The Sorry State of the United States

As U.S. senators digest a sharply critical committee report confirming massive international money laundering by global banking giant HSBC, the Internal Revenue Service is acknowledging receipt of a whistleblower claim from a former employee of the bank who presented 1,000 pages of evidence to WND six months ago, after local and federal authorities ignored him.

A series of WND stories, reported evidence collected by John Cruz, a former vice president for HSBC who documented hundreds of millions of dollars in suspicious transactions pulled from a bank computer system. Cruz was terminated in 2010, for “poor performance,” he contends he was let go because senior management didn’t want to him to pursue his personal investigation.

In a letter to Cruz, the supervisor of the IRS whistleblower office in Ogden, Utah, acknowledged the agency is evaluating Cruz’s claim to determine whether an investigation is warranted.

The agents, according to Cruz, were overwhelmed with the volume and detail of the information, calling it “mind-boggling.”

Meanwhile, a Senate report released last week presents evidence HSBC abetted massive money laundering by Iran, terrorist organizations, drug cartels and organized criminals throughout the world. The report said HSBC transferred $19 billion for Iran and $7 billion in physical cash for Mexico.

WND’s series of articles on HSBC has caused fallout for WND senior reporter Jerome Corsi and for WND.

“They told me that if the information on the computer disk and in the audio files was as I represented, the IRS agents were talking about arresting HSBC bank employees,” Cruz said.

“It’s a circle, I turn over the information to law enforcement, and law enforcement gives the information right back to the bank for their own internal investigation.”

We are not safe anymore. The takeover of the government is in motion. Though I do not want to do what our founding fathers did, they did it to be free...for OUR freedom. We are a nation of wimps. As I talk to people to warn of the impending fight for our freedom, I get looks of a blank stare or I get the look of "you are crazy and I don't want anything at do with what you are saying". The truth is being ignored, silenced, and feared. It should be feared. You should be scared. So why do I feel so alone in my prolific predictions for our country? How do we , who cry during the national anthem, fight against a giant with so few soldiers? Blind eyes refuse to see the corruption that is all around us. It is in church, schools, local government, police, county government, all government agencies, all state officials. SCARED! Scared to speak the truth, for you may be murdered for speaking the truth, scared to expose the corruptions in your jobs because YOU WILL BE FIRED AND BLACK LISTED. I am praying for both the whistleblower and the reporter. Why? I see revenge at it worst for these two brave men. How many more brave souls will the government "shut-up" before you are fed up? I have my plan in place, but working together has proven to work in the past (founding fathers). I love my country!!! I will lay my life down to preserve this great country! Problem.....We are David fighting Goliath. How do we take our country back? Voting is so corrupt so that is NOT working. That leaves a very dire last option. The article above has warnings galore. What do we do? Shut-up or stand-up? For me, I will stand strong and fight, to keep my freedoms.

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