Likewise, their assets are at less risk of outright confiscation.
The other case, no less Suhartoesque, concerns the confiscation and burning of the Satya Wacana University student magazine Lentera.
Millions of Chinese are looking to park their money in countries where there is less risk of arbitrary confiscation and more political stability.
The confiscation has less to do with secrecy than with the fact that the equipment could ignite and cause an explosion – a huge safety risk on a site processing volatile chemicals.
More specifically, a free market makes the burden of bureaucracy and corruption smaller and provides a steady and reliable monetary environment, a free and open investment environment, a transparent and open financial system with more protection and less likelihood of government confiscation.
"The big contractors want to take their rigs somewhere with less risk and threat of confiscation," one executive of a big drilling contractor in Venezuela told me.
As he finished mulling over the Second Confiscation Act, passed less than a week earlier, Lincoln signed the Militia Act, secure in the knowledge that it would go into effect only following a presidential order.
Examining the data, he argued that positions on issues like voting rights for blacks and confiscation of Southern property depended less on philosophy than on the safety of the seat of the congressman casting the vote.
On 1999, Hubei province's Culture Office issued an "Urgent Notice for Immediate Confiscation of Pirated Not One Less VCDs", and two days later the Culture Office and movie company joined forces to conduct raids on ten audio-video stores, seizing pirated discs from six of them.
While this study was observational, it suggests that market vendors were less willing to openly sell ivory after arrests and confiscations had been made at the market, if at all.
