{"id":498,"date":"2008-06-23T07:10:33","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T04:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/2008\/06\/23\/kuwait-racketeering\/"},"modified":"2008-06-23T07:10:33","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T04:10:33","slug":"kuwait-racketeering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/?p=498","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait racketeering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/2006\/09\/16\/gambling-and-highway-robbery-or-you-could-call-it-airport-shipping\/\">gambling<\/a> it seem<br \/>\nIt make me feel sad that there is no anti-Racketeering Laws in Kuwait<\/p>\n<p>Time and time again it show that companies and even couple of Government agency are involved in Racketeering activities<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll Give one example , a recent one that happened to me , I ordered couple of Books from Amazon ( i couldn&#8217;t find them in Kuwait ) so when they reached the airport some Custom guy Take notice  of them , there is nothing wrong with them , hell no women picture is on any of the books and they aren&#8217;t religious <\/p>\n<p>But then get transferred to the ministry of Information , now you may say so what ? you don&#8217;t have anything to worry about ,, well wrong<br \/>\nBecause since they transferred it to the MOI , now i have to pay Fee&#8217;s for using Kuwait Airport ( i wouldn&#8217;t pay them if they didn&#8217;t transfer them )<br \/>\nand this from the e-mail i got<\/p>\n<p># Clearance charges<br \/>\n# Delivery order stamp<br \/>\n# Bayan<br \/>\n# Bank Commission<br \/>\n# Global and Stamp<br \/>\n# Custom Dues<br \/>\n# Airport charges<\/p>\n<p>And again with the unexplainable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/2007\/10\/16\/bayan-fee\/\">Bayan<\/a> fee , what in god name is that crap <\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t have any problem if everyone payed all the above crap , but its not all of us , the shipment before it ( a week before it ) which had books also ,passed and i didn&#8217;t have to pay all that extra stuff ( its around 20+ they didn&#8217;t give me an estimate yes )<br \/>\nwhich is another problem , because the part of the order is worth 70 dollars , so i would find it really hard to pay same the value of the order for fees <\/p>\n<p>So Stuff like new <a href=\"http:\/\/dlcnq8.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/new-speed-camera-will-these-work.html\">signs<\/a> make me uneasy really<br \/>\nWhat would stop the police from announcing a speed of 70 and then catching everyone unaware and tell him he was speeding ? ( not like they aren&#8217;t doing it without it , but a good tool for them )  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back to gambling it seem It make me feel sad that there is no anti-Racketeering Laws in Kuwait Time and time again it show that companies and even couple of Government agency are involved in Racketeering activities I&#8217;ll Give one example , a recent one that happened to me , I ordered couple of Books &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/?p=498\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kuwait racketeering<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}