Get used to it. Here in Canada the government is very slow to respond to this kind of thing and I assume it is the same elsewhere. I speak with some authority on this issue since I worked for the Canada Revenue Agency for 35 years and I had significant involvement dealing with tax scams similar to the Freeman type crap you UK types are now facing (you largely got it from us, some thanks would be appreciated). It takes time for governments to realize something is going on and much longer to realistically respond to it. Just bureaucratic initiative and layers of government management. Most governments don't react to a situation until something happens and (apart from the megabucks tossed into terrorist threats) they don't bother much until it seems to be a problem that might reflect badly on whomever is responsible for the taking care of it. Then they react but at a snails pace. In the end, when they stomp on it, they generally do it big time.Normal Wisdom wrote:Peter claims that there are 70 new members per day and that he is sending out another batch of cheque books. I think he already had 4-500 members so we could easily be looking at 1000 members and up to 50,000 cheques in circulation. I saw yesterday that the supply of new cheque books may have been choked off but this still seems rather a lot for the authorities just to wait for the scam to die of natural causes.Losleones wrote:How this scam isn't getting more exposure to MSM is a little surprising. Bertiebert says PoE is coming over my neck of woods shortly. Citizens arrest? Police & Fraud Squad not as yet wanting to feel the collar of peters shirt. Does anyone know how many freeloaders are on the hook with Bank Of Scamland?
As a relevant example here in Vancouver, the Poriskyite tax evaders. This totally moronic Freeman based scheme spread like the measles before the government could do anything about it. You can't reassess income tax returns until they are filed and identified and that takes time. Only then did the government takes it seriously. By the time the CRA responded to the Poriskyites they had filed three years of fraudulent tax returns, hundreds of them. I've got a full calendar, extending into 2016, of upcoming Poriskyite criminal tax evasion trials I plan to attend. Nip it in the bud does not exist in the government lexicon.
As a total personal aside a question for you British Quatloosian posters. Anybody up for a beer as long as it's cask ale? I ask this because I try to meet as many Quatloos contributors as I can and I'm frequently in the UK pubbing. I've had a beer, with a very long-term pubbing friend who happily accompanies me on these trips, in over 1,000 different British pubs (this includes the Republic of Ireland). If any of you want to meet over a pint of CAMRA cask contact me by PM and we'll see if we can work it out on my next trip.
