Only You Can Stop It

It's hard to get more secretive than this. This is a nefarious story about a nefarious organization, one where on another questionable matter higher-ups at the organization were allowed to slide under their 5th Amendment rights and no one was ever really punished.

It's a matter of public record and many Americans have found out the hard way about government corruption. What's happening here is not much different from what's happening in China for those who pay attention. Dissenters or those who question are guilty until proven otherwise.

This is a clearly retributive, nefarious organization that needs more than the usual fake house cleaning offered up so that business can go on as before.

The IRS has seized entire bank accounts with no notice or due process, alleging the owners sought to avoid federal bank reporting requirements. The aforementioned pattern of banking is described as "intentionally structuring cash transactions," and they call it a crime.

This nefarious provision of the Bank Secrecy Act is purportedly targeted at drug traffickers, money launderers and terrorists, but it has swept up hundreds of innocent people—including small business owners who lost everything because they deal wholly or partly in cash.
Carole Hinders, owner of a Mexican restaurant in Iowa that only accepted cash, had her entire bank account of $33,000 seized even though she did nothing wrong. The IRS seized $63,000 from Randy Sowers, a dairy farmer in Maryland, because he was depositing under $10,000 into his bank account.
Ken Quran, the owner of a convenience store in North Carolina, had his entire bank account of $150,000 seized after working nonstop for years to build it up. His crime? Withdrawing cash from his bank account in amounts under $10,000.

But the truly shocking thing is what happened next. A group of government agents—both from the IRS and local police—came to Ken's store with an agreement already written up, under which Ken would agree to forever forfeit the money to the federal government. The agents searched his store with dogs, barred the entrance to keep out customers, and then demanded that he sign the paper. Ken initially refused, explaining that he did not read English well and did not want to sign an agreement he could not understand. Then, under compulsion—after one of the local police yelled and demanded that he sign, and after one of the IRS agents made clear that, otherwise, their next stop would be to talk to Ken's wife to pressure her—Ken agreed to sign.

Between 2007 and 2013, the IRS seized $43 million in over 600 cases where only "structuring" violations were committed, according to the Institute for Justice (IJ). The IRS abandoned this policy in 2014 after IJ put heavy pressure on the agency through lawsuits and media exposure.

But the noble public interest law firm was not done. IJ pioneered a legal mechanism, called petitions for remission, to fight for the return of seized assets from closed cases involving only structural violations.
And, amazingly, it worked. IJ filed a petition to the IRS on behalf of Ken Quran, and the agency actually gave Quran all of his money back.
This is a startling admission of wrongdoing by the feared federal agency, and a rare win for liberty.

This will continue until Americans unite to insist that it stop for once and forever.

zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-22/irs-admits-illegally-seizing-bank-accounts-agrees-give-money-back