BEg2 chapter 2 - the ACFE

[Joseph Tracy]

This image of  danger to the law could have larger implications. First the concern and strong reaction from Maxine sems silly until I consider that she is Jewish, a culture that reveres the concept of law (at the same time as finding all the potential legal loopholes). But all of us , for the most part want to be operating under a basic social contract that proscribes overt theft, murder, false witness, use of torture…  After 9-11 the common contract of the US constitution seemed in many ways to go up in flames, not  through the fire of truth, but through a zeal to empower the “enforcers’ of law to be not so much enforcers as the heavily armed flame throwing replacement for the “quaint” notions of the  constitution, bill of rights, civil codes, or international agreements. We even  tossed out the idea that you go after the actual perpetrator and not someone with a vague cultural similarity but no known connection to the crime.  
   How does the society cohere after these pages of the social contract are burnt away. Does it now cohere around any clear values?  

> On Nov 11, 2021, at 3:04 AM, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> CFE - there really is a certified fraud examiner cert.
> https://www.acfe.com/become-cfe-qualifications.aspx
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> Noting their logo on most of their pages as Maxine described it, with the
> torch and the book.
> The purport is obviously “a torch illuminating the account book” with an
> implied threat, what with the flame so close to the paper. But, who’s
> holding the torch? And why so close? How can they turn the pages with that
> torch there?
> 
> (A logo is a hash of a picture?)
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> As an outcast, naturally she practices detournement on the image.
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> “Alarmingly, what Maxine noticed for the first time was the Association
> seal, which showed a torch burning violently in front of and slightly above
> an opened book. What’s this? any minute the pages of this book, maybe
> allegorically The Law, are about to be set on fire by this burning torch,
> possibly the Light of Truth? Is somebody trying to say something, the Law
> in flames here, the terrible inflexible price of Truth . . . That’s it!
> Secret anarchist code messages!
>  “Interesting thought, Maxine,” Reg trying to talk her down. “So you filed
> the appeal?”” (Page 32)
> 
> So she applies the hashtag #paranoiatrigger to the logo…or is it the
> hashtag #logomeaningintheorganizationshewouldreallyratherbelongto ?
> 
> (Compare earlier on page 32 illuminating her actual philosophy:
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> “Enough of the review committee saw conflict of interest, not only once but
> a pattern, where for Maxine it was, still is for that matter, a no-brainer
> of a choice between friendship and super-picky guideline adherence.
>  “Friendship?” Reg is puzzled. “You didn’t even like him.”
>      “A technical term.””)
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> The Eighth Circle club “over on Park” - I think this is an invention, ACFE
> hq is in Austin.
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> Eight Circle of Hell per Dante was for fraudsters.
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