[jazusamo]

With a Justice Department headed by liberal leftists like Eric Holder or Loretta Lynch what could possibly go wrong? /s

[molson209]

Obama and his admin are not leaving

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The policy is aimed at preventing... ...non-Democrats from having bank accounts with anything in them.

[Diogenesis]

NO matter how corrupt they have been,
the Obama Administration CONTINUES
to erode every right once protected
by the (RIP) US Constitution.

[conservativejoy]

I thought they were already doing this. I heard a man on a talk show who owned a gun store and had his account seized , over $100,000.

[Jim Robinson]

Obama/Holder don’t need no steenking Constitution!

[2ndDivisionVet]

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[GraceG]

Take a Mayo Jar and wash it out, then take some white latex house paint or killz and put in about 1/8-1/4 cup of it the jar and shake the jar, wait 5 mins, remove the lid and rinse the paint off the lid, then use butte knife scrape some paint off around the neck of the jar, leave jar open to dry for a day or two. Then sore cash in it in the refrigerator.

You can also bury these in the back yard.

[GraceG]

"a new policy that would allow government officials to seize bank accounts involved in financial structuring schemes prior to filing criminal charges against the individuals who own those accounts. "

What happens if no charges are filed, or the person is found innocent....

Oh well, too bad the government has no obligation to return the property or compensate the accused for their inconvenience...

Welcome to your police state.

[Amendment10]

Not only has the Supreme Court historically clarified that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate commerce, but the Court has also clarified the following limit concerning Congress’s constitutional Commerce Clause (1.8.3) powers.

Since banking is based on contracts (corrections welcome), not commerce, Congress’s Commerce Clause powers do not extend to regulating contracts, even if such contracts are negotiated across state borders.

• ”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” — Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

• “4. The issuing of a policy of insurance is not a transaction of commerce [emphasis added] within the meaning of the latter of the two clauses, even though the parties be domiciled in different States, but is a simple contract of indemnity against loss.” — Paul v. Virginia, 1869.

So if the corrupt Justice Department wants to seize suspicious bank accounts, and it may have reasonable cause to do so in certain cases, then it needs to comply with the 4th Amendment.

[NormsRevenge]

The Nazis effectively seized control of industries.
Nothing new here.

[bgill]

Of course this has nothing to do with his new ruling that banks must report deposits of $5000+. Naw, move along, nothing to see.

[madison10]

Thankfully I have nothing for them to steal. Most of it left during this wonderful economy. Some of our favorite talk show friends will need to watch their funds.

[sten]

‘suspicious’ ... as deemed by 0bama and crew

‘were you at a TEA party rally? that’s suspicious!’

‘do you support lower taxes? that’s suspicious!’

when did we sign over access to our finances to these people?

[combat_boots]

Which really means any bank account they want.

[lowbridge]

First thing they’ll use this law in 2016 against republican campaign coffers.

[MilesVeritatis]

"Upon a supervisor’s approval, the prosecutor must then file a criminal indictment or civil complaint against the owner of the seized funds within 150 days or return those funds."

150 days = just after the money can do no harm in the 2016 election.

[Boogieman]

Wasn’t there an announcement just last month that they would no longer be freezing accounts for suspicion of “structuring” if there was no other evidence of criminal activity?

I guess we should have known that was too good to be true. Turns out, they just stopped freezing the accounts because they intend to SEIZE the accounts instead.

[BitWielder1]

There should be no asset forfeiture until there is a criminal conviction, and then only what and how much the court specifies.
At no time should bureaucrats, cops or feds have any right to confiscate property or cash without a court order.

[GeronL]

there needs to be courts and stuff involved before government agencies take things and money away from people

[Amendment10]

Sorry about post 59. I’m getting the threads mixed up.