Operation Choke Point
I was looking back on some old notes I had made long before I even thought about doing something as crazy as writing the daily dose and I came across a few notes I had made about Operation Choke Point. How many of you are aware of what this operation was and when it came about? I didn’t expect that our friends and readers from outside the USA would be familiar with it, but I also didn’t expect that so many of those in the USA weren’t familiar with it.
O'Bama did it...
Operation Choke Point came about during the O’Bama administration, yes I know I didn’t spell that name correctly, it was done intentionally. He, in my opinion, is another former president that deserves no respect, so I won’t even give him the proper spelling of his name right now.
Operation Choke Point was a plan designed and implemented to cut off certain legal and lawful businesses with the ability to make financial transactions. It would be the strangle hold or choke hold on these businesses that would end up putting them out of business.
Land of free...
Without getting into all the details of how the operation worked, what I have told you thus far is completely accurate, so I have to ask, “is the United States really the land of the free?” I hate that I have to keep bringing these questions up but someone has to ask them, so are we or are we not free?
If you and answered “yes” and now you want to tell me just how much more freedom we have than some other countries with dictators like North Korea, Cuba, Nicaragua and a whole slew of others feel free to do so; but that doesn’t make us free here in the USA, it means that the people in those other countries “know” the situation they are in.
Department of (in)Justice
When the Department of (in)Justice can come up and put pressure on banks to cut off certain businesses ability to conduct financial transactions you and me are living in a dictatorial land just like all those other countries previously mentioned, the only difference is we are not seeing it for what it is. A person could make the case that we are wearing the old style glasses with lenses as thick as the bottom of Coca Cola bottles made of rose colored glass. Who gave you the prescription for those glasses anyway? Take the glasses off, your eyes aren’t that damn bad, but your brain needs to be willing to trust what your eyes are seeing.
One more reason...
I titled this Daily Dose “One more reason” because there is a lot of concern right now in this community over the price of steem and other crypto currencies as well. I am here to tell you that Operation Choke Point should stand as the reason and a reminder that Steem and other decentralized crypto currencies are true freedom from government. So now is not the time to pack it in and call it quits, it is time to double down and promote what we have going on here and in the cryptosphere.
The evil guns...
Some of the businesses targeted in Operation Choke Point were gun dealers and manufacturers. I know that some of you might be inclined to believe that guns are of no good and to many people die from gunshots each year, I get all of that, but here in the USA those are legal and lawful businesses. There may come a point in time that the only currency that you could purchase a gun with might be steem or bitcoin or one of the others. Gun dealers and other “risky businesses” as the government likes to call them, might very well start paying attention and adopt transacting in crypto if they know what is good for them.
tRump to the rescue...
Just so you know, yes I am aware that Operation Choke Point has been curtailed by the tRump administration. For those of you who wondered why the NRA was backing him so strongly; this daily dose may have answered your questions on that. Who is to say the next president won’t re-instate Operation Choke Point?
Could pizza be next...
Hell, the next president may end up being old Michelle O’Bama and pizza parlors might end up being cut off from making financial transactions with the banks or how about places that sells alcohol? Who is to say your business or industry won’t be next to come under scrutiny? You see, it isn’t about the business, it’s about the ability of the government to do it, and there is where lays the problem. This is freedom?
I keep preaching on here that we need to hold our elected officials accountable for their actions or in most cases; inaction. We also know that it is a long slow process to weed out incumbent politicians so we need to be working on that and working to keep growing the decentralized crypto currencies.
What exactly was it...
So, for those of you who answered “yes” to the freedom question, what exactly was it you wanted to tell me?
#wakeupamerica
Until next time,
