Homeland Security Can Freeze Large Credit Card Bill Payments
Check this out. Turns out that if you make an unusually large payment on your credit card bill, Homeland Security must be contacted, and they can hold the payment up. In case, you know, you're paying off your credit card bill in order to help international terrorists.
This is of particular interest to me since I just made a larger-than-normal payment this month to pay off the large balance I accumulated at Christmas.
Maybe FBI snipers should just start taking out everybody who uses a credit card. You know, just in case.
[HT: Statisticasaurus Rex]
Check this out. Turns out that if you make an unusually large payment on your credit card bill, Homeland Security must be contacted, and they can hold the payment up. In case, you know, you're paying off your credit card bill in order to help international terrorists.
This is of particular interest to me since I just made a larger-than-normal payment this month to pay off the large balance I accumulated at Christmas.
Maybe FBI snipers should just start taking out everybody who uses a credit card. You know, just in case.
[HT: Statisticasaurus Rex]
posted by Winston Smith at
7:21 AM
3 Comments:
Check your credit agreement. You've been notified, whether you remember it or not. This will hit most people at one time or another. Who knows, I bought a computer this month, so maybe I'm next.
Yup. Had a payment mysteriously held up a couple months ago as well. (Blew a head gasket on my old little Honda. Still get 34 mpg.)
Wish I knew if such caution is stupid or has saved lives. What I do know is that enlightened-left Europe puts up with far greater anti-terrorism indignities than any American right or left would tolerate, and most would be unable to even conceive of.
This world is shrinking fast and the domestic order we Americans have historically taken for granted because of our geographical isolation is a thing of the past, I think.
The irony being that paranoia tends to create more problems than it solves: the cold war, the war on drugs, the fight for family values, the patriot act, the holocaust, mccarthyism, Bill O'Reilly...
Maybe the problem isn't that the world is shrinking. Maybe we're just finally realizing how small it was all along. The 'safety' provided by our geographic isolation is clearly an illusion, and has been for quite sometime. Yet somehow we're still here. Maybe the world's not such a scary place after all.
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