Arizona is stealing money

Well, maybe this is a harsh headline, but it is as close to the truth as possible. From the state that brought you Evan Meacham, the pink underwear tycoon Sheriff Joe Arpaio and other shady characters, we have a new scandal brewing. According to this article, the Attorney General of Arizona, Terry Goddard is seizing Western Union money transfers that is “suspects” are for the payment of smuggling gangs. This raises on a lot of questions about freedom. Not surprisingly, Terry Goddard is a democrat.

How do they come to suspect people? How does Terry Goddard know what transfers are suspect and which aren’t? Well, from the nearest I can tell, he is looking for hispanic names on the transfer forms and flagging any transaction over $500. Only 10 to 15% of the seized transfers are eventually returned to the sender. This is wrong. It gives me a good reason not to be in Arizona or any state in the US.