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Firearms, the FBI, and Bank of America
House of Reps report embedded here, with firearms portion beginning at p. 30. In the aftermath of January 6, the FBI asked Bank of America to identify all credit or debit card transactions in DC, Maryland, or Virginia on January 5-7. BoA complied, and of its own volition put firearm purchases at the top of the list.
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I assume that from asked we should infer no warrant and someone needs to look at that and see if a multi-million dollar lawsuit can be initiated, like hundreds of millions. They need to be taught a lesson.
It's a non-monetary bribe by Bank of America to to anti-gun federal government bureaucrats, with the quid pro quo being that the regulators will go easy on the BOA when they show up saying "I'm from the Government and I'm here to regulate you!"
What course of action? The Framers stated in convention that the feds had NO AUTHORITY over banking. What do we have? A quasi-private bunch of world bankers supplying us with paper that the Framers did not allow the feds to make and directly prohibited states from emitting. I guess no one reads Eliott's Debates or even Meigs synopsis, The Growth of the Constitution. It helps one learn what was discussed and NOT passed such as the Framers discussing a "select Militia" a la the NG and voting NO, a couple of times or the Framers voting to NOT let the feds create new states out of territory or NOT to let the President suspend laws. If one hasn't studied the document from the framing, one knows little. Study of what occurred during the framing allows one to see the lies of the Courts when they courts claim penumbras, emanations and implications in the Constitution.
Banks are corrupt. They comply because, just like TV and radio, the feds unconstitutionally control licenses. The commerce clause ONLY applies to commerce agreements among various governments. It is not a blanket power over things and truthfully doesn't even cover vessels of transport. Each and every clause on the Constitution is limited. No clause attaches unwritten authority. Even the N&P is restrictive IF one grasps the fact that every clause in the Constitution must be evaluated against every other clause.
Warrant, Schmarrant! IMO 99% of what all government does violates the Constitution. There was another report on another site about the 280,000 warrantless searches conducted by the FBI. The Constitution, regardless of the lies of the courts, does not allow for warrantless searches whatsoever. The first and second clauses of the 4th are separated by a comma which means the clauses are DEPENDENT and cannot be separated. The courts gave us Barron (1833) which said the BoR does not apply to the states. Then the court invents, in the 20th century, the Incorporation Doctrine but that does not repeal Barron. Only certain elements of the BoR have ever been incorporated and then with holes.
While even small local banks are under illegal government control, never go with a big bank.
I'm wondering if people have a course of action against BoA?