From: "Liberty Study Committee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Alert/"Know Your Customer" is back! Date sent: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 17:52:25 -0400 Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] July 20, 2000 Dear friend of liberty, "Know Your Customer" monitoring of your bank account is back! Politicians, federal bureaucrats and institutional elites are, once again, working to make your local bank teller their snitch. Two years ago, Congress passed a bill directing federal banking regulators to issue the infamous "Know Your Customer" regulations. Those regulations would have required your local bank teller to: 1. Determine your identity - not for the bank's purposes, but for the government's purposes. 2. Determine the source of your deposit. 3. Determine your profile of "regular and expected" transactions that is based, not on your actual banking history, but on what your banking history should be according to racial, economic, geographic guidelines. 4. Report your "suspicious" transactions to the federal government. Your "suspicious" transactions will be those that don't fit with the government's profile of "regular and expected" transactions for you. The opposition to "Know Your Customer" was overwhelming. Over 300,000 Americans from coast-to-coast told the banking regulators in Washington to stop "Know Your Customer" regulations. The federal bureaucrats did back down last year - but they're back. "Know Your Customer" (version 2) regulations are included in H.R. 3886. H.R. 3886 will implement the "Know Your Customer" regulations for international transactions. In addition, H.R. 3886 will give the U.S. treasury department (IRS, Customs Service, Secret Service) the power to: 1. Make new requirements on financial institutions at their discretion. 2. Prohibit whole classes of international transactions at their discretion. 3. Prohibit international transactions with certain financial institutions at their discretion. 4. Prohibit international transactions with certain countries at their discretion. H.R. 3886 will decimate privacy between you and the financial institutions with which you do business. Politicians, federal bureaucrats and institutional elites desperately want H.R. 3886 to become law. They will tell you not to worry. "These 'Know Your Customer' regulations will only be used to catch criminals. These regulations will only be used for international transactions." The people who are telling us not to worry today are the same people who tried last year to quietly pass regulations that would have forced your local bank teller to become a government snitch. There are only six weeks of legislative business remaining this year. During those six weeks, many bills will be quietly pushed through the U.S. House in the hope of not being noticed during the year-end flurry of votes. H.R. 3886 is one of those bills. If we fall for "Know Your Customer" for international transactions today, we'll have to suffer from "Know Your Customer" for local transactions tomorrow. That's what they were after in the first place. Please urge your U.S. representative to vote against H.R. 3886. You can send an E-mail by going to http://www.libertystudy.org and click on Communicate at the top of the page. Please tell your representative to vote "no" on H.R. 3886. To call your representative, dial the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121. Also, tell your local bank that you are opposed to H.R. 3886 and ask them to oppose it as well. Last year, many banks helped stop "Know Your Customer" (version 1) after they heard from their customers. Wired News Article http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,37566,00.html Orange Leader (opinion) - "Know Your Customer tries the back door" http://www.orangeleader.com/display/inn_opinion/opinion1.txt Ron Paul Press Release http://www.house.gov/paul/press/press2000/pr071900bank.htm Kent Snyder Liberty Study Committee http://www.libertystudy.org <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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