Back to category: Science

Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper.

1986

A buyer and a seller agree on price and exchange a commodity. Then, if the seller is working for the government, the buyer is thrown in jail and convicted to serve, say, 10 years with a $10,000 fine; if the buyer is working for the government, the seller is convicted. The government bargains with the convict for his life, liberty, property, and pursuit of happiness, if he will incriminate himself or any other buyers and sellers he knows. The government, with "judicial" stamp of approval, then spies on these other persons or breaks into their homes. It can use electronic eavesdropping, secret agents, search and seizure of person or property, bribe witnesses, set up a false business in the commodity, or examine all information (especially records of financial transaction) public or private about these persons. Finally, if the government gains any evidence, after thoroughly penetrating their privacy, that one of these persons (or anyone else they run across) ever possessed the commod...

Posted by: Asare Mabel

Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper.