The OECD is pushing its members -- including the U.S.A. -- to report their citizens' banking activity to them.

This is what is happening with the OECD and American bank accounts:

1. Under the cover of concern over tax evasion and financial crimes, the OECD will get access to American banking records.

2. This "information exchange" allows foreign governments to engage in "fishing expeditions" that violate American citizens' protections against unreasonable search and seizure.

3. It's a threat to your financial privacy.

4. The only purpose of the OECD's plan is to confiscate bank accounts.

5. These invasive measures are the stuff of police states. A free country -- our country -- would not permit this.

6. Do you want to trust your sensitive financial information to the "good intentions" of unaccountable foreign bureaucrats?

7. Who is to say where your financial information will wind up, if the OECD gains access to your records through its "information exchange" program?

House Majority Leader Dick Armey, House Majority Whip Tom Delay, Rep. John Boehner, Rep. David Dreier and other lawmakers have written letters warning of the dangers of OECD banking rules to U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill.

These OECD banking procedures and rules undermine American sovereignty.

Denver Post July 5,2001 -- The Department of Motor Vehicles of Colorado, in an effort to prevent identity theft and driver's license fraud, is buying cameras that will map every driver's facial characteristics like a three-dimensional land chart. The danger, critics say, is that the technology could eventually be expanded
to monitor the comings and goings of ordinary Coloradans.

This week, Tampa, Fla., became the first city in the United States to install similar high-tech security cameras on public streets to scan crowds in the city's nightlife district. Images will be compared against a database of mug shots of people with active warrants.

Remember “Know Your Customer”? Two years ago the federal government tried to require banks to profile every customer’s “normal and expected transactions” and report the slightest deviation to the feds as a “suspicious activity.” The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. withdrew the requirement in March 1999 after receiving 300,000 opposing comments and massive bipartisan opposition.

But while your bank teller may not have been snooping and snitching on your every financial move, your local post office has been (and is) watching you closely, Insight has learned. That is, if you have bought money orders, made wire transfers or sought cash cards from a postal clerk. Since 1997, in fact, the window clerk may very well have reported you to the government as a “suspicious” customer. It doesn’t matter that you are not a drug dealer, terrorist or other type of criminal or that the the transaction itself was
perfectly legal. The guiding principle of the new postal program to combat money laundering, according to a U.S. Postal Service training video obtained by Insight, is: “It’s better to report 10 legal transactions than to let one illegal transaction get by.”

Many privacy advocates see similarities in the post office’s customer- surveillance program, called “Under the Eagle’s Eye,” to the “Know Your Customer” rules. In fact, in a postal-service training manual also obtained by Insight, postal clerks are admonished to “know your customers.” insight http://www.harpazo.net/news.html