Misha Glenny investigates global crime networks

This guy sucks.

How about legalizing drugs and lowering the tax on tobacco instead?

Fuck this guy. Take drugs, they’re good for you.

The point to legalizing drugs and prostitution is not that organized crime would disappear. It would however be greatly diminished. Furthermore, and very importantly, the resources that are currently spent on countering drug crimes would then be available to counter the rest of the crime. So organized crime would be significantly reduced both by reducing their potential market and by increased enforcement.

Microbial drug resistance scares the hell out of me. That’s a serious problem.

The picture with the three men wearing gold chains is actually from Romania

There are some bloody evil people inthe world, and in some way, wether we like it or not, we are all involved or have had some involvement with organised crime.

There has and most likely allways will be a blackmarket.

Brilliant.

In the “Sarah Conner Chronicles”, the terminators are made from “a coltan alloy”.
Just sayin, one of those funny connections.

My heart is a lovely shade of pink.

this is brilliant

Backbone, the world needs backbone.

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Only a tiny fraction of the people who saw this will read my comment. And the anecdote is repeated in his book. Everyone is going to be full of western guilt over fueling the war in the DRC with their laptops.

really? sure, “crime” by definition would go away if you made everything legal, but injustice and evil will continue to exist as long as people have dark hearts.

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Mental health care facilities were closed & torn down. All of this making the USA a nation of “criminals”, nuts & addicts, whose “treatment” choice is a substitute addiction, or a cot & an orange jumpsuit. Profitable prisons, churches, & addiction “treatment facilities” are full of the untreated mentally ill. People gun each other down in the streets, gambling that they can get a piece of the action in something that’s not even supposed to exist.

It’s time to ask ourselves the real reasons why.

As mental health care was shelved, orgs that promote brain parasites like F-Christianity, creationism, Scientology etc, were quietly funded. Pharma transmuted the head shrinking industry to quack prescription writers. Prohibition of unregulated substances created a new criminal class, who could not seek treatment for their addictions, because they would go to prison. The brainwashing industry was delighted to get buts into their pews, & $ into their offerings.

Follow the money trail. Observe the correlations between the wealth & power of the incarceration industry, the erosion of K-12 education quality, the so-called war on drugs, the strangulation and dissolution of public mental health care, transferring addiction treatment to medical industries, & faith based brainwashers, & babysitting of would-be mental/addiction patients & all other non-conformists to prisons.

I’m surprised that none have mentioned an oft overlooked crime syndicate, that is just short of the carbon & pharma/insurance industries, in employing the lobbying industry to corrupt all federal legislation, & the media in anti-rational propaganda; the USA’s privately owned prison industry. Laws are made & dissolved by their command, primarily criminalizing as much as is possible, & setting sentencing guidelines, all for their bottom line.

Doesn’t sound like this man is for legalization of cannabis.

Not biased in any way

We pay taxes ( wether we work or not ) although it is not all a one way street. In resurn we expect food, shelter, work and protection from criminals and there drugs etc. I could go out and become a criminal and make money but i wont because ive got caracter pribe and backbone. criminals have no respect

wow that is a dumb statement.

And all the killing and crime would go away the moment the western world stops enforcing their prohibitions of various demanded goods and services. Just like it did with alcohole.

Very interesting view into the situation. Living in Canada I see on the news small and medium grow-ops getting busted, sometimes by informants, sometimes by accident. They tend to occupy houses in residential areas where people aren’t suspicious of neighbors that don’t talk much. But there are many of them. Others are located in the wilderness and Canada has lots of that. Coupled with a low population of citizens and law enforcement, Canada is a great place for criminals.