Government/Political Theft
Simon Black Reporting From: Kiev, Ukraine
July 23,2012
After decades of Soviet Rule, the cultures in places like Ukraine, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Belarus, etc. have been inculcated with a strong mistrust of government. All government.
Here in Ukraine, for example, people who have any level of wealth whatsoever hold hard currency-- dollars and euros, rather than the local hryvna.
They even have a funny nickname for these regional currencies that get inflated and devalued by corrupt central bankers and politicians-- rabbits... because they grow and multiply in such huge numbers so quickly.
Anyhow, Ukraine is definitely a country on the move. It had been nearly two years since my last visit, and some things have improved substantially.
Ukraine used to be a country that was almost entirely the latter (theft)... but it is slowly beginning to move towards the former (value creation). It still has a long way to go.
No trial, no defense. They just came in with police, locked the place down, and said, 'it's up to you to prove that you are innocent.'
It seems like almost every day there's a new story of a motorist who gets relieved of thousands of dollars in cash at a routine traffic stop because some ignorant police thug finds such an amount 'suspicious'.
This is one of the most disgusting perversions of authority that I know... and as governments are now increasingly forced to acknowledge their fiscal reality, it's becoming obvious that civil asset forfeiture is on the rise.
This is not the sort of trend that one sees in a free society.
Simon Black
Senior Editor, SovereignMan.com
[Editor's Note: Anything sound familiar in the above report from the Kiev? The report reads like a description of how the US Government which has morphed over the last 100 years into an autocratic, authoritarian monster, has destroyed the economy and STEALS from hard-working Americans to support both the socialist-leaning government and all the other indolent humps in America. The feds are growing a nation of scumbags who search everyday for more schemes and tricks to defraud more money from honest taxpayers.
Your money is at risk from these power-hungry thieves who are no longer accountable to the Citizens of the USA. Citizens vote and are embarassed when not long after the election, our mis-representatives continue destroying the USA with taxation, wars, socialist welfare policies, onerous regulations and GENERAL STUPIDITY! Just as the article above ends: "And it’s a very slippery slope: the more prosperity declines, the more politicians try to regulate the economy through wage controls, price controls, capital controls, etc. And the more they regulate the economy, the faster prosperity declines."
VOTE ONLY FOR REAL, TRUE, PROVABLE, VERIFIABLE, CONFIRMABLE CONSERVATIVES AND LIBERTARIANS EVERY TWO YEARS. STOP THE EMPTY THREATS AND FOLLOW-THROUGH...THROW-OUT EVERY CAREER, SOCIALIST, PROGRESSIVE POLITICIAN AND CONTINUE TO BUILD A VERY MUCH SMALLER, RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT EVERY TWO YEARS. THIS MEANS REDUCE GOVERNMENT BY AT LEAST 1/2! THE USA NEEDS ONLY DEFENSE, STATE, TREASURY, AND JUSTICE DEPARTMENTS. Restore America!]
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