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ASD Cash Generator: Just Stranger And Stranger
Posted 08-11-2008 at 03:30 PM by Patrick Pretty
Today is the 10th straight day ASD Cash Generator has been in the news. It appears as though ASD now has an attorney of record in the federal case.
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There are many interesting subplots in the ASD forfeiture case. Some ASD members are behaving as though they can petition the government and members of Congress to make it all go away -- as though they're petitioning a local school board to lower lunch prices.
The U.S. legal system just doesn't work that way.
ASD members clearly are making a lot of noise, posting defenses for the company and Andy Bowdoin on newspaper and TV websites and Blogs. Many of the posts have a crackpot feel or show a profound lack of understanding about the issues.
Here is a common argument:
ASD can't be a Ponzi because members got paid.
And here's another one:
The Feds took action against ASD because they want to destroy private enterprise.
A few ASD members appear to be circulating the idea that the prosecutors should be arrested for picking on poor ASD, destroying small businesses and putting people on welfare in the process.
Some people act as though ASD is the only advertising choice available -- one that ensures success for all participants -- and the sky is going to fall unless the government comes to its senses and gives ASD a clean bill of health.
Anger is understandable. After all, ASD reportedly has 100,000 members. Millions and millions of dollars are at stake, including the life savings of some members.
It's a sad, compelling story -- one in which the best and the worst of the Internet are on full display.
Seems the government is trying to make a very strong statement with the ASD case.
Patrick
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There are many interesting subplots in the ASD forfeiture case. Some ASD members are behaving as though they can petition the government and members of Congress to make it all go away -- as though they're petitioning a local school board to lower lunch prices.
The U.S. legal system just doesn't work that way.
ASD members clearly are making a lot of noise, posting defenses for the company and Andy Bowdoin on newspaper and TV websites and Blogs. Many of the posts have a crackpot feel or show a profound lack of understanding about the issues.
Here is a common argument:
ASD can't be a Ponzi because members got paid.
And here's another one:
The Feds took action against ASD because they want to destroy private enterprise.
A few ASD members appear to be circulating the idea that the prosecutors should be arrested for picking on poor ASD, destroying small businesses and putting people on welfare in the process.
Some people act as though ASD is the only advertising choice available -- one that ensures success for all participants -- and the sky is going to fall unless the government comes to its senses and gives ASD a clean bill of health.
Anger is understandable. After all, ASD reportedly has 100,000 members. Millions and millions of dollars are at stake, including the life savings of some members.
It's a sad, compelling story -- one in which the best and the worst of the Internet are on full display.
Seems the government is trying to make a very strong statement with the ASD case.
Patrick
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