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| 1916 | Margaret Sanger is arrested for distributing birth control information.
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| 1970 | The "Bank Secrecy Act" becomes law, requiring, among other things, that any transaction of over $10,000 be reported to the authorities by means of filling out a form. This law was later greatly enhanced by the so-called "money laundering" statutes, still being expanded to this date. Any financial transaction by a citizen is now very dangerous for a transaction of less than $10,000 can be considered to be illegal structuring!
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| 1978 | "ETHICS IN GOVERNMENT ACT", P.L. 95-521, signed into law. [Thank goodness. The word "ACT" -- as in a play -- is very appropriate here.]
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| 1986 | The "Anti-Drug Abuse Act" becomes law. This law allows the government to seize "substitute assets" in case the assets that actually committed the evil deeds have vamoosed.
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| 1995 | "Center for Science in the Public Interest" calls new fat substitute, Olestra, unsafe. Similar nonsense here.
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| 1998 | The 50-year-old border dispute between Ecuador and Peru that sent the nations to war in 1995 was resolved.
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| 2001 | President George W. Bush (R) signed a sweeping anti-terrorism bill into law, USA-PATRIOT Act, giving police and intelligence agencies vast new powers to "counter a threat like no other our nation has ever faced." It wasn't the "9/11" attackers that destroyed our freedoms. ["1984" just arrived again]
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