The FBI and then the Treasury Department were enlisted in this caper, and they leaned on the bank.

And the people whose funds were in that bank were denied their funds.

They somehow pushed this through anyway.

That's how they froze that bank account. And in itself, that sounds boring. But because of the way

they did it, this seemingly boring thing is also the opening chapter of a very scary dystopian novel

in which the government is seizing your phone records, obtaining all of your text messages, and your emails, and your

iCloud, and maybe rating your house and rating your office, and they are taking or freezing

the contents of your bank account, when there is no probable cause that you have committed

a crime.

Because what there is is a federal prosecutor's office that will do that stuff anyway,

even when their own career prosecutors and a judge tell them,

there's no crime here, you can't do it.

So like I said, this is, I recognize this seems like a boring story in terms of all the proper nouns involved here, right?

But it is scary in terms of what this means.

I mean, for me, Donald Trump's intentions are really very clear at this point.

He is in the process of attempting to undo the constitutional republic.

His executive branch is in the process of overtaking, of reducing to subservience, the legislative and judicial branches of the government, Congress and the courts, so that he can act unilaterally.

Even within his executive purview, the president is purging anything and anyone that falls

short of pledging unshakable loyal to him personally and his personal political project,

not the United States, not the Constitution, and not we the people.

I mean, from the FBI to the Department of Justice to the Federal Trade Commission and on and on

and on, these institutions day after day are being cleared of Justice, to the Federal Trade Commission, and on and on and on,

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