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Pay Your Credit Card Bill And Be Suspected For A Terrorist

fornax

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Just when I thought that the retards in the current administration and their idiot yes-men in Congress could not surpise me anymore, here comes this surrealistic story: be a responsible consumer, pay your CC bill, and raise the alarms at Home Security. With the inmates running the assylum called Department of Home Security, who knows in how many black lists does poor Mr. Soehnge appear now.

Link to story

 
Move along, nothing to see here 🙁


Seriously this is just the start of how ordinary americans can be affected and I could see stuff like this happening to me as I tend to pay big chunks of debt as I get the chance.
 
Remember, if you don't allow the government to scrutinize your legitimate finances, the Terrists win and Jesus loses, ok?
 
Originally posted by: 1EZduzit
What are we afraid of, terrorists paying off their credit card bills before they blow themselves up??

Only a terrist wouldn't want a big balance with one of our All-American(tm) credit card companies.
 
This isn't really surprising. People who don't know what the hell they are talking about (the "everything changed since 9/11" crowd, for the most part) tend to assume that the best security involves well armed federal agents with unlimited invesigation and detention powers hiding behind every tree, barging around your library and pawing through your credit card statements. They don't use this particular phrase, but deep down they believe that a police state can provide the best security.

Of course this story is a great example of why this kind of thinking is off base. A police state provides poor security because most of its effort is focused on doing stupid things concerning people who, for the most part, have nothing to do with terrorism or any kind of criminal activity at all. When you start seeing the police doing a bunch of pretty pointless looking and invasive stuff all the time, don't just shrug it off and tell yourself it's the police in action, working hard to protect you, because it's almost certainly the opposite.
 
Wow, there are some stupid freaking rules with Homeland Security. Seriously, it doesn't make sense. I just got a new credit card and I'm probably gonna charge $1000 this month which is at least double what I've ever charged, so my payment will be a huge increase. I wonder if I'll be flagged as a terrorist. If so, I hope they don't read my posts here in P&N.
 
Originally posted by: 1EZduzit
What are we afraid of, terrorists paying off their credit card bills before they blow themselves up??

Well that's just the problem. We have all sorts of "security measures" that clearly haven't been thought through even a little bit by anyone.
 
Weird... I've made payments like that before. Actually, I tend to make payments of that size a couple times a year. I've never had any problems.
 
Damn you for trying to cheat that CC company out of all that interest they would have made off you! 😉
 
Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
Weird... I've made payments like that before. Actually, I tend to make payments of that size a couple times a year. I've never had any problems.

I guess that if you usually make $100 payments every month and then $6000, is when the alarm is triggered. What is really stupid is not only that such an alarm exists, but that it is so obvious. The payment doesn't clear until the bank hears back from HS. What a better way to tell the prospective terrist that he's been flagged?

And what if HS tells the bank that the payment is suspect? Will they refuse your payment and forgive you your debt? Most of these post-9/11 laws are so half-baked and poorly thought out, that the morons in Congress who voted for them should be sent to a lonely island in the Antarctic seas and left there for the better of America.
 
I recommend "1984" to anyone who hasn't read it yet. The country has actually been moving in that direction for a while, but the acceleration under Bush is alarming.

Clearly this man was guilty of thought-crime
 
These sorts of actions is what sets off, or should set off, red flags in real patriots.

It's painfully obvious that the policy and law makers do not have the security of people in mind. There are countless people out there, like myself, and many others far smarter and capable then myself who can think of ways a terrorist would strike and try to make changes to the system so that such a strike can be avoided, stopped or minimized.

Based on the actions of said policy makers it is my sad belief that they are actively taking part in systematically destabilizing the national security of the country either on purpose or through incompetence. Most likely a mixture of both. I don't mean they are themselves terrorists, as a loose term, but I mean that they have ulterior motives which do not include the proper protection of the country. Based on what I seen so far it's money.

I find this deeply disturbing. I worry about the direction the US, and other Western nations that follow this ideal, are heading.

It appears as though there is no way to reverse this trend as any major political party seems to be a willing participant. Rather it seems they are only squabling over scraps.

If I think about what can be done by these people, based on what they already did or are trying to do what freedom do I really have. Pathetic.

This spits directly on the grave of every person who ever died for freedom.
 
Originally posted by: tommywishbone
Does anyone really expect anything from DHS? Lying, thieving, bumbling civil servants, doing what they do best... nothing.

You know, nothing makes me feel quite as safe as an unbelievably incompetent federal agency with a hilariously Orwellian name being in charge of protecting me from terrorism.
 
While I disagree wholeheartedly with the the neo-cons and other righties regarding the spying regime they have set up, I have to say the left is being totally hypocritical here. I never met a leftist who didn't believe that not paying taxes was tantamount to being practically a terrorist act. Leftists want just as much spying as the righties do, they just want the spying to take place on financial transactions that can be taxed.
 
Current Administration! You know anything about the $10K limit on spending and how drug laws affected our financial operations in the 1980's? You can't buy a new car cash anymore because of drugheads and dealers. Any transaction over $10K rings all kinds of bells and has for twenty years. Good try, though!
 
Originally posted by: Condor
Current Administration! You know anything about the $10K limit on spending and how drug laws affected our financial operations in the 1980's? You can't buy a new car cash anymore because of drugheads and dealers. Any transaction over $10K rings all kinds of bells and has for twenty years. Good try, though!

I haven't heard any uproar from the left about those laws.
 
hahahaha, reminds me of when I paid off a huge part of my chase mastercard in one payment, and they sent it to the "security" department to track it for 2 weeks to make sure it was a legit payment.
 
Originally posted by: Dissipate
Originally posted by: Condor
Current Administration! You know anything about the $10K limit on spending and how drug laws affected our financial operations in the 1980's? You can't buy a new car cash anymore because of drugheads and dealers. Any transaction over $10K rings all kinds of bells and has for twenty years. Good try, though!

I haven't heard any uproar from the left about those laws.
Our leftie brethren tend to maintain a very refined knowledge base with rather severe philosophical limits!


 
Originally posted by: Condor
Originally posted by: Dissipate
Originally posted by: Condor
Current Administration! You know anything about the $10K limit on spending and how drug laws affected our financial operations in the 1980's? You can't buy a new car cash anymore because of drugheads and dealers. Any transaction over $10K rings all kinds of bells and has for twenty years. Good try, though!

I haven't heard any uproar from the left about those laws.
Our leftie brethren tend to maintain a very refined knowledge base with rather severe philosophical limits!

Severe philosophical limits indeed. Their ideology is nuts.
 
Originally posted by: Dissipate
Originally posted by: Condor
Originally posted by: Dissipate
Originally posted by: Condor
Current Administration! You know anything about the $10K limit on spending and how drug laws affected our financial operations in the 1980's? You can't buy a new car cash anymore because of drugheads and dealers. Any transaction over $10K rings all kinds of bells and has for twenty years. Good try, though!

I haven't heard any uproar from the left about those laws.
Our leftie brethren tend to maintain a very refined knowledge base with rather severe philosophical limits!

Severe philosophical limits indeed. Their ideology is nuts.


I would be careful around mirrors today.
 
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