Trump Justice Deparment Stops Obama Era "Operation Choke Point" Abuse

Gun Watch ^ | 20 August, 2017 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

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Operation Choke Point was an extra-legal attempt by the Obama administration to economically attack businesses that it disliked. It circumvented the rule of law by giving banks incentive to discriminate against a list of businesses. The list of busineseses were those it disagreed with on philosophical and political grounds. Those businesses included firearms and ammunition dealers. 

A small business could find its credit suddenly and inexplicit gone. It could find it no longer had the ability to process credit card payments. For many small businessess, this could be a death sentence. From foxnews.com:

The Trump Justice Department is ending an Obama-era program that had attempted to cut off credit to shady businesses but came under fire from Republicans for unfairly targeting gun dealers and other legitimate operations. Just days after top House Republicans had pressed Attorney General Jeff Sessions to shutter Operation Choke Point, the department confirmed in a response letter that the program is dead.

 From reason.com:

The repudiation of Operation Choke Point is a welcome development, says Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute.

"It should serve as a warning that the government doesn't get to flag for banks—or businesses generally—which legal-but-suspect domestic customers it would like them to ostracize," Olson told Reason on Friday. "Those in power must refrain from signaling that they'd be pleased if certain categories of otherwise legal customer get cut off from their access to economic life." Operation Choke Point began as an extension of the Obama administration's Financial Fraud Task Force, but the dragnet investigation was never given proper statutory authority by either the administration or Congress. In fact, details about Operation Choke Point were deliberately withheld from Congress at first, a fact The Wall Street Journal uncovered in 2013.h

The process circumvented the entire check and balance system on government power designed into the Constitution.  It should have been grounds for serious action by the Republican Congress. It is gone now.


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[marktwain]

The "deep state" uses this sort of action.

[mfish13]

Now let’s shut down the IRS for its attacks on conservative groups.

[eyeamok]

He should of just rebranded it so as to apply to groups based on Race, goodbye LaRaza,NAACP.BLM,...

[Aliska]

He really was a dirty dealer the way he operated. Remember cash for clunkers and he actually put some Republican car dealerships out of business?

I hope he is put out of business but he seems to be up to something in global politics, not to mention still meddling or having meddlers in US politics.

[vette6387]

The open question is why did it take seven months to make the change? Trump still has far too many “Swamp RATs” in his government.

[TigersEye]

Another in a long list of reasons that 0bama belongs in prison.

Here are some more...

Swirling Down The Memory-Hole

[StAnDeliver]

Not enough to shut it down, but to employ the same tactics against the Left: outlaw all these beggar accounts on PayMeToBeASlob, GoFundMyAntifaTravels, CrowdFundMyCommunism.

[Aliska]

Maybe my post #4 should be deleted as it could be interpreted as threatening by some.

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[dsc]

“A small business could find its credit suddenly and inexplicit gone.”

Inexplicably, fer corn’s sake. Are there no editors left?

[M Kehoe]

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[GailA]

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