witches -> communists -> terrorists -> hackers...

alan_cx · on Aug 7, 2013

You forgot file sharers, drugs and pedophiles. All of which have been since been said to fund the terrorism.

Which in the case of drugs, IIRC, is true. Didn't the CIA use cocaine trafficking to fund some black type ops?

fnordfnordfnord · on Aug 7, 2013

Didn't the CIA use cocaine trafficking to fund some black type ops?

Yes, and if the number of bankers recently convicted of widely exposed and very large money laundering operations (Wachovia, HSBC, etc) is any indication, they continue to do so. See also:

# Air America

# The Iran Contra affair.

# Mena Arkansas (CIA investigated itself and found no wrongdoing)

# BCCI (CIA money laundering)

# The Politics of Heroin - McCoy (book with lots of source citations)

# Crop spraying in Central America[1], (the policy efforts have directly[2] and indirectly[3] increases cocaine production, yet they continue.)

# Etc. etc. ad nauseam

[1] With bullet-resistant crop-dusters! (look for "Air Tractor") http://www.economist.com/node/17647585

[2] Search for "Roundup Ready Cocaine"

[3] By killing subsistence farmers' food crops, incentivizing the cultivation of higher profit crops like coca.

tmister · on Aug 7, 2013

You missed a small intermediate state between terrorists and hackers, "Chinese hackers".

nickdoesdesign · on Aug 7, 2013

And the one in between witches and communists "anarchists".

cpursley · on Aug 7, 2013

and libertarians

edgarallenbro · on Aug 7, 2013

    First they came for the communists,
    and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

    Then they came for the socialists,
    and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.

    Then they came for the trade unionists,
    and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

    Then they came for me,
    and there was no one left to speak for me.