Sunday, October 11, 2009
Federal Reserve Violating the Patriot Act??
I ran across an interesting site while doing some research on the Patriot Act and its violators. This little blurb from Campaign for Liberty flips around the Patriot Act on the government and its Federal Reserve. Essentially what is seen here is a gas station owner, who follows the rules and regulations of the Patriot Act, role reversing and calling out the Federal Reserve for not following their own rules. The Patriot Act was created to protect the United States against any type of terrorism and allows for the government to pry into the personal business of anyone. Part of the protection is background checks on people who transfer, spend, and use larger amounts of money than usual. In this article, through the quotes of Bernanke(Chairman of the Federal Reserve), the author explains how the Federal Reserve does not file what happens with the money that they lend to other countries. This is the violation of the Act itself. When will we start to see other government Acts not carried out by themselves but forced to carry out by us??
It always makes me laugh when governments will contradict and not follow their own laws
ReplyDeleteI feel like the norm today is for governments to be hypocritical and even more the politicians. It is a sad day when we can catch our government doing wrong in so many ways and yet nothing can or is being done about it..
ReplyDeleteOh these comments are a little depressing. You youth are supposed to be more more hopeful with the new administration! I guess it's hard not to be cynical about governments when the topic of the patriot act is raised.
ReplyDeleteWell, in general I feel that after 9/11, youths have become and grown to be very pessimistic and cynical. I noticed that there was a growing trend of emo kids during my high school years. (At least in my opinion).
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