Re: FW: Cashless? FDIC to Monitor All Transactions??

[Nyarlathotep <xod@netcom.com>]

This is bullsh!t.  I work for a company that provides tech support for a
number of large banks.  American banks have just about got it in the bag.
It's crap like this that makes everyone look at me like I'm a lunatic when
I tell them where the real problem lies.  No one east of Greenwich has the
money to do what we have done to their nuclear reactors, banks, shipping
systems, dams, and defense systems.  It's a small world folks.

m@

Matthew Ashcraft,             |  
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On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Greg Peisert wrote:

> Have any of you folks heard anything about the scenarios described below? Just BS, or is there something real here? -- Greg
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	jemdet@newnorth.net [SMTP:jemdet@newnorth.net]
> 
> > By Ken Raggio
> > 1/3/99
> >
> > Major bank says it will not issue cash in April
> >
> > A close friend of mine was conducting a Y2K seminar in mid-November with
> > about 300 people in attendance. At the end of the session, a lady
> > introduced herself as a bank official at the largest bank in her state. My
> > friend asked her if her bank was ready for the Year 2000 computer crisis.
> >
> > Her reply was very interesting. First of all, she said that every bank
> > employee had been instructed to answer all public inquiries by saying "Yes,
> > our bank is Y2K Compliant." Any employee who answered otherwise would be
> > fired.
> >
> > Then she informed him candidly that their bank had already conducted two
> > Y2K tests on their computer systems. BOTH TESTS failed completely -- shut
> > down! So in spite of the public assurances that this huge bank is ready for
> > Y2K, they are plainly LYING to the public.
> >
> > Secondly, she offered additional information. She said, "We have also been
> > informed that in April, 1999, WE WILL NO LONGER ISSUE CASH!"
> >
> > What?? Friend, can you tell me why the largest bank in that state has
> > informed it's officers that it will not issue cash in April?
> >
> > I suspect that something big is about to happen, and it's going to happen a
> > whole lot sooner than we think.
> >
> > I just received a short email from one of my readers with a one-line
> > message;" My daugher works for ____ (one of the largest banks on the East
> > Coast), and they have advised them to set aside enough cash for 3-6 months.
> > They say the bank could be closed for days at a time."
> >
> > Banks controlling us - thumbprints.
> >
> > I don't know what that means, but I don't like the way it sounds.
> >
> > Recently, I went to a bank (not my own) to cash a check that was drawn on
> > that bank. I properly endorsed the check (it was written to me), and
> > presented my driver's license with photo ID. The teller handed me an INK
> > PAD, and asked me to put my THUMB PRINT on the back of the check.
> >
> > I refused to give my thumb print to cash the check. I insisted that she
> > cash the check without my thumb print. She said she could not. I asked to
> > speak to her manager.
> >
> > Her manager came out and I told him that I considered the thumb print
> > requirement to be an invasion of my privacy. He told me that it was bank
> > policy, and he could not cash the check without my thumb print.
> >
> > I asked to speak to the Branch Manager. They took me into his office. He
> > was a senior executive with the bank. I told him that I wanted to cash my
> > check. I told him that I had given the teller adequate endorsement and
> > identification, and I expected them to cash the check without my thumb print.
> >
> > He instantly grew belligerent and informed me that if I didn't want to give
> > my thumb print that I could just go to another bank. I told him that I
> > didn't believe that it was necessary to have my thumb print to identify me.
> > He explained that it was company policy. I asked him what they were going
> > to do with my thumb print. He said that they were going to put it on
> > computer file.
> >
> > I said that I didn't WANT my thumb print in their computer files. He
> > suggested I take my check somewhere else. I left immediately.
> >
> > My point in telling you this is that we are getting closer and closer to a
> > banking system that increasingly invades the privacy and rights of its
> > customers.
> >
> > The FDIC is demanding laws that will report our bank transactions.
> >
> > This week's headlines included the story of the FDIC pushing Congress to
> > pass new laws requiring banks to report the banking activities of all their
> > customers. The public is outraged, but in the end, the FDIC will probably
> > get what they want. Every time we make a transaction that is a little
> > different than our established "pattern", our bank will be reporting us to
> > "Big Brother". It is an economic Gestapo. Economic sanctions is one of the
> > New World Order's more ingenious control tactics.
> >
> > Ultimately you will be so outraged, you will wish you could get out of the
> > system. Unfortunately, you will not be able to do business outside the
> > system. 
> 
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