Thus The New York Times today. “Using a law designed to help catch drug traffickers, racketeers and terrorists by tracking their cash,” the newspaper explains, “the government has gone after run-of-the-mill business owners and wage earners.” Now that America is so far away, I thought of Croatia at once. Would that such a law existed in Croatia, as well. With so much corruption and organized crime, and in high places, it would be great if the Croatian equivalent of the Internal Revenue Service could seize the accounts of so many politicians and their business friends. The unlawful activity would plunge in no time, no doubt whatsoever. But it did not take me long to realize that such a law would never be voted into existence by the Croatian parliament. The good people that make it up would understand all too well the personal cost of such a legal extravagance. No crime required, my ass.