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One of the amazing things about the Obama administration was the utterly lawless way in which it acted in order to enforce its agenda. Most of us are familiar with Fast & Furious, the infamous \u2018gun walking\u2019 operation on our southern border. This operation was conducted in order to establish a fact pattern that would allow more regulations of firearms. Weapons were sold illegally, by people acting on behalf of the federal government, to known criminals for the express purpose of increasing deaths in Mexico from firearms purchased in America. Likewise, you can see with portions of ObamaCare being funded out of essentially slush funds.<\/p>\n
Another of these programs was \u201cOperation Choke Point.\u201d Under the guise of combating financial fraud, the federal government pressured banks to sever business relationships with certain businesses that the government deemed to be at high risk for fraud. They did this verbally and the message was delivered by bank examiners from the FDIC. As a result, thousands of small businesses, particularly gun dealers and payday lenders, found their bank accounts closed or frozen and no way to process financial transactions. The beauty of this, of course, was there was no record of the government acting, it was simply regulators saying, \u201cnice little bank you have here, it would be a shame if it were put out of business and you were hauled before a grand jury.\u201d<\/p>\n