The US isn’t Mexico or Colombia. The government is in charge and organised corruption is so difficult you get amateur hour stuff like $100,000 bribes that legis

The US isn’t Mexico or Colombia. The government is in charge and organised corruption is so difficult you get amateur hour stuff like $100,000 bribes that legislators hide in the freezer[1]. That is a tiny bribe and a ludicrous way to hide it. There are Bangladeshi civil servants that get bigger bribes and they get away with it. The joy of living in a country where the most corrupt state is a battle between Illinois and New Jersey is that mostly things work and mostly there are no bribes and when there are mostly people go to prison. A country like that is impossible to run a kidnapping gang in. The police can and do stop it if you try. Without an organisation all you have are fools. Fools don’t even shave and dress to blend in when they travel to the suburbs where there’s more money. Fools do pantomime crime instead of figuring out where the money is. The US has small areas of highly localised high crime, committed by morons. It’s worse than Switzerland or France but kidnapping, blackmail? The police are mostly reasonably competent and rich people either live in areas the police will take care of it or have security. If Jeff Bezos doesn’t try to hide his money why should you worry? [1]http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/21/jefferson.search/index.html http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/21/jefferson.search/...