjack
I don't know the details of the rise in organised crime in the former Yugoslavia but I imagine it went up proportionally with free market reforms. You didn't see any organised crime in the 70s and 80s because it was still a very socialist country.

Organized crime is one of the nasty byproducts of a free market. In fact, organised crime is epitome of a deregulated free market economy. I imagine if free market reforms are inserted without matching it with an equal effort of curtailing organised crime, organised crime will gain a strong hold within that setting.

By removing the Serbian police from Kosovo and inserting the impotency of the international community's "rent-a-cop", organised Albanian crime has flourished.

40 posted on 03/27/2004 3:59:53 PM PST by getoffmylawn (esq.)
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To: getoffmylawn
Yes. OK. That does make sense, especially regarding the time line.

Looking back, then, the commentary was correct as far as the structures necessary for bringing law and order aren't rigid enough to stop it.

Right now the foxes are in charge of the henhouse, and the EU, in this case Solano, are telling the hens that they're a major part of the problem.

It's probably time to let the hens defend themselves rather than have the UN pretend to do it for them. They'll do a better job.

longjack

41 posted on 03/27/2004 4:27:25 PM PST by longjack
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