“Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes.” ShouldSecurityCrimeParticularFraudTradingInsidersInsider Trading Author:Preet Bharara
“Cruise passengers can be blinded to the very real perils of the sea by ship operators unwilling to interrupt the party for security warnings. And after an incident occurs, a thorough investigation can be profoundly difficult when the crime scene literally floats away, on schedule, to its next port of call.” RealNextDifficultPartySeaSecurityCrimeSceneBlindShipsWarningInvestigationSchedulesBlindnessFloatsPerilIncidentsUnwillingPortPassengersThoroughBlindedCruiseOperators Author:Chris Shays
“Everywhere you look - Britain, the States, western Europe - people are sealing themselves into crime-free enclaves. That's a mistake - a certain level of crime is part of the necessary roughage of life. Total security is a disease of deprivation.” PeopleLooksStatesCertainLevelsMistakeSecurityCrimeDiseaseEuropeWesternBritainDeprivationWestern Europe Author:J. G. Ballard
“The question of crime is one of concern to everybody. But the position is that the security forces in our country for the last four decades did not concentrate on suppressing crime. Their main objective was to suppress, to crush political activity. And in the process, crime grew to unacceptable proportions. And criminals were able to form powerful syndicates, and they virtually took over the control of the life of the community in certain areas.” CountryAbleLastsFormPoliticalCertainForceProcessCommunityPowerfulFourSecurityCrimePositionGrewActivityAreasConcernDecadesCriminalsObjectivesOur CountryCrushProportionSuppressingSecurity ForcesSyndicate Author:Nelson Mandela
“We are good citizens, and we cannot protect ourselves because you allow the criminals to run wild. ... I'd like you to come and live in the inner city for a week and see the importance of having a weapon. ... Go after the criminals and not the good people.” PeopleRunningCitiesWeekSecurityCrimeLike YouCitizensProtectWeaponsImportanceCriminalsGood PeopleGood CitizenInner City Author:Jesse Lee Peterson
“The impulse to make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free is an old one ... When we are badly frightened, we think we can make ourselves safer by sacrificing some of our liberties. We did it during the McCarthy era out of fear of communism. Less liberty is regularly proposed as a solution to crime, to pornography, to illegal immigration, to abortion, to all kinds of threats.” ThinkingKindLibertyRightsSacrificeSecurityCrimeSolutionsThreatImmigrationAll KindsCommunismErasImpulseAbortionIllegalFrightenedPornographyIllegal Immigration Author:Molly Ivins
“This Administration also puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand... That means no more illegal wire-tapping of American citizens. No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. No more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war. No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient. That is not who we are.” MeanWarLawChoicesLibertySecurityCrimeCitizensDemandLettersAdministrationWho We AreProtestIllegalCherishNational SecuritySpyWireNsaAmerican CitizensInconvenientMisguidedTappingTracking Author:Barack Obama
“US intelligence agencies will only use such data to meet specific security requirements: counterintelligence, counterterrorism, counterproliferation, cybersecurity, force protection for our troops and allies, and combating transnational crime, including sanctions evasion.” UseForceSecurityCrimeIncludingProtectionDataAgencyAlliesTroopsRequirementsSanctionsNsaCybersecurityOur TroopsEvasionIntelligence AgenciesCounterintelligence Author:Barack Obama
“Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name.” WayNamesSecurityCrimeIdentityAddressesMagistrates Author:Ariana Franklin
“The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes, which you say you have heard insisted on by some, I assure you was never mine.” IdeasStatesVirtueHeardSecurityCrimeMinesSufficientPublic Good Book:The Essential Jefferson Source: The Essential Jefferson
“In Venezuela, when I was living there, crime was growing. You couldn't feel safe anywhere. You couldn't leave your car in the street because it would be stolen. You coun't live in your house if you didn't have a high-security alarm system, because you would be burglarized seven times a week.” IfsFeelsWould BeHouseGrowingWeekStreetsSecurityCarCrimeSafeSevenStolenAlarmsVenezuela Author:Isabel Allende
“You can say what you want about all the guns in the country [the USA], all the drugs, all the crime, but we all know 400,000 people a year die of cigarette-related deaths. How many people died of drugs, guns, automobile accidents? You add them all together it doesn't come anywhere near that. Yet they let me smoke and get cancer, and they put me in jail for having drugs. What's going on? The government don't care. It's all about money and job security.” PeopleKnowsWantYearsCountryGovernmentCareTogetherJobsDiesSecurityCrimeDrugGunLet MeDiedAddCancerDon't CareAccidentsWhat You WantSmokeUsaRelatedJailCigaretteAutomobile Author:Sonny Barger
“If you want to kill someone, you'd better pull off a perfect crime. Our security lies in the fact that that's damnably hard to do.” IfsWantHardFactsLyingPerfectSecurityCrimePerfect Crime Author:Claude Lelouch
“Even if torture works, it cannot be tolerated -- not in one case or a thousand or a million. If their efficacy becomes the measure of abhorrent acts, all sorts of unspeakable crimes somehow become acceptable. I may have found myself on the wrong side of government on torture. But I'm on the right side of history. There are things we should not do, even in the name of national security. One of them, I now firmly believe, is torture.” IfsShouldBelieveMayGovernmentFoundNamesSidesMillionsCasesSecurityCrimeThousandTortureWorking ItAcceptableNational SecurityUnspeakableEfficacyAbhorrent Author:John Kiriakou
“The September 11 attacks were major atrocities. . . . This was a horrendous crime . . . The primary victims . . . were working people: janitors, secretaries, firemen, etc. It is likely to prove to be a crushing blow to Palestinians . . . It is also likely to lead to harsh security controls, with many possible ramifications for undermining civil liberties and internal freedom.” PeopleLibertySecurityCrimeProveMajorsVictimBlowPrimariesCrushEtcInternalsPalestinianSeptemberSecretaryHarshSeptember 11AtrocitiesCivil LibertiesUnderminingFiremanRamificationsJanitor Author:Noam Chomsky
“To travel only a few blocks in his own homeland, an elderly grandfather waits to beg for the whim of a teenage soldier. More than an emergency is required to get to a hospital; less than a crime earns a trip to jail. Continue reading the main story Advertisement Continue reading the main story The lucky ones have a permit to leave their squalor to work in the cities, but luck runs out when security closes all checkpoints, paralyzing an entire people. The indignities, dependence and anger are all too familiar.” PeopleRunningWaitingCitiesSecurityCrimeNeededLuckyLuckSoldierIsraelFamiliarBlockHospitalsJailPermitGrandfatherDependenceTeenageEmergenciesHomelandWhimIndignitySqualorCheckpoints Author:Desmond Tutu
“The population becomes the internal enemy. Any sign of life, of protest, or even mere doubt, is a dangerous challenge from the standpoint of military doctrine and national security. So complicated mechanisms of prevention adn punishment have been developed ... To operate effectively, the repression must appear arbitrary. Apart from breathing, any human activity can constitute a crime ... State terrorism aims to paralyze the population with fear.” HumansHas BeensStatesChallengesEnemyDoubtSecurityMilitaryDangerousCrimeActivityAimMerePopulationComplicatedTerrorismPunishmentDoctrineBreathingInternalsProtestMechanismNational SecurityArbitraryRepressionStandpointPreventionHuman ActivitySigns Of Life Author:Eduardo Galeano
“Nixon clearly broke the law in the cover up of Watergate and hush money payments. That was all criminal activity. With these guys, we're not talking about the kind of common crimes that Nixon committed. I can't tell you whether they are technically breaking the law, but basically, the American government has been hijacked by neoconservatives. They are taking an awful lot of national security operations into the White House.” KindHas BeensI CanGovernmentLawGuyHouseWhiteCommonTalkingSecurityCrimeActivityCommittedCriminalsAwfulBrokeOperationsWhite HouseNational SecurityPaymentNot TalkingHushCover UpsAmerican GovernmentWatergateBreaking The Law Author:Seymour Hersh
“We are all going to die. When it happens in such a drastic, inhuman way, which we've been seeing in Africa, this is crime on its highest level. It is affecting not only the security of the national parks, it is affecting the people in communities that live around the national parks. In terms of security for wildlife and our society, it's an incredibly alarming situation, and we need to address that.” PeopleWayNeedsHappensDiesTermCommunityLevelsSituationSeeingSecurityCrimeHighestParksAddressesOur SocietyWildlifeInhumanNational ParksDrastic Author:Veronika Varekova
“We've seen a shift where people were often initially reluctant to call things terrorism until they knew for sure. And now they start out assuming it's terrorism and then work backwards and say it may or may not have been terrorism. And it does matter tremendously because of the resources involved. If it's a crime that's seen as a disturbed individual, then local police will handle it. If it's a crime that's seen as someone who might be linked to an international terrorist group, you get the vast federal U.S. national security bureaucracy as well as tremendous political attention.” PeopleIfsWellsMayDoeHas BeensMatterMightPoliticalIndividualAttentionGroupsSecurityCrimeInvolvedResourcesPoliceAssumingInternationalTerrorismTerroristHandleLocalsBackwardsNational SecurityBureaucracyLinkedDisturbedReluctantTerrorist Groups Author:Daniel Byman
“I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes.” ThinkingWarInterestSecurityCrimeCourtThreatInternationalCriminalsEnormousDiscretionProsecutorWar Crimes Author:John Bolton
“Chelsea Manning's treachery put American lives at risk and exposed some of our nation's most sensitive secrets. President Obama now leaves in place a dangerous precedent that those who compromise our national security won't be held accountable for their crimes.” NationsPresidentSecretRiskSecurityDangerousCrimeCompromiseSensitiveExposedPresident ObamaNational SecurityAmerican LifePrecedentTreacheryChelsea Author:Paul Ryan
“The freedom-hating gun-grabbers do not care about reducing crime or saving lives, or they wouldn't be fighting for more gun-free zones where the most innocent lives are always slaughtered. Those squawking the loudest for banning guns from we the people will not get rid of their we-the-people tax-dollar-paid armed security guards.” PeopleCareHateFightingSecurityCrimeTaxesGunPaidDollarsInnocentSavingZoneReducingSave A LifeTax DollarsSecurity GuardsInnocent Life Author:Ted Nugent
“I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command. This is the sort of investigation that some people who live in Fairyland might like to undertake, but which bears no relationship at all to conditions in the real world.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWarRealMightInterestResponsibilityTakenWrittenConditionsSecurityCrimeBearsCourtThreatInternationalCriminalsEnormousCommandChainsReal WorldRomeInvestigationDiscretionProsecutorStatutesWar CrimesChain Of Command Author:John Bolton