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  • I'll have an Ounce of Prevention, Please

    05/08/2013 2:20:43 PM PDT · by Noremac
    Blasted Fools.com ^ | May 7, 2013 | Richard Cameron
    Woven into the fabric of our unique American culture is the timeless wisdom of founding father, Benjamin Franklin. Franklin, the author of the phrase, “An Ounce of Prevention is worth a Pound of Cure”, would be appalled at much that is going on in American politics, but probably not shocked. Ambassador and Postmaster Franklin counted among his legendary ‘Thirteen Virtues’, Frugality, Justice and Moderation. He certainly would take exception with a move in Washington D.C., currently underway, in which an ill-concieved policy objective threatens to flood our country with economic refugees from such a corrupt and violent region as Mexico...
  • Money Laundering and Mission Creep (most onerous & costly element of Patriot Act engineered by Dems)

    12/29/2003 12:59:24 AM PST · by Stultis · 14 replies · 316+ views
    Insight Magazine ^ | 26 December 2003 | John Berlau
    Money Laundering and Mission Creep Posted Dec. 26, 2003 By John Berlau It was widely reported as an outrage, a use of the USA PATRIOT Act by the puritanical Attorney General John Ashcroft and his Justice Department to go after a crime that had nothing to do with terrorism. FBI agents conceded using Title III, the section of the USA PATRIOT Act that covers money laundering, in Operation G-string - an investigation of corruption allegations against a strip-club owner in Las Vegas. The agents used Section 314 to seize the financial records of local elected officials the FBI thought might...