Sunday, October 31, 2010
The Newest Market for Organized Crime
Excélsior reports that criminal gangs are making hay selling stolen American yachts in the Yucatán, where they are sold for roughly one quarter or one half of their regular retail price. According to the report, some 300 yachts were stolen from American docks in August alone, although the fact that there's no credible estimate of how many stolen yachts have been sold in Mexico kind of reduces the story's impact.
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If only we would legalize luxury yachts and reduce consumption of them in the US....
Ha! Yeah, or absent that, a multi-billion dollar aid package to tamp down on the supply in the yacht-producing mountains of the supplier nations.
Wait, are you suggesting we militarize the "War on Yachts"? What about the human rights of multimillionaires whose only crime is using a product that's not harming anyone else?
That's exactly what I'm suggesting. In fact I think it's the only sensible approach. It worked in Colombia, after all.
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