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Portent of Things to Come
LadyVal
 October 30 2024 at 08:13 pm
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Given the state of the Post Office, most folks give thanks for the digital system known as “e-mail” presently ensconced in just about everybody’s home. One learns a great deal from these communications though they can become annoyingly abusive if one’s on-line activities become unacceptable in today’s WOKE world. Even so, warnings are also delivered that can prevent or divert problems about which one is unaware. Such an e-mail found its way into my personal “in box.” I did not know the original writer. It was merely passed on to me by one of my contacts in a list to which I happen to belong. Below is a somewhat edited version of the matter, a matter that most of us should find chilling at best and deeply disturbing at worst: "This is going out to select people on bcc. The subject matter is about my personal and recent experience being denied a transaction via a business debit card for reasons that will be explained. This is the beginning of the "social credit" scores that already exist in China. If you pass this along, please delete our name and contact info. [This alone should horrify ordinary Americans; that is, that we can become targets of those who do not wish such information “shared” to other ordinary Americans!] Yesterday my wife went to the [Business involved] website to order DVD/flash drive recordings of an upcoming conference. Three times she tried to purchase the recordings and three times our [credit card company X] business debit card was declined. Finally, the card was blocked. She called our bank because we use this card very regularly and this has never happened before. They [the bank] did some research and said that our card had been given a "low rating" which caused it to be declined. The bank manually removed the "low rating" and I was able to complete my purchase. So I immediately drove to the bank to speak with the account manager. He said that [credit card company X] is now putting their own ratings on credit/debit card purchases and was denying my transaction based on their own criteria. [Notice, the credit card company had never made this new “arrangement” known to the customer!] This had nothing to do with the bank itself, however, we could not make another purchase until the bank intervened. The manager said it is now regularly happening that accounts may be flagged by [credit card company X] if, for example, they [the card owner] purchased a gun with their card. The account manager agreed that this is the beginning of [credit card company X] implementing social credit scores being tied to our ability to transact business. [Business involved] has existed for a long time and advocates healthy food choices as well as exposing the politics of our federal government such as the entire Covid "pandemic" and research on whether viruses even exist (Dr. Tom Cowan). This organization is anti-establishment and thus a threat to the lying narrative in so many areas. We were flagged for doing business with [Business involved]. That caused our "low rating.” On a debit card?? What does a debit card have to do with a credit score anyway? When a transaction is made, the bank account is automatically debited. This article below also explains the situation and what is coming in respect to whether or not anyone can transact a purchase of something [and] if it does not fit the acceptable social criteria, one can be barred from transacting business. That is where we are headed and we have experienced it. It's here." And at this point, an article was attached to the e-mail that went into further detail about the use of supposedly “American” companies and their involvement with the Chinese Communist “social justice” system of enforced obedience to government “norms.” It is not necessary to give the name of the credit card company for if one company has this “arrangement,” you may rest assured the others either have it and no one has yet reported it, or they will get it in the very near future. Neither can we take any solace in the fact that this gentleman’s bank stepped in and prevented this unconstitutional restraint of his personal business by a company of which he is a supposed “customer!” How long will it be before the banks lock-step into the social credit business given the current situation in this “no longer free” country? Far too many Americans have wasted years trying to outwit the tyrants, hoping to scrape along just out of the spotlight of tyranny. But it doesn’t work that way. If we don’t fight back, soon every opportunity to have done so will be gone. Worse, the generation(s) coming up will have no problem with a government-run social credit system. Indeed, many especially younger Americans are demanding it! This is most evident by the fact that American (?) corporations are taking the lead in this tyranny. It is not being forced upon them by the government, or, at least, there is no hard evidence that this is the case though undoubtedly, it is a matter of mutual consent. Neither can we prevent by not using our credit cards when we do business with those whom the current establishment rejects. Soon, your bank will not cash your check if it is written to an “unacceptable” recipient and, the way things are going, soon the use of “cash” itself will disappear. When everything becomes “digital,” we, too, will become nothing more than ciphers in a great global computer, easily deleted if we become a nuisance or are no longer of any use.
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