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Showing Original Post only (View all)Operation Choke Point- The DOJ using banks to shut down industries they don't like [View all]
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Now, news is slowly surfacing that shows the US Department of Justice may be strong-arming banks into banning porn stars.
Its called Operation Choke Point, and it has nothing to do with deep-throating.
Instead, its a targeted effort to shut down as many as 30 separate industries by making it impossible for them to access banking services.
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed Thursday, American Banking Association CEO Frank Keating wrote that the Justice Department is telling bankers to behave like policemen and judges.
Operation Choke Point is asking banks to identify customers who may be breaking the law or simply doing something government officials dont like, Keating wrote. Banks must then choke off those customers access to financial services, shutting down their accounts.
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n2doc
Apr 2014
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Maybe they'll use this capability to choke off those who "rape and pillage" the environment...
CincyDem
Apr 2014
#2
If that were really true... Anyone with a pending criminal case would be banned as well.
TheBlackAdder
Apr 2014
#3
Quite a few of the categories on that list are protected by the constitution
951-Riverside
Apr 2014
#16
Constitutional protections do not extend to requiring banks to do business with them.
FarCenter
Apr 2014
#31
Even if this is intended for "goodness", it sounds very scary. Would we want a
rhett o rick
Apr 2014
#7
The administration pays banksters who lie and use their positions to steal, and want to
jtuck004
Apr 2014
#29