Tucker Carlson reveals that Bank of America was flagging the purchasing history of its customers and sending it to the federal government in order to find out if they were involved in the Capitol riot.
The feds later interrogated a customer who was cleared of wrongdoing. pic.twitter.com/QtwNv8EaWQ
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) February 5, 2021
The FBI sat on its hands as our cities burned last year and BLM and Anifa rioters caused billions of dollars in damage, with dozens of murdered. The few reluctant and perfunctory actions they took were at the repeated orders of President Trump, and FBI agents seen taking the BLM knee last year in DC accurately reflected what they thought of those orders. In the wake of the Capitol Hill Riot they are going gang busters against people, the vast majority of whom, at worst, would be facing misdemeanor charges.
The FBI now has all the moral authority of the Gestapo, the KGB and the Stasi. The good men and women among them can do nothing to stop their agency from being an enthusiastic political police force of the current regime. In your dealings with them, if you are a conservative or a traditional Catholic, or simply an ordinary patriotic American, treat them warily, peacefully and with the full understanding that they will do their worst to railroad you. Never speak to them without an attorney being present, and my advice to any client during such an interview would likely be that they invoke their right to remain silent, although good legal advice has to be tailored to the facts at the time in any case. Hoover is rolling over in his grave.
Makes a case for return to cash transactions
The FBI sat on its hands as our cities burned last year and BLM and Anifa rioters caused billions of dollars in damage, with dozens of murdered.
IMO, the role of federal police in such circumstances would be to investigate BLM and Antifa as racketeering enterprises. Since Christopher Wray won’t acknowledge that Antifa exists as an organization, that’s not happening. (The Bureau is chasing after ‘white supremacists’ who are inconsequential when not imaginary).
Since the McConnell-McCarthy Republicans accomplish nothing, I expect it will just be business as usual forever. If we had a worthwhile and competent conservative party in this country, the FBI would be broken up into a half-dozen agencies and it’s top three echelons fired en bloc; the CIA would be dissolved; the federal criminal code would be scarified and its sentencing schedule re-calibrated; and lawyers would be debarred from working as federal prosecutors for more than 12 years in any bloc of 14.
It’s a reasonable wager that Wm. Barr was afraid that the scamming around Andrew Weissmann, Brandon van Grack, and Ron Rosenstein were engaged in was risking a general purge of the Department of Justice, and he sought the position of Attorney-General to prevent that from happening. Wray has been a cover up artist from the day he took office.
Mac,
You misspelled ‘GESTAPO.’
Art,
While we’re dreaming, add to the list the Fed, the FHA, FHLMC, FNMA, GNMA, HUD, . . . .
Posse Comitatus – resist any [it’s all illegitimate] authority above the county level.
Irish Democracy.
Re: B of A credit cards. You all could max out your BA cards [to the credit limit] and don’t pay.
Irish Democracy.
Make Them Pay.
T. Shaw, knowing now that BofA is just another branch of the US Stasi, I would love to stick a finger in their eye somehow. But ruining my credit rating and getting sued when I have not the slightest legal argument in my defense seem not to be good ways to proceed. I will content myself with closing my accounts and moving the funds to a more locally owned institution. There are still a few of them around.
Was it only B of A or were they the ones caught? Would money be better in small, community banks?
Good catch Phillip. Yeah, small community banks would probably be better. I hope B of A is sued for large sums due to this. They are in legal jeopardy if they did this voluntarily and not subject to a subpoena or a search warrant.
I am beginning to understand why my late, great uncle Donald kept the $5,000 he was saving to re-roof his house in a shoebox in the closet.
Don, it will be interesting to see if the normal leftist orientation of most or all of the big class action firms can be outweighed by the potential monetary gain of such a lawsuit. My guess is “yes.” But I am irredeemably cynical.
I started practicing in 1982 Dale. There were still quite a few people around from the Great Depression who didn’t trust banks. I used to privately laugh at them. Silly me.
Mid level firms will if they do not. The big firms can afford, at least they think they can, to play political games. Not so much everyone else in the shark pool which is class action litigation.
I started practicing in 1982 Dale. There were still quite a few people around from the Great Depression who didn’t trust banks. I used to privately laugh at them. Silly me.
A dear friend of ours was born in 1916 and died in 1988. She was, after 1985, disabled, and my sister the social worker was helping out in her household, mostly with business matters, applications to public agencies, and what not, and that including tracking down paperwork like her marriage license. She said it was the damnedest thing, rolls of cash hidden here, there, and the next place all over the house. This was in a modest house in the old 11th ward of Rochester, nearly the last place in town you’d want to keep things of interest to a burglar. (She herself was burgled 3x in the 20 years she lived in that house).
Credit unions are a great thing too. I belong to 5, so that means I have $25 sunk into minimum balances.
20 years ago I can’t even imagine us having this conversation presently about the FBI.
And now in place of it being a bad dream, it’s reality.