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Does the government engage in human trafficking, prostitution, drug trafficking, illegal gambling, racketeering, identity fraud, etc?

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Carrok 8mo ago
Is this a serious question? human trafficking? yup. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/how-to-stop-governments-from-trafficking-people/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/how-to... prostitution? yup. https://www.awakenjustice.org/is-prostitution-a-choice https://www.awakenjustice.org/is-prostitution-a-choice drug trafficking? yup. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_cocaine_trafficking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_coca... gambling? yup. https://www.powerball.com/ https://www.powerball.com/ racketeering? yup. https://www.justia.com/criminal/docs/rico/ https://www.justia.com/criminal/docs/rico/
- lIl-IIIl 8mo ago
  That was a serious question, thank you. I think of mafia as providing services that a government/legitimate private entities cannot provide. Human trafficking - yup, I should have thought of that. In the counties listed in the link the governments does serve that mafia function. I was US centric in my thinking. Prostitution - no. It can be legal, but the government does not engage in it. Drug trafficking - I am sure some governments do it. I wouldn't put US in that list. Both the government investigations and the newspaper investigations found the allegations unsupported, according to the given link. I would say it could happen incidentally but organized crime does not need to worry about the government as a competitor in this space. Gambling - the lottery is not illegal gambling. But you can argue that is tautologically true. Racketeering - I don't see where in that link it says that the government engages in racketeering. Rico is a law that makes prosecuting racketeering easier.
LtWorf 8mo ago
Uhm yes?

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Carrok 8mo ago

Is this a serious question? human trafficking? yup. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/how-to-stop-governments-from-trafficking-people/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/how-to... prostitution? yup. https://www.awakenjustice.org/is-prostitution-a-choice https://www.awakenjustice.org/is-prostitution-a-choice drug trafficking? yup. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_cocaine_trafficking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_coca... gambling? yup. https://www.powerball.com/ https://www.powerball.com/ racketeering? yup. https://www.justia.com/criminal/docs/rico/ https://www.justia.com/criminal/docs/rico/

lIl-IIIl 8mo ago
That was a serious question, thank you. I think of mafia as providing services that a government/legitimate private entities cannot provide. Human trafficking - yup, I should have thought of that. In the counties listed in the link the governments does serve that mafia function. I was US centric in my thinking. Prostitution - no. It can be legal, but the government does not engage in it. Drug trafficking - I am sure some governments do it. I wouldn't put US in that list. Both the government investigations and the newspaper investigations found the allegations unsupported, according to the given link. I would say it could happen incidentally but organized crime does not need to worry about the government as a competitor in this space. Gambling - the lottery is not illegal gambling. But you can argue that is tautologically true. Racketeering - I don't see where in that link it says that the government engages in racketeering. Rico is a law that makes prosecuting racketeering easier.

LtWorf 8mo ago

Uhm yes?