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Dole Fraudsters v. Banking Fraudsters

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  • #52
    nesf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,644 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    Kama wrote: »
    The example quoted seems quite micro in its management, but the more relevant direction would be the macromanagement: the construction of what is a 'crime', either in strictly legal or in more perception-based terms. Simply, the crimes of the powerless are crimes, and they must be pursued, while the crimes of the powerful require a different, lighter approach.

    The biggest issue is that new legislation cannot be retrospective (and should not be!) meaning that if someone is smart enough they can evade the law and all you can do about it is ensure that the loophole is closed so others cannot do the same.


  • #53
    Daithinski
    Closed Accounts Posts: 279 ✭✭Daithinski


    donegalfella wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    I think the OP's point was that this is not happening. Unfortunately Fraud isn't fraud in Ireland its only fraud if you are low down the socio-economic pecking order.

    Its like the saying kill a man and you're a murderer, kill many you're a conqueror. Don't pay 100 quid go to court, don't pay a billion quid, get let off the hook.

    This is what the Irish people are seeing in the media every day.

    Things like 230 million is too expensive to pay the social welfare Christmas bonus. Funnily enough this is almost exactly the amount the admin for NAMA will cost every year for the next ten years.

    Peter is being robbed to pay Paul, where Peter is on a state pension and Paul is a barrister/accountant being paid a small fortune to administer the bailouts to the banks/developers.

    The perception is in this country that the political class have told the ordinary Irish citizen who is in financial difficulty to go and eat cake.


  • #54
    old boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,658 ✭✭✭old boy


    this is all fine and good waffleing on here on boards, an american cop offered his services and that of 32 hand picked officers FREE of charge to clean up this country our last t-shock showed him the finger and told him to swivel, people wondered why he did so it now seem very obivious, the last time i was over there, cops i know were compleatly BAFFELED by ahernes refusal, i told them not to be, as it was not drug dealers and bank robbers that were the biggest threat to ireland. they understand graft over there, as they invented it, but me thinks finna fail have perfected it.


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