Guest Post: Why 308,127,404 Americans Are Going To Get Hosed
Submitted by Simon Black from Sovereign Man
Why 308,127,404 Americans Are Going To Get Hosed
Last week, the US government’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), an agency of the US Treasury Department, published its 2011 annual report. There are a few numbers that are pretty startling.
We’ve discussed before that FinCEN is the executive agency tasked with ensuring that every US banker is an unpaid government spy through Suspicious Activity Reports.
A Suspicious Activity Report, or SAR, includes details of any transaction that may be deemed ‘suspicious’. Naturally, there’s no clear guidance on what is/is not considered suspicious. Banks, brokerages, money service businesses, precious metals dealers… even casinos are required by law to fill them out.
If you withdraw an unusual amount of cash from your bank account, that could be deemed suspicious. If you set up a new payee in your billpay service, that could be deemed suspicious. Anything and everything is fair game.
Banks and other businesses who do not fill out SARs face hefty penalties, including imprisonment. If they disclose to a customer that s/he is the subject of a SAR, they have hefty penalties, including imprisonment.
When push comes to shove and they have to choose between a nasty penalty, or submitting a SAR about your unusual cash withdrawal, which option do you think they’ll pick?
Unsurprisingly, nearly 1.5 million ‘suspicious activity reports’ were filed across the US banking system in 2011, well over twice the number reported in 2004. On top of this, there were an additional -14.8 million- ‘currency transaction reports’ filed in 2011, a 6% jump over last year.
It’s an unfortunate trend which highlights not only the end of financial privacy, but also the massive amount of data being collected by the government to keep tabs on its citizens.
According to this year’s report, a full 36 distinct federal law enforcement agencies requested information from FinCEN (and even more who haven’t). Three dozen. And that doesn’t include state or local law enforcement.
That there are this many federal law enforcement agencies to begin with is mind-boggling… let alone the thought that some knucklehead at the Fish and Wildlife Service has access to bank records.
This is one reason why international diversification is so important– the likelihood of such collection and monitoring is greatly reduced when you bank overseas. Moreover, should one of these dozens of agencies or courts decide that your ‘suspicious activity’ warrants locking you out of your accounts, they have zero jurisdiction overseas.
This is a common tactic in the US; financial activity is one of the many, many areas with a ‘guilty until proven innocent’ burden of proof. You don’t even need to be doing anything wrong (which is the case most of the time this happens) for one of these agencies to freeze your account ‘pending investigation’ with a simple phone call. Good luck getting it unfrozen.
They don’t have that kind of pull overseas. That’s why we’ve been writing for years to more than 100,000 subscribers that the most important thing you can do for your financial security is to have a foreign bank account, no matter where you’re from. Planting a ‘banking flag’ outside of your home country is a very prudent, simple insurance policy.
More and more people are starting to wake up to this reality. FinCEN also tracks the Report of Foreign Bank Account and Financial Accounts, commonly known as the FBAR. This form is required to be submitted by any US taxpayer with foreign financial accounts whose aggregate total exceeded $10,000 at any point during the year.
For example, if you have a bank account in Uruguay with $9,000, and a small brokerage account in Panama with $2,000, you would have to submit the form by June 30th of each year to the Treasury Department.
In 2011, 618,134 US taxpayers filed an FBAR (which would have covered the calendar year 2010). This is more than a 100% increase over the filings just two years ago… a huge jump. I suspect the 2012 figures will show similar growth.
As a percentage of the population, though, the number is embryonic. It still leaves 308,127,404 Americans who have no backup plan, no insurance policy for their hard-earned savings. In other words, 99.8% of the population holds all of their money in an insolvent, corrupted, government-controlled, unsecured (though cleverly disguised) banking system.
Are you one of the 0.2% who is paying attention? If not, what’s holding you back? I’d like to know.
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big brother bitchez...
Fuck 'em, and their law.
We are getting closer to the end of awkward.
pods
OGOLFER I DEI GRATIA CAESAR.
CASH TRANSACTIONS BITCHES - While you can!
Cash transactions over 1000 euros are now illegal in Italy. AGAINST THE LAW. The limit will soon go down to 300.
Coming soon to a "free market democracy" near you.
Ron Paul 2012.
i know i am way late to this party {article}...but it seems our best interest is to give them what they want...they want all of us to be suspected terrorist...lets give it to them...if we get their numbers a little higher than their info is useless...if we all turn ourselves in as suspicious what do they have...if we tell the bank teller, "dont forget your sars..have a nice day"...these people truly are morons...even if they were evil, when you apply simple math to their logic it always blows up at about the third step.....they remind me of the 900 lb. person..really took you to 900 lbs before you figured you were fucked....their moment will be when they have 300,000,000 million suspects, including themselves....their moment of zen...
Everyone knows that only illegals, nutcases, and i-talians pay in cash.
Dude, I got totally fucked when my SOB gov't contractor boss fired me on the spot because I told them the Emperor had no Clothes. Fuck them.
Forget Italy.
CASH Transactions BANNED In AMERICA!This summer, the State Legislature and Governor of Louisiana passed a law that bans individuals and businesses from transacting in cash if they are considered a “secondhand dealer”. House Bill 195 of the 2011 Regular Session (Act 389) broadly defines a secondhand dealer to include “… Anyone, other than a non-profit entity, who buys, sells, trades in or otherwise acquires or disposes of junk or used or secondhand property more frequently than once per month from any other person, other than a non-profit entity, shall be deemed as being in the business of a secondhand dealer. ” The law then states that “A secondhand dealer shall not enter into any cash transactions in payment for the purchase of junk or used or secondhand property.
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/cash-transactions-banned-by-louisi...
I'm afraid to vote you up, so I'll give you a +0 instead.
Mmmph!
prodigy... great music....what ever happened to them, anyway??
Apparently tried and imprisoned for "their law", never to be heard of again. Could have had a great future that band, Music for a jilted generation certainly created a whole new genre of eletronic music.
Prodigy were lamers -- they only had one real hit, and 90% of the vibe of that tune was from the Max romeo sample they used. It's one thing to borrow an idea, it's another to completely steal the original recording.
smack ma BITCH up
Exactly. So I withdraw a bunch in cash......file a SAR.....I don't give a fuck. Some govt weenie asks me, I'll tell him it's none of his damn business WHAT I did with it.
...Unsurprisingly, nearly 1.5 million ‘suspicious activity reports’ were filed across the US banking system in 2011, well over twice the number reported in 2004. On top of this, there were an additional -14.8 million- ‘currency transaction reports’ filed in 2011, a 6% jump over last year.
This is actually good news. There's no way they can meaningfully process all that information.
The more you tighten your report requirements, Bammy, the more transactions will slip through your fingers.
Not after we demonstrate the power of this central banking cartel. In a way, you have determined the choice of the currency that'll be destroyed first.
+1 greenie for the Star Wars reference
And when they discover they can't process the info, they move to summary arrest? And then when jails are full...what? Firing squads?
And here's how to fuck 'em - file an SAR everyday on 1) your 80 year old neighbor whose dog is shitting on your lawn, 2) the bank teller who's wearing a head scarf, 3) the car salesman who has an Arabic-sounding last name - overwhelm the system, bring down the system.
But be a good american and report EVERYTHING.
Baaaaaaaaaaaa - I am the sheeple.
It's not that bad...
To many people have been complaining that they are the 99%
So now they get to be the 99,8%!
The more the merrier!
Now everybody will be broke!
NO MORE 1%!!!
+1
Yes, that's where we are going. The 0.2% do not have (in aggregate) the money to feed the system. They will be coming for the 1% soon (except for the connected...), then the 10%, then the rest.
of course, those few with money and power will gladly throw those with only money (and no power) to the angry masses.... hoping to quietly slip way to hide under a rock.
-- If you see someone buying large amounts of non-perishable food, say something. --
Big 'Sis & DHS
"We’ve discussed before that FinCEN is the executive agency tasked with ensuring that every US banker is an unpaid government spy through Suspicious Activity Reports."
Well, actually, no. The FinCEN, an FIU (or financial intelligence unit) represents a network of 80 FIUs, out of 95 offshore financial centers globally, or tax havens, which the USA is to many foreigners, is chiefly about the control of money laundering.
The FinCENs or FIUs elsewhere, have been set up and/or coordinated by the Egmont Group, in collaboration or by contract with the IMF --- how does one explain FIUs situated at the world's offshore finance centers, or tax havens???
The change in the bank reporting act in the '80s, which somehow snuck through congress, ensured that NAFTA would have to be passed so that the Mexican banks could be privatized and the multinational banks could rush in to recapture the lost drug cartel money laundering which had fled to Mexican banks after those changes to the bank reporting legislation.
David Rockefeller's Council on the Americas lobbied on behalf of NAFTA, and thus it came to pass. Within a year of the passage of NAFTA (championed by Bush #1, all the republicons, and Clinton and Gore), 90% of the Mexican banks were privatized and foreign-owned.
Surprise....surprise, as old Gomer Pyle would exclaim.
History, isn't it fundmanetal? (Read Ravi Batra's Greenspan's Fraud for some background on this.)
"how does one explain FIUs situated at the world's offshore finance centers, or tax havens???"
A cushy job in a sunny place. With a pension (for now).
Ron Paul or this shit is never going to stop.
TAKE THE PLEDGE
I'm pledging to convert 10 other people to Ron Paul voters. I'm starting with extended family members, educating them one at a time. Independents and free thinkers are first. Then come the "conservative' Republicans, Reagan voter types. Last are the Lefties. Those I convert by asking whether they would support a candidate who is RELIABLY:
Anti-war
Anti-corporatist
Anti-surveillance
Anti-bank crime
Anti-prohibition
TAKE THE PLEDGE!
It's a shame you can't ask...
Anti-gay
then RP=President guaranteed.
No matter how bad Obama gets, probably 70% of the left will never vote for RP due to political correctness. It's their religion. The gay thing and the newsletters will be the primary deal-breakers for Ron Paul. I check DailyKos every so often and they hate RP, even going so far as to blame him for the crash of '08. Worse, Kossacks do not see this year's even bigger shit-meteor hurtling towards us, they like the idea of printing money to throw at unfixable problems or take care of people who often couldn't be bothered to take care of themselves, they don't see the government as hopelessly corrupt, and they think that any corruption can be solved by more regulations from the legislative sausage mill. There are still many nauseating cock-slurping paeans about how great Obama is because he supports gay blah blah SEIU blah blah gun control blah blah sustainable affordable blah blah close Gitmo blah blah pay their fair share blah blah blah blah save the fucking whales. Sooner or later, the left will learn their civics lessons in a FEMA camp.
The left are just like the fundies under Bush. Easy to manipulate with push-button ideological blather and irrelevant bugaboos. They will follow their false Messiah off the cliff.
There's a very small and very loud group of folks who'll drown out a lot--if you let them. If you ignore them, they don't matter at all. It would be easy to make bad inferences about virtually any crowd here, too. It makes more sense to worry about the issues than the people. It shouldn't be that it takes only a half-dozen idiots to keep you from achieving your aims.
Yeah, on further consideration I'd say you're right. The left has two broad factions that don't always get along: The activists/socialists/PC memebots, and the hippies/libertines/new agers. The latter are natural allies, and since they tend to keep a low profile, there are probably more of them than it seems. The trouble is reaching them and getting them out to vote (for RP, of course).
I'm on board! I converted my wife and about a dozen co-workers. I just received my Ron Paul 2012 and End the Fed bumper stickers and am displaying them proudly. Go Dr. Paul!
Buffalo Ben Bernank says:
https://horiwood.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/new-zealand-lambs-are-fed.jpg
It rubs the lotion on its skin
...or else it gets the hose again.
Why do corporations get to keep their billions overseas ?
I don't why wonder at all. Wouldn't you?
When you have billions, you own the legal system in the US.
As a corporation, I'll gladly answer the question. Errrr... how do I start? OK. Here it goes: overseas for whom? I mean, it all depends on your perspective, right? Sometimes our, I mean my, my billions are overseas and other times they are domestic. You can't generalize. My point is: these billions are always on the move....
Yes indeed. So true.
It's all about finding synergies that correspond to worlds best practice while maximizing opportunities for stakeholders and other parties.
All being in accordance with the latest internationally agreed regulatory framework.
Next question......
uhhh, because they're people?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD-zuuxvWJg&feature=endscreen&NR=1
Who do you think shows up to those $45,000 a plate "round table discussion" bribery extortion protection money election fund dinners?
How is that TPS (Treasury's People Snooping) report coming along?
Relax. Just another make-work project for bankers and federal employees.
If it is for our protection, then what is the number of criminals, terrorists, and psychopaths whose crimes have been foiled because the government knew their whereabouts, opinions, or spending patterns? My guess is zero, but I might be off by a few. Unfortunately, no government wonk wants to be out doing actual field work...investigating...way too hard. They'd rather review some meaningless report and surf tranny porn.
My all time favorite movie :)
I must heve seen it a dozen times already and it still cracks me up
"Yes, I also am not a poo-sy" -Samir Nagheenanajar.
Hey Peter. Watch out for the cornhole bud.
The Bernank is running a Superman III scam.
The feds are figuring out which portion of the population will end up in Soylent Green food products. I know I am on the list.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVpN312hYgU
It's not just that they would rather watch midget tranny porn on the taxpayer's dime. It's because the government is run by sociopaths, for the benefit of sociopaths, and all sociopaths secretly cooperate with each other even if they don't know it. Government sociopaths don't want to prosecute anyone who commits crimes against the sheeple because they don't view these as crimes, just as we don't view slaughering livestock as a crime. In fact, a steady barrage of crimes against the sheeple makes them bleat for more centralized control, which allows for more exploitation, etc. The only real crimes are defending yourself from sociopaths or exposing the nature of the system they have created.
Soon, the government will know your hemroid grows bigger before your wife knows.
1. And that's only because of where they're looking to put something.
2. I hope she doesn't mistake my hemmroid for something else.
1. And that's only because of where they're looking to put something.
2. I hope she doesn't mistake my hemmroid for something else.
And American 'representatives' passed the laws to do this.
If you like this, you'll just love the ID chip implants!
Those goons on capital hill are good for nothing if you think THEY will somehow make sure everything will be kept legit. They banksters have taken over the country. Nobody dares stand in their way because at the flick of a switch they can zap all the money right out of the country. Think Hang Paulson & GW. It will get very ugly one day.
--FinCEN Complaint Log--
Entry Date 11-13-2012:
Marked for investigation.
cc: DHS
cc: FEMA
cc: Pre-Cog HQ
bcc: Blythe Masters
I wish you hadn't posted this... too sardonic even by my standards...
"Fizz" I can understand. I do hope they never come looking for my jizz though. Very embarassing I suspect.
Those SEC boys are totally into that kind of action, especially if you look like a midget mexican wrestler...
Correction: that would be "naked midget mexican wrestler..."
.further correction: "naked tranny midget Mexican wrestler"
retracted repeat joke
Buying physical PMs and canned beans are obviously "suspicious" transactions. Same as it ever was.
Just gotta file an FuBAR and things will be fine.
Promise.
pods
Pods,
There's a new rule this year allowing gatekeepers to file a shortened form BOHICA, also, in place of the longer form FuBAR.
BOHICA forms are to be completed in cases where suspects are not documented as repeat offenders. (Utilization of specified interrogation techniques can be useful in determining the necessary quantity of cycles needed to ensure future compliance)
FuBAR forms are to be completed in all cases where subject has been deemed to be a repeat offender (directives contained within should be implemented as well)
"canned beans".....they may ensnare quite a few folks here in CA some of whom surprisingly might turn out to be illegal immigrants....
For me, it helps to be pretty much broke. If you have no money to save, none to worry about!
Out of jest, this is why I've setup prepaid gift cards for my sportsbook/online poker transactions. Completely secure, les transparent, and NOT linked to my major bank account.
The increase in FBAR filings is up because the IRS has increased the fines and jail time and added more people to enforce the filings if you didn't give in to their amnesty agreements or start filing. Why would the writer deliberately avoid mentioning this?
Who cares...Americans have been ball less and brainwashed for years now (90%) If they weren't Corzine would have been hung, Ron Paul would be President and there would be no ammo or silver coins on the shelves.
Wanna bet no one filled out anything for Corzine's, uh, activities?
Wrong, Gary Gensler over at the CFTC filled in his name on those checks they stealthily passed to him.....
15,000,000,000,000 / 308,127,404 = $48,681.16
+ $10 trillion in GSE, agency, municipal debt and projected deficit financing. +$50 trillion in unfunded liabilities = FUCKED.
Panopticon
"... a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind, in a quantity hitherto without example."
It's called, people getting their money out of the US banking system... God, this country has turned into a fucking prison. You can't take out YOUR OWN money. TSA want's to run check points all over the country. Your rights as a US citizen are now gone.
Ron Paul is our last hope Bitchez.
I've donated to Ron Paul and will vote for him if I can (here in NC, a late state). But it's naive to think he can do that much. He'll be able to conduct WH business ethically, but as far as getting any legislation past the 535 criminals down the road...
but as far as getting any legislation past the 535 criminals down the road...
... forget it.
... an no, executive orders won't work either, they might get him ...offed.
... just ask JFK.
I don't know why people hope Ron Paul will be elected POTUS. If he was elected, he would be shut down completely, unable to accomplish anything.
c-o-g,
If he was elected, he would be shut down completely, unable to accomplish anything.
I disagree.
IF he gets elected he will have so many followers, all he will need to do is what Regan did, GO directly to the people.
Then ,SHIT happens.
Also if he is elected and effed................the response Nationally by the people would be a sight to behold.
True, under the current system Ron Paul cannot fix things by himself- but he will still be an agent of drastic change. The sociopaths in charge will never give up even the smallest amount of power or wealth if they believe they can hold on to it by cracking down. Ron Paul's initial purpose is to force them to reveal their true nature to the sheeple. We are in for a year of lies, vote hacking, assassination attempts, internet shutdowns, false flag terrorism, war, riots, police thuggery, targeted arrests of delegates, FEMA camps, a blatantly stolen election and a very one-sided civil war when Texas secedes and most other states follow. Ron Paul will be the perfect leader of the New Republic.
You need to get laid.
Too late. Even if Ron Paul is taking 80% of votes, we are in Stalin's stage; does not matter who's voting, but who's counting.
@Alpacanio
It's called, people getting their money out of the US banking system... God, this country has turned into a fucking prison. You can't take out YOUR OWN money.
It never was Your Money - read the text on the FRNs - not redeemable in silver any more - therefore it's their (bogus) money.
As to getting your money out - PM's plus a nearby border (Canadian, Mexican) or Pacific or Atlantic exit via a boat, or if you have a pilots license, a little aircraft.
First things first, get some PMs - then find a place to put them. All can be done.
Your premise is inaccurate. Guidance as to what is "suspicious" is quite clear. I have to take a class on it every stinking year.
"I have to take a class on it every stinking year."
Therein lies the problem in a nutshell.
exactly. btw, what's the "suspicion du jour" for 2012?
i'll bet it is a longer list than it was last year... and the year before that... and the
What if you do not file an FBAR?