Showing posts with label blackmail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blackmail. Show all posts
Emails Reveal Press Literally Taking Orders From Hillary
by Jeff Blake. The emails were obtained by Gawker
as part of a large Freedom of Information Act request it made back in
2012. They show a 2009 exchange between Marc Ambinder, then-politics
editor of The Atlantic, and Philippe Reines, a close assistant and
adviser to Clinton during her days as Secretary of State. Ambinder asked Reines for ... MOREWalter Block: Why You Should Want Blackmail To Be Legal
Blackmail would diminish real crime. At first glance it is not hard to answer the question, "Is blackmail really illegitimate?" The only problem it would seem to pose is, "Why is it being asked at all?" Do not blackmailers, well, blackmail people? And what could be worse? Blackmailers prey on people's dark, hidden secrets. They ... MOREHow Cops Turn Young, Low-Level Drug Offenders Into "Confidential Informants," A Job That Might Kill Them
by Jacob Sullum. Drug war draftees. On November 22, 2013, his 20th birthday, Andrew Sadek sat down across a table from Richland County Sheriff's Deputy Jason Weber at the Law Enforcement Center in Wahpeton, North Dakota. It was the day after cops had searched Sadek's dorm room at the North Dakota State College of Science, finding "an orange ... MORE
When It’s A Crime To Withdraw Money From Your Bank
by Josh Barro. Dennis Hastert has not been indicted on a charge of sexual abuse,
nor has he been indicted on a charge of paying money he was not legally
allowed to pay. The indictment of Mr. Hastert, a former House speaker,
released last week, lays out two counts: taking money out of the bank
the wrong way, and then lying to the F.B.I. about ... MORE
Did NSA Blackmail Roberts To OK Obamacare?
The real utility of NSA. U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts may have been blackmailed to approve Obamacare after being spied on by the NSA and CIA, says Larry Klayman, the attorney who has come to be known as “the NSA slayer” for his successful legal battles against the National Security Agency. During an appearance Sunday night on Aaron ... MOREVIDEO: John Stossel - Legalize Blackmail
Note the difference between blackmail and extortion. Extortion indicates the use or threat of force to obtain money or favor. Blackmail is simply the use or threat of an inconvenient truth to obtain money or favor. To avoid blackmail, one only needs to live a life they are not ashamed of. No one is suggesting extortion be legal.
John Stossel: Almost Everything We're Taught Is Wrong
Using economics to explode fallacies. We grow up learning that some things are just bad: child labor, ticket scalping, price gouging, kidney selling, blackmail, etc. But maybe they're not. What I love about economics is that it can show that what seems harmful is actually good for society. It illuminates what common sense overlooks. This was the subject of my Fox ... MORE
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