When the state is predator and people the prey
CORRUPTION seems a relatively benign crime. When everyone is the victim – as is the case with state looting – no one is the victim.
Sure, we know we are in theory each made incrementally poorer with every act of illegal enrichment perpetrated by a crooked officialdom and the political elite. But, at least, we rationalise, this is not the abrupt violence of a knife to the
