Interpret it differently: The right of a child to be vaccinated takes precedent over the right of the parents to decide whether to vaccinate.

It's not just in the U.S.A.

In Canada we've just had a verdict in a supposedly homegrown terrorism case (do a search for the names Nuttal and Korody), but it's clear that the defendants only have a handful of brain cells between them (heroin will do that...), and the undercover cops had a major part in turning a couple of harmless losers who aren't quite sure what day it is in to a major threat to national security. Needless to say, their lawyer is going for entrapment.

Also needless to say, the media are going entirely with the government/party line...

...laura

I could change my bank account, or I could sue Paypal for theft, wire fraud, misrepresentation and a range of other crimes.

Of course, I haven't been stupid enough to give them my bank details in the first place so I'm probably safe. Only probably mind..

We must disagree on both points.

Here's the basics: we need taxes because we need government. We need to track money; all Hastert had to do was do the filing. That's all.

In a civil world, we're civil, which means there are places and reasons to cooperate with government. In an ideal world, everyone's honest, but it's not ideal or even close. So we agree on civil and criminal proceedings. Yes, they're unevenly applied. It sucks. But not in this case.

Your estimation that drugs fuel organized crime is woefully naive. It's a fraction on a good day. Hacking banks, credit card fraud, hijacking, counterfeiting, illegal gambling, let me count the ways-- and these are just the ones that are patently illegal, and not repurposed into seemingly legitimate enterprise.

Monitoring your finances doesn't need a warrant when you do transfers over 10K. Look it up. Do the report and there's not a problem. GPS? Yeah, SCOTUS scotched it. Tapping your phone? Tell your congressman. I don't like them either.

If you have the opportunity to wire your own house, wire room lights on a different circuit than wall outlets. That way you don't end up in a dark room when you pop a breaker. Some hoses are wired this way, but not enough.

Check out that 15 year old Volvo lifestyle!

Hey, they're pretty good for collisions.

In a way, Hastert was involved in organize crime. Like Capone (etc) that's not what bagged him. He screwed up. A CPA or attorney would have warned him.

Hastert was a tool in many schemes, IMHO, the extortion being just one part of it.

I'm with you. It would be a massive effort. I would be happy to contribute to making that effort, and the analysis that would follow, year after year.

Why we don't have open government finance reporting at all levels is sheer chicanery.

You miss my point.

It's about openness in transactions. The situations are analogous, not congruent.

I was replying to this: There is nothing illegal about paying blackmailers

Private property can also be the context for untold and massive greed. Not all the time, but government costs money, and good government costs good money. The screws currently turned on state governments across the country have resulted in massive deficits, and only the bankers win, in that game.

I don't like crooked cops, either. Getting the "capo" was the way to dry up a huge supply of illegal talent. Beyond racketeering, murder, extortion, and the other multitudes of crimes, it also destabilized neighborhoods, families, and more.

All you have to do is the reporting. If you don't, there is a presumption that you're laundering money. Why do we have more CPAs in the US than you can shake a stick at? This very reason. Yeah, lots of fudging gets done. That's another thread.

Then he should have told the FBI the truth when they asked what the money was for. Or simply said, "I choose not to give a statement." Lying to the Feds is beyond fucking stupid. That's their "gotcha" card and it baffles me that so many seemingly intelligent people fall into such an easily avoidable trap.

There's a right to remain silent. I suggest using it....

We agree that equal enforcement is a good idea. It's not a witch hunt. Others have also been caught in this trap as well.

Oddly enough, I'm currently working with injectors from a 1990 mustang (which I'm trying to put into a datsun inline four to go in a triumph spitfire.) These definitely have an open/close lag. Maybe I should get some more recent ones, based on what you've said.
It's easy to find flow at full open, and from that I can derive how much it should flow at 50% duty cycle. From that I can characterize, at least somewhat, what the on and off times are by the delta from expected, but from the data I have, it appears that the on and off ramps are fuel pressure dependent as well. (Which isn't too much of a surprise, but a lot more complicated.) Plus there's an entirely different subplot involving the voltage I use to drive the coil: like stepper motors, I can overdrive the coil briefly to get a faster response, but have to decay down to a much lower holding current to not cook the coil, aka peak-and-hold.

We must disagree.

We did indeed pass and have enforced, a lot of legislation that's helped reduce corruption. No, it's not stopped,and SuperPACs allow bribery on a huge scale. But the RICO Act, along with a long list of others, have helped keep things somewhat open and at least partially above board. They're not thoroughly successful. If Hastert had done the reporting, he wouldn't be in deep crap at this point, his secrets intact for better and worse. The reporting has a purpose: keep large transfers from skirting reporting in taxes.... like taking your annual profits to a tax haven, and so forth.

The man otherwise, appears to be a skunk for this and many other reasons.