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Post by okreallywtf » Mon, Sep 11, 2017, 5:37 PM UTC

dj-wonk wrote: post #57

rothbardrand wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was exagerrated-- the "crime" of liberty dollars is that one of the distributors in NC was the ex-husband of an FBI agents sister, who was bitter about the situation and the FBI Agent decided he could make a terrorism case out of it and in the process steal a great deal of money via Asset Forfeiture-- which they did, including tens of thousands of Ron Paul Presidential Campaign Copper pieces (literally presidentia…

Re: "This case is the one that proved to me..." I wonder if you are overgeneralizing here. Sure, there are cases of corruption involving the government. Did you intend to say something broader? Proving systemic or structural corruption is another thing. The question we should be asking, in my opinion, is not "Are all governments corrupt?" but rather "To what degree are particular people and particular institutions ac…