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Over Half a Million Bank Accounts Breached
Gone Phishing writes "CNN is reporting that about 676,000 bank accounts in at least four banks (Bank of America, Wachovia, Commerce Bancorp, and PNC Financial Services) have had personal information "illegally sold". Over 60,000 customers have been notified so far."
One of the greatest lies that historians have ever told is that the continent that we now refer to as North America was inhabited by "native peoples" at the time of its discovery by Columbus. This, as true history has shown, is sheer poppycock; it is a nefarious fantasy concocted in the minds of those who wish to control our collective destinies. Not only are there no contemporary documents that support the existence of these fantasy "natives", the people who are responsible for inventing them have never been particularly secretive about their true motives.
It is interesting to note that in the late 1950s, no American (indeed, no person) had ever even heard of these so-called "native Americans." But then, in the 1960s, stories of them suddenly started appearing seemingly from nowhere. Your next-door neighbor started relating stories from his great-grandmother about "Injun attacks." Schoolchildren started to get educated about the different "tribes" and "nations" of these people, and yet not one parent demanded to see evidence of their existence.
Our children were taught stories about how the great white pioneers of this nation supposedly plundered these peoples and took their land from them, and our children felt ashamed. Of course they felt ashamed! That's the whole reason these fantasy "native Americans" exist! They were invented by radical leftist agitators at Berkeley in the early 1960s. The primary purpose that these mythical "Indians" serve is to instill false guilt in white people. They exist to make the Chosen People of this land feel badly about their own history and heritage, and that is a thought crime.
Liberalism is about (first and foremost) the hatred of self and love of collective. To that end, this nation's leftists felt it necessary to invent an entire imaginary race of people that were "pillaged" by this continent's Anglo-Saxon discoverers. The goal: to make this nation's guardians hate themselves and their heritage, and be sympathetic to that which is alien and unacceptable.
The truth, of course, is that none of these stories has the least bit of credibility; despite repeated requests from the conservative community, liberals have been unable to produce a single "native American." And so we must file this lie in the same trash dumpster as the (extremely overexaggerated) stories of so-called "slavery" of the 1800s. Patriots must constantly guard their country from its enemies, and we must realize that more today than ever before, its enemies are more likely to attack from within.
I think that there should start being class action lawsuits because banks aren't protecting our data well at all. It shouldn't be that easy for employees to grab hundreds of thousands of customer records and sell them.
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Oops, I forgot Bush ruined class action lawsuits by forcing them to be in federal courts, which are more friendly to businesses.
I know, let's pass legislation!
Oops, I forgot our legislature is too busy removing checks and balances (Senate) and debating corrupt members (House) to get anything else done.
Maybe China should just stop buying our debt and put us out of our misery. Our country is becoming so corrupt.
Why the fuck would you look in wikipedia? Jesus. Move to Cuba.
Because the bigger banks offer me services that others probably would not be able to. For example, on-line bill paying. For example, 24/7 customer support. For example, an anti-fraud team that helped to rid $600 of fake charges from my account in ONE day after ONE call. For example, branches just about everywhere you go. For example, even with FDIC, knowing your bank is not going to close for whatever reason. For example, knowing that even with such breaches of security, they are a thousand times better than smaller banks. Hey, guess what? That's the same reason I use Windows XP instead of Linux.
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They did nothing wrong here. Capitalism is a just and moral system that allows individuals to excel and reap the rewards of rational self-interest. These people saw an opportunity to make a profit (very nice I might add) in such a way that no one was impacted negatively and those involved were rewarded for their actions. Our irrational society would attempt to squelch these people based on the unhealthy notion of privacy. The desire for privacy arrises from the emotional garbage that people have been polluted with from the liberal, (let's just be honest and call them what they are: communists) agenda. If one man excels farther than another, then that other man must forfeit any rights to the will of the superior man. This is just and moral. Why should I be expected to inconvenience myself for someone lesser? He is only lesser because he hasn't tried to excel. But alas, our society is run by a lot of bargain basement psychos who are polluted with emotional garbage, so these great men will be unfairly punished. Perhaps it is time for objectivists around the world to just stop being involved. It will become obvious, in short order, that the world cannot function without us.
Bank of America: "Higher Standards" my fucking ass.