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Hunt for Taxes: Safe-Deposit Boxes Under Attack
HSBC is altering its oversight of safe-deposit boxes in Hong Kong. Governments are targeting safe-deposit boxes to look for cash that is hiding from taxation. HSBC, a U.K. bank, is now moving against claimed financial crimes by altering conditions for safe-deposit boxes. This is becoming a global trend. Anything of value that is stored in a safe-deposit box is now considered money laundering. Governments want their taxes and all the laws are changing to ensure they get their money.
Who are “The People”?
Armstrong Economics Blog
Re-Posted Jun 3, 2016 by Martin Armstrong
The familiar phrase “We the People” no longer means what it used to. The majority of Americans do not understand how the law is made and assume Congress proposes all legislation and therefore makes law. That is not the case. The president can refuse to enforce any law or impose it arbitrarily under the claim of discretion, and the Judiciary is responsible for altering law every day. Judges create the majority of laws to impress their particular brand of bias in a very undemocratic manner by using their interpretation of the words written by Congress in any Act or the Constitution. So all you need is a judge to twist the words around to make new law, which is why fights erupt over appointing Supreme Court justices who can become legal unelected dictators.
Money laundering was intended for the war on drugs. Today, hiding your money from the government, which includes placing cash in a safe deposit facility, is money laundering thanks to judicial law. Judges twist the same statutes around so that the words mean whatever they want it to mean. It is your burden to appeal and prove that the judge is wrong. Good luck. Cops protect cops, and so do judges.
On March 18, 2008, the Supreme Court heard the case of District of Columbia v. Heller (07-290), regarding the Second Amendment, which reads:
“A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
The ACLU argued in that the term “We the People” should have its definition changed to mean “We the State Militia.” Changing that definition can effectively prevent individuals from having the right to own a gun. The Constitution would become complete trash if the term was found to have different meanings, but lawyers have become wordsmiths and use this ability to create laws.
Supreme Court Cases
The Supreme Court overlooked this question of who “the people” are for 200 years (1789–1989). Since then, the Supreme Court has twice commented on the meaning of this phrase, but these two cases are in somewhat conflict with each other.
In United States v. Verdugo-Urquidez, the court said that “the people” refers to those “persons who are part of a national community,” or who have “substantial connections” to the United States. In delivering this interpretation, they were consistent with the problem that faced the question of jurisdiction at the founding of the nation.
If you were English and committed a crime in France, the French king could not punish you for you were the property or “subject” of the English king. He would send you back in chains to England with an explanation of what you did. Since the American Revolution was against the monarchy, why would they comply with international law and send someone back to England for a crime committed in America to be punished by a king they did not recognize? The American Constitution established territorial jurisdiction for the first time. So someone convicted of a crime would be punished in America for his crime in America. Now the problem became a question of rights under the Constitution. Did a foreign citizen have a right to a fair trial? The definition had to extend to any person tried in America regardless of their citizenship.
The touchstone in United States v. Verdugo-Urquidez was correct, constitutionally speaking, for it extended to one’s connection to this country in compliance with territorial jurisdiction. The court declared that this definition of “the people” applied consistently throughout the Bill of Rights and did not limit rights to citizens.
In U.S. v. Verdugo-Urquidez (494 U.S. 247, 288, 1990), Justice William J. Brennan Jr. argued: “The term ‘the people’ is better understood as a rhetorical counterpoint ‘to the government’ … that rights that were reserved to ‘the people’ were to protect all those subject to ‘the government.’ …” He continued: “The Bill of Rights did not purport to ‘create’ rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be pre-existing.”
In United States v. Verdugo-Urquidez, the Supreme Court wrote: “The people protected by the Fourth Amendment, and by the First and Second Amendments, and to whom rights and powers are reserved in the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, refers to a class of persons who are part of a national community… The Fourth Amendment’s drafting history shows that its purpose was to protect the people of the United States against arbitrary action by their own government.”
However, in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), the court approvingly quoted Verdugo-Urquidez’s definition and similarly suggested that the term “the people” had a consistent meaning throughout the Constitution. This must be correct or the Constitution becomes chaotic. Yet, Heller also said that the term “refers to all members of the political community,” which actually changes the definition.
Heller’s interpretation contains a confusing three-part analysis: (1) it approved of Verdugo-Urquidez’s interpretation; (2) it substituted “members of the political community” for “persons who are part of a national community”; and (3) it suggested that “the people” means the same thing throughout the Constitution.
Heller’s analysis has created a conflict that has largely gone unnoticed but is already changing law. Heller could now be u as changing the meaning of “the people” throughout the Bill of Rights by limiting “the people” to “members of the political community,” which might be interpreted to mean, inter alia, “eligible voters.” This interpretation could have a profound consequence for individuals who have been denied the right to vote and non-American citizens. In this manner, the entire principle of territorial jurisdiction can be overturned.
Heller’s interpretation is already being applied. The Fifth Circuit previously held, “Once aliens become subject to liability under United States law, they also have the right to benefit from [Fourth Amendment] protection.” (United States v. Cortes, 588 F.2d 106, 110 (5th Cir. 1979) (citing United States v. Cadena, 585 F.2d 1252, 1262 (5th Cir. 1978))
In a recent case, US v Armando Portillo-Munoz, it was ruled that a ranch hand who lived and worked in the United States for more than 18 months, paid rent, and helped to support a family, but who committed the misdemeanor of illegally crossing the border — is not part of “the people.” Circuit Judge Dennis in his dissenting opinion warned, “The majority’s interpretation of the “the people” has far-reaching consequences.”
“We the People” no longer means what people have always assumed: “We the People.”
Gallup Issues Poll: Donald Trump Leads Hillary Clinton on Top Ranked Voter Priorities…
Trump is ahead by 10% now and it could be worse one the campaign starts as Hillary doesn’t know how to campaign. And the server and Clinton foundation problems will destroy her.
Understanding The Changes With the RNC Hispanic Media Director and Beyond…
As long as they keep waving Mexican flags not American flags they can all go to hell or back to Mexico which I guess is the same!
Latinos For Donald Trump – Angelo Gomez Explains…
Some people get it right which shows that can think not like the rest of the sheep of all colors and kinds.
NBC/WSJ California Poll – Bernie Sanders 48%, Hillary Clinton 47%…
I never thought that Hillary could win a real election and being beat by Obama in 2008 and now with Bernie coming close to beating her and maybe wining California what chance does she have against trump!
Activist Trump University / La Raza Judge Now Attempts To Re-Seal Court Documents…
Judges that have conflicts of interest must recluse themselves and if they do not they should be taken off the bench permanantly
PPP Poll Georgia: Donald Trump 49%, Hillary Clinton 40% (Head to Head)….
In a few more months Hillary will have a hard time beating Gary Johnson and that’s only if she is not in jail.
Hillary’s Bad Week
Armstrong Economics Blog
Re-Posted Jun 1, 2016 by Martin Armstrong
Crooked Hillary, as she is starting be be known as even behind the curtain, is really helping Trump because many Republicans who did not like Trump, see her as just outright evil. Hillary is now falling behind Trump in an average of national opinion polls. She is so out-of-touch that her age group may want to see a woman in the White House, but the under 40 women make no distinction as that being somehow significant qualification any more than being black defined Obama. Falling behind Trump is breaching a very critical symbolic threshold which may pick up momentum as our model has been projecting.
Then came a damning report by OIG – Office of Inspector General. Not only did this demonstrate that she was question even by staff about the legality of her private server, but she told them to shut-up and stop asking questions. The OIG report contradicted her claims that she had been allowed to use a private email server for official business while serving as the nation’s chief diplomat. I found directives to her to stop such activity and then upon leaving office they introduced a new law to make sure nobody plays this game. Once again, things did not conform to here statements – she lied. Clinton allies desperately try to argue that the report also shows other former secretaries of state pulled the same tricks. However, none of them started foundations taking money from foreign governments she approved arms deals for and none are running for president but Hillary. Yes, the FBI is still investigating whether she broke federal law. I quite frankly do not know what the problem is. The plain language says she did and cannot hold any office in government. At a press conference in Japan, Barack Obama outright refused to take any question from a journalist asking whether the email scandal undermined Clinton’s “trustworthiness”.
The Democratic party did not have 17 candidates like the Republicans. Everyone assumed Hillary was applying for a coronation, not a candidate position. The problem they now have is simple; if Hillary is going down in flames, that means Bernie Sanders is the only candidate standing. What will the Democrats do? Talk is circulating about a draft of Joe Biden. To make matters really far worse, the California primary has the largest number of delegates up for grabs on June 7th. Bernie is neck and neck with Hillary in the polls proving this is not a coronation. Hillary refused to debate Sander on TV for California because she cannot answer his questions.
The news keeps moving just outright bad to worse. A federal investigation into campaign contributions to here long-time confidant and the governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe has been unleashed. The FBI now investigating both the candidate and an elected official with perhaps the closest ties to Hillary. So far, May has been a terrible month for Hillary. On top of all of this, the Democratic Convention looks like it could turn out to be far more colorful than the Republican since the polls show 86% of Republicans demand the party supports Trump.
The Never Trump effort has died a cruel death. Even the stages protests are now dying off. Suddenly, the cry that Trump is a racist doesn’t stick since Muslim is a religion and not a race. Bernie has yet to surrender and he vowed to go all the way because she has so much baggage it is unbelievable she is still standing for any office be it dog-catcher or President. With Hillary the the head of the Democratic ticket, Trump may be able to transform previously safe Democratic territory in the rust belt, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Ohio, given his position on trade.
How Hillary handles Bernie is also critical for the youth who support him see themselves not as Democrats. Obama took a swipe at at Hillary at the Correspondent’s Dinner: “You’ve got to admit it though, Hillary trying to appeal to young voters is a little bit like your relative who just signed up for Facebook. ‘Dear America, did you get my poke? Is it appearing on your wall? I’m not sure I’m using this right. Love, Aunt Hillary.’ It’s not entirely persuasive.” Obama then took a shot at her Goldman Sachs’ speeches: “Here we are, my eighth and final appearance at this unique event and I am excited. If this material works well I’m going to use it at Goldman Sachs next year. Earn me some serious Tubmans.”
Then, Hillary has no agenda. She is just regurgitating the same socialist talking points that have been said by every Democratic candidate. As for her claim that she is the “only one” with a plan to deal with Wall Street, that is why Goldman Sachs showers her with money and says Trump and Bernie are dangerous. For who exactly? Other Democrats assumed Hillary would release her transcripts of speeches at Goldman Sachs. Her refusal to release the transcript means only one thing – they are damning. If there was nothing there but the standard speech nonsense, then they would be out there by now. Sources have all said she sounded like one of them. She most likely defended them with something like bankers are not villains. She even was there with the shovel breaking ground for the new Goldman Sachs tower. Goldman Sachs & Hillary Clinton are a marriage made in Washington. Hillary & Goldman Sachs has been a 20+ Year Relationship.
Clinton keeps trying to define her own news agenda dodging the criticism. Hillary has clearly distorted the degree to which the rules have changed since previous secretaries of state were in office. The press is not doing their job because they want Hillary to win. On August 24, 2012, Obama signed a directive to the heads of the executive departments which would have included Hillary (Directive to Hillary 2012 m-12-18). Hillary was Secretary of State between 2009 and 2013. Therefore, Obama knew she had a private email server or else there woud have been no reason to issue this directive which she IGNORED. Then, after Hillary left, Congress passed the bipartisan act, which made it specific that ALL emails are the property of the government and “empowers the National Archives to safeguard original and classified records from unauthorized removal.” Hillary never turned them over under subpoena since that did not include her private server during the Benghazi affair. Her defense was always that Republicans were on a witch-hunt, not that she should have produced them from the start.
Despite everything else, this all suggests that it remains the FBI, rather than Sanders or Trump, who could really rain on her parade. She has been slick at every possible turn. One must wonder, what she will sell if she were President given her track record as Secretary of State. The Clinton Foundation is a real joke.
Now we have Bill just being Bill, but handing out $2 million from the Clinton Foundation to women who the Secret Service dubbed his “Energizer”, Julie Tauber McMahon. The NY Post has reported the story how the buzz has all been about Julie McMahon who visit Bill always when Hillary Clinton isn’t around. Look, she is very attractive and he and Hillary have long been said to be just a political marriage. But this is not about a blue dress. Bill gave her $2 million from the Clinton Foundation to Energy Pioneer Solutions.
Well the mess just keeps getting messier. Just what king of a first lady will Bill Clinton make? This could be more scandalous that Trump. Would this new role allow Bill to hit on the wives of world leaders? The leader of the free world will never be the same.
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