Dear Friends,
It seems to me, when someone sells you or I something, and it is not what they say it is, that is the definition of fraud. The term for someone who engages in this kind of behavior is a con man, swindler or government agent. Most of the time, the government would charge, try and if found guilty of fraud, send the perpetrator to prison. The goal of these state actions is to dissuade people from committing fraud. Fraud being considered a bad thing, morally, socially and economically. Morally, since fraud is a form of lying, Socially, because fraud eats holes in the fabric of society, and Economically, because the existence of widespread fraud hinders economic activity. So fraud, in all its malevolent forms, is an action the state has a legitimate role in criminalizing… yet instead, it is the biggest perpetrator of fraud.
Fraud can be committed in a number of ways. One can defraud another by claiming knowledge that they don’t have. Bet on Ripoff in the third… One might sell a fake stock certificate, an oil well or a pig in a poke (cat in a bag). The means to fraud are limited only by the imagination of the swindler. Moreover, fraud is not always about money, it can be about power, influence or sex. A guy who tells a girl he is a surgeon in a bar to pick her up is committing fraud. Someone who sells you a fake stock certificate is committing fraud… and someone who tells you a shot will prevent a disease, when they know full well it hasn’t even been tested for it… is committing fraud. The difference is only in magnitude. The first takes sex, the second takes your wealth, and next, they take your life itself.
Fraud, also called the confidence game, is a truly malicious kind of crime. The perpetrator is heartless by definition. Taking someone’s confidence and using it against them, is no smear on the victim, but is a black mark on the soul of the con man. Fraud is right up there with murder, rape and theft, for the depth of the crime. A murderer can kill, but not have evil in their heart, a crime of passion for example. A thief can steal without lust, if they are starving, and a rapist can be charged if the woman changes her mind once she sobers up. All crimes can be justified… but fraud. Fraud must be intentional, malicious and heartless. If someone sells you a defective product, thinking it is fine, they are not committing fraud. If they know it is defective… they are.
Fraud is corrosive of every aspect of humanity, because it makes every action, word and feeling, questionable. In a land of liars, how can anyone dare buy anything? How do you trust anyone? Is it even possible to go outside your house? Because where everyone is a grifter, economic activity must come to a halt, society must tribalize and government must become oppressive. These things follow like moisture from rain. Once the leaders are obviously swindlers, the people will follow and become liars as well, until no one can be trusted. Fraud has become so widespread today, with swindlers elevated to heroes, and led by the elite, that we can no longer trust our government, courts, doctors, media, teachers, universities, and with all the gaslighting… even ourselves.
One of the primary roles of legitimate government is to limit fraud by punishing swindlers. The new innovative role of government, to lead by example and defraud everyone all the time, is very progressive. People follow their leaders and ours are swindlers who consider us the marks. If your not in the game, your a mark, isn’t that the saying among con men? From election fraud, to the “vaccine” that wasn’t, fraud is the way they play the game now. There is one way to defend yourself from a fraudster though. Point them out, don’t believe a word out of their mouths, ostracize them, and charge them with fraud, prosecute them and if found guilty, send them to a penitentiary. The more political power the swindler wields, and the more deaths that result… the harsher the sentence should be.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
