But it doesn’t simply involve “payday lenders.”  Those who say that are lying.  Operation Choke Point involves much, much more.

So: what is it?

It’s an attempt by Mr Barack Hussein Obama to turn himself into Putin, an immured dictator, and to turn this country into one ruled by Imperial Fiat, with Obama as anointed dictator.

It’s a “work-around” to oppose businesses that Leftists don’t care for.

It works like this:

Various banks contact various businesses who have loans through said banks, and tell them they can no longer work with them.  Fiscal relationships that have held for, say, a decade, no longer count.  Specific businesses find themselves abandoned by their lenders.  They can no longer keep accounts there, ask for loans, or even be associated with said banks.

Because those banks have been leaned-on by the federal government under Barack Hussein Obama.

The federal government has said to those banks and lending institutions:

“If you continue to associate with these businesses, you will find yourselves under not just yearly audits, but quarterly audits or more.  These audits will not be circumspect; they will be rapacious and onerous.  We will pull out the Federal Speculum.  You will be on the receiving end of a Federal Douche.  With alarming specificity.”

Barack Hussein Obama has ordered this “work-around” directly from the White House, in order to drive those businesses with which he objects into the ground.

Those businesses would include gun stores, ammunition stores, fireworks sales, government grants, home base charities, tobacco sales, travel clubs, surveillance equipment and more.

None of these stores or businesses or entities are illegal.  They operate in the clear under laws that don’t obscure their existence.  They do, however, happen to “offend” the current administration.

From Breitbart.com:

Obama’s ‘Operation Choke Point’ Seeks to Destroy Sectors of Private Lending Industry

by Michael Patrick Leahy

Breitbart News has learned that in 2013 the Obama administration launched an under-the-radar project, ‘Operation Choke Point,‘ which is designed to destroy three sectors of the private lending industry: third party payment processors (“TPPPs”), payday lenders, and online lenders. 

Furthermore, from Breitbart:

FDIC Chairman in Hot Seat Over Operation Choke Point

by Michael Patrick Leahy

Martin Gruenberg, Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, will be in the hot seat Tuesday afternoon. He’ll be facing the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee as it holds a hearing on the FDIC’s role in Operation Choke Point, the Obama administration’s under-the-radar project designed to destroy several industries (payday lending, firearms dealers, pawn shops) by “choking off” their banking relationships.

And there you go: payday lending, firearms dealers, ammunition stores, pawn shops.

Focus on this: firearms dealers, ammunition stores.  Businesses that deal with the core Bill of Rights.

The Bill of Rights and Constitution that Mr Barack Hussein Obama would care to eliminate wholesale, because its pesky writings get in the way of his supremacy.

And now you have the crux of the biscuit.

“When we pass laws and make them legal, but the FDIC, through their activist bureaucrats, try to put them out of businesss under the cover of darkness that’s not American and it’s beyond the control and the charter given [the FDIC] by Congress,” Duffy told Fox News on Monday.

From FoxNewsPolitics:

FDIC chairman comes under fire during ‘Operation Choke Point’ hearings

FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg came under fire Tuesday at a House subcommittee hearing over allegations that Operation Choke Point, a controversial federal law enforcement program, abused its authority by cutting off funding for targeted businesses.

During one exchange, Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wisc., suggested Gruenberg step down as head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation after Gruenberg was unable to answer questions about employees involved with Choke Point as well as specific allegations the agency overstepped its authority.

Under Operation Choke Point, banks and other financial institutions were reportedly pressured to cut off accounts for targeted businesses that included gun stores, casinos, tobacco distributors, short-term lenders and other businesses.

Critics claim the program — involving the FDIC, Justice Department and other agencies — was used to squeeze legal companies that some politicians considered morally objectionable.

But the final paragraph summarizes appropriately:

Wise said questioning the chairman of the FDIC is a good start, but the problem doesn’t end there. “We know that it doesn’t just stop with the FDIC. This is a program that includes the CFPB, FDIC, Department of Justice and may lead all the way up to the president,” he said.

I never thought my government would be seeking ways to enslave its citizens.

I never thought my government would make every attempt to seek “work-arounds” to laws extant, in order to actuate a George Orwell society.

I never thought my United States would do this.

It is doing it now.

Ask of every candidate: “what is your take on Operation Choke Point?”

That will reveal quite a bit.

BZ