Be Careful with U.S. Customs -- A Cautionary Tale

[boatman61]

Originally Posted by john61ct

Until it doesn't.

Cash-sniffing dogs can be trained by the private sector too.

Hmm, business opportunity. . .

'Rent a Dog'... a Service designed to make Your Mugging Ventures a Success..

[john61ct]

I know many countries where you could hire the cops to be your backup muscle for a scam like that.

But then you need solid relationships with high-ups in the army to protect you from the cops.

All just different flavors of mafia / gang power structures.

In the end that is what unregulated capitalism looks like when Rule of Law is corrupted and officials no longer see themselves as public servants.

[a64pilot]

Originally Posted by john61ct

Until it doesn't.

Cash-sniffing dogs can be trained by the private sector too.

Hmm, business opportunity. . .

That is actually a scary thought and a real possibility, not dogs, but the whole package, cops and all, the Government gets the biggest cut, the contractor isn’t paid by the Government, they get a “commission”.
You sell it as saving the tax payer money, while in reality the Senator or whoever owns the Company providing the officers gets wealthy.

We have privatized Prisons haven’t we? Something I think is morally reprehensible.

[TrentePieds]

Shuss, John - we sans culottes are not sposed to mention stuff like that. The time is not yet ripe for that ;-)!

TP

[TrentePieds]

...and Pilot, you might like to check into how the "legalization of marijuana" has been handled by the Canadian federal government. Just exactly what you suggest MIGHT happen.

Well - it has! "Public servants" who until recently spoke most vociferously against the "legalization", on the grounds that pot is a "danger to youth", are now among the most heavily invested - as in "supplying capital" - in the humongous greenhouse operations that will supply weed to such as the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario who will have a monopoly on "marketing" the stuff.

But why get worried about trivialities like that when we can just gp sailing, eh :-)?

TP

[Mariano]

I was in the Usa for my first time in 1976, and been there so many times I can't remember now . As a non Us citizen I can't complain about CBP ir any other alfabet agency....I can't complain because my VISA expires in December and if the embassy officer dosn't like what I wrote in any social media ( AND I HAVE TO GIVE THEM MY USER MANES) bye bye visa, and there is nothing I can do about it. So if you are not north american , once they get you in the system for ANY complain, you are OUT FOREVER

[john61ct]

And all the brown people incarcerated stay there, no retroactive pardons.

And felony convictions keep them out of the legal biz, only the lily-white un-persecuted get to join in the gold-rush corporatization of the industry.

[john61ct]

Originally Posted by Mariano

I was in the Usa for my first time in 1976, and been there so many times I can't remember now . As a non Us citizen I can't complain about CBP ir any other alfabet agency....I can't complain because my VISA expires in December and if the embassy officer dosn't like what I wrote in any social media ( AND I HAVE TO GIVE THEM MY USER MANES) bye bye visa, and there is nothing I can do about it

Pretty soon not just all social media usernames, but passwords too.

[Mariano]

Originally Posted by john61ct

Pretty soon not just all social media usernames, but passwords too.

Sorry, forgot about it, user manes and paswords too

[john61ct]

What already standard?

Just resident visa applicants, students etc?

Or even tourists?

I don't do FB twitter insta anything like that in principle, I bet that alone would raise red flags these days.

If they had read-your-mind brain implant technology I bet that would become mandatory too pretty quick.

[JPA Cate]

This thread has gone too far off topic, and is now closed.