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In Crusade Against Barry Bonds, Feds Victimize Family To Get Trainer To Talk

Ah, this just really makes me PROUD (proud in this context means embarrassed and disgusted) to be an American! From Lew Rockwell.com:

What's the best way to get a tough guy to cooperate? You lean on his family, right? Even the hardest case will usually break if you smack his kids around, threaten his wife or ... send 20 federal agents crashing through his mother-in-law's front door? Yup. That's what the federal government did as part if its jihad against accused steroid-user Barry Bonds; a mob of IRS and FBI agents raided the home of Madeleine Gestas, mother to the wife of uncooperative trainer Greg Anderson.

It should be no surprise that the federal government uses mob-like tactics in pursuit of its goals. Fundamentally, government is just the Mafia with better PR. You tick off the wrong people, you'll wake up next to a severed horse head.

Except that the government's version of a severed head usually has a little more finesse, since politicians control the law books. And tax law makes an especially handy horse's head, since it's so easily subject to interpretation and carries harsh penalties.

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