Before governments start clamouring (in vain) to shut down Bitcoin exchanges on spurious claims that they're money laundering havens, I thought I'd remind everyone that neither HSBC, Barclays, Credit Suisse, Standard Chartered or ING were shut down when they were caught laundering money.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/12/10/hsbc-said-to-near-1-9...

"Give me control over a nations currency, and I care not who makes its laws.”

Baron M.A. Rothschild