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Waiting For Everyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-19-10 12:09 AM
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Eric Cantona: "Kill the banks" (bank strike Dec. 7th)
Edited on Fri Nov-19-10 12:14 AM by Waiting For Everyman
 
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Posted on DU: November 19, 2010
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Quote below from an article at ZeroHedge on this video, in which Cantora suggests the bank action as another tactic in the European austerity demonstrations:

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In some ways we discounted the potential reach of this movement. Enter Eric Cantona - just ask any sport afficionado who the most entertaining, flamboyant and skillful football player of 1990's Manchester United was and 9 out of 10 times you will hear that name. The icon (both in England and France) whose on field antics were only matched by his kung fu skills, and who has a massive popular following, has been recorded agitating viewers (many of them), to enact a bloodless revolution against French banks:

"We don't pick up weapons to kill people, to start the revolution... the revolution is really easy to do nowadays. What is the system? The system revolves around the banks. It's based on the power of the banks... so it must be destroyed starting with the banks. This means that the 3 million people with their placards on the street... they go to the bank, withdraw their money from the banks and these ones collapse. 10 million people and the banks collapse and there is not real threat, a real revolution. We must go to the bank. In this case there would be a real revolution. It's not complicated. You simply go to the bank in your country and withdraw your money. If there are enough people withdrawing their money, the system collapses. No weapon, no blood, or anything like that."

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http://www.zerohedge.com/print/252184

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/december-7-unofficial-pan-european-bank-mutiny-day


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I would definitely do this, except that I already did it several years ago. It will be interesting to see how much support this gets among the public. It could be more than expected.




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tabatha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-19-10 12:13 AM
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1. The banks have become arrogant.
Without their customers they will have no way to make money.
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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-19-10 12:34 AM
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2. Credit Unions are much more fair
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