UN Demands Mass Arrest of Entrepreneurs

(Credit – Fox News, live from UNODC)

Discussion in UNODC has shifted gears from rehabilitation and punishment towards transnational organized crime as Spain delivers an impassioned speech to the committee about the root causes of said crime, citing an incentive for financial gain and profit as the key reason. The delegate of Kenya provided Fox News with a general overview of the debate, informing the media that border security, cyber crime, and regional crime are priorities that the conference intends to deal with and that Kenya, along with many other delegates believe that they have the answer to the long unanswered question of how to prevent international crime for good. The committee gathered for its sixth session today to discuss potential solutions to the root problems that cause this sort of international crime, such as cartel actions and drug production, with some proposed solution including better military/police action and better work towards disbanding organized crime.

“By cooperating with neighboring countries to create similar laws for border security, trafficking, and anti government corruption.”

– The Delegation of Kenya on solutions to international crime

One thing that the delegates have failed to consider is what the government is actually preventing from happening. While most citizens of globe assume that the government is stopping bad guys from doing bad things, what most don’t wind up seeing are the poor and helpless men and women involved in international crime who have no other way of life to turn to. These “criminals” and “bad guys” are nothing less that business moguls providing an obviously in demand product to customers who are more than willing to pay. The only difference between a Brazilian drug cartel and Amazon.com is that the cartel business has for whatever reason been forced into a negative light by the media and the government for far longer than Amazon has been around. A side by side comparison makes it for more obvious that these criminals are just entrepreneurs: both organizations produce goods for customers, both have multiple operations and manufacturing plants all around the areas they sell, both may get bad publicity for their mistreatment of workers, and both are able to continue this mistreatment since their is no pressure from consumers or the government to change it. With less government regulation of the economy, these major corporations like Amazon and Walmart would be no different than organized criminal organizations, and less regulation would result in cheaper prices, more businesses being successful on their own merit, and more freedom of choice for consumers.

For hundreds of years, it was harmful stereotypes that divided society into groups based on race, until humanity realized that the only reason they disliked each other is because they were told to generations ago. For hundreds of years, women were denied the right to vote and work all because people were told by their parents and grandparents that was the way it should be. Now, it is time for the people of the world the realize that the only reason they hate these desperate business men and women for being “criminals” is because governments decades ago told them too, and that the only thing dividing global criminal circuits from multinational companies is the way people were raised to think. All of this change and rethinking is only achievable from the bottom up, so it is the responsibility of the people to tell the delegates of the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime that the solution to the problem isn’t to arrest and kill these “criminals” but to recognize them for what they really are: genius entrepreneurs providing in demand goods to demanding customers.