Saturday, April 28, 2012

Obama administration extends attacks on farmers by confiscating bank accounts

Over the past few years, agencies under the Obama administration have been commencing full scale raids on individual farmers, as well as on family farms, under the auspices of non-legislative regulation created by the ATF, EPA, and FDA.  These raids focussed on several agricultural areas that included the sale of raw milk, grazing on federal lands, water collection and usage, and the raising of certain categories of swine.
On April 23rd however, the stakes got much higher for the individual farmer as the FDA is now using the terrorist based "Bank Secrecy Act" as justification to invade, investigate, and even confiscate the bank accounts of Americans in the agricultural business.
Now, Obama has the Dept. of Justice going after small farmers under the post-911 “Bank Secrecy Act” which makes it a crime to deposit less than $10,000 when you earned more than that.
“The level we deposited was what it was and it was about the same every week,” Randy Sowers told Frederick News. The Sowers own and run South Mountain Creamery in Middletown, Maryland.
Admittedly, when the Sowers earned over $10,000 in February, and learned they’d have to fill out paperwork at the bank for such large deposits, they simply rolled the deposits over to keep them below the none-of-your ****-business amount, rather than waste time on bureaucratic red tape aimed at flagging terrorism or other illegal activities.

Read more: http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-administration-extends-attacks-on-farmers-by-confiscating-bank-accounts

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