Financial Surveillance: Feds Flagged Banks Transactions With Terms Like ‘MAGA’ & ‘TRUMP’
The federal government has flagged terms like “MAGA” and “Trump” for financial institutions if those terms were included in transactions, according to the House Judiciary Committee.
The Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government claimed Wednesday it had obtained documents proving the FBI was flagging these terms as well as “individuals who shopped at stores like Cabela’s or Dick’s Sporting Goods, or purchased religious texts like a bible, may also have had their transactions flagged.”
“This kind of pervasive financial surveillance, carried out in coordination with and at the request of federal law enforcement, into Americans’ private transactions is alarming and raises serious concerns about the FBI’s respect for fundamental civil liberties,” the subcommittee stated in a press release.
We now know the federal government flagged terms like “MAGA” and “TRUMP,” to financial institutions if Americans completed transactions using those terms.
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) January 17, 2024
What was also flagged? If you bought a religious text, like a BIBLE, or shopped at Bass Pro Shop. pic.twitter.com/jjRaVNItWz
“In light of these revelations, Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) has requested transcribed interviews from Peter Sullivan, Senior Private Sector Partner for Outreach in the Strategic Partner Engagement Section of the FBI, and Noah Bishoff, former Director of the Office of Stakeholder Integration and Engagement in the Strategic Operations Division of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).”
In the letter to Bishoff, Jordan explained the documents obtained by the committee show that in the wake of January 6, 2021, FinCEN distributed materials to banks directing them to search for “extremism indicators” in transactions like “the purchase of books (including religious texts) and subscriptions to other media containing extremist views.”
“In other words, FinCEN urged large financial institutions to comb through the private transactions of their customers for suspicious charges on the basis of protected political and religious expression,” Jordan wrote.
Jordan also explained that the committee has evidence FinCEN presented slides to banks instructing them to flag firearm purchases at sporting supplies stores like Cabela’s and Dick’s Sporting Goods.
“Despite these transactions having no apparent criminal nexus—and, in fact, relate to Americans exercising their Second Amendment rights—FinCEN seems to have adopted a characterization of these Americans as potential threat actors,” Jordan wrote.
“This kind of pervasive financial surveillance, carried out in coordination with and at the request of federal law enforcement, into Americans’ private transactions is alarming and raises serious doubts about FinCEN’s respect for fundamental civil liberties,” he added.
This comes after Newsweek reported in October that the FBI had created a new “extremism” category to track mainly Trump supporters ahead of the 2024 election.
Notably, the number of domestic extremism cases has dropped since Jan. 6, but journalist William Arkin told Newsweek that “sociopolitical developments—such as narratives of fraud in the recent general election, the emboldening impact of the violent breach of the U.S. Capitol, conditions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and conspiracy theories promoting violence—will almost certainly spur some domestic terrorists to try to engage in violence.”
Read Jordan’s letter to Bishoff:
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BREAKING VIDEO: John Kerry Confronted By Reporters For His Carbon Fraud
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Watch: The Most Ridiculous 75 Seconds Of Bullsh*t From Davos Yet On ‘Ecocide’
Just when you thought you had heard it all…
This lady (we are presuming she/they is/are a lady) – who looks like she has not missed a meal in her life – explains – with no sense of irony or shame – that farming the land, fishing for food, and worse still ‘making money’ is now on par with mass murder or genocide.
Jojo Mehta – founder of ‘Stop Ecocide Now’ – explains in her upper-class English accent to her ultra-rich peers in Davos that:
“We have this cultural, very ingrained habit of not taking damage to nature as seriously as we take damage to people or property.”
Her goal is to have “mass damage and destruction of nature” legally recognized as “a serious crime.”
“With human rights, mass murder and genocide are serious crimes, but there is no equivalent in the environmental space.”
“Unlike an international crime like genocide that involves a specific intent, with ecocide, what we see is that people are trying to do is make money, is farm, is fish… and what’s missing is an awareness of the side effects and collateral damage that happens…”
Enjoy…
Latest buzzword just dropped from the Devil’s den in Davos.
— Kat Kanada (@KatKanada_TM) January 16, 2024
Farming, fishing and making money is now called “Ecocide.”
So basically if you want to live, you’re committing a crime if these people get their way.
???☠️pic.twitter.com/6hTQMlEsVe
You literally cannot make this shit up! The socials quickly responded…
I guess ecocide doesn’t include killing whales to put up windmills.
— Jeff Flinn (@JeffFlinn_) January 17, 2024
That’s right, NetZero is net population growth of zero. That’s what they were after all along, no more euphemisms about carbon emissions, they’re moving on.
— Bulagan (@Bulagan1996) January 17, 2024
Ecocide is actually Eliteocide—which is allowing unelected elites, to tell farmers to stop farming, fisher to stop fishing, miners to stop mining—when you allow those things to happen, that is when you starve, unrests happens and society collapses.
— Christopher Olguin (@cjo_olguin) January 17, 2024
Because you listen to the…
These people are evil.
— Paul G ???? (@Paulgman47) January 17, 2024
“Do as I say, not as I do…”
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Watch: Kamala Harris Tells The View She’s ‘Scared As Heck!’ to Run Against ‘The Crazies’
Joe Biden’s Vice President Kamala Harris told the shrews on Disney/ABC daytime talk show The View she’s “scared as heck” to be campaigning against Donald Trump’s MAGA political machine.
“Now, are you scared?” The View ringleader Joy Behar asked Harris. “What could happen if Trump ever became, God forbid, president again? And what are you going to do to stop the crazies?”
“I am scared as heck,” Harris responded, adding, “Which is why I’m traveling our country.”
NEW – Kamala Harris is “scared as heck.”pic.twitter.com/xtQiGHBYDy
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) January 17, 2024
“You know, there’s an old saying that there are only two ways to run for office. Either without an opponent or scared,” Harris continued, going on to say, “So on all of those points, yes. We should all be scared.”
“But as we know, and certainly this is a table of very powerful women,” she continued. “We don’t run away from something when we’re scared. We fight back against it. Right? Yeah. So many of us know when we are scared for the future of our children, do we then stay in bed with the covers over our head? Nope.”
Despite acknowledging Americans’ fear for the “future of our children,” Harris un-ironically went on to promote abortion under the guise of securing “women’s health rights,” saying, “In this year of our Lord, 2024, the government should not be telling women what to do with their bodies, and so it’s that basic.”
.@VP Kamala Harris to @TheView: “In this year of our Lord, 2024, the government should not be telling women what to do with their bodies, and so it’s that basic.” https://t.co/cVclFZQmjA pic.twitter.com/5qxsDwDOQZ
— The View (@TheView) January 17, 2024
She also went on to downplay concerns over Biden’s advanced age, claiming despite being 81 years old he’s as fit as a spring chicken.
Additionally in the following clip, she claimed the illegal alien crisis was the fault of Republicans.
Former Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany raised eyebrows after she praised Harris’ interview during a Fox News segment, saying while she disagreed with everything the VP said, she effectively communicated her message, and skillfully mentioned Democrats’ key voting issue “abortion” repeatedly.
Very very rare praise on Fox News for VP Kamala Harris’ interview on The View today
— Eugene Daniels (@EugeneDaniels2) January 17, 2024
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In spite of her fearless attitude, it’s clear the vice president like the rest of the Democrat establishment is rattled by Trump’s dominance in the GOP and worry they will soon again have to contend with the enthusiastic MAGA voting bloc.