Bank refuses to cash check for grieving family

Last month a Navy medic from southern California was killed in Afghanistan. But when the U.S. Treasury presented his family with checks for $50,000 to pay for his burial, his family was promptly told by the bank that they couldn't cash the checks for 2 weeks.

The family needed the money to pay for his funeral services - but the bank was refusing to let them have the money until after the funeral. This despite the fact that the family members were loyal customers of the bank for 10 years!

Investigating the situation a bit more, the story becomes even more outrageous. It turns out the bank's behavior is spurred by the financial reporting requirements of the Patriot Act.

You read that right: The Patriot Act is such a miserable excuse for a law that it's preventing the family of a fallen Navy medic from paying for the young man's funeral - with checks that came from Uncle Sam, no less. This is beyond outrageous.

What are the right-wing drones at Free Republic saying about this? Of course they're defending the bank and the Patriot Act. They're telling the family to "stop bludgeoning a bank manager who is following the law" and to "don't make a big stink about it."

Why do Free Republic and the authors of the Patriot Act hate the troops?

This is more proof that the Patriot Act (parts of which have already been struck down as unconstitutional) needs to be repealed at once.

(Source: http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local&id=6297756)