"My Life as a Terrorist Money Launderer

[mainer]

Dana Milbank is way too calm about this. I think he was targeted because he's a journalist. And that's terrifying.

My odyssey in the criminal underworld began a few weeks ago when I stopped at my local Citibank branch to get some cash. The teller told me my account had been blocked. My wife went to an ATM to take out $200. Denied. Soon I discovered that checks I had written to the au pair and my daughter’s volleyball instructor had bounced.

I began making calls to the bank and eventually got an explanation: The bank was looking into whether my wife and I were laundering money, as they are required to by the Bank Secrecy Act as amended by the Patriot Act.

Money laundering! There isn’t enough money passing through my account to launder a terrorist’s lemonade stand. I grew suspicious: Was it because I had made fun of Steven Mnuchin’s air travel? Or because I flouted the law that makes it a crime to laugh at Jeff Sessions? Maybe Trump is taking this press-is-the-enemy-of-the-people thing seriously.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/my-bank-flagged-me-as-a-possible-money-launderer-good/2018/03/16/2991d288-291d-11e8-874b-d517e912f125_story.html?utm_term=.c26fab96cc2f

[dameatball]

1. Shutting down criticism by any means necessary. We are now where we said we might end up. Fascism.

[BSdetect]

2. This is why we cannot offer them any mercy. They are pure scum.