Comments on: Wall Street Prison Consultants

By: How the Common Man Sees It

How the Common Man Sees It — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:09:17 +0000

I imagine the segment on ‘choosing your daddy’ is worth the price of consulting fees alone

By: Gregman2

Gregman2 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:31:54 +0000

In China, there’s less room in terms of civil offenses. Usually, they execute the guy, wrap his head in gauze and tell the family to come retrieve him. This approach might get some of these SOX-evaders to take RICO a bit more seriously.;-)

By: Swampfox

Swampfox — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:27:40 +0000

“Don’t ride with a mad woman.” Hilarious.

By: Transor Z

Transor Z — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:19:27 +0000

Things aren’t very genteel in that world, I guess.

Here is an all-time classic on how NOT to deal with the po-lice:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj0mtxXEGE8

By: Swampfox

Swampfox — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:12:26 +0000

My level of paranoia is mile high. I’ve told my wife the same thing (more politely) your prof said. I’ve never been in trouble, but it just doesn’t seem worth trying to make the cop my buddy. Same thing with the media. They’re not your friend.

By: Transor Z

Transor Z — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:09:11 +0000

@Swampfox:

Back in law school I had a great prof for Criminal Procedure — a former federal prosecutor. Only f-bomb he ever dropped in class was around statements to police. “Tell your client to shut the fuck up.”

A few years ago a buddy of mine who does criminal work told me about a client who showed up drunk to a court appearance. While they’re waiting to go in to the court room, the client sees the state investigator who arrested him and the moron starts chatting with him, verbal diarrhea all over the place. My buddy physically grabbed him and said, “Shut the fuck up!” Fifth Amendment in action.

By: Transor Z

Transor Z — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:57:17 +0000

@Ahab:

Fallacy of false alternatives — retreat into your shell (safe, good) or stick your neck out (risky, bad).

IMO people who preach trade war, protective tariffs, decreased immigration quotas are peddling simplistic answers to complex issues. I think it’s as important to be contrarian about decoding political memes as we are decoding economic misinformation memes.

Our security depends on engaging abroad, if only to get intelligence on the serious bad guys.

Speaking of which , think we’ll see job postings on USA.gov for IT security professionals real soon?

By: Swampfox

Swampfox — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:49:50 +0000

Somewhere my late teens I read a book called You’re going to Jail, or something like that, written by some ex-con. It was, perhaps, the most disturbing book I’ve ever read in my life — especially the chapter called, You are going to be raped. If you want a passive society, make every kid read that book.
Also, good video on not talking to the cops w/o your lawyer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik

By: Groty

Groty — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:40:40 +0000

I’d bet Wall Street Prison Consultants will demand payment in advance prior to rendering services. If so, they are restricting credit, impeding the free flow of goods and services, and inhibiting the green shoots from blooming into recovery.

By: randy

randy — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:01:21 +0000

Looks like a thinly veiled protection racket to me. You pay the fee. They teach you a few secret handshakes and passwords. And they pass your name along to a few violent criminals on the inside who are now tasked with protecting your soft ass.

In fact, quite literally protecting your soft ass.