A bankers association in Illinois is accusing the Cook County (Chicago) Sheriff of imposing martial law for his refusal to evict innocent tenants from the homes of deadbeat landlords being foreclosed on. So martial law is not always a bad thing.
And story is here because the CNN video embed seems to be fucked.
At first I thought this man to be a minor hero. But upon further consideration, he is just doing his job. He means to uphold law and order. 40,000 evictions this year and he is expecting even more next year? Christ, man! He must be shitting his pants. You can't turn 100,000 innocent families loose on the streets of Chicago without expecting a riot. He's doing the goddamned bankers a favor. Otherwise they would find themselves skinned and torched as the natives grow restless.
Is that what this bailout is really about? Is that why politicians are so eager to help out banks? Are they afraid of a public that may actually rise up and demand bloody retribution for the crimes of the banks and their paid for pals in government. Jesus Christ, no person in any position of authority would be safe. You raised a nation on America's Funniest Home Videos. You know they are going to want to take a baseball bat to your nuts.
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I don't know a financial crisis from my ass, but "Bloody Retribution" is a kick-ass name for a band.
I hope every Sheriff in the nation follows this mans lead. It's one thing to be a homeowner and know for 18 months you're going to be evicted, plenty of time to make arrangements. It's another to have an asshole banker along with an asshole landlord have the Sheriff show up and literaly throw your ass on the street when they knew for a year and a half this would be happening. It's not the Sheriff's job to do their dirty work. As a matter of fact the bank and landlord should be held liable for a broken lease.
This has always been my reason for thinking the flat tax is a bad thing. To whit:
We have a system where a few people get to make a lot of money.
Our system keeps them from being torn to shreds by angry mobs.
They have to pay a bit more in taxes for that privilege.
Doesn't martial law entail increasing the use of force? But that's not important.
The really absurd thing is that these are rent-paying tenants who are being evicted. The market is glutted so it's not like they are going to get a good price on these properties at auction, so you'd think they'd want to at least be making some rent money off these properties in the mean time to offset their loses.
Unless, of course, they want to maximize their loses on paper in order to get full value payoffs from the Feds.
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