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by meanduck 3434 days ago
The laws that powers banks to withhold someone money are the same laws that Govts use to maximize tax revenue. Drug/Terrorism is mostly irrelevent.
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It isn't irrelevant at all when the law allowing them to seize funds exists directly due to the law being changed in order to prevent HSBC and others having been caught laundering money from cartels and terrorists. It really is not irrelevant.