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greeted by an undercover officer posing as an employee who asked<br />

them to produce identification. Then the suspects, all of whom had<br />

failed to show up for scheduled court appearances, were arrested.<br />

The charges were for offenses related to drugs, larceny, robbery and<br />

motor vehicle violations.<br />

Who knows what might have gone through the minds of these<br />

individuals during the time that they knew they were evading the law.<br />

Some may have been sick with worry. Others may have had no concern<br />

or guilt at all. They may have believed that they were clever enough to<br />

avoid capture even though they had already been identified as a culprit.<br />

Whatever may have been the case, the truth is that there was a<br />

mechanism set in motion by their actions, that was working away on<br />

bringing them to justice, but which they were seemingly unaware of.<br />

The day they walked into that store, however, they were rudely<br />

awakened to its existence.<br />

“Irrelevant,” one might say. “ The individuals involved in these stories<br />

were obviously just plain stupid. No intelligent person would be such an<br />

idiot to do these things, much less get caught.”<br />

So it would seem. Further examination of the facts, however, reveals a<br />

far different story. To illustrate the endemic nature of the issue, the<br />

following is a selective chronicle of events which took place in the year<br />

1995. They all involved prominent, intelligent and accomplished<br />

people, yet are all examples of how these individuals failed to grasp the<br />

causal connection between their thoughts, words and actions, and the<br />

resulting circumstances and conditions of their lives. The parallels to the<br />

scandals of post 2008 are stunning! Consider...<br />

Reported in USA Today on June 23, 1995:<br />

Headline – Charity Embezzler Gets 7-Year Term

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