Put bankers behind bars!

[Easy Skanking]

Time to circulate this one around. Perhaps this method of dealing with banksters is better than letting the Triads take them down.

Quote:Put bankers behind bars

Posted: 10 July 2012
Big banks have been caught in a massive scam to rig global interest rates, ripping off millions of people on their mortgages, student loans and more! We'd go to jail for this, but Barclays bank has only been fined, and just a fraction of their profits! Outrage is mounting -- this is our chance to finally turn the tide of the banks' reign over our democracies.

The EU finance regulator, Michel Barnier is standing up to the powerful bank lobby and championing reform that would put bankers behind bars for fraud like this. If the EU goes first, accountability could quickly spread across the globe. But the banks are lobbying hard against it, and we need a massive surge of people power to drive these reforms through.

If we can get 1 million people to stand with Barnier in the next 3 days, it will give him momentum to face down the banking lobby and push governments to bring reform. Sign the petition, and our growing numbers will be represented by adding mock bankers to a jail right in front of the EU Parliament.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/bankers_behind_b...ab&v=15942

[yeti]

I really do hope this is the straw that broke the camel's back. I'm not too optimistic about it though, considering this is but one of many many blatant thefts they've been up to, and it's more obscure than the really obvious ones, like stealing hundreds of millions from customer accounts, or deliberately foreclosing on houses that were fully paid off.

[Anarchist]

The government standing up to corporations? Hey, who knows, maybe? Not to kill the hope here, but the FDA shot down a 1 million signature petition demanding the labeling of GMO's. Countless people demand their governments stop invasive searches and privacy intrusions. Even Ron Paul, if you believe he is on our side, with his support, cannot do anything really. Who knows, maybe it will work, but just judging on history, using the system to fix the system does not tend to work out too well. The only solution is to do away with the system and source of power. Maybe something might happen, I doubt it. The only real change will start when the heads start rolling. What needs to happen is a real "terrorist" group gets formed, and delivers a couple well-placed bullets to every one of these people who desire to rule us.

Or, if something does happen, will it be like the bailout? CEOs of banks resign with a ton of cash, and new CEOs take their place and pick up where the others left off?

[rsol]

vote with your money. the only way is if we all take our money and debts out of the big institutions. that's their only power.