Financial Responsibility == Terrorism?

An anonymous reader writes "Capital Hill Blue is reporting that recently a retired Texas schoolteacher and his wife had a little run in with the Department of Homeland Security. The crime? Paying down some debt. From the article: 'The balance on their JCPenney Platinum MasterCard had gotten to an unhealthy level. So they sent in a large payment, a check for $6,522. And an alarm went off. A red flag went up. The Soehnges' behavior was found questionable. [...] They were told, as they moved up the managerial ladder at the call center, that the amount they had sent in was much larger than their normal monthly payment. And if the increase hits a certain percentage higher than that normal payment, Homeland Security has to be notified.'"

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Re:My experience

[smittyoneeach]

Funny that the American government is able to sell the faraday cage as the right choice

Among the ironies of contemporary US culture is that many of the same people who desire maximal personal privacy are the same ones screaming if social programs, an invasion of financial privacy, are threatened.
Conversely, one group defends unborn life, the other, criminal life.
A random sampling of blogs from either side indicates that there is as much interest in reasoned, respectful debate as there is a firm grasp of facts.
Still more interestingly, some are staunch defenders of free speech, while others like to mod-bomb people for expressing an opinion.
 
Standing by, Sir Scuttlemonkey.