Bank refuses to open customer transactions to feds

Bank refuses to open customer transactions to feds

Published Monday, September 16, 2024 OKLAHOMA HISTORY CENTER 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive, OKC, OK THIS WEDNESDAY OLD GLORY BANK'S CEO IS COMING Early this year, Fox news analyst, Brooke Singman, revealed that on Wednesday, January 17, the House Judiciary Committee unveiled their findings that federal investigators asked banks to search their customer’s transactions to find terms like: Trump Cabelas Bass Pro Shops Dick’s Sporting Goods Transportation charges to destinations . . . . . . with no apparent purpose Media subscriptions Religious books MAGA   According to the New York Post’s Victor Nava, the feds made the request through the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCen). This was made known through the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Feds asked banks to search customer data Using Merchant Category Codes (MCCs) to make the search, the feds caught the attention of the U.S. Congress. U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman, Jim Jordan (Ohio), stated that:   According to this analysis, FinCEN warned financial institutions of ‘extremism’ indicators that include ‘transportation charges, such as bus tickets, rental cars, or plane tickets, for travel areas with no apparent purpose,’ or ‘the purchase of books (including religious texts) and subscriptions to other media containing extremist views.’ In other words, FinCEN used large financial institutions to comb through the private transactions of their customers for suspicious charges on the basis of protected political and religious expression. Come this Wednesday to hear how a recently formed bank, Old Glory Bank, headed by such luminaries as Ben Carson, Larry Elder, and John Rich, has opened its doors to allow American citizens to engage in their private business affairs without concern that the FBI or other federal agencies are going to target them because of their spending habits. The fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. CEO, Mike Ring will be flying into Oklahoma City to speak to us regarding how Old Glory Bank plans to assure its depositors will have their fourth amendment rights secured. Come to the Oklahoma History Center this Wednesday to meet and hear Old Glory CEO, Mike Ring. Learn how people from all across America have found new security in banking! Bring a friend!!! Send this Newsletter to another here. Come and be a part of building an informed Oklahoma! BE AMONG THE FIRST TO OPEN AN ACCOUNT WITH OLD GLORY BANK! Bring your family and friends Wednesday Bring your pastor and buy his lunch! Send this Newsletter to another here. Lunch is optional for $10 Doors Open 11 AM Meeting Noon to 1:15 PM OKLAHOMA HISTORY CENTER 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive, OKC, OK $5 ENTRY FEE Tax-deductible donations accepted at door. SEE YOU AT THE WEDNESDAY LUNCHEON Find us at Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. BOB LINN THE AMERICAN FLAG Feared by Tyrants the World Over When I think of the kind of a person who would want to so control me and everyone else through monitoring the kinds of things I spend money on, I think of a profound little phrase that Thomas Jefferson employed when regretfully declining, for reasons of health, to attend the 50th anniversary of America’s independence from tyranny.   Jefferson, reflecting on the risk a small band of men took in signing the profound instrument which was, in his words, pregnant with the fate of the world as well as having an imminent bearing on the fate of each of the men who applied their signature. He knew the risk he and 55 other men had taken fifty years earlier had proved a monumental advance in throwing off the bonds of tyranny and injustice. In Jefferson’s words:   I should, indeed, with peculiar delight, have met and exchanged there congratulations personally with the small band, the remnant of that host of worthies, who joined with us on that day, in the bold and doubtful election we were to make for our country, between submission or the sword.   He closes his letter by expressing his hope that the success of the very risky governmental experiment fifty years prior would now be a signal heard around the world for men to burst the chains of tyranny with all eyes open to the rights of man and the spreading of light so that all may see the sense in which there is equality among mankind. Thus, he closes his opening paragraph with that single phrase I find so intriguing: . . . that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them. The letter would be his last. He would die on the same day of the 50-year celebration he would be missing. July 4, 1826. I first came across this little phrase about saddles, boots, and spurs when reading Angelo Codevilla’s book, The Character of Nations. He spoke of the fact that in Third World countries the richest are also the most powerful and located at the top of the government’s hierarchy. Power is for the personal benefit of those who hold it. BOOTS, SPURS & SADDLES The mentality of America’s twenty-first century federal government.  It is brazen audacity to think it is OK for government to ask banks to disclose the purchasing habits of customers. And further, to rank citizens based on their affirmation of the ideological distinctives of the political party in power.   One of my favorite lines from Codevilla's book comes as he is discussing the welfare of a nation’s citizens as it relates to the degree of the government's tyranny. He asks:   Do officials live in fear of overstepping their bounds, or do they swagger? A year after Joe Biden took possession of the White House, Wall Street Journal writer, Scott Zipperle, wrote an article about Biden’s proposal to allow the IRS to monitor all bank accounts. Biden was swaggering! Scott Zipperle noted the 2013 scandal of delaying applications for tax-exempt status for conservative applicants. He wrote further that this, together with the 2016 scandal of audits based on religious, political, and educational views, meant Biden's 2021 effort to gain access to private bank records would be a disaster for liberty. The American government at all levels is regressing toward the 1917 constitution of Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks. Lenin abolished all private property, made all the inventory of farming and industry the property of government, transferred all banks to government ownership, and disarmed the upper classes. It was not the strength of the Bolsheviks that forged their communist victory in Russia.   Dmitri Myerezhkovski wrote in his brilliant book on the Communist Revolution, Tsarstvo Antikhrista: Not on account of their own strength are the Bolsheviks powerful but only thanks to your weakness. They know what they want, but you do not know what you want. If America is to fend off the assault upon its foundation it will require a new level of maturity on the part of its pastors and leaders. We will have to elevate our thought life from the mere animal instincts of survival and pleasure.   We will have to re-discover the more lucid and learned perspectives of those who, like Thomas Jefferson, risked everything to shape a portion of this world based on the tenants of Christendom. They all knew that it was Christendom that had so propelled Western science, music, government, and culture. The Puritans, followed by the Founders in 1776, took it further than anyone had yet imagined. Americans must see secularism for the empty and powerless idea it is. Copernicus moved science forward with his heliocentric imagery of the galaxy. Because of him, the world jettisoned the inexplicable and confusing geocentric model which had reigned for centuries. Man could think more clearly when he understood that mankind's abode was not the center of the galaxy!   We must jettison the now reigning secularity of anthropocentrism and the cultural destruction it brings with it. We must restore the Christian theocentric concept of life on earth. As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said in his June 8, 1978 Harvard address: There is a disaster which is already with us. I am referring to the calamity of an autonomous, irreligious humanistic consciousness. Five years later, on May 10th, 1983, he received the Templeton Prize. His Templeton Lecture began: More than half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: “Men have forgotten God; that is why all this has happened.” And if I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire twentieth century, here too I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: “Men have forgotten God.”   Article 124 in Lenin’s 1918 Soviet constitution stated: In order to ensure to citizens freedom of conscience, the church in the U.S.S.R. is separated from the state, and the school from the church.   In contrast, our first president, George Washington, said that we must, as a nation, gather in prayer and declare together. On January 1, 1785, he wrote: Sincere and hearty thanks to the Great Ruler of Nations for the manifold and signal mercies which distinguish our lot as a nation.   If we want a government that fears the people rather than one which swaggers into America’s banks and demands to know who bought guns and Bibles, we must, as Dmitri Myerezhkovski suggested, awaken from our slumber.   If America is to rediscover its way, only a return to its foundations will turn the tide. This means teaching America's children the ideals which formed the basis of our amazing history. Otherwise, Washington will house the tyrants who will control more than our bank accounts. Our public schools teach the Christian ideals which gave us our political liberties. COME WEDNESDAY TO MEET THE CEO OF THE BANK SEEKING TO TURN THE TIDE ON GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE OF ITS CITIZENS! SEND THIS NEWSLETTER TO A FRIEND HERE. The nation is in peril and is calling to each of you for help! See you Wednesday! 11:00 AM Doors open 11:00 AM Lunch Available NOON to 1:15 PM Meeting OKLAHOMA HISTORY CENTER 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive, OKC, OK  God bless! LAST MEETING Legislative Panel The Panel was divided into two groups. Father Stephen Hamilton moderated the legislators and took questions from the floor. GROUP ONE From left to right: Senator Standridge, Senator Bullard, Representative Hader, former Representative Key, and Father Stephen Hamilton Watch the panel here. Watch the entire meeting here. From left to right: Senator Dahm, Representative Conley, former Representative Reynolds, Senator Hamilton's wife, and Father Stephen Hamilton Watch the panel here. Watch the entire meeting here. NOTE OCTOBER DATES First and Third Wednesday! I encourage each of you to support our mission. To get started, we are suggesting: The Century Club To join, mail a cancelled check to: OCPAC FOUNDATION P.O. Box 721212 Norman, OK 73070 Your $100 per month donation will help support the development of the Foundation’s work to widen our audience and outreach capabilities with quality meetings and enhanced educational video content. Our beginning financial goals will allow us to secure the initial permanent staff positions necessary to the function of a foundation with ambitions to change the world. We are in desperate need of returning our nation and our state to Biblical foundations. Thank you for your activism.

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When Christ Restored Hungary's Public Schools

When Christ Restored Hungary's Public Schools

Published Monday, September 9, 2024 NEXT MEETING SEPTEMBER 18 See Information below Send this newsletter to a friend here. BOB LINN Schools need a Soul Last Thursday I was in Tulsa to attend the press conference at Lewis & Clark Elementary School to announce the major acquisition of a record windfall. Ryan Walters secured a grant of nearly $60 million to fund reading programs targeting Oklahoma’s struggling youth. The funds will accelerate the use of the Science of Reading (Phonics) with tutors, materials, and teacher training. The OCPAC Foundation made page three of the Tulsa World (below). We were also in the background on the front page. Ryan spoke of his continued dedication to not only restore the integrity of the reading skills of Oklahoma’s youth but to end the use of Oklahoma’s classrooms as a tool to ideologically divert the minds of our children with the ideology of America’s cultural enemies.   Walters said the grant is a part of his mission to focus on the basics and to “end left-wing political activism in the classroom.”   A significant tool in the ability to assault left-wing activism is the ability to read at a high level and to read with comprehension.   Christianity is the only threat to the political goals of the left. It is why superintendent Walters is intent on not only eliminating the leftist ideology in our schools, but also to see it replaced with Christian patriotism.   The concept of Christianity’s role as the foundation of nation building is not unique to the American founders.  Even Germany’s leading philosopher of our day, once noted for his atheism, Jurgen Habermas, has moved from his once-strong anti-Christian perspectives. He now asserts that Christianity is mandatory if civilization is to survive. He sees Christianity as a necessity in the realm of public policy. In his 2008 book, Why We Should Call Ourselves Christians, Marcello Pera, Italian intellectual and former president of Italy’s Senate, spoke of Habermas:   Habermas recognized that for the unification of Europe, Christianity was not merely a “precursor” or a “catalyst,” but also a fountainhead that continues to nurture us. He recognized that without Christianity, neither Europe nor Western Civilization could have existed. He admits that “there is no alternative to it.   Pera himself states that: The apostacy of Christianity is exposing the entire West to the risk of a grave cultural and political crisis, and perhaps even to a collapse of civilization.   Twenty-four years ago, University of Virginia professor, James Hunter, Ph.D., published his exceptionally well researched The Death of Character. It came as a follow-up to his Culture Wars published in 1991. The book is a warning of the flawed trajectory of public education over the past century. He points to the demise of character which is the product of our public school’s destruction of the ultimate creeds of Christendom and the removal of any reference to God as the divine authority of those creeds.    He states: It is difficult to think of another age when the key socializing institutions for the cultivation of normative ideals and virtuous habit have been so reluctant to communicate to children their standards and the god-terms that give them sanction.   Until America’s public (government) schools become the kind of Christian schools they were more than 100 years ago, we have no hope of restoring the nation. Our government must confess that we are, indeed, a Christian nation and we must all be proud of our Christianity.   Christianity in the classroom is our only hope. For this reason, the far left is fighting our state’s superintendent of public education.   Let me illustrate my point by telling the story of one of the students at the University of Oklahoma that I mentored during my tenure with Campus Crusade for Christ. His name is David Robinson. In those days, I spoke often of the impact of the Gospel in Russia and other Communist strongholds. A story about how Oklahoma played a role in bringing Christianity to Hungary’s public schools.   God used this emphasis to impress upon David a vision to reach Hungary for Christ. He became the leader of the Campus Crusade for Christ initiative into Hungary. In January of 1994, after having been in Hungary for 18 months, a phone call informed David that Hungary’s Dr. Denes Banhegyi, Chief of Immunology at St. Laszlo Hospital and national AIDS Coordinator for the Hungarian government’s National Institute of Health, wanted to meet. AIDS was rampant among the youth of Hungary.  Hungary’s liberal sex education materials (they came from America) had failed to produce results. Dr. Banhegyi asked David and his staff team to write a curriculum for Hungary’s public schools with the goal of saving Hungary’s future.   Proposed was a public-school curriculum that included the Gospel of Christ, teaching Christian ethics and the fundamentals of salvation and the Christian life. It was designed to enable the youth to grow morally, intellectually, socially, and spiritually. It was called the Youth at the Threshold of Life (YTL) curriculum.   The Hungarian government accepted it with enthusiasm.   As a part of the program, the Jesus Film was shown in Hungarian classrooms with great effect! Four years later (1998), the government of Hungary enacted the National Curriculum Act. It stated that by the time a student was 16 years old, he or she had to know “the essentials of Christianity and the New Testament.” Quoting from David’s book about his ministry in Hungary, The Outrageous Promise, David wrote:   After forty years of communistic-atheism, the country was re-examining its Christian heritage and was looking for a moral soul. It affected each school and every child in the nation. And, on the heels of Hungary’s rediscovery of its Christian roots, Viktor Orbán role to national leadership. Orbán said in 2012: The European crisis has not come by chance but by the carelessness and neglect of their responsibilities by leaders who have questioned precisely those Christian roots. Thomas Jefferson, passionate supporter of the church in American public life, wrote this: “Can the liberties of a Nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God?” Founder and President, John Adams stated the obvious:   Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not only of Republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all governments and in all combinations of human society.   Unless America follows Hungary’s lead and listens again to our founders, we have no hope of restoring our nation. But thank God, we have many bright lights who are standing in leadership with Christian values. And, I believe, many more to come! Send to a friend here. IF YOU MISSED OUR LAST MEETING . . . LEGISLATIVE PANEL Watch the panel discussion here. Watch the entire meeting here. ____________ GROUP ONE Senator Rob Standridge Senator David Bullard Representative Denise Crosswhite Hader Former Representative Charles Key. ____________ GROUP TWO Senator Nathan Dahm Representative Sherrie Conely Former Representative Mike Reynolds Senator's wife, Sherrie Hamilton COMING!!! WEDNESDAY September 18, 2024 OUR FOUNDATION BANKS AT QUAIL CREEK BANK A few of our board members at Quail Creek Bank From left to right: Joseph Palmer, Alan Loeffler, Suzanne Reynolds, Lucia O'Connor, Father Stephen Hamilton, Bob Linn, and Gaylene Stupic. OCPAC FOUNDATION is a 501 (c) (3). Gifts are tax-deductible. I encourage each of you to support our mission. To get started, we are suggesting: The Century Club To join, mail a cancelled check to: OCPAC FOUNDATION P.O. Box 721212 Norman, OK 73070 Your $100 per month donation will help support the development of the Foundation’s work to widen our audience and outreach capabilities with quality meetings and enhanced educational video content. Our beginning financial goals will allow us to secure the initial permanent staff positions necessary to the function of a foundation with ambitions to change the world.

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