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Guest Post: Introducing The Government’s Newest Unpaid Spy: YOU
Submitted by Simon Black of Sovereign Man
Introducing The Government’s Newest Unpaid Spy: YOU
One of the most terrifying aspects of George Orwell’s seminal work 1984 was his description of how society had turned into one giant police agency. People were encouraged to rat each other out, groomed since childhood to be unpaid government spies:
“[Children] adored the Party and everything connected with it… All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children.”
The Department of Homeland Security’s “If you see something, say something…” is not too far off from this paradigm– encouraging citizens to rat each other out to the police for the mere suspicion of potential wrong-doing.
DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano even made a special appearance at last Sunday’s Super Bowl to get the message out about ‘public vigilance,’ and ensure that the entire city of Indianapolis was blanketed with advertisements from her Big Brother campaign.
The IRS has been encouraging this type of behavior for years, rewarding citizens with a share of collections for anyone who snitches on potential tax cheats. Last year the agency upped its reward payout for tax informants, topping out at a full 30%.
A few months ago, the Mayor of Newark, NJ announced a similar program designed to reward citizens for snitching on gun owners. According to the mayor, “We don’t even have to have a conviction,” for an informant to get paid a cool $1,000 cash. Rat out your neighbor, get paid. Simple.
(As an aside, police in neighboring East Orange, NJ have rolled out a new pre-crime surveillance system. In the words of Police Chief William Robinson, “The police are observing you. The police are recording you. And the police are responding.” Big Brother is clearly watching.)
In the financial system, there are droves of civilian agencies that have been coerced into becoming government spies. As we discussed a few weeks ago, everyone from bankers to brokers to gold dealers are obliged to submit ‘suspicious activity reports’ to the federal government. They even have minimum quotas.
What’s more, these so-called “SARs” must remain top-secret. It’s a crime for your banker to inform you that you were the subject of a suspicious activity report.
Yesterday, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the federal agency which oversees the legions of unpaid government spies, added a few more businesses to the list. Now non-bank mortgage lenders and originators must ‘assist law enforcement’ by submitting suspicious activity reports.
The rule will take effect in the spring. What’s ambiguous is whether or not it will apply to -individuals- who hold and issue private mortgages.
Despite 50 pages of new regulations, the definition of ‘residential mortgage lender’ remains unclear. This is common with laws and regulations… they take up a lot of space, but they’re incredibly vague. Based on the published text:
- Individuals who finance the sale of their residence are exempt.
- Individuals who finance an investment property/properties that they own may be subject to the rule.
- Businesses who own and finance investment properties are more than likely subject to the rule.
- Individuals and businesses who finance properties that they do not own are subject to the rule.
- Individuals and businesses who accept a residential mortgage application are subject to the rule.
In other words, if you loan money to someone to buy a house, you might just become the next unpaid government spy. Congratulations.
What’s incredible is that FinCEN came up with this rule all on its own. There was no Constitutional legislative progress. Nothing was submitted for debate on the House floor, or for the President’s signature.
This is not a law. It’s simply a new policy that a federal agency decided to impose, in its sole discretion. And it happens every single day across the hundreds of federal agencies in Washington– a sort of ‘self-legislation’ which creates thousands of pages of new regulations that each and every American is obliged to obey.
Not exactly what the Founding Fathers had in mind…
In the case of FinCEN, the agency has conjured a rule creating (by their estimate) 31,000 new unpaid government spies. You might be one of them. And in the coming months, you can expect more rulings that will apply to other professions– real estate agents, pawn brokers, and just about anyone who deals in cash.
Have you reached your breaking point yet?
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I'm just waiting for the moment when someone gets the idea to set up a massive PA with Rage on volume 11 at large enough protest, it'd be like the day of Rage in Egypt raised to the 11th power!!
Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
Like Ron paul sing on his desk says " DON"T STEAL THE GOVERNMENT HATES COMPETITION "
What morons. Hey. Maybe we should arrange a call in. Maybe if every financial blogger called Big Sis and ratted out Lloyd, Alan, Larry, Jamie, Robert, Ben....
Few years ago, I had a USMC license plate frame and an NRA sticker in the back window of my car. I was stopped by the police several times because 'someone' reported me for driving erractically (or suspicion of DUI). The officer always let me go and was very polite.
I removed both and haven't been stopped since, coincidence?
A lesson for the next election?
How about a $1,000.00 reward to report welfare abuse.
an it begins
the seed is planted
vengence brought upon by injuctice will water the earth with a million tears
blood nutures no ground to grow
Why doesn't some enterprising ZHer collect donations to sponsor a: "Rat on your politician" website. Big billboards could ask people to report dishonest bureaucrats, politicians, and public servants who are acting against the principles of the Constitution. I will put up $100. Any takers?
You could support these folks
http://www.crewsmostcorrupt.org/mostcorrupt
30,000 spy drones in US skys by 2020
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/7/coming-to-a-sky-near-you/
This drone thing is a much bigger deal than most people realize. Much. bigger.
I agree. Even if the drones are not visible (they aren't), just the thought that someone could be watching you at anytime is what is wanted.
Article said 80 pilots fly 9 drones? WTF, is this just another MIC make-work program?
Just an all around nightmare that keeps getting worse.
pods
80 pilots or 9 pilots and support personnel that make up to 80 in total, it is quite a sophisticated piece of equipment. Either way, drones fly at high altitudes and there's no way to see or somehow detect them unless you possess a radar (oho). Shoulder-launched AAs like Stinger won't hurt them, forget about guns. So, nothing in arsenal of average individual can turn away those things. Quite easy to establish an all-round surveilance of big areas with just a few of them 24/7. Police state taken to a whole new level, what an irony if it turns out that Afghanistan or Pakistan were just a training ground for their use domestically.
http://xkcd.com/652/
Boris, that is no irony. The ongoing MIC wars are specifically used as beta-testing for the sort of citizen-crushing environment currently being eagerly pursued here. For every one of these gold-plated high altitude drones the MSM raves about, there are literally thousands of much smaller pieces of equipment and tracking devices being developed here and tested daily in the sandbox.
What's coming will not be pretty, and the only way to defeat it will be through critical mass awakening willing to take up arms in the face of obscene technological disadvantage. I hold little hope that such an awakening will occur in modern American society. Too dumbed down, too dependent on gubment, too fragmented by the evils of multiculturalist voodoo.
Well, the fact that it got to this stage already spells that population is largely ignorant of the major trends while being divided and conquered along minor issues. And should majority take on guns, there is no guarantee they won't turn them against each other or, better yet, at a specially selected minority that will be appointed as a scapegoat. That scenario played out historically several times to protect elites from masses outrage, no reason it won't be played again.
They are already "monitoring" farmers and ranchers....eventually, they will combine them with Agenda 21 and confiscate their farms/ranches for plowing or shooting a coyote. The goal is to eradicate private property, herd humans into dense urban centers located next to mass transit, and give the land back to the "biosphere".
Sometime, search "agenda 21" and "rewilding America" and see what the UN has planned for us!
which drones do we fear more, the one with the US flag or the one's that will be flown by our "friends" or the other one's flown by our most dreaded enemies. This drone thing is a game changer for regular people in the US.
I wonder if one of those drones will crash into a building then 3 more will mysteriously fall for no good reason.
It was all under the guise of keepin merikans safe! FVCK YEAH! But now it's gonna be about gettin paid my nzigga!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16545333
A small little historical item went by in 2011 that didn't make much news, although pilot mags picked it up: For the first time in history, the US Air Force purchased more unmanned aircraft than manned aircraft. This is expected to continue basically from here on out (to wherever the 'end' is).
Cheaper.
Probably more reliable if it comes to shooting your own citizens.
Police and border patrol poised to get in big also - the sharing of airspace with manned aircraft still hanging things up, but is, of course, being worked on like crazy, with all those drones due back from Afghanistan soon...
It is an overused meme on ZH, but I can't help but think that This Is Not Going To End Well.
Just wait, the drones will be "sponsored" by J.P. Morgue, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sucks, etc. - all with the motto "Helping to keep you safe and secure."
I have a tip that I'm going to share....I hope the FinCen follows up on this one I think it could be huge"..........
Ok here goes......
There is this guy....his name is Jon Corzine...I think he committed some major slight of hand fraud that misappropriated over a billion dollars in clients funds.... IMHO it could money laundering but I leave that to the fine folks at FinCen
Now get to work....I want my reward...
I recently went to a bank to cash a check - one that had bounced and had taken two weeks to finally get back to me. It wasn't a tremendous amount of money, a couple a thou, and I politely but firmly requested cash. Chiclet at the teller window was pretty put out (not enough cash in the drawer, not enough authority) so I am sure she did it out of spite.
If you let this stuff get you upset, they're halfway to winning. People don't always make the best decisions when they're angry.
Come away O human child
To the waters and the wild
With a fairy hand in hand
For the world’s more full of weeping
Than you can understand.
Your quest will be perilous
yet the reward is beyond price.
In his book,
“HOW CAN A ROBOT BECOME HUMAN?”
Professor ALLEN HOBBY writes
of the power which
will transform Mecha into Orga.
"McCarthyism ?"
ya know, joe mccarthy was wrong about a 'few things', and because of that he was painted a quack - but,... mccarthy was absolutely correct that our government had been infested with communist sympathizer's - in fact he was so correct that the rockefellers', and rothschilds' were so pissed they turned their publishing pr's up so high that they almost indicted themselves with inference
per usual, he died shortly after having been censured by congress at the age of 48 - @ "Bethesda Naval Hospital" from hepatitis -yep,... a perfectly healthy farm boy dies of a mysterious blood decease
remember smedley butler
never forget!
jmo
The Kenyan Fuckstick is running an entire global engine without a budget in place. What happens when you become irresponsible in spending more than you bring in?
Answer: Bankrupt
Shhhhhhhh. This is the goal by the way. Shifting our debt to other underdeveloped nations. Sell the US debt under new international Basel III laws. Many unlucky blokes will end up in the wrong tranche debt bet.
The beat goes on…
Regarding the brown shirts protecting the establishment, the very fear used on perps will be instilled on the devoted alphabet soup soldiers. Ponders whether the FBI realizes, the DHS plans on making you obsolete?
China CPI data just came out...
Oh the irony! When I first landed in this country, an offhanded government-critical remark made in a local tea shop could earn a citizen a 2 AM visit from some jackbooted thugs (okay, they wear sandals), a good beating, and maybe a stint at the spokewheel-shaped prison with the bizarrely appropriate name of Insein. Voicing of support for a certain Nobel Peace Prize winning lady could do the same.
Today, there is genuine reform, and one can buy suitable-for-framing photographs of said same Lady at any of the local markets.
The US and here, ships passing in the night, one toward the light, the other toward the Outpost of Tyranny (we'll borrow your term, Condi Rice).
Well I'm proud to be a (?????), where at least I know I'm free
When the only thing left is jingoism.....
Can the government stay solvent longer han we can stay free? Fuck the government.
One last post for the brown shirt KOOKS working for a one term President of the United States. [Read very carefully]
The EU sitcom grand finale will be televised on March 20, 2012. Each daily episode reels in new viewers to keep the market ratings primed for new money laundering theft. The attention whore politician’s on TV are provided with scripts to share with all MSM streams. In the background, the insiders are buying or selling based on daily script leaked to public.
Keep this as an event to happen in the future…. If you thought the scandal with Rupert Murdoch was big, wait until the next chapter unfolds. I told you many unknown faces will surface. This is why they’re desperately trying to find the evidence to avoid exposure. Featured Rupert Murdoch property raids are about protecting the guilty. The sociopaths behind this financial chaos will be exposed. No debased currency will buy off their silence.
Good Night ZH Posters and KOOKS
Your words are like a match in a dark cave. Please keep it burning.
I plan to report myself. You can never be too careful.
We aren't "there" yet, but if/when we get there this is the solution.
When they bust down the door assume that you will never get justice and shoot to kill. That will work for meth-heads or for agents of the State.
Past that point you have lost control. You either die then and there or you enter the gulag for the rest of your life, (however short or debased it might be).
We are moving towards a destination. I sincerely hope that we never get "there". And I sincerely hope that these agents look inward as each of these bright red lines are crossed and think about how they want to remember themselves at the end of their lives.
And there may come a time when these agents can make a choice, one that could make a big difference in the trajectory of this nation. And even if it does not seem that it could make a big difference or any difference, sometimes one must do things for "old times sake", for the OLD "red, white, and blue".
And that is what I have decided to do, (should my fears fully materialize), to make the right choice, the moral choice, the one in alignment with this nation's origins and concepts of Liberty.
/nods
The East German Stasi is alive and well, transplanted in the USA
I plan on ratting out Barry Soetoro's grandmother. Back to Kenya for you Grandma Soetoro.
One month ago I called my bank (CIBC) and made a request to arrange a cash withdrawl of a relatively large amount in 3 weeks time. The person on the other end of the phone says and I quote "what is this for" - I AM STUNNED - I say "pardon - why are you asking me what I am going to DO with MY money" - well she backpeddles a bit and starts with "we are just concerned about the risk" to which I say "risk to WHO" - she says the risk to me as a customer. I said look I'm a big boy and frankly you have no right to be concerned what happens after you give me MY money. I had to speak to two other people - one being the manager before they got the message - GIVE ME MY FUCKING CASH - which is no longer in their FUCKING institution.
I have such fondness for being treated like a child by a bitch corporation with their own personal agenda - I'm sure I have a black mark on my record and a "keep a close eye on this client" in the comments section.
And such begins the rise of a black market such as exist in Greece and Italy and Spain......
The death knell of any relationship = loss of trust.
If the U.S. government can't trust it's own citizens with a gun, gold, a voice and a vote - the relationship needs to be "re-assessed".
And the citizens don't trust ttheir government.
However, this is less true at the state and local level.
It's the Beltway. They don't think the way the rest of the nation does. LIberty is a word to be spoken on special occasions, not a creed to live and die for.
We who love Liberty scare the Hell out of them. Most of them would not die for anything, not even their own family.
Money and Power is their creed, and if you won't bow down to that you must be a terrorist. It is that simple.
Very suspicious, Writings on the wall..
Stevie Wonderbread
The McDonalds down the street is still open, so?
Considering that the internet is used by males to jerk off and play games, what exactly are they hoping to find?
See, there's the rub. That's why totalitarianism always fails. It's always looking for scapegoats, for people to blame for this or that, for "enemies." And at the end of the day it's still people doing what people always do...eating and fucking and working and praying and assembling and moving and creating and talking and fucking some more, and running and getting old and taking medicines, and spending and saving and philosophizing, and arguing and debating and celebrating, and sleeping and awakening and sleeping...and then, when it's all over, dying and then the whole thing is repeated again with the next generation.
What will they accuse you of? Hunger? Breathing? Being able to make noises with your mouth? Ejaculating? Getting a female pregnant?
There's no "there" there in all this useless information. It's just human noise.
And fuck anybody who thinks that human noise is worth bankrupting a nation, or spying on people, or going to war.
And people bitch when I broach the possiblity that Russia & China might just nuke America back to the stone age.
Govt stuff like this is one reason I say America isn't worth saving. More and more people are buying into it, soaking up that "see something say something" mentality.
When half the population is spying on the other half, is the nation worth saving? I say no.
One word "STASI"
from wikipedia this could be DHS.
Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 people in an effort to root out the class enemy.[5][6] In 1989, the Stasi employed 91,015 persons full time, including 2,000 fully employed unofficial collaborators, 13,073 soldiers and 2,232 officers of GDR army,[7] along with 173,081 unofficial informants inside GDR[8] and 1,553 informants in West Germany.[9] In terms of the identity of inoffizielle Mitarbeiter (IMs) Stasi informants, by 1995, 174,000 had been identified, which approximated 2.5% of East Germany's population between the ages of 18 and 60.[5] 10,000 IMs were under 18 years of age.[5]
While these calculations were from official records, according to the federal commissioner in charge of the Stasi archives in Berlin, because many such records were destroyed, there were likely closer to 500,000 Stasi informers.[5] A former Stasi colonel who served in the counterintelligence directorate estimated that the figure could be as high as 2 million if occasional informants were included.
As I read this article that's the exact word that came to mind, Stasi. We really don't have the funds for this type of nonsense and it should be illegal. The U.S. has a long way to go to recover from all the feces thrown on our civil liberties and privacy.
There's 320 million people in the US...God knows how many illegal immigrants...Drug running...gun running...Mass fraud...Mass bankruptcy...Murder...Arson...Child abuse...All these horrible things that can happen by true insane criminality...
A billion keyboard hits and mouse clicks every second...
And we Americans are "supposed" to be worried about 'thought crimes'...Owning some Gold or Silver Eagles or Kruggerands...Worried about our neighbors telling on us!!! Going to the grocery store and getting one too many cans of Beefaroni...Get a grip...Take a timeout...This is hysteria plain and simple...
The easiest way to control and scare people is for them to do it to themselves...
When I see posters here joke and mock (or not?) to other posters about seeing them in the gulags or FEMA camps...Grow a F**kin spine you coelenterates...
zH is a coneyIsland of the gulagShore
I like that word "coelenterates" - thats why I check ZH - to learn new smart words by smart people like you.
oh and I also admire tough talkin guys that have the guts to hit the keys just right to make words that are strong and thick skinned - you my new hero.
We ought to hold a National SAR Day: for those who are able, move some amount slightly less than $10,000 into your local bank account and carefully withdraw it in cash from a teller window. Then, after the teller has carefully countied the FRNs out in your presence, without touching the money, tell her that you have changed your mind and you want to deposit the money back into your account. If you have chosen to cash out enough, this will trigger the bank's policy on requiring the teller to fill our an SAR on the transaction. Maybe if enough people do this often enough, the worthless SAR system will collapse of its own weight.
This is thoroughly revolting.
Pitchforks! It has to happen sometime...alas I fear we'll go silently...we already are...
adolph hitler, mao, and pol pot would have a wet dream over this....amerika is a totalitarian state and no one fights it
Where is the outcry? Where are the marches on Washington? We are pretty well doomed.
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