I just found this one . . . related to the banks and their willing cooperation with government records requests . . . doing the searching for the government . . . without demanding a search warrant or subpoena. Some of the information they requested the banks search for is troubling, very troubling.
https://judiciary.house.gov/media/i...-banks-search-private-transactions-terms-maga
So . . . Government 3-letter Dweeb calls your bank and credit card processors, asking them to search all their records for keywords, like "Cabellas", and "Bass Pro Shop", and "Rural King", and "Dunham Sports", and "Brownells", and specific MCC codes, such as "3484: Small Arms", or "5091: Sporting and Recreational Goods and Supplies", and for contributions to specific political campaigns. Bank and credit card processors tell Government 3-letter Dweeb: "Sure, no problem, we're on it! You'll have it by Friday COB!! Don't want no government regulators suddenly inspecting us." That's their implied threat every time: resist and Government Regulators will make your life a living, and expensive, Hell.
A reminder that very nearly all Bank and Credit Union debit cards go through a card processor, typically Visa or MasterCard. A card processor blocking your debit card on a legitimate transaction because you're buying a handgun or ammunition for your modern sporting rifle is unconscionable. The analog of using a debit card is almost the same as writing a check, except that the POS verifies the money is there real time. Who carries wads of cash or a checkbook around? Paper checks have their own identity theft risks with account numbers, routing numbers and the institution's name plainly printed on them -- the account in routing numbers in magnetic ink that can be read in a fraction of a second by a scanner!
Just as troubling is the Government trolling through ALL your bank records -- along with everyone else's -- without a subpoena or search warrant specifying the accounts of specific suspects. Did you contribute to Trump's, or any other Republican's 2020 or 2022 campaign? You're now on the FBI Watch List. THAT is why prohibiting financial institutions from keeping and willingly searching or supplying their records to government requests is important.
Edited to add:
Election campaign donations are public record under Federal Election Campaign laws and regulations. Donors must disclose who they are. All the Guvmint need do to find campaign donors is search FEC records, which are readily available online. Anyone who donated to a campaign should remember what they had to disclose when making the donation.
https://judiciary.house.gov/media/i...-banks-search-private-transactions-terms-maga
So . . . Government 3-letter Dweeb calls your bank and credit card processors, asking them to search all their records for keywords, like "Cabellas", and "Bass Pro Shop", and "Rural King", and "Dunham Sports", and "Brownells", and specific MCC codes, such as "3484: Small Arms", or "5091: Sporting and Recreational Goods and Supplies", and for contributions to specific political campaigns. Bank and credit card processors tell Government 3-letter Dweeb: "Sure, no problem, we're on it! You'll have it by Friday COB!! Don't want no government regulators suddenly inspecting us." That's their implied threat every time: resist and Government Regulators will make your life a living, and expensive, Hell.
A reminder that very nearly all Bank and Credit Union debit cards go through a card processor, typically Visa or MasterCard. A card processor blocking your debit card on a legitimate transaction because you're buying a handgun or ammunition for your modern sporting rifle is unconscionable. The analog of using a debit card is almost the same as writing a check, except that the POS verifies the money is there real time. Who carries wads of cash or a checkbook around? Paper checks have their own identity theft risks with account numbers, routing numbers and the institution's name plainly printed on them -- the account in routing numbers in magnetic ink that can be read in a fraction of a second by a scanner!
Just as troubling is the Government trolling through ALL your bank records -- along with everyone else's -- without a subpoena or search warrant specifying the accounts of specific suspects. Did you contribute to Trump's, or any other Republican's 2020 or 2022 campaign? You're now on the FBI Watch List. THAT is why prohibiting financial institutions from keeping and willingly searching or supplying their records to government requests is important.
Edited to add:
Election campaign donations are public record under Federal Election Campaign laws and regulations. Donors must disclose who they are. All the Guvmint need do to find campaign donors is search FEC records, which are readily available online. Anyone who donated to a campaign should remember what they had to disclose when making the donation.
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