{"id":11765,"date":"2016-02-09T17:23:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T23:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=11765"},"modified":"2016-02-09T17:23:15","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T23:23:15","slug":"backstory-on-operation-choke-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/09\/backstory-on-operation-choke-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Backstory on Operation Choke Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Yeah I would say this is a HUGE red flag that we have a GOVT that has gotten TOO BIG, TOO FAST and has TOO MUCH POWER.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong> I would like to be there to see the faces of the people who were singing Obama&#8217;s praises all these 8 years when the Bank calls them to tell them their Business credit line has been closed down because the Govt deems their Business as one of the &#8220;UNWANTED&#8221; industries. Sound far fetched? Watch the video clip. To me it sounds like a classic Stalin or Hitler stunt. Next, instead of businesses it will be PEOPLE getting labeled as &#8220;unwanted&#8221;. -SF<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Operation Choke Point, Explained | The Daily Signal\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-VKKcniRvl4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Last week, the House of Representatives took the first major step toward ending Operation Choke Point, a government program that critics say has been used to target legal business owners.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Signal began covering Operation Choke Point 18 months ago, when business owners voiced concern about their bank accounts being stymied or shut down. Now, we\u2019re taking a look back at some of the major events that took place before the House was able to push through its bill to bring Operation Choke Point to a halt.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Original Article at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dailysignal.com\/2016\/02\/08\/the-backstory-of-operation-choke-point\/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=morningbell&amp;mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRovs6vPZKXonjHpfsX84%2BkqXKK0hYkz2EFye%2BLIHETpodcMTcZrMLvYDBceEJhqyQJxPr3NLtQN191pRhLiDA%3D%3D\">Daily Signal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah I would say this is a HUGE red flag that we have a GOVT that has gotten TOO BIG, TOO FAST and has TOO MUCH POWER. I would like to be there to see the faces of the people who were singing Obama&#8217;s praises all these 8 years when the Bank calls them to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[13,74,3553],"tags":[3129,4528,4412],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}