This could affect many in the collecting/investment community.
What's good for America....rest assured our goverment will act accordingly.Why just last week they announced our very own no fly list, American made.
Makes you wonder-you're too guilty to fly(dangerous to the safety of an aircraft and its passangers) but not guilty enough to charge??!! Incredible,you're guilty until proven innocent.
IMPORTANT AND URGENT WARNING FORANYONE WITH A BANK SAFE DEPOSIT BOX:
U.S DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY HAS TOLD BANKS - IN WRITING - IT MAY INSPECT SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES WITHOUT WARRANT AND SIEZE ANY GOLD, SILVER GUNS OR OTHER VALUABLES IT FINDS INSIDE THOSE BOXES!
By: Hal Turner
According to in-house memos now circulating, the DHS has issued orders to banks across America which announce to them that "under the Patriot Act" (whatever that crap means) the DHS has the absolute right to seize, without any warrant whatsoever, any and all customer bank accounts, to make "periodic and unannounced" visits to any bank to open and inspect the contents of "selected safe deposit boxes."
Further, these boxes, taken from a DHS list of people who are considered "hostile to the present government, citizens who have visited outside the United States before or after 9/11 to countries now considered to be hostile to this country" " :Russia, Peoples Republic of China, Mexico, Guatemala, Spain, Italy, Egypt, France, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Turkey or the Sudan" or any citizen who has a bank account in any of those listed countries are considered to be of legitimate interest in the "ongoing investigations into foreign and domestic terrorism."
Further, the DHA "shall, at the discretion of the agent supervising the search, remove, photograph or seize as evidence" any of the following items"bar gold, gold coins, firearms of any kind unless manufactured prior to 1878, documents such as passports or foreign bank account records, pornography or any material that, in the opinion of the agent, shall be deemed of to be of a contraband nature."
DHS memos also state that banks are informed that any bank employee, on any level, that releases "improper" "classified DHS Security information" to any member of the public, to include the customers whose boxes have been clandestinely opened and inspected and "any other party, to include members of the media" and further "that the posting of any such information on the internet will be grounds for the immediate termination of the said employee or employees and their prosecution under the Patriot Act."
Currently, the two major targets of these completely illegal and warrantless searches and seizures, are the California-based Bank of America and the Compass Bank. The former is one of the largest banks in the United States and Compass Bank ( Compass Bancshares, Inc). is a $30.1 billion Southwestern financial holding company which operates 385 full-service banking centers including 139 in Texas, 89 in Alabama, 73 in Arizona, 42 in Florida, 32 in Colorado and 10 in New Mexico.
Of extraordinary interest to the DHS are Bank of America records relating to their Bank Of America <>'SafeSend Money to Mexico'<> program.
It should be noted that the DHS states that "in the event that the owners of these confiscated objects do not file an administrative complaint within three (3) months subsequent to said confiscation, the aforesaid items shall pass to the permanent custody of the DHS"
Isn't that wonderful? You and your wife are visiting relatives in France, Uncle Einar's $100,000 collection of gold coins is lifted out of your box and you don't get back to the United States for two months and don't check your looted box for another four months. My, some nice DHS person, or maybe two, has a nice new BMW to show off to his neighbors. Tough luck, Uncle Einar!
Oh, and you might like to know that the spate of "robberies" of bank credit card and personal data that took place in and around February of 2005, were not robberies at all.
The DHS, using its muscle, simply went off with trucks full of data to mine at their leisure. The banks involved said nothing, and will say nothing.
If they do, their people will be at a nice Federal country club, making shoes for the Army while the DHS bosses, to include the FEMA thieves, will be buying property on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills or Palm Desert. Or some nice marina like Marine del Ray to keep their nice new 150' yacht.
To date, in California alone (the only report I have seen) over 1,500 banks have been "visited" and boxes rifled between January, 2005 and January, 2006.
SECOND INDEPENDENT SOURCE
Another source for this information reports as follows:
. . . . . .One other more obscure sign of an "impending disaster" is the
alarming notice being put out by Bank of America officials, who in
recent weeks have been secretly instructing bank managers and
employees how to deal with customers in the case of a "national
emergency."
And to verify this claim as well as LA being a feasible target, a Bank
of America manager from Irvine, Ca., reported two weeks ago that her
bank held a "workshop" where the last two days were dedicated to
discussing new security measures.
According to the branch manager, the workshop included members
from the Homeland Security Office who instructed employees how to
field calls from customers and what they are to tell them in the event
of a national disaster.
Apparently, the manager was told how only agents from Homeland
Security, during such a disaster, would be in charge of opening safe
deposit boxes and determining what items would be given to bank
customers.
The manager then reported that she was instructed that no weapons,cash,
gold, or silver will be allowed to leave the bank and only various
paperwork will be given to its owners. After discussing the matter with
them at length, she and the other employees were then told "not to
discuss the subject with anyone."
Since speaking anonymously for fear of Homeland Security reprisals,
the bank manager has recently given notice she is leaving Bank of
America.
And to verify this claim, another Houston resident alerted about the
California case, decided to recently question a local bank employee
about any Homeland Security visits in Houston.
"I found the news alarming and decided to find out more myself," said
the Houston resident wishing to remain anonymous. "On a trip to my
bank here in Houston, I remarked to a young bank employee "well I
guess you've been told all that stuff by the manager and the Homeland
Security about what to tell your customers."
"And to my amazement, the young woman came right out and said
yes she'd been through all that, then whispered to me across the
counter, "But we're not supposed to talk about - I could lose my
job."
