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    By Adam Sabes
    February 19, 2022By Fox Business4 Mins ReadNo Comments
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    US government could ‘very realistically’ attempt to punish protesters as the Canadian government is doing, the expert warned

    A cryptocurrency expert is sounding the alarm on how the Canadian government is freezing the crypto wallets of Freedom Convoy protesters and said that it’s something that can “very realistically” happen in the United States.

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    In an effort to take action against participants of the Freedom Convoy protests in Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act on Monday, giving the government power to clear protests by towing vehicles and even more direct measures like freezing personal bank accounts.

    Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said during a press conference on Thursday that crypto wallets have been frozen.

    “The names of both individuals and entities, as well as crypto wallets, have been shared by the RCMP with financial institutions and accounts have been frozen, and more accounts will be frozen,” Freeland said.

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    A truck convoy of anti-COVID-19 vaccine mandate demonstrators continues to block the highway at the busy U.S. border crossing in Coutts, Alta., Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022.  (Jeff McIntosh /The Canadian Press / AP Newsroom)

    Nicholas Anthony, manager of the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, told FOX Business that the same strategy the Canadian government is using to silence protesters can “very realistically happen here.”

    “I think this really needs to be an eye opener for Americans across the country, across political ideologies,” Anthony said. “But this is something that could very realistically happen here, and this is something that shows that they really need to have stronger financial privacy protections in place. And really, they should have a right to their financial privacy.”

    He added that the seizure of personal funds is something “reserved for authoritarian regimes” as a form of punishment for citizens who dissent with government policy.

    “This shouldn’t be something that can just happen on a whim, and seeing it just north of the border is clear evidence,” Anthony said.

    Anthony’s comments come as American truckers are planning their own “Freedom Convoy” as a way to protest the U.S. government’s COVID-19 restrictions and mandates.

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    Anthony said that “no one is safe” from the type of actions the Canadian government is taking against protesters’ personal bank accounts and crypto wallets.

    “And as sad as it is to say, no one is safe from that, whether it’s traditional bank accounts or cryptocurrencies held with a third-party intermediary, it really doesn’t matter. That is, if it’s a third party that is acting as the go between. And there’s still that risk of seizure,” he said.

    According to Anthony, the best way for individuals to “get around” potential government seizure of their crypto wallet is to avoid third-party platforms and to host their cryptocurrencies in a “self-hosted wallet.”

    He pointed to a bill introduced this week in the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, titled the “Keep Your Coins Act,” which would prohibit any federal government agency from creating a regulation that would “impair a person’s ability to act as self-custodian.”

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    For those who think the U.S. government should have the authority to seize bank accounts or crypto wallets at a moment’s notice, Anthony said that they should look at how authoritarian countries have used that power in the past.

    “I would point them in the direction of Russia. They used this practice to shut down political dissidents that criticized Vladimir Putin. In Sudan, they used it to shut down advocacy groups. And, in China, they used it to shut down the pro-democracy protests,” Anthony said.

    Fox News’ Louis Casiano contributed to this report. Read full story on Fox Business

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