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DOJ's 'Operation Choke Point' May Be Root of Porn Star Bank Account Closings
Reason Hit & Run ^
| April 29, 2014
| Elizabeth Nolan Brown
Posted on 04/29/2014 5:11:21 AM PDT by GrootheWanderer
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To: bigtoona
Government doesn’t need a reason to expand control over everything. They don’t have to do it for ideological reasons. It’s just the nature of government.
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posted on
04/29/2014 5:35:53 AM PDT
by
Hugin
To: GrootheWanderer
We should open a bank called “Guns and Ho’ses”
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posted on
04/29/2014 5:36:18 AM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
To: GrootheWanderer
"Exactly how does the government get the authority to force banks not to do business with those engaged in legal activities?"
Bank examiners, tax audits, federal "investigations" of any kind, I could go on, but I'm sure you get the picture. And, it doesn't necessarily have to go after the institution itself. Simply by targeting a few of its key managers, "cooperation" is assured. Instantly. Noticed how many of them have been jumping off buildings and dangling from ropes lately? Blackmail. It's a bitch. And then you die.
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posted on
04/29/2014 5:36:37 AM PDT
by
PowderMonkey
(WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
To: jsanders2001
RE :”
I can see good coming out of this. Liberals HAVE to have their porn to feed their depravity.” I don't see how porn makes $$$ anymore with the internet and built in vid cams on every phone and computer..
not to mention free porn sharing websites that distribute their *work* for free (ironically the government seems to support them in copyright law enforcement)
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posted on
04/29/2014 5:37:06 AM PDT
by
sickoflibs
(Obama : 'You can keep your doctor if you want. I never tell a lie ')
To: .45 Long Colt
It’s long been the wet dream of statists (including some characterized as “conservative”) to do away with cash altogether, and force people to use debit cards for everything. Then they can see what everyone spends their money on, and destroy you by just shutting down your account.
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posted on
04/29/2014 5:40:21 AM PDT
by
Hugin
To: GrootheWanderer
Interesting. While I have no pity for the payday loan companies, the precept this displays is chilling.
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posted on
04/29/2014 5:42:21 AM PDT
by
knittnmom
(Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
To: Tupelo
Banks exist at the whim of the feds. They are req1uired to provide every detail of every transaction, every detail of every investor and customer, every account and every act in which they are involved. Failure to comply results in regulators shuttering the bank.
Banking is legalized stealing. The cash flow makes compliance with the devil an acceptable cost of doing business.
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posted on
04/29/2014 5:48:39 AM PDT
by
Louis Foxwell
(This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
To: GrootheWanderer
An interesting result is that it will be difficult for the IRS to determine the correct taxes for these businesses. If no funds go into a bank and the business only takes cash, well records can be hard to come bye.
Of course if it was my business I would just call it a Gay Bath House, provide a free membership to Obama and Rahm and explain to the bank that our members also like to make Poro Films.
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posted on
04/29/2014 5:49:38 AM PDT
by
Lockbox
To: GrootheWanderer
It’s one thing to go after gun-related businesses, but ANOTHER THING ENTIRELY to go after adult businesses.
I have a feeling they’re going to soon regret that approach.
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posted on
04/29/2014 5:49:44 AM PDT
by
BobL
To: GrootheWanderer
“DOJ’s ‘Operation Choke Point’ May Be Root of Porn Star Bank Account Closings”
Could it be because the vast majority of pornography depicts heterosexual behavior?
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posted on
04/29/2014 5:52:37 AM PDT
by
equaviator
(There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
To: GrootheWanderer
Look at the sleazy dems. With the kluntons you don’t need porn.
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posted on
04/29/2014 5:53:05 AM PDT
by
longfellow
(Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
To: Hugin
This is counter productive towards reaching that goal.
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posted on
04/29/2014 6:08:28 AM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: jim_trent
“How long until they apply this to guns owners, gun dealers, gun manufacturers, etc.”..
I thought that before I finished reading the article. I think this is a “trail run” by the DOJ to see how everything goes before the “main event”.
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posted on
04/29/2014 6:10:55 AM PDT
by
DaveA37
To: GrootheWanderer
Tell me again that we live in a free nation?
Wake up people!
To: jim_trent
Hi.
How long until they apply this to guns owners, gun dealers, gun manufacturers, etc.
Bingo. Only took two posts too.
5.56mm
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posted on
04/29/2014 6:19:42 AM PDT
by
M Kehoe
To: GrootheWanderer
Keep pushing fellas. CWII is just around the corner.
F U B O!
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posted on
04/29/2014 6:30:29 AM PDT
by
unixfox
(Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
To: sickoflibs
I don't see how porn makes $$$ anymore with the internet and built in vid cams on every phone and computer..It's mystifying, isn't it?
Rolling Stone just did an article on Belle Knox, the now infamous Duke University porn star. The article mentioned she gets paid $1200 a shoot plus free airfare to the locations. Yet you can google her name and see all of her work without paying a dime. Who's making money on this stuff besides, apparently, Belle Knox?
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posted on
04/29/2014 6:31:03 AM PDT
by
Drew68
To: GrootheWanderer
Exactly how does the government get the authority to force banks not to do business with those engaged in legal activities? The Feral Government has dispensed with 'authority to act', and simply acts.
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posted on
04/29/2014 6:32:07 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
To: bigtoona
It's just NOT their porn..(Queer) Lenin AND (Queer) Stalin pole-dancing
to "a beat", Mao-tse (Drums) and Pol-Pot (Tambourine) in trashy cross-
dress clothing in high heels, no less.
Can't you hear "the Beat" from Washington?
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posted on
04/29/2014 6:40:52 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Bathhouse/"Rustler" Reid? ;-)
To: jim_trent
” How long until they apply this to guns owners, gun dealers, gun manufacturers, etc. “
I thought they were already effectively doing this....
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posted on
04/29/2014 6:51:25 AM PDT
by
GraceG
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