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Title: Problem, Reaction, Solution – How The Government Will Take Your Cash
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Activist Post
URL Source: http://www.activistpost.com/2016/11 ... government-will-take-cash.html
Published: Nov 24, 2016
Author: Dylan Charles
Post Date: 2016-11-25 06:23:29 by Deckard
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Views: 2694
Comments: 5
Every revolution needs a good crisis in order to germinate its seed. The cashless revolution is no different. ~Patrick Henningsen Depending on who you ask, the idea of a cashless society is either a utopia of modern convenience or an Orwellian nightmare, but recent international events coupled with stories about ATM cyber-hacks are fair signals that a major push for the cashless society is underway and will intensify. It seems the acceleration toward a cashless society is becoming like one of an amusement arcade amid the range of novel payment devices coming onto the market. These innovative payment devices are yet another novelty enticing customers toward fully traceable and trackable digital transactions, indeed cultivating user familiarity with a variety of cashless and contactless methods of payment. ~Steven Tritton In India, the government just banned the use of two of the most commonly used bank notes, the 500 and 1000 rupee notes (worth about US$7 and $14 respectively), and is reportedly making a move to restrict gold imports. Citibank in Australia just announced that it would no longer accept coins or notes, opting instead for digital transactions only. Denmark, however, may be the first country to go fully cashless, as its government has already begun implementing a program to move retailers off of cash, with the openly stated endgame of creating a fully cashless society. A cashless society is “no longer an illusion but a vision that can be fulfilled within a reasonable time frame,” said Michael Busk-Jepsen, executive director of the Danish Bankers Association. [Source] To some, convenience and trendiness are the greatest selling points of a digital currency, but in order to make it obligatory for everyone, there must be a public safety threat included in the sales pitch, so that the government can claim that it is acting in our best interests when they force us to accept a digital currency. Because an all-out ban on coins and bank notes is not something that would not be unanimously acceptable, to push for such a drastic societal and cultural change, a predictable game plan is being used. It’s the simple dialectic of problem, reaction, solution. We saw this in play as the threat of terrorism was used to fundamentally change the Bill of Rights and open the door for the creation of a surveillance and police state. We are seeing this in play right now as the push to control information has been introduced as a war on so-called fake news. Now, tell-tale signs are now emerging that the same type of media push is underway to make cash seem like a risky inconvenience in the modern technological world. Consider the following stories, which foreshadow a coming public relations campaign to warn that developments in cyber warfare make the distribution of cash via ATMs too risky to continue. This first report from Reuters covers ATM attacks in Europe: Cyber criminals have remotely attacked cash machines in more than a dozen countries across Europe this year, using malicious software that forces machines to spit out cash, according to Russian cyber security firm Group IB. Diebold Nixdorf and NCR Corp, the world’s two largest ATM makers, said they were aware of the attacks and have been working with customers to mitigate the threat. The newly disclosed heists across Europe follow the hacking of ATMs in Taiwan and Thailand that were widely reported over the summer. Although cyber criminals have been attacking cash machines for at least five years, the early campaigns mostly involved small numbers of ATMs because hackers needed to have physical access to cash out machines. The recent heists in Europe and Asia were run from central, remote command centers, enabling criminals to target large numbers of machines in “smash and grab” operations that seek to drain large amounts of cash before banks uncover the hacks. “They are taking this to the next level in being able to attack a large number of machines at once,” said Nicholas Billett, Diebold Nixdorf’s senior director of core software and ATM Security. “They know they will be caught fairly quickly, so they stage it in such a way that they can get cash from as many ATMs as they can before they get shut down.” [Source] On November 20th, 2016, the Wall Street Journal reported on the following attacks in Asia, under the headline, “Hackers Program Bank ATMs to Spew Cash – After crimes in Taiwan and Thailand, the FBI warns of similar potential attacks in U.S.” In Taiwan and Thailand earlier this year, the criminals programmed bank ATMs to spew cash. Gang members stood in front of the machines at the appointed hour and collected millions of dollars. Earlier this month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation warned U.S. banks of the potential for similar attacks. The FBI said in a bulletin that it is “monitoring emerging reports indicating that well-resourced and organized malicious cyber actors have intentions to target the U.S. financial sector.” [Source] Of key significance is the warning that large-scale attacks on ATMs are imminent in the United States. This will be pitched as a problem that must be solved by the cashless society, with every corner of our financial lives being watched over by the very banking system that is already plundering our economy and making debt slaves out of our posterity. A brief primer on the concerns of centrally managed digital currencies in a cashless society: Liberated from the burden of physical currency, consumers could make purchases from the convenience of a mobile device. Every transaction would come equipped with fraud protection, reward points and a digital record of its time and location. Comprehensive tracking could help the Internal Revenue Service reclaim billions of tax dollars lost to unreported income, like the $80 I made selling a used refrigerator on Craigslist. Drug dealers, helpless without an anonymous medium of exchange, would acquire wholesome professions. El Chapo might become a claims adjuster. But this universe is missing one of the fundamental aspects of human civilization. A world without paper money is a world without money. Money belongs to its current holder. It doesn’t matter if a banknote was lost or stolen at some point in the past. Money is current; that’s why it’s called currency! A bank deposit, however, grants custody of money to the bank. An account balance is not actually money, but a claim on money. This is an important distinction. A claim is only as good as its enforceability, and in a cashless society every transaction must pass through a financial gatekeeper. Banks, being private institutions, have the right to refuse transactions at their discretion. We can’t expect every payment to be given due process. ~Elaine Ou Time.com reported on the move to ban large US and Euro bills by 2018, citing the need to reduce crime, making the following statement: Large currency denominations are associated with crime. They also make it easier to withdraw large cash sums from banks. [Source] As if withdrawing cash from a bank is a criminal act. As if holding any or all of your earnings in your hand is a criminal act. As if having a way to protect ourselves from inflation and currency manipulation is a crime. As if we can ever have a crime free world when we are governed and ruled over by the biggest criminals the world has ever seen. Is Resistance Futile, or Just Inconvenient?
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
What's the problem with cashless transactions...unless you want to buy drugs, prostitutes or guns and bombs? You have been on a crusade to legalize illegal drugs for a long time. Obviously a cashless society makes drug transactions much harder. Which is kind of the point. Cash is easy to counterfeit, which is not a recommendation. Eliminating cash makes lawbreaking much harder. Why is that bad?
Yeah - because those are the only reasons TPTB are trying to get rid of cash. Those may be the reasons they are telling you, but the truth is much different. And what is wrong about buying guns with cash? Do you want BATF to know where you bought your guns and from whom? You have been on a crusade to legalize illegal drugs for a long time. Obviously a cashless society makes drug transactions much harder. My views on this have nothing to do with my opinion (and that of others) that the war on drugs is an abject failure. Eliminating cash makes lawbreaking much harder. Why is that bad? It also inconveniences the rest of us and makes it easier for the government to confiscate your assets. You really don't get it, do you? My guess is that when this does happen, you'll be among the first in line to accept the Mark of The Beast. So, you believe in God? Therefore, you oppose abortion, yes? And you recognize that mind-altering drugs and alcohol open the portals of the mind to demons, yes? If you're going to cite "the Mark of the Beast" as a real thing, that really is a threat to one's actual soul, then surely you believe the above two things. If not, well, then your inconsistency simply sounds like special pleading, on a case-by-case basis, for what you want. You have the freedom to do that, of course, but it's not very persuasive to anybody else. If you want to be persuasive, then you need to be able to enunciate precisely what you believe, about God, and then explain how that reaches down into governance. Example: "I don't believe in God" - the position of the atheist, then reaches down and says "And therefore, religious morality and belief has no place in any determination regarding law, governance, public morality or anything else. A non-existent, mythical being should have no voice and no influence over reality. Morality is the opinion of the majority." That would be a consistent opinion. "Beware the mark of the Beast!" but "Abortion is a personal choice of the woman" are positions in dire conflict, unless the unifying theme is "money is more important than human life". And if that's the case, then what one believes is radically incompatible with traditional Christianity. So one must be prepared to articulate the overall theology and philosophy. As it is, what I get from you is pretty much: pot is good, government is evil, and the Beast is gonna get you if we don't have cash. I can make no overall sense of those positions, particularly the "Mark of the Beast" part of it. If you're ACTUALLY afraid of a "Mark of the Beast", that's an acknowledgment that you think the Beast, and God, EXIST, and that some Biblical account (which is the only place that the Mark of the Beast appears) is actually true. But if that's the case, then your position on drugs becomes confusing - not that somebody who believes in God might not be in favor of drug legalization, but I'd expect the arguments for drug legalization to come from a certain, specific angle, and it would not be open-ended libertarianism. And in no sense could a real, believing Christian think that the tools of violence should simply be a lack of concern to anybody, because they clearly MUST be, from a Christian moral perspective. I'm not busting your chops here. I don't view Liberty's Flame as a debate room. Debate bores me anyway, because it's fake. I care little to nothing what others think of me - I believe in a very consistent and thought out set of beliefs - with my political stances and moral philosophy flowing out of my theological beliefs, as any coherent set of beliefs must. I get insulted about those beliefs a lot, by people who don't understand, and whose rants are generally ignorant or just mean-spirited. I ignore it because I'm better than them and I know it. I DO like to engage interesting thoughts, and I find you an interesting person. You very clearly DO have a set of beliefs that drive the issues you post. I have not discerned any sort of Christianity at the heart of any of it - worrying about money, marijuana rights and guns seems about as far from worrying about anything Christlike as one can get - so your comment on "the Mark of the Beast" is interesting to me. It could be just a rhetorical flourish - you don't really believe in any Beast or mark therefrom, or God. But maybe you DO believe in those things. I'm exploring that, because I'm actually INTERESTED. I want to see if your ideas hold together logically, rationally, systematically. I'm sure that you will not AGREE with me on certain issues, in the end, because I already see the disagreements. The question, then, becomes whether there is an identifiable unifying theology behind what you believe - whether you're making judgment calls, as do I, or just have a grab-bag of different ideas. I am rather hoping you will engage in the conversation. I don't bite.
Therefore, you oppose abortion, yes? And you recognize that mind-altering drugs and alcohol open the portals of the mind to demons, yes? Yes, yes and possibly, in some cases where a person is already susceptible to demonic activity. But if that's the case, then your position on drugs becomes confusing - not that somebody who believes in God might not be in favor of drug legalization, but I'd expect the arguments for drug legalization to come from a certain, specific angle, and it would not be open-ended libertarianism. Much of what I believe concerning the war on drugs can be found here. Should Christians Support the ‘War on Drugs’? Philosophically, it is not the purpose of government to be a nanny state that monitors the behavior of its citizens. It is simply not the purpose of government to protect people from bad habits or harmful substances or punish people for risky behavior or vice. Drug prohibition is impossible to reconcile with a limited government. Theologically, and most importantly, there is no warrant in the New Testament for Christians to support a war on drugs by the government. Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another. Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property. No Christian would be in favor of criminalizing all sins. Not when the Bible says that “the thought of foolishness is sin” (Proverbs 24:9). Getting back to your claim that banning cash is a "good thing", you haven't really thought this through. Economics Professor Joseph Salerno : ....the war on cash has already begun in the U.S. and pointed to Citibank’s new policy which disallows patrons to use cash to pay their mortgages and credit cards with cash. He also pointed to Louisiana’s new law forcing “second hand dealers defined as Goodwill Stores, Flea Markets, Garage Sales, to report any cash transactions in which they were receiving or paying cash, and they had to report them on a daily basis to the local police authorities.” He said, “they (secondhand stores) had to get the sellers’ names and license plate number and a number of other of private details.” “This is only a first step,” even though it was only on a state level. “It would be awful if it was on a federal level,” Louisiana Makes It Illegal To Use Cash To Buy Used Goods Besides non-profit resellers like Goodwill, and garage sales, the language of the bill encompasses stores like the Pioneer Trading Post and flea markets. Lawyer Thad Ackel Jr. feels the passage of this bill begins a slippery slope for economic freedom in the state. “The government is placing a significant restriction on individuals transacting in their own private property,” says Ackel. As far as the "Mark of The Beast" - I don't know what the Romanist position is on that, maybe you're one of those who believe the Anti-christ was Nero or some such nonsense. The fact is - the world elite, the real puppet masters are working hard to institute a one world government, one-world religion and a cashless society. Strong vices such as drugs damage others, not just the individual and his property. Children are not property. They have their own lives and require a support structure to rise in a competitive world. If a man wipes himself out with drugs or alcohol, he cannot provide that structure, and then I have to, as a taxpayer. In China, after the Opium War, opium was legal, and the Chinese intellectual class burnt itself out with it, leaving the nation struggling, sagging and backwards. Also hungry. Likewise sexual vice spreads disease, and once again I end up having to pay for that. None of that is going to go away whether drugs are legal or not, or prostitution and other sexual vice is legalized or not. Legalization will lead to more of it, as it does everywhere, but maybe that is ultimately cheaper and less destructive than fighting it criminally. It's a close question. Before I am willing to entertain the legalization of vice, I want it made clear to everybody that this certainly means that we WILL HAVE TO PAY FOR THE DAMAGE, in medical bills and support systems for children. The un-Christian "they made mistakes, so let them and their children die" is evil. If we legalize, I think we will end up having to raise taxes to cover the greater damage that results. Certainly if we end abortion we're going to have much greater welfare costs.
#2. To: Vicomte13 (#1)
What's the problem with cashless transactions...unless you want to buy drugs, prostitutes or guns and bombs?
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
#3. To: Deckard (#2)
My guess is that when this does happen, you'll be among the first in line to accept the Mark of The Beast.
#4. To: Vicomte13 (#3)
(Edited)
So, you believe in God?
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
#5. To: Deckard (#4)
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