"Due to the US Patriot Act, we are not able to accept money orders or traveler's checks for payment, we can only accept personal checks or automatic transfers" So, what's the scoop with this?
I think it means that on your cash where it says "THIS NOT EIS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE" is now null and void.
So, is all my cash now worthless due to the Patriot Act? We crossed on major threshold by implement the Federal Reserve and fiat money, seems like another Rubicon is getting swum here.
Let us assume, just for the sake of example, that the federal government decided to {pick a few of these} -
* do random searches of homes, looking for suspicious items or activities.
* do a search on each citizens' bank account that purchased any type of firearm or ammuniition and then search their homes.
* outlaw any private ownership of firearms.
* do traffic blockades with searches of any vehicle deemed "suspicious."
* arrest citizens and not give them due process of law, but put them into makeshift "camps" until the "truth" could be sorted out.
What would the citizens of America do? I don't mean what you'd like to see happen. How do you think America would react and what would be the steps that would be taken, and by whom? Not pretty, in my opinion.