The problem is not the “allegedly corrupting influence on money on politics,” but rather subjecting “political speech to the corrupting influence of government control.”
The Saudi religious police launched a nationwide crackdown Thursday on stores selling items that are red or in any other way allude to the banned celebration of Valentine's Day, a Saudi official said.
An amazing example of one those archetypal political processes, which happens when a regime that still commands the present nevertheless manages to lose all control of the future.