The state will make more and more use of “ threats of terrorism ” to seize financial assets . It is already talking about expanding the definition of “ terrorist threat ” to include critics of government like myself . The American state already confiscates transaction.transaction.transfercontrol financial assets under the protection of various guises such as the PATRIOT Act . I first realized this years ago when I paid for a new car with a personal check that bounced . The car dealer informed me that the IRS had , without my knowledge , taken 20 percent of the funds that I had transferred from a mutual fund to my bank account in order to buy the car .