Posted on 03/24/2015 11:41:43 AM PDT by kingattax
How can you tell if you're living in a police state?
The short answer is that you're living in a police state when everyone becomes a suspected criminal or terrorist. And if the following report is any indicator, then welcome to the Reich.
The Justice Department has ordered bank tellers across America to contact law enforcement if they suspect your cash withdrawal may have something to do with illicit activity.
There doesn't need to be proof, or any sort of red flag indicator – merely suspicion by the bank teller processing your transaction is now enough to have you investigated by authorities.
(Excerpt) Read more at freedomoutpost.com ...
All they need is suspicion and the government doesn’t trust anyone. End the WOD now.
This will do wonders for the unemployment rate of bank tellers.
Memo to Uncle Sam: Moving the Time Account money to Checking to pay your insatiable thirst for our hard earned money.
I would encourage people to start weekly cash withdrawals and deposits. Keep your records, but do this just to create false alerts.
And every financial institution in the USA is going to report every one of these transactions - suspicious or not - because they don’t want fegov breathing down their necks.
Welcome to the Collective, Comrade!
We had to sign a DHS document when we refinanced our mortgage.
Yep. And it will start with the small, local, community oriented banks. They are so heavily regulated, they will do ANYTHING Fedzilla tells them to get out from under federal oversight. G-d forbid if they ever took TARP money, EVEN IF THEY PAID IT BACK!
Call the cops? ... LOL ...
If my bank here in Tulsa called the Tulsa Police Department and said, “We’ve got a customer here who just withdrew $5,000 from his bank account! Come quickly!” ... the cops here would be laughing their heads off, rolling on the floor! ... :-) ...
You are right. The WOD is about the same thing as the WOT - trashing the Constitution, violating the rights of the American people, and ushering in fundamentally transformed USA.
That would drive the Federales meshuggeneh. I approve.
If we get a Pub Prez in 2016, all these regs will be dumped so fast it will make Dem heads spin.
This should do wonders for Superbowl Pools.
Sounds like a precursor to savings and Retirement account confiscation by the Nanny state.
Withdraw 25k from your savings or retirement account, big brother is gonna have you on his list of suspected XXX criminal activities and confiscate it all. Good luck fighting the judge who wants a new office or funding for a pet political project or the local LEO who want a new Full auto Weapon arsenal and a MRAP or two.
Obama just wants to spread the wealth don’tcha know...
It was Dubya who signed the Patriot Act and pushed for the capture and snooping of email. Barry just likes it more. Dubya's dumb little brother won't do a thing to lighten the chains around our necks.
I’m going to the bank to withdraw $10,001.00 in cash so I can put it right back in.
Eff the feds!
Sounds like a precursor to savings and Retirement account confiscation......
It’s the “boiling frog syndrome” once again. Cold water, warmer water, even warmer water, boiling water and finally a cooked frog before he ever suspected it.
All that the ignorant voter leeches are interested in is FAIRNESS! It’s not fair that you had enough self-restraint and fortitude to save and plan for your retirement so if you have money to live on in your twilight years, IT’S NOT FAIR to those who thought relaxation, play, baby making and dope smoking was actual work and responsibility....and now find that the government check every months is all they have. They don’t even realize that that check is actually STOLEN money from those who are responsible and hard workers.
There's that. There's also the situation that a cash purchase made without an affinity card is not on your record.
Silver Eagles, which have an understandable cash value have spiked in sales this year and last. One can't help but suspect that it's the tip of the iceberg. Is it possible people are stashing away cash to have on hand in case access to ones cash is limited in the future?
I would submit that there are many things that should be bought with cash and without an affinity card.....cigarettes, alcohol, excessive unhealthy foods, slot machine and lottery "investments" to name a few. Anything that tags you as having a bad habit or addiction is not information the nanny state needs to have. With purchases, you also lead a trail of where you've been if technology is involved.
Paranoid? For sure. Do I have anything to hide? No. It's just that it seems to be a good idea to keep as much personal information off ones permanent file as is possible.
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