More Arm-Waving. (Nobody seems to have mentioned that this plan, when rolled out next month, would have violated gambling and racketeering laws in addition to common sense [Mark Bernstein]
The plan in question is the strange idea proposed by DARPA for a "terrorist futures market." I notice that the page on the DARPA site linked to by Mark Bernstein has mysteriously vanished.
In any case, it doesn't matter if the plan would have violated the law. The government violates the law in every possible way on a continuing basis--for example, the very existence of DARPA is against the law. However, since the government makes sure that nobody but government employees tries to enforce the law, the law effectively does not apply to the government.
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