Police Use Creepy New Machine to Strip Funds from Driver's Debit Cards

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[–]Tom_Bombadil 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They work by imitating the payment terminals found at ordinary retailers, and allowing cops to slurp up the values found on pre-paid cards for Visa, Starbucks and so on.

For now, it appears the ERAD devices are only able to siphon funds from pre-paid cards, and not from a driver’s personal bank account or credit card.

 

This is highway robbery. I'm sure it won't take long to start using these on peoples bank accounts. Absolutely criminal.

[–]voter[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Why can the TSA grope, the FBI can run child porn sites, the police can steal, the NSA can wiretap, the CIA can torture, the EPA can pollute, and the Army can kill, but you can't?

Why can the government and illegal aliens break the law, but you can't?

Why can the bankers commit fraud and be rewarded with billion dollar bailouts instead of going to jail?

The only difference between the mafia and the government today is that the government has a flag in front of their office.

Wake up.

Think.

Pass the word.

https://tinychan.org/

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I agree with everything you assert except for the illegal alien statement.

If the government is illegitimate, then illegal aliens cease to exist.

[–]voter[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Americans either don't know or want to know that the US is collapsing or think that nothing can be done to save the USA. Any plans or ideas to slow or escape the decay are quickly shot down as unworkable.

Instead of demanding that minimum wages be repealed or checkpoints be ended, Americans would rather beg for their chains by asking for more laws.

Insanity.