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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.'"
Of course, your post will get you mod points from the anti-Bush
Yes, we can't have anybody questioning the motives of the great American shepherd "Dubya" now can we.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
Oh come on. Check your political baggage at the door please. Trying to paint this poster as someone who thinks Enron-style white collar crime is OK is simply in very poor taste.
Tracking large movements of cash by private citizens is certainly useful in keeping track of criminal activity. Yes, it does inconvenience legitimate users of big wads of cash and I think we can all agree that this case was a waste of law enforcement resources.
And perhaps you are willing to wink at criminal behaviour so that you can secretly wire a few thousand quid to your mistress without having a few questions raised. I am not.
Personally, I give it another 20 years before cash as we know it today to be almost completely worthless. It would be like walking into a Walmart with gold bullion and expecting the teller to accomodate you. The world is changing.
Id est, they didn't have any credit available - it's not as though their money was tied up. It was the bank's money that wasn't available to them.
So what?
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2704stoc
And 6 grand is what in comparison?
The fact of the matter is that when you screw other over badly enough you can expect relalition.
And thats whats going on, The Bush Administration is parionoid because they are becomming aware of how damn much they have screwed others over.
WTC came was attacked once before 9/11 and targets of WTC, Pentagon, White House say what?
Wrongful manipulation of world economy with political and military backing..
So now the world stock markets must be terrorist activity, considering how its manipulation resulted in dotcom boom (easy winnings had to be put somewhere) and buts (easy come easy go) and the losers, worldcom, enron, etc.. whom still haven't told the american public what they were really doing.
South east asia, indonesia is 88 percent muslin (CIA info).
All it took to help set off the war drums on iraq was one lone high ranking enough, military official, who would not be questioned about there entry into a US military base containing anthrax stores, knowledge how to handle it and newsmedia addresses....
who would be stupid enough to not know the bush administration would fall all over themselves abusing the anthrax events
to get the media to bang war drums for bush?
Who are the real terrorost?
The most terrorism I have seen is not the WTC comming down but the very long running war drum banging of the bush administration against a country that most certainly did not have anything to do with WTC...
Prove that god doesn't exist? You can't as that is a scientific impossibility. So was proving Iraq didn'[t have any weapons of mass destruction. And teh US hasn't been able to find any.
Remember the smallpox threat that was use in all this?
The truth is. :
http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/theme_a/mod0
The question is:
Why are we not doing what we know how to, have the resources and man power to genuinely remove what terrorist use to gain support and followers?
The real terrorist are the ones parionoid of retailation, because they have been so damn fucking bad on others.
check your spelling of cheque.
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Until a couple of years ago, most anti-money laundering statutes only applied to laundering drug money. Laundering the proceeds of any other crime was not covered.
If banks and police are still in that mind set, we might just have some selection bias here.
Technically it SHOULD be an easy charge to beat, IF you got the money legitimately.
The most common case would be that you did indeed get the money legitimately, over a couple of years, but conveniently "forgot" to report it to the IRS during that time.
So you'd get out of the money laundering charge, but into tax evasion.
letting a score of thugs strongly interested in parking jets in large builds into the country.
Who are you talking about? The purported 9/11 "hijackers" ? 9 of the 19 accused have been found alive in the Middle East. Twelve days after the attacks, four of them were confirmed alive, according to this article at the BBC. I can't find a source that most people would trust which claims the figure of 9, but most of the conspiracy theory documentaries out there quote that number and explain where the various individuals are at.
What I'm trying to say here is that you're pointing the finger in the wrong direction.
Reinvent the wheel only at either a lower cost, greater effectiveness, or your own personal enrichment and satisfaction.
Sorry. You don't score any points for a recovery even though you made a valient attempt to finesse your reply and turn the tables on your critics. It was pretty obvious you didn't have any clue to what "NO CARRIER" meant when you wrote "how did he have time to write ..." "NO CARRIER" was not something anyone had to type; it was part of a modem's programming schema and just appeared on the screen when the modem connection was lost.
He's not the first to be blind to pre-Bush and pre 9/11 policy though. Somehow nobody on the left knows that the same thing was going on 8 years prior and that that president actually SOLD information to other countries from domestic spying on other foreigners. That isn't news to these guys but overpaying your JC Penny card raising a flag is? Modding this down only shows you're trying to cover up the proof and to me that is worse than a red flag from writing a $6,000 check.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one the bus load of girls just went down.
Well, "It's not worth it to me to give up" the safety of my country and the image of power which keeps it's citizens safe, just so that some paranoid, delusional fools (yes that means you Mr. "all communications dragnet") won't feel like they're being oppressed. It's become obvious over time that people like you are never satisfied. The more we take care to limit the ammount of damage we cause, the more pain we take to avoid mistakenly targeting the innocent, the louder your complaints get and the more you accuse us of atrocities and abuse. That's fine. I can live with being unpopular amongst those who have never had to stand for anything during the entirety of their miserable existances. What I and those like me CAN'T do is give in to your complaints when it means endangering the lives of innocents, and the common beleifs which we all hold sacred. Since there's no way to please you, you'll have to get used to being ignored. At least, untill you can elect another Democrat into office, at which point we'll have to go back to biding our time, working behind the scenes, and trying to prevent another 9/11 despite the constant (if unintended) efforts of the Democratic party to achieve the opposite.
Statistics don't mean shit when it comes to setting policy. The fact that you're using them to prop up your gormless diatribe tells me all I need to know about the relevance of your thoughts on the matter.
The reason why it's "random" is that there's limited manpower to enforce the traffic laws -- with traffic stops, you have to be doing something illegal where the officer can see you. If they had a way to automate the monitoring with a reasonable degree of certainty, you'd start seeing a lot more people getting tickets.