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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-15-11 12:34 PM Original message |
Who says we don't have (at least the beginnings of) a police state? |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-15-11 12:37 PM Response to Original message |
1. Beginning? Since the Patriot Act, we've been in one. nt |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-15-11 12:40 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. We don't see much of what happens in the outside world |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-15-11 01:04 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. +1 |
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reggie the dog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-15-11 03:38 PM Response to Reply #1 |
26. we have been a police state since the war on drugs |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-15-11 06:21 PM Response to Reply #26 |
30. OMG! nt |
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grasswire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-15-11 12:57 PM Response to Original message |
3. insanity |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-15-11 12:58 PM Response to Original message |
4. This is just another creeping dimension of the dysfunctional War on some Drugs, |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-15-11 03:05 PM Response to Reply #4 |
16. Agree with every word, Joe. |
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reggie the dog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-15-11 03:43 PM Response to Reply #4 |
27. at the airport security you are supposed to empty everything |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-15-11 01:00 PM Response to Original message |
5. The banks have been told to stirctly enforce the Patriot Act provisions about tracking our money. |
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Autumn Colors (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-15-11 01:06 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. The amount is lower than that |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-15-11 01:15 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Their threshold is lower than that |
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reggie the dog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-15-11 03:46 PM Response to Reply #5 |
28. my credit card company called my parents in the usa |
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MerryBlooms (940 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-15-11 01:04 PM Response to Original message |
6. Same with checks that meet or exceed that random |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-15-11 02:09 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. AND the bank cannot/will not tell you if the Feds look in your SD box. |
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MerryBlooms (940 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-15-11 02:19 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. I've been with a two credit unions for 30 years |
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kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-15-11 02:23 PM Response to Original message |
12. Nobody lays down a foundation this far reaching & strong, |
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LuvNewcastle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-15-11 02:36 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. +1 |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-15-11 06:24 PM Response to Reply #12 |
31. Yes. |
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Downwinder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-15-11 02:45 PM Response to Original message |
14. We have a police state that any third world dictator would be |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-15-11 02:47 PM Response to Original message |
15. It takes a mighty ability to suspend disbelief to think otherwise, in my opinion |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-15-11 03:10 PM Response to Original message |
17. Thred deserves another kick or so, people need to see this, IMHO. |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-15-11 03:11 PM Response to Original message |
18. Not trying to be nosy but about how much cash are we talking about here? |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-15-11 03:22 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. $2500 |
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truebrit71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-15-11 03:28 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. AFAIK the "threshold" for cash is $10,000, or $10,000 over a rolling 30 day period... |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-15-11 03:31 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. I was told by someone at my bank that had been brought down to $5000 several years ago |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-15-11 03:52 PM Response to Reply #22 |
29. Well, to be honest |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-15-11 03:28 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. That is a pretty damn low threshold to bring on that amount of scrutiny |
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harun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-15-11 03:17 PM Response to Original message |
19. Been a police state for a long time. |
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barbtries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-15-11 03:20 PM Response to Original message |
20. your money! |
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reggie the dog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-15-11 03:36 PM Response to Original message |
25. here in france the bank asked me where i got 2500 euros cash from |
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