Posted on 06/03/2015 11:41:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Some call it skirting the boundaries of propriety..
Others see it as exacting justice..
I see a lot of fat mattresses in politicos futures here on out.
Banks are quasi gubamental organisms.. And bound by law to same.
Why? Because we let them. When these laws started, we could have stood up and stopped it, but as usual, we said “Hell, they’re just doing to those other people, so I don’t care”.
RE: Why? Because we let them. When these laws started, we could have stood up and stopped it
Well, there is always a need for someone like rand Paul in the senate after all (even when he isn’t my choice to be President ).
Refusing to let the cops into your home without a warrant is “avoiding government scrutiny”.
I read that Hastert voted for this when he was in the house. that sucks for him.
RE: I read that Hastert voted for this when he was in the house. that sucks for him.
Yep, it’s called being hoisted by your own petard.
The problem is that people think that their money is their money. Not so fast, comrade.
Anybody who sings the national anthem is a liar. Not the land of the free. And the home of cowards who are afraid to live life without the nanny state.
structuring financial transactions “to evade currency transaction reporting requirements” is a violation of federal law.
If you own a business that deals in a lot of cash and gross under $10k a day to the tune off $8500 one day, $9800 another, etc. you may find yourself in trouble for the appearance of evading currency transaction reporting requirements.
Add to this the fact that when this was enacted you could have bought MULTIPLE new cars for under that amount of money you see the challenges inflation has brought to the issue.
What if the government installed surveillance cameras on various streets in a municipality and then made it a crime to walk along a route that skirted those cameras?
What if the government installed surveillance cameras on various streets in a municipality and then made it a crime to walk along a route that skirted those cameras?
No problem,,wear burqua, topped off by a sombrero
It’s because you are their subject and tax slave rather than them being your public servant. Simple really.
It creates a problem for Smaritan.
Well, when I transfer funds in excess of 10K, it is to write a check to the effing government for taxes. Now, where does that leave me? D@mned if I do, and D@mned if I don’t.
He helped expand it under the PATRIOT Act, but the Bank Secrecy Act was passed into law in 1970.
Because we let them get away with making it so. While the unmitigated support for the Patriot Act was rampant, equally abysmal laws were passed before it.
They keep us scared and rely on a bumper sticker mentality. If we are survive, it will take a clean slate of Representatives and a repeal of many a law.
MOST small retail businesses make daily deposits of less than $10,000.
Often it is at the SUGGESTION OF THE BANK, to avoid the paperwork.
This “structuring” “law” has become a fund raising scheme for government agencies, and it has NOTHING to do with fighting crime.
You see, there is risk in fighting criminals....and why do that?
A government employee or elected official with clearance do not have a right to hide being blackmailed
If he wanted to pay the hush money.. quit the government, surrender your clearance....and become a private citizen
they he can pay all the hush money out he pleases and I'll support him in his right to do so with no one sticking their nose into it
Try buying a car with cash.
An old farmer I know did, and the cops showed up a few minutes later. He had bought cars with cash for decades.
It is now illegal to use cash, or not finance large purchases.
Anybody that has dealt with clearances and working for the government knows their number one concern is your finances they do not want to see you in a position to be compromised
They do not want to see you being able to be blackmailed .
you want those positions of power and access to security information you give up certain privileges of privacy
give up your positions of power and you can get back your right and privileges of privacy..eventually....because you still hold that knowledge after you leave ..
same reason that Hillary Clinton cannot have her own private email server as Secretary of State
if she wants to be a private citizen she can have her own damn private email server.
quit looking at this as he was Joe Blow private citizen... it’s not the case.
I gave up a chance for job with a top security clearance out in that airbase in Nevada desert that does not exist.....
And I did not take the opportunity in part because I wanted to retain my rights as a private citizen to do things like even post on this freaking board
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