OPINION:
The UK-based HSBC is seeking to release billions of dollars of capital tied up in the United States without upsetting the country’s politicians and regulators. Nevermind the politicians; after the crimes against humanity that this bank helps facilitate with drug cartels and terrorist organizations, I’m upset that it is still able to conduct business in the United States.
With all the blood the bank has on its hands, perhaps even Sept. 11, 2001, blood, it’s outrageous that the U.S. government hasn’t run it out of the country on a rail. Instead of giving them their billions of dollars in capital back, I say we just take it and put it toward building Donald Trump’s proposed wall. That would shut down the drug cartels that are poisoning our youth and would be an instant national security asset against terrorists trying to infiltrate our border.
As I see it, the more money we allow this global criminal enterprise to have, the more arrogant they become, thinking that they’re too big to fail. Instead of allowing them to have access to capital, we should be designating them a state sponsor of terrorism. HSBC is a scourge to our society and the quicker it is terminated, the sooner the crime rate, drug addiction and terrorism will plummet.
EUGENE R. DUNN
Medford, N.Y.
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