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[Rich Elswick]

politics is economics errr economics is politics... oh hell, just ask Oprah.
:)

On Dec 6, 2007 3:14 PM, Aaron Kulkis <akulkis3 at hotpop.com> wrote:

> Robert Adkins wrote:
> >> I like the Russian spam solution.
> >
> > Snip
> >
> >> The Russian solution:  All of this nasty spam stopped one day
> >> within hours after someone dumped his corpse in an alley.
> >>
> >
> >       I read about this case. It wasn't exactly altruism that won the
> day.
> >
> >       The death has been linked to Russian organized crime. It appears
> > that regardless of what you do, if you actually ignore those "Pay us
> > protection, or else" statements from Russian Organized Crime, they will
> > quite brutally, physically beat you to death.
>
> But of course, if you don't deal with shady people,
> and work only with legitimate businesses (such as
> the other Russian-language spam I described), then
> you really don't have to worry about dealing with
> organized criminals or protection money, do you.
>
> By the way, the "Russian Mafia" is mostly a figment
> of the western journalists' imagination.  When you
> have a population which for decades was taught that
> anyone who makes a profit is a criminal, then any
> successful businessman is reflexively branded as
> mafia by most Russians who were born before 1970
> or so.  Most organized crime in Russia is political,
> not economic.
>
> While there are some shake-down operations, and
> apparently some kidnapping of women who are sold
> into enslavement as prostitutes, the overwhelming
> majority of this activity is centered in Ukraine,
> not Russia.
>
> In Russia, the closest equivalent is large bribes
> for government officials.  However, this is not
> as bad nor corrupt as it sounds to most Americans --
> typically (and historically for centuries), Russian
> bureaucrats were very poorly paid -- their government
> salaries were meager (if they were even paid at all
> by the Czar's government), as they were EXPECTED to
> live primarily from bribes.
>
>
> What I find very interesting, is that, in three
> visits to Russia, people who I have heard called
> "mafia" were actually going out of their way to
> aid and protect tourists.
>
>
>
> >
> >       Nobody, not even a spam king deserves that.
> >
>
> Really?
>
> The productivity losses that all of us incur for THEIR
> benefit is nothing short of slavery.  I can think of
> nothing more fitting than death for those who enslave
> others.
>
> >       -Rob
> >
>
>
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