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"The rapporteur has made it abundantly clear that the European institutions have been discussing how to crack down on organised crime (money laundering, drug trafficking, arms trafficking, people trafficking etc.) for more than twenty years now. On the rare occasions when measures have actually been taken, they generally come up against a lack of cooperation from Member States or fail to produce tangible results, in the cases where they are not simply ignored. There is every reason to believe that the same will apply to the Danish initiative.
There is a good reason for this. Organised crime is part and parcel of the capitalist system, even where bourgeois justice is concerned. Take the example of drugs money. How many supposedly respectable fortunes in France and Great Britain date from the time when gunboats from these countries forced China to open itself up to the opium from British and French colonies!
Even now, European banks are still making huge profits from the trafficking of drugs, arms and people.
In this context, these trivial measures, on which we will abstain, are pathetic in their attempt to bring morality into a system that is essentially amoral and inhuman."@en1
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