Credit Card Fraud and Leftist Traitors
Five years ago my son's credit cards were stolen. The reason no one prosecuted those crimes is the same reason Cindy Sheehan and other anti-war whores are not prosecuted for treason.
We had just finished building a new home and the credit cards were in a box with other personal belongings. We had cameras at the entrance to our house but not yet installed inside of key rooms; still, we had a good video of the small number of construction crew as they came in to finish odds and ends inside. No others ever entered the premises until we discovered the theft.
We filed a police report and contacted the credit card companies whereupon we were informed the cards were being used. We told all of them that we had a video with a good shot of whoever took the cards. This, plus store videos, would enable them to nail the thief or thieves. The credit card companies said they would do their investigation, but not to worry, my son would not have to pay anything. Even the fifty bucks that is the maximum liability under federal law was waived. Would they like a copy of the video? "No thanks, we can investigate without that."
Not satisfied with that response, we returned to the police with photos and asked if they could pursue the investigation. "Did you lose any money? No? Then let the credit card companies take care of it."
Here's the problem: Credit Card fraud costs the credit card companies almost nothing. They usually charge it back to the merchants who accepted the sale. The merchants, if the chargeback is high enough have to try to find the culprits on their own. Usually the amount of the sale prohibits any costly investigation. The cost to the consumer is nil, except in the form of eventually higher retail prices because the stores eat those losses temporarily and then pass the cost on to consumers. Because there are millions of such frauds each year, police will not bother to investigate any but the most egregious uses of the cards and most likely only those used in simultaneity with some violent crime.
Indeed, even Homeland Security in its webpost What To Do If Your Cards Are Lost or Stolen does not even bother suggesting that you contact any law enforcement agency!
Credit Card companies will not take any action that dampens the easy, convenient use of credit cards. They easily accept receipts with signatures from Shamu the Whale (1) or Kris P. Kreme, prohibit the merchant from asking for more than one form of identification, and refuse to implement PIN verification [except in Europe] although it is used with some debit cards. So even if the police wanted to investigate millions and millions of fraud cases, they would not get much cooperation from the credit card companies.
Now we come to the problem of the New York Times and other traitorous lefties. Yesterday I posted What's the difference between a liberal and a terrorist? wherein I asserted that Cindy Sheehan is an enemy of this country. So a reader asked "Seriously, if you think Cindy Sheehan is a traitorous enemy of the state like Aldrich Ames you should do something about it, since our government refuses to apparently." I've heard this silly question a number of times. The straw man argument goes like this: since none of these lefty loonies, anti-war activists, or newspaper leakers have actually been brought up on charges, they must be innocent of treasonous acts. No. It only means there are too many to arrest, bring to trial, put in jail, etc.
I answered:
I think all kidnappers should be arrested, put on trial, and if convicted put in jail. Does this mean I am morally bound to go around hunting for all unresolved kidnapping cases? If a DA does not have enough evidence even though they suspect someone of kidnapping, should I then "do something about it?"I am opposed to illegal immigration (but I do want millions of legal immigrants) although I do not want our government rounding up 11 million people and deporting them. Know why? Because Hitler with the greatest, most efficient killing machine in history could not round up all the Jews, how should I expect our government to do almost twice as many? I'm not talking about killing, I'm talking about rounding up.
So my answer is twofold:
- No authority: even though I know someone committed a crime unless the police are willing to follow it up, what am I supposed to do, form a vigilante?
- Impracticality: if the crime is being committed by millions of people as in the credit card case, the State will only prosecute if some other violent predicate offense is involved. Certainly our jails are already over-crowded without filling them up with traitors.
I also said "I am not saying you don't have the right to be an idiot or traitor." In the NY Times case, if they did not have the right to be treasonous then they would have needed permission before printing the SWIFT story, which permission they did not need because of the June 30, 1971 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to lift the prior restraints in the Pentagon Papers Case. Obviously, in order for a Court to decide if you printed something treasonous, you first have to have the right to print something that might be treasonous without prior permission else the whole exercise is pointless. Afterwards one can be judged on whether one's actions were right or wrong. The NY Times had the legal right to print treason without prior restraint. But they are not free of being judged afterwards for their actions.
It may be interesting to note that this country's greatest traitor, Benedict Arnold, was never prosecuted for his crime. Does that mean he was never a traitor?
So my final answer is: we unfortunately cannot shoot tens of millions of leftists and other moonbats. Although that is a good idea, it's a tad extreme.
So, Cindy Sheehan will go on trying to destroy this country without fear of prosecution unless she crosses some line. I have no doubt that the US would leave her alone even if we had actual videos of her lighting fuses for North Korean rockets aimed at our country. Perhaps another 9/11 or two and we as a nation will be less tolerant of such traitors. Time will tell.
I do not believe you are a traitor simply because you do not agree with G.W.Bush, although it does seem that many of those who are opposed to him are indeed enemies of this country. Probush.com has an interesting collection of "traitors".
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California Conservative, John Murtha, Traitor,
Rep. John Murtha, an influential Pennsylvania lawmaker and outspoken critic of the war in Iraq, said today Marines had "killed innocent civilians in cold blood" after allegedly responding to a roadside bomb ambush that killed a Marine during a patrol in Haditha, Iraq, Nov. 19. The incident is still under investigation by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and Multi-National Forces Iraq."It's much worse than was reported in Time magazine," Murtha, a Democrat, former Marine colonel and Vietnam war veteran, told reporters on Capitol Hill. "There was no firefight. There was no [bomb] that killed those innocent people," Murtha explained, adding there were "about twice as many" Iraqis killed than Time had reported.
my vast right wing conspiracy, Traitor Cindy Sheehan only supports traitorous troops,
Support the troops? I support only those who are NOT supporting the exploitation of the Iraqi people, and those who do not allow the war profiteers to carry on with their death and destruction all for the sake of an opulent lifestyle. I do not support those who are supporting a criminally insane and treacherous foreign policy.
big dog's weblog, Arizona Educator Gets Psyched Out Of Job,
Frisch openly admits that she likes to incite trouble by attacking right wingers. She considers herself, in true moonbat fashion, to be a victim of the meanness of the right wingers.
gm's corner, It Takes the Mind of a Liberal
If a judge makes a ruling, which may overturn a legislative act, then no one should have the right to vote on overturning the judges later on--ever?! Why don't we just get rid of governors and legislators and even the voters?It takes the mind of a liberal to come up with such a twisted scheme for governing. This time the justices ruled on the law rather than their preferences. But, if it were not for activist judges in most cases, the left wouldn't have much say so in government.
Disclaimer: If you are not aware that America is in a fight for the very survival of her culture and way of life, then you are seriously mentally impaired. You are obviously true-news-deprived and should consider reading other things than the New York Times or watching ABC News. Your stupidity and lack of concern about the world around you does not excuse you from any charges of treason, however. Despite my argument that Cindy Sheehan should be shot, it happens that I am opposed to the Death Penalty. Not because I have any sympathy with traitors, murderers or serial rapists, but because I believe it is uncivilized. On the practical end, I also believe it is counter-productive and prone to error, although most people seem to be unconcerned with those two aspects. The greatest deterrent to crime is to prevent poor people from having children where most of our violent criminals and leftists come from. On the other hand, I have no qualms about dropping bombs on Zarqawi. Self-defense needs no moral justification and refusal to defend oneself is a crime against nature.
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