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Ahhh…..WHAT MONEY CAN BUY!

August 26, 2003

No one knows for sure but the estimate is that you can buy “protection” from the Mafia in New York for 10% of your gross. Along the border with Mexico the price is somewhere around $5-$10,000 depending upon how many miles along the border you want protected- from the U.S. government.

Now, should your tastes be a little more expensive and arrogant: and, should you want to get on the international scene, then the price goes up big time. And I am talking hundreds of millions here.

The recently filed $1 TRILLION dollar lawsuit on behalf of the 9-11 victims alleges that the Saudis have paid off UBL (that’s bin Laden of course) and his al-Qaeda network some $200 MILLION for protection. In other words, the Saudi royalty forked over $200 MILLION to not be attacked. Hey, what’s a hundred mil here or there when you’re a member of the Saudi royalty?

I’m not sure of all the evidence, but the 400 new pick up trucks that went to Kandahar (with Saudi license plates on them) in care of al-Qaeda might be hard to explain away. Follow the MONEY trail!

Ahh, what money can buy. And lest we get too prideful- what OIL can buy, is America’s silence towards the atrocities that the Saudi royalty engage in every day. So, before we get too sanctimonious, what’s been keeping us off the Saudi’s backs? I think the figure is too large to estimate.

Written by Ernie · Filed Under Daily Commentary 

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