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Same guy. He likes to turn up in places like the recent Freakonomics book and the Colbert Report to show off his brilliance. But his actual day job is this nonsense.

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So a glorified crowbar-wielding thug that says:

"Pay your protection fees or else we're heading to the kangaroo courts of East Texas."