Wrong Opinions? No Bank Account

Jul 26, 2023

Greetings fellow Plebs & Peasants,

Think a Twitter Blue Check is worth giving Elon all your identifying information? Think he really cares about free speech? Maybe he does, maybe he doesn’t, but everyone has a boss, and if you gave up your bank info to pay for your lame ass blue check, and one day post some wrong think, you very well may lose access to your bank. And this goes beyond Twitter clearly, but is just a good current example of how this plague of un-banking can affect a regular shmuck like you or I. They did it during the Canadian trucker protests, they did it to Kanye, they did it to Nigel Farage and Dr Mercola (more on those two below). If they will do it to the a rich celebrity or a politician, what makes you think it can’t happen to you. Prepare accordingly.

- jw

#DoNotComply #NoCompromise #NoSurrender #GallowsAndGuillotines2023

Source: Tom Woods Newsletter

Wrong Opinions? No Bank Account

by Tom Woods

You are surely familiar with Nigel Farage, the Brexit proponent whose forbidden opinions have earned him the ire of fashionable opinion in the UK.

He's had his bank accounts closed at Coutts Bank.

The media tried to suggest that his holdings had fallen below the bank's threshold, but the bank's own report on the situation contradicts that claim.

According to Farage himself:

I believe Coutts targeted me on personal and political grounds, for its report reads rather like a pre-trial brief drawn up by the prosecution in a case against a career criminal. Monthly press checks were made on me. My social media accounts were monitored. Anything considered "problematic" was recorded. I was being watched.

This report is proof that any Coutts customer who holds even vaguely conservative views should be treated with disdain. My friendship with the family of Novak Djokovic, who stood firm over his belief that he should have the freedom to choose whether to receive the Covid vaccine, is mentioned on the charge sheet....

At all times, the report's tone is accusatory and reproachful. The fact that Brexit is mentioned on 86 occasions perhaps tells us all we need to know.

The Telegraph amplifies Farage's position: "The Coutts papers read as if written by gullible schoolchildren with a Marxist teacher. Criticising BLM is 'incit[ing] race hate.' Wikipedia is cited as if it were a reliable source – as is the far-Left boycott group 'Hope not Hate.' Even the repeated comment that Farage is 'polite to staff' is revealing, as if they find it surprising from someone with his opinions."

The report in question was produced at Farage's request, since he has a right to see the personal information they held about him. The resulting 40 pages contained criticisms of his political opinions, some of which the bank described as "distasteful and appear increasingly out of touch with wider society."

Did you know your bank wants to make sure you're not "out of touch with wider society"?

I can already hear the midwit response: "It's a private company!"

Even if you could disentangle the state-created banking cartel from the state privileges that make its existence possible, and so even if we truly were dealing with a private company, where does it say we're not allowed to criticize private companies? This is a caricature of libertarianism, so it's always demoralizing to hear libertarians themselves repeat it.

If the restaurant serves your rare steak well done, I promise you don't have to say, "I'm not allowed to criticize this steak because it was produced on a free market."

This is all part of the hyperpoliticization of society, in which your political opinions become relevant to every aspect of your daily life. We are allowed to criticize this hideous social trend, I promise.

Our friend Wanjiru Njoya, a professor at the University of Exeter and a past guest on the Tom Woods Show, adds a further note:

Almost all the defenses of free speech and the argument that people's bank accounts should not be canceled for their opinions begin with a progressive caveat. "I don't agree with Farage, but..." Which is a way of saying, "Please, lefties, don't cancel me, too." Everyone is afraid....

Rights stand on their own. Everyone has a right to free speech. There's no presumption that if you defend free speech you agree with and admire what's said. Progressive caveats reverse that presumption. Now unless you begin with a caveat it's presumed you agree with the speaker.

Moreover, if everyone begins with, "I'm no fan of Mr. Farage, but..." how is that different from what the bank said in their Stasi-style dossier, where they made it clear they're no fans of Mr. Farage, either? Mr. Farage is not on trial here. Everyone doesn't have to denounce him.

I'll admit I've done this in the past (not in the case of Farage, but in other cases). Njoya's point is well taken, and I will not repeat my mistake.

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Source: Florida’s Voice

Retail health company has Chase accounts suddenly terminated, owner critical of COVID vaccines, FDA

By Brendon Leslie

Jul. 25, 2023

Lydia Nusbaum co-authored this report.

CAPE CORAL, Fla. (FLV) – Employees of a Florida-based retail health company said JP Morgan Chase Bank suddenly terminated their personal and company bank accounts without an explanation.

One of the employees believes the account shutdowns were politically motivated and due to their employer’s controversial stance on COVID-19.

Another employee said the sudden decision to close her account is creating additional hurdles to help send money to her husband who is bedridden with dementia in the Philippines.

The owner of Mercola Market, Dr. Joseph Mercola, has criticized of COVID-19 vaccines and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Mercola Market sells specialty beverages, food, supplements and other health items. A store is located in Cape Coral.

On July 13, Mercola Market, along with the CEO, CFO and some of their family members, all received similar letters from Chase Bank saying “[they] have decided to close” their individual personal and business accounts.

The letters obtained by Florida’s Voice did not provide a reason why the accounts were suddenly closed. Florida’s Voice reached out to Chase Bank for a response.

A voicemail from a Chase representative to CEO Steven Rye said the reason for closing his personal and wife’s accounts can’t be disclosed “for legal reasons.”

However, Rye believes his the accounts were suddenly shut down because of Dr. Joseph Mercola’s opinions on COVID-19.

“I believe they cancelled all of the accounts because of Dr. Mercola’s (our employer) opinions,” Rye told Florida’s Voice. “He has carried a contradictory view throughout the COVID narrative and co-authored the best selling book The Truth About COVID-19 which exposed the likelihood that this virus was engineered in a laboratory funded by the NIH.”

Rye said he was told his children would not be able to carry accounts with Chase Bank in the future.

“It’s just hard to believe that your family, your wife, your kids can’t have a bank account because of the opinions of your employer and they’ve never done anything wrong,” Rye said. “We all have completely clear records.”

A voicemail from a Chase Bank representative urged Rye to submit paperwork for their accounts to be reconsidered.

“We are going to try because you’re a good client of our institution,” the Chase representative said in a voicemail.

In an email from Chase to Rye Monday, a representative said he is “still trying to figure out what is going on.”

Amalia Legaspi, the CFO of Mercola Market, said both her personal and her son’s personal accounts were canceled. Her son is using the accounts to pay for college expenses.

“I received the letter during weekend and I was surprised that we received the same letters for business accounts with exact wordings,” Legaspi said.

Legaspi’s joint checking account with her husband, who has dementia and is bedridden in the Philippines, was also closed. She uses the account to send money for his medical needs and said she is not allowed to open another bank account in his name.

“I have to provide all the legal documentations including notarized physicians affidavit from the Philippines to prove that my husband is incapable of handling his finances and request the Federal to directly deposit the pension to my own personal account,” Legaspi said.

With regards to the company’s accounts, she said Chase will not give them a reason for the closure to protect the privacy of their clients.

Dr. Mercola said he published articles about the benefits of vitamin D, zinc and quercetin to boost the immune system. He also published testimony from a nurse who claimed patients were being “intentionally killed on ventilators.”

The FDA also sent a letter to Dr. Mercola telling him to take “immediate action” to address “violations” in the letter regarding supplement products the doctor said would aid in COVID-19, calling them “unapproved new drugs” that are “misbranded.”

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation in May to prohibit financial institutions from denying or canceling services based on political or religious beliefs.