Defaulting banks - where will it stop?

[Peter Lemkin]

Hmmm - these claims about Senators having been threatened by martial law if they refused to sign the Wall Street bailout bill have been bubbling away for some time, but Sen James Inhofe has just added some meat to the bone:

The interview host Pat Campbell asked Infhofe, "Somebody in D.C. was feeding you guys quite a story prior to the bailout, a story that if we didn't do this we were going to see something on the scale of the depression, there were people talking about martial law being instituted, civil unrest. Who was feeding you guys this stuff?"

Inhofe replied, "That's Henry Paulson. We had a conference call early on, it was on a Friday I think--a week and half before the vote on Oct. 1. So it would have been ... the 19th of September, we had a conference call. In this conference call and I guess there's no reason for me not to repeat what he said, but he said, he painted this picture you just described. He said, This is serious. This is the most serious thing that we faced."

http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/looti...l-law/9576

Frightening stuff! While the immediate threat was theatre for pressuring the Congress to hand over the cash - "all your cash - and keep your hands above your head and move real slow, like - remember I've got this gun pointed right at your heart." - such a scenario is IMO in the medium-term possible and would be the worst of all possible scenarios. Beyond bad. Fatal for America, if we 'ain't already on the path to certain demise.... Reminds me of the way LBJ used to get persons to do his bidding and keep their silences after the JFK Assassination - threats of nuclear war. Where do they get these criminals they stock the government with?....