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What are they talking about? Bribes ARE legal. All you have to do is call it a campaign contribution. But, yeah, its the politicians that should be prosecute
by stretchwithme 16y ago
What are they talking about? Bribes ARE legal. All you have to do is call it a campaign contribution.
But, yeah, its the politicians that should be prosecuted for taking, not people who are victims of the shakedown.
And it is a shakedown when in order to do business in a particular fields all of your competition is already bribing and if you don't, you're screwed.
Of course, the reason the politician has power to abuse is that he has power he shouldn't even have. So its really our fault for allowing the concentration of power or believing power is supposed to be concentrated.
- Goladus 16y agoThe kind of bribe discussed in the article isn't like a campaign contribution, it's regular people bribing rank-and-file government clerks and police, which happens as a matter of course in India and many other countries.
- stretchwithme 16y agoAnd if you read the rest of my comment, you would see I am aware of that.