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Vincent McCrudden, CEO Of Alnbri Management, Arrested For Threatening To Kill Members Of SEC, FINRA And CFTC

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Yet another person appears to have flipped out, and attracted the government's attention, this time luckily without any actual casualties. Curiously the target of the latest FBI arrest is not some insane gun toting troglodyte, but a 20 year Wall Street veteran: Vincent McCrudden of Alnbri Management. Presumably the reason for the arrest is that the commodities trader had threatened to kill 47 members of the SEC, CFTC and Finra in a post on his website. The following information has been pulled from his website. While McCrudden's fund appears to have been modest if at all notable, it would be curious to discover just what recent perceived action on behalf of the government may have forced the manager to take the step. The kicker: an email from McCruden to CFTC attorney T.M. sent on December 16, 2010: "You corrupt mother fucker! You're not getting away with this....Merry Christmas!"... Much more in the charge against McCruden presented inside.

Mr. McCrudden worked on Wall Street for over 20 years. He started his career on the floors of the New York Commodity Exchange executing orders for some of the largest institutions in the world including hedge funds and Commercial & Investment Banks. He then ran Global Desks in such areas as Foreign Exchange, Credit Derivatives & Equity Derivatives. He taught derivatives courses at the New York Institute of Finance.

Mr. McCrudden is a former soccer player at the University of Rhode Island, and then played professionally for the Tampa Bay Rowdies and Minnesota Strikers of the NASL. He also was an amateur boxer and has raised money over the years for the NYPD for slained and disab

led officers.  He has two beautiful children.

Mr. McCrudden has spent the past 13 years and counting combating a colluded Government attempt to discredit and harrass Mr. McCrudden through repeated bogus procedures. Mr. McCrudden has sought relief by suing multiple agencies and officials for $1 Billion. But this has not stopped certain higher ranking officials because they know that Judges are Government employees too. In order to stop the libel, slander and harrassment at the hands of these entities, and with no available forum in the US justice system, Mr. McCrudden has started a process to enact payback for years of Government abuse. As a twice survivor of the WTC bombings, Mr. McCrudden knows all too well what the Government can do in the "name of public interest". Mr. McCrudden be

lieves the 23 friends he lost on 9-11-2001 would have had their full support. Wake up my fellow citizens and middle class and go look into the mirror, because you my friends are the face of the new Al Qaeda! Civil disobedience can be a start for justice. Its us (middle class) against them (Government officials and the Bourgeosie).  Start acting now before its too late!

Government employees should be individually accountable and not be able to hide behind the veils of their entities. If they are sued for bad behaviour, they should have to use their own resources and money like any other citizen.    

And from the fund's description:

Alnbri Management, LLC was formed in 2008. Its Principal, Vincent McCrudden, has been involved in the capital markets since 1985 and has either executed or traded hundreds of billions of dollars of financial transactions over the course of his career. Alnbri was General Partner of the Hybrid Fund II, LP which had returns of 99.6% in 2008 and 37.67% in 2009 before being sold to another firm. The fund was ranked in the top 5 of most databases as one of the best performing multi-strategy funds in the world in 2008. Alnbri Management now trades proprietarily for its own account, owns various real estate projects and has developed finance relationships with a number of firms and individuals.

And some more from a recent lawsuit by McCruden suing the three regulators for $1 billion - link.

And the full complaint against McCruden... colorful indeed, especially beginning on page 4 (courtesy of Matt Goldestein)

 

 

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Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:49 | 876243 Gordon Freeman
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Maybe he flipped out because nobody could figure out how to pronounce his fund...

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:03 | 876325 JW n FL
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nice... still laughing while typing... real nice!

I had to edit... Aln Bri... sound like his kids.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 15:52 | 877076 Djirk
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long term effects of cocaine and hookers......cookers

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:50 | 876244 Andy Lewis
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Death threats bitchez!

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:51 | 876250 Larry Darrell
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An exact count of 47 people?

Sounds more like

Hit list bitchez!

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:51 | 876354 hedgeless_horseman
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Presumably the reason for the arrest is that the commodities trader had threatened to kill 47 members of the SEC, CFTC and Finra in a post on his website.

That would be terrible.  Think of the productivity hit to these three already overburdened regulatory agencies.  All those people might equate to as many as, what, two or maybe even three investigations during their collective careers?  Investigating things like market manipulations and front-running the American taxpayer.  Investigations that would just never have happened. But maybe, like Raymond K. Hessel, after dodging a bullet (47) they might actually go do the jobs we pay them to do, instead of surfing tranny porn all day.

http://dealbreaker.com/2010/03/sec-supervisor-surfed-tranny-porn-to-cope-with-stress-of-the-job/

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:58 | 876603 CU1981
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What is tranny porn ? seriously

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 14:03 | 876631 Rodent Freikorps
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Boys, who take female steroids, and have boob jobs, but keep the dick, and screw others on film.

They tend to look exactly like chicks...with dicks. The psychology of the thing I will take a pass on.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 15:35 | 877018 Pure Evil
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Go to Google, click on the Images link, then type "Tranny Porn" in the search box.

You'll either be pleasantly surprised or become seriously ill, depending upon you're queerness.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 14:08 | 876657 Blano
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"That would be terrible."

Not to mention all the layoffs at porn sites due to drastically decreased revenue.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:50 | 876246 Ragnarok
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Ponzi dissenters will be disappeared.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:54 | 876268 CU1981
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wordup

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:00 | 876322 JW n FL
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I am right fucking here... tact team times two... run it Bitches!

of course I can make bail.. that helps! lol

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:28 | 876447 CU1981
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This is what happens to you when you Dissent the Ponzi

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/world/europe/11poland.html

 

Dissenting is not good for your personal well being .....

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:05 | 876346 caconhma
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I just don't trust our government anymore. They could just cook up everything to further raise a general hysteria level.

 

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:14 | 876397 Mad Max
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Captain Obvious - paging Captain Obvious - call on line 2.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 15:47 | 877059 Pure Evil
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Capt Obvious on vacation, Major Insight filling in, how can I help you.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 22:36 | 878171 StychoKiller
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Tell General Disaster to be careful out there! :>D

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:15 | 876400 lesterbegood
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Abandon the corporate federal government as they have abandoned you.

Withdraw your consent.

http://republicoftheunitedstates.org

By the people, for the people.

Liberty and justice for all.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 14:44 | 876808 faustian bargain
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I don't know whether to respond sarcastically, incredulously, or supportively. So I'll just leave it at that.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:51 | 876251 Arius
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would be interesting to see his positions...these crazy guys all around us....

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:00 | 876316 JW n FL
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The Crazies should Kill all of them Fuckers!

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:12 | 876385 HarryWanger
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Probably been short equities for the past couple of years and lost his ass.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:38 | 876432 malikai
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In a real market, he would have made a fortune being short. In this farce, he's gone mad. Who would have guessed?

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 14:01 | 876622 JW n FL
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People should not be net negative in anything ever.. your only betting against yourself.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:49 | 876562 homersimpson
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Yet you were long Yahoo for the longest time - and unfortunately, you're still here.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 14:11 | 876673 Blano
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Do you know how to read??

"Alnbri was General Partner of the Hybrid Fund II, LP which had returns of 99.6% in 2008 and 37.67% in 2009 before being sold to another firm."

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 14:51 | 876835 Diogenes
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So, the guy is bat shit crazy and his fund beat everybody. I don't really want to think about that, you don't know where it might lead.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:24 | 876253 Arius
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it reminds me of Gordon Gekko:

you are not naive to believe we live in a democracy are you?

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:52 | 876258 Mad Max
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It's getting a lot more difficult to tell real news apart from The Onion and other spoofs.

On a different note, I'm curious how many people would consider a money manager CEO as "middle class."  I guess if you're not all the way at the top of the squid, you're middle class by default.

 

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:59 | 876311 JW n FL
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$20M (plus or minus the printing of 30%ish) or less is middle class.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:14 | 876394 Mad Max
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Ummmm... yeah.

Definitely, people making $20M/year have the same concerns and understandings as those making $50k/year.  Important things like what size yacht to buy, how many servants to keep, and deciding whether Netjets is for them.  All middle class.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:19 | 876411 Rodent Freikorps
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I'm thinking, at $20million/yr. I'd be thinking more along the lines of whether I needed more redheads, or asians in my harem.

To each their own, I always say.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:28 | 876445 JW n FL
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That's the real math.. that Bank grade you on... start here.. http://susanrosenthal.com/articles/a-social-definition-of-class

 

you didnt know you where still graded like a sheep or a cow heading off to be sold at market prices based on your consumption / production?

 

 Wake up man!

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:46 | 876556 Rodent Freikorps
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I've got one redhead arriving on Sunday, and the Asian was back ordered because a shortage in Shanghai. Give me a break. I am buying as fast as I can. It is not my fault the cabal only counts Mexicans and Brazilians as 1/3  of a normal harem member.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:29 | 876449 redpill
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Makes one wonder how much you need to make to be considered bourgeoisie then!

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:54 | 876270 Mark Medinnus
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Willing is not enough; we must do.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:57 | 876299 JW n FL
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I like you Mark!

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 15:39 | 877028 Mark Medinnus
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Thanks! (and it only took the internet to find you)

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 16:40 | 877263 JW n FL
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James Workman is and has always been easy to find here.. your just new...

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:54 | 876271 Rodent Freikorps
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I'm very conflicted right now.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:57 | 876295 JW n FL
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Why? its you or them? do you think they think about you? do you want me to repost the FED Fuck Main Street white paper?

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:00 | 876319 A Nanny Moose
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Yes

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:06 | 876349 ReeferMac
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Say it again Brother!

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:23 | 876429 JW n FL
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All Credit to Xibalba, I am but a humble re-poster...

 

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by Xibalba
on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 12:36
#873393

 

THE FED HAS SPOKEN: NO BAILOUT FOR MAIN STREET

Ellen Brown
January 11, 2011
www.webofdebt.com

 

The Federal Reserve was set up by bankers for bankers, and it has served them well. Out of the blue, it came up with $12.3 trillion in nearly interest-free credit to bail the banks out of a credit crunch they created. That same credit crisis has plunged state and local governments into insolvency, but the Fed has now delivered its ultimatum: there will be no “quantitative easing” for municipal governments.

On January 7, according to the Wall Street Journal, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke announced that the Fed had ruled out a central bank bailout of state and local governments. "We have no expectation or intention to get involved in state and local finance," he said in testimony before the Senate Budget Committee. The states "should not expect loans from the Fed."

So much for the proposal of President Barack Obama, reported in Reuters a year ago, to have the Fed buy municipal bonds to cut the heavy borrowing costs of cash-strapped cities and states.

The credit woes of state and municipal governments are a direct result of Wall Street’s malfeasance. Their borrowing costs first shot up in 2008, when the “monoline” bond insurers lost their own credit ratings after gambling in derivatives. The Fed’s low-interest facilities could have been used to restore local government credit, just as it was used to restore the credit of the banks. But Chairman Bernanke has now vetoed that plan.

Why? It can hardly be argued that the Fed doesn’t have the money. The collective budget deficit of the states for 2011 is projected at $140 billion, a mere drop in the bucket compared to the sums the Fed managed to come up with to bail out the banks. According to data recently released, the central bank provided roughly $3.3 trillion in liquidity and $9 trillion in short-term loans and other financial arrangements to banks, multinational corporations, and foreign financial institutions following the credit crisis of 2008.

The argument may be that continuing the Fed’s controversial “quantitative easing” program (easing credit conditions by creating money with accounting entries) will drive the economy into hyperinflation. But creating $12.3 trillion for the banks – nearly 100 times the sum needed by state governments -- did not have that dire effect. Rather, the money supply is shrinking – by some estimates, at the fastest rate since the Great Depression. Creating another $140 billion would hardly affect the money supply at all.

Why didn’t the $12.3 trillion drive the economy into hyperinflation? Because, contrary to popular belief, when the Fed engages in “quantitative easing,” it is not simply printing money and giving it away. It is merely extending CREDIT, creating an overdraft on the account of the borrower to be paid back in due course. The Fed is simply replacing expensive credit from private banks (which also create the loan money on their books) with cheap credit from the central bank.

So why isn’t the Fed open to advancing this cheap credit to the states? According to Mr. Bernanke, its hands are tied. He says the Fed is limited by statute to buying municipal government debt with maturities of six months or less that is directly backed by tax or other assured revenue, a form of debt that makes up less than 2% of the overall muni market. Congress imposed that restriction, and only Congress can change it.

That may sound like he is passing the buck, but he is probably right. Bailing out state and local governments IS outside the Fed’s mandate. The Federal Reserve Act was drafted by bankers to create a banker’s bank that would serve their interests. No others need apply. The Federal Reserve is the bankers’ own private club, and its legal structure keeps all non-members out.

Earlier Central Bank Ventures into Commercial Lending

That is how the Fed is structured today, but it hasn’t always been that way. In 1934, Section 13(b) was added to the Federal Reserve Act, authorizing the Fed to “make credit available for the purpose of supplying working capital to established industrial and commercial businesses.” This long-forgotten section was implemented and remained in effect for 24 years. In a 2002 article called “Lender of More Than Last Resort” posted on the Minneapolis Fed’s website, David Fettig summarized its provisions as follows:

  • [Federal] Reserve banks could make loans to any established businesses, including businesses begun that year (a change from earlier legislation that limited funds to more established enterprises).
  • Reserve banks were permitted to participate [share in loans] with lending institutions, but only if the latter assumed 20 percent of the risk.
  • No limitation was placed on the amount of a single loan.
  • A Reserve bank could make a direct loan only to a business in its district.

Today, that venture into commercial banking sounds like a radical departure from the Fed’s given role; but at the time it evidently seemed like a reasonable alternative. Fettig notes that “the Fed was still less than 20 years old and many likely remembered the arguments put forth during the System's founding, when some advocated that the discount window should be open to all comers, not just member banks.” In Australia and other countries, the central bank was then assuming commercial as well as central bank functions.

Section 13(b) was repealed in 1958, but one state has kept its memory alive. In North Dakota, the publicly owned Bank of North Dakota (BND) acts as a “mini-Fed” for the state. Like the Federal Reserve of the 1930s and 1940s, the BND makes loans to local businesses and participates in loans made by local banks.

The BND has helped North Dakota escape the credit crisis. In 2009, when other states were teetering on bankruptcy, North Dakota sported the largest surplus it had ever had. Other states, prompted by their own budget crises to explore alternatives, are now looking to North Dakota for inspiration.

The “Unusual and Exigent Circumstances” Exception

Although Section 13(b) was repealed, the Federal Reserve Act retained enough vestiges of it in 2008 to allow the Fed to intervene to save a variety of non-bank entities from bankruptcy. The problem was that the tool was applied selectively. The recipients were major corporate players, not local businesses or local governments. Fettig writes:

Section 13(b) may be a memory, . . . but Section 13 paragraph 3 . . . is alive and well in the Federal Reserve Act. . . . [T]his amendment allows, "in unusual and exigent circumstances," a Reserve bank to advance credit to individuals, partnerships and corporations that are not depository institutions.

In 2008, the Fed bailed out investment company Bear Stearns and insurer AIG, neither of which was a bank. John Nichols reports in The Nation that Bear Stearns got almost $1 trillion in short-term loans, with interest rates as low as 0.5%. The Fed also made loans to other corporations, including GE, McDonald’s, and Verizon.

In 2010, Section 13(3) was modified by the Dodd-Frank bill, which replaced the phrase “individuals, partnerships and corporations” with the vaguer phrase “any program or facility with broad-based eligibility.” As explained in the notes to the bill:

Only Broad-Based Facilities Permitted. Section 13(3) is modified to remove the authority to extend credit to specific individuals, partnerships and corporations. Instead, the Board may authorize credit under section 13(3) only under a program or facility with “broad-based eligibility.”

What programs have “broad-based eligibility” isn’t clear from a reading of the Section, but long-term municipal bonds are evidently excluded. Mr. Bernanke said that if municipal defaults became a problem, it would be in Congress’ hands, not his.

Congress could change the law, just as it did in 1934, 1958, and 2010. It could change the law to allow the Fed to help Main Street just as it helped Wall Street. But as Senator Dick Durbin blurted out on a radio program in April 2009, Congress is owned by the banks. Changes in the law today are more likely to go the other way. Mike Whitney, writing in December 2010, noted:

So far, not one CEO or CFO of a major investment bank or financial institution has been charged, arrested, prosecuted, or convicted in what amounts to the largest incident of securities fraud in history. In the much-smaller Savings and Loan investigation, more than 1,000 people were charged and convicted. . . . [T]he system is broken and the old rules no longer apply.

The old rules no longer apply because they have been changed to suit the moneyed interests that hold Congress and the Fed captive. The law has been changed not only to keep the guilty out of jail but to preserve their exorbitant profits and bonuses at the expense of their victims.

To do this, the Federal Reserve had to take “extraordinary measures.” They were extraordinary but not illegal, because the Fed’s congressional mandate made them legal. Nobody’s permission even had to be sought. Section 13(3) of the Federal Reserve Act allows it to do what it needs to do in “unusual and exigent circumstances” to save its constituents.

If you’re a bank, it seems, anything goes. If you’re not a bank, you’re on your own.

So Who Will Save the States?

Highlighting the immediacy of the local government budget crisis, The Wall Street Journal quoted Meredith Whitney, a banking analyst who recently turned to analyzing state and local finances. She said on a recent broadcast of CBS's "60 Minutes" that the U.S. could see "50 to 100 sizable defaults" in 2011 among its local governments, amounting to "hundreds of billions of dollars."

If the Fed could so easily come up with 12.3 trillion dollars to save the banks, why can’t it find a few hundred billion under the mattress to save the states? Obviously it could, if Congress were inclined to put non-bank lending back into the Fed’s job description. Then why isn’t that being done? The cynical view is that the states are purposely being kept on the edge of bankruptcy, because the banks that hold Congress hostage want the interest income and the control.

Whatever the reason, Congress is standing down while the nation is sinking. Congress must summon the courage to take needed action; and that action is not to impose “austerity” by cutting services, at a time when an already-squeezed populace most needs them. Rather, it is to create the jobs that will generate real productivity. To do this, Congress would not even have to go through the Federal Reserve. It could issue its own debt-free money and spend it on repairing and modernizing our decaying infrastructure, among other needed works. Congress’ task will become easier if the people stand with them in demanding action, but Congress is now so gridlocked that change may still be long in coming.

In the meantime, the states could take matters in their own hands and set up their own state-owned banks, on the model of the Bank of North Dakota. They could then have their own very-low-interest credit lines, just as the Wall Street banks do. Rather than spending or selling off valuable public assets, or hoarding them in massive rainy day funds made necessary by the lack of ready credit, states could LEVERAGE their assets into a very strong and abundant local credit system, following the accepted business practices of the Wall Street banks themselves.

The Public Banking Institute is being launched on January 13 to explore that alternative. For more information, see http://PublicBankingInstitute.org.

Ellen Brown is an attorney and the author of eleven books, including Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Money System and How We Can Break Free. Her websites are webofdebt.com, ellenbrown.com, and public-banking.com.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 14:31 | 876743 MarketTruth
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Main Street does not have any of the owners/members that own the private federal reserve, unlike POMO which benefits JP Morgan, etc. So the Fed has ZERO reason to bail out Main Street as they have no members there that would benefit.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 20:40 | 877960 Buck Johnson
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The states for now aren't being bailed out because the debt that they have is more than a few hundred billion, it's more like 1.5 trillion.  And on top of it all the money used to bail them out would instantly hit the streets, and we definitely would see inflation then.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:54 | 876274 Internet Tough Guy
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Vincent McCrudden = turd ferguson?

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:56 | 876288 JW n FL
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Turd is an idiot some times but overall he aint so bad.. lil stupid, but other than that... I really like the guy, if that makes sense.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:30 | 876459 tmosley
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There is nothing stupid about the Turd.  He gets emotional sometimes, but so does everyone.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:55 | 876276 DonnieD
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I like this guy based on his bio.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:55 | 876278 Caviar Emptor
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Death Wish 9.0, bitchez!

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:02 | 876333 A Nanny Moose
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Charles Bronson runs people over with his Hoveround?

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:17 | 876404 Caviar Emptor
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Hedge Fund guys with .357s stalking federal agency officials 

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:29 | 876454 JW n FL
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Yep! I Love IT! Crazies Kill the right people for a change!

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 22:44 | 878180 StychoKiller
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Men, mount your Segways...let's roll! :>D

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:55 | 876280 whatz that smell
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..."Its us (middle class) against them (Government officials and the Bourgeosie).  Start acting now before its too late!"

 

too late! the ship is sinking, the lifeboats are gone, and the doors are locked... the (middle class) american dream swims with the fishes.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 14:00 | 876610 CH1
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The State versus the Individual... as it always has been.

Sun, 01/16/2011 - 11:53 | 879929 Popo
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Never *ever* underestimate the power of a tax revolt.

 

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:55 | 876282 JW n FL
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Killem all you Crazies! Get to Fucking Work!!!

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:57 | 876292 unwashedmass
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wow. they arrested him for writing on his blog about what is happening? wow.

wow.

wow.

the long arm of JPM. We don't tolerate no dissent, bitchez.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:09 | 876368 ReeferMac
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Welcome to Big Brother, friend. Precrimes are now prosecutable and Freedom of speech has been suspended until further notice (don't give me that "Fire in a crowded Theater" excuse BS, either, a post on a Blog and the FBI knocks on your door?).

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:11 | 876382 JW n FL
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and so it begins... and when the tide turns... they will pull the plug, communication will be a priviledge not a right.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:52 | 876574 seek
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Bingo. The issue I see leading to this is that as names are named -- i.e. folks start pointing at the real powers that be rather than the puppet powers -- the threat communications represents to them escalates rapidly. When the plug on the internet is pulled, we'll have a pretty good idea of who "they" are.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 14:02 | 876629 CH1
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The Internet has become a surveillance device.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 16:41 | 877266 JW n FL
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become? Become?? BECOME???

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:58 | 876302 Rodent Freikorps
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It is, "Kill them all. Let God sort them out." you friggin rookie.

 

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:10 | 876372 JW n FL
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Careful.. word placement is everything...

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:21 | 876418 Rodent Freikorps
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I think the quotation marks will protect me.

Why are you stirring the pot? I hope it is for humor.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:30 | 876461 JW n FL
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"Why are you stirring the pot?"

me? nooooooooooo.... not me?

Sun, 01/16/2011 - 11:57 | 879938 Popo
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Kill god let them all sort him out?

Kill 'em all god, let's sort 'em out?

Them killed god, let's sort him out?

 

What?

 

 

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:56 | 876286 Racer
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Maybe he was a fundamentalist

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:00 | 876317 Rodent Freikorps
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It is those friggin Amish that you have to watch out for. They are always ready to snap and kill whole cities.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:56 | 876290 6 String
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....The SEC, FINRA And CFTC? All regulartory bodies that don't really do their jobs, but are really good at picking on the small guy to give the appearance of investor protection while they aid and abide the giant ponzi dealers? C'mon, anyone really wonder why someone would flip-out? Really?

The SEC, FINRA, and CFTC are complete jokes lead by bankster pay-rolls.

The guy probably simply flipped out because he forgot to hedge his positions with ponzi intruments: long banks. Right? I mean isn't that the perfect barbell: banks on one side and precious metals on the other? How could one go wrong. 

 

 

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:57 | 876297 molecool
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I don't see any death threads - what did he say?

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:32 | 876468 Hansel
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Most of the case looks hollow to me.  The only explicit death threat in the whole thing is the following.

11. On or about September 30, 2010, D.D. received an email from a gmail account in the name of the Chairman of the CFTC containing the subject line "You're a Dead Man!"  This email was sent from an internet protocol address located in Singapore. The fact that this email was sent from Singapore, where the defendant currently lives, the targeting of D.D., the focus on the CFTC Chairman and the similarity of this email's language to that
contained in other emails from defendant VINCENT P. MCCRUDDEN suggest that MCCRUDDEN sent this email as well:

It wasn't ever a question of "if" I was going to kill you, it was just a question of when. And now, that question has been answered. You are going to die a painful death. Why, because you deserve to and it should have been done a long time ago. You have ruined too many lives and continue to expand your evil empire. . I have researched some talented people who have agreed to help me towards this end. We have done research. We know where you live now and what your travel plans are.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:47 | 876557 Raynja
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That's cause he didn't make any death threats, except possibly an email from a coffee shop in singapore that's not in his name........ Even a shitty lawyer shouldn't have much problem getting these charges tossed unless there is more not included in the indictment.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 14:08 | 876660 DrLamer
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It was a spam, sent by a computer virus. The owner of computer was unaware.

Sun, 01/16/2011 - 11:58 | 879942 Popo
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Guantanamo doesn't care about your silly little lawyer.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:57 | 876298 molecool
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I don't see any death threads - what did he say?

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:32 | 876470 JW n FL
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He might have sent them an email explaining how they where robbing the country blind and that they where in fact guilty of treason and becuase of those two facts (alone) they should be sumarily taken to the white house lawn and gunned down by our new president... Tyler.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 14:46 | 876812 topcallingtroll
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Long live president tyler and his revolutionary council. We will gladly sacrifice ourselves for you. Just say the word! (That kind of power is scary...huh tyler...we are waiting.....give us the word....)

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:58 | 876300 andybev01
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'...a twice survivor of the WTC bombings'

 

How did he pull that off?

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:02 | 876329 Rodent Freikorps
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Don't forget the earlier failed WTC bombing. 1993?

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:05 | 876343 Hephasteus
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Ya that was a vital step. Where experts testified that it would take something like a plane loaded with fuel to take out the world trade center. Not just a van parked by the support tower. That was a good set up for a couple tons of thermite slam dunk.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:06 | 876348 LongSoupLine
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Read the book "1000 years for revenge".

Absolutely fantastic investigative journalism regarding both WTC incidents, as well as the complete failure of...wait for it...yep, the FBI (I know, "gasp"!)

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:04 | 876341 lieutenantjohnchard
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1993 and 2001.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:58 | 876303 Bartanist
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At their basest level ... governments are no more than the most powerful gang on the block, which has decided to enforce their rules of power structure and behavior on YOU!

Governments are not absolute and yet they should not be trifled with unless you have comparable power. Similarly whining about it does not change which gang and who is in power.

My thought on global government is that it is about as likely to be as successful as the possibility of uniting all of the gangs in Chicago, LA or New York... and why do they need global government anyway, when control for most of the world is througjh financial means.

Sun, 01/16/2011 - 12:02 | 879951 Popo
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"governments are no more than the most powerful gang on the block"

This.  +1.  Exactly.

Most people don't understand this basic concept of sovereign nations.  Governments live in a greater state of anarchy.  Laws govern their inhabitants only, but not the governments themselves.

 


Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:58 | 876304 Hephasteus
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The problem with bullying is that they fall down one by one. But they get up together.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lexLAjh8fPA

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:59 | 876307 A Nanny Moose
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The appearance of the Praetorians is a sure sign that government is doing it wrong. Government should fear the people, but the people should not have to resort to violence, or threats thereof.

Those who make peacful revolution impossible....

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:07 | 876356 JW n FL
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by A Nanny Moose
on Fri, 01/14/2011 - 11:59
#876307

 

The appearance of the Praetorians is a sure sign that government is doing it wrong. Government should fear the people, but the people should not have to resort to violence, or threats thereof.

Those who make peacful revolution impossible....

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what the fuck are you puffing on??? and where the fuck do you live!

fuck them, fuck that and I hope the crazies kill all of them...

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:36 | 876488 topcallingtroll
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Im right there with u buddy...." calling all crazies....blue light special at the fed on aisle 3"

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 14:55 | 876852 faustian bargain
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Just to clarify: our government is making peaceful revolution impossible.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:59 | 876309 barkingbill
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he's not crazy. the government is corrupt and 9/11 was without doubt an inside job. 

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:59 | 876313 almost_have_a_name
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Reuters:

"NEW YORK (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase & Co reported a 47 percent increase in quarterly earnings, and said loan demand and trading profit could grow this year, boosting investor optimism that revenue for major banks will recover."

There is that number, 47, again...


Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:03 | 876318 Rogerwilco
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These are not isolated incidents. The feds are dropping the hammer on bloggers that some DHS bot has identified as dangerous. With over 140,000 statutes on the books, they can and will find something to hang anyone that dares to squeak too loud. The higher-profile guys/gals will be left alone, for now, but imagine the legal and financial burden one of these FBI "visits" imposes on a small-time blogger.

Fascism 101 -- move in from the countryside to the cities, bottom up.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:06 | 876347 JW n FL
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Censorship... Freedom of Speech....

Fuck the Fed...

I hope the Crazies get the FED and who ever defends the FED and then some..

Quote me... arrest me... and I will see everyone in Court and on TV going forward... and my message will not be limited to Censorship issues.

 

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:15 | 876388 Rogerwilco
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That's not how the game works. Your freedom to speak will not be challenged, instead they will confiscate all your stuff (PC, cell phone, entertainment gear, books, bank records, etc.) and disrupt your life. Have a ripped DVD or two on a hard drive? Felony charge #1. Some porn on a computer? Why that looks like kiddie stuff to us, tsk tsk, bad boy. Felony charge #2. Better hire an attorney, boom, $10k retainer.

Still feel feisty?

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:25 | 876436 Rodent Freikorps
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I would like to state publicly, right now, that I often allow completely anonymous, homeless people to use my computer for whatever reason they wish. I'm all about respecting their privacy and not ever checking what they may access on the interwebs.

I'm a giver.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 14:53 | 876833 King_of_simpletons
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Hmm.. Lets see. You are running a private club for sexual deviants and registered sex offenders. Felony# 3 right there. Guilty by association. Law and justice is not what they show in movies or civics classes anymore. It has become mob rule under the cover of equal justice for all.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 16:22 | 877182 topcallingtroll
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In theory they have to prove intent

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:29 | 876453 topcallingtroll
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Make note of this guys...this is the modus operandi....you should read " three felonies a day" that is about right for a professional working in complexly regulated areas

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:39 | 876509 topcallingtroll
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My wife knows i like to bugger young guys while she films...the fbi is welcome to copy my porn stash.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:52 | 876573 damnitalready
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... And yet people still believe Assange is a rapist... lol!

What happened to the good ol days of just using the arm of the government set up for this type of harassment, the IRS?  I'm sure they have the cheat sheet of contradictory laws that they can easily slap on someone to shut them up.  Of course, if you have millions to fight maybe the IRS isn't the best choice...

... Guess child molestation and rape it is..

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:36 | 876495 JW n FL
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by Rogerwilco
on Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:15
#876388

 

That's not how the game works. Your freedom to speak will not be challenged, instead they will confiscate all your stuff (PC, cell phone, entertainment gear, books, bank records, etc.) and disrupt your life. Have a ripped DVD or two on a hard drive? Felony charge #1. Some porn on a computer? Why that looks like kiddie stuff to us, tsk tsk, bad boy. Felony charge #2. Better hire an attorney, boom, $10k retainer.

Still feel feisty?

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I count 5 firms, one professer of contract law and so fucking on... already retained..

Fuck them!

Kill them all you Crazies!

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 14:44 | 876805 WaterWings
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STFU and go away again.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:54 | 876586 Andy_Jackson_Jihad
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Get yourself some encrypted tunneling service.

Here's the thing about the threat to pull the plug on the entire interwebs...the machine needs white collar peons to produce wealth to confiscate.  And the machine doesn't understand the technology and could never hire enough people to keep up with the army of coder nerds out there working for free.

Short of martial law, which I contend the oligarchs do not want, the internet will be left alone.  Just hide your damn IP overseas and all is well.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 14:11 | 876670 topcallingtroll
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I dont hide shit, except what i might need for eventualities. Well i do try to hide from spammers and telemarketers.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:09 | 876365 Rodent Freikorps
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Isn't the term Fishing For Laws?

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:01 | 876324 LongSoupLine
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He was probably long silver against the CFTC (read: JPM lap dogs).

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:02 | 876331 AccreditedEYE
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Are they kidding me? The Squid does this like 8 times a day and no action is taken...

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:02 | 876332 sodbuster
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I consider myself reasonably well adjusted and balanced- but I certainly sympathize with the way he feels.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:03 | 876338 cclaeys
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yet another TZA long, trading with unsettled funds and scared of a Reg T hit.

 

Where are the threats? Jaysus, watch what you write - especially if it is a non mainstream (Rush, et al) opinion!

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:04 | 876340 JW n FL
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Wake up my fellow citizens and middle class and go look into the mirror, because you my friends are the face of the new Al Qaeda! Civil disobedience can be a start for justice. Its us (middle class) against them (Government officials and the Bourgeosie).  Start acting now before its too late!

     Government employees should be individually accountable and not be able to hide behind the veils of their entities. If they are sued for bad behaviour, they should have to use their own resources and money like any other citizen.    

 

I like him!

http://www.alnbri.com/id1.html

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:06 | 876351 Hephasteus
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Ya but that makes them defenseless. Government employees don't have anything remotely resembling own resources.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:18 | 876408 topcallingtroll
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I like him too! And government employees can buy insurance judt like us. Too many fuckups....lose your liability insurance....then lose ur government job

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:08 | 876359 topcallingtroll
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Somebody report to td what straw broke the camel's back. "Us against the government and beurgioise." Hmmm......sounds like a zero hedge reader....careful td......the government is going to watch your hateful speech more closely.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:08 | 876361 dcb
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kind of sounds like he is exactly corect. government people should not be able to hid ebehind their office. but then start going after them and wall street and the whole ponzi thing goes down

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:08 | 876363 dryam
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"Flipped out"?.....No.  Appropriately pissed......maybe.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:09 | 876364 cclaeys
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doesnt sound a whole lot more threatening than the fuk that called my wife about her student loan...nothing a couple hours of alex jones and few lines of crank cant bring clarity to.

 

on a lighter note - anyone ever see an rsi(14) = 100?

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:10 | 876374 Ahmeexnal
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Hmmm....the same text is at his website. Did they put it back up?

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:10 | 876376 butthead
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What I want to say I can't say because if I say what I want I will be hunted down same as him...bummer.  The functions of the US government today are to lie, cheat, steal, and kill.  So far they've been killing foreigners but that will change bye and bye as all governments turn against their own people when corned as they are today.  Bye and bye the US military will be used to protect the politicians, banksters, and the elite...from us.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:32 | 876471 Rodent Freikorps
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Only if you oppose them directly.

Allow them their "break downs" and wait till they move on. The US military is you best friend in troubled times.

Just don't ever force them into a corner. They will destroy you, and feel guilty later.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:51 | 876571 JW n FL
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by Rodent Freikorps
on Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:32
#876471

 

Only if you oppose them directly.

Allow them their "break downs" and wait till they move on. The US military is you best friend in troubled times.

Just don't ever force them into a corner. They will destroy you, and feel guilty later.

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Fuck them... and fuck that.. some people shoot back... a standing army in the US to quell the US people?

Fuck you for saying it.. I hope a Crazy sprays up all your kids and your Mom.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 14:07 | 876651 topcallingtroll
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Spray joe mama!

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:52 | 876576 topcallingtroll
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True wisdom....rodent

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:53 | 876580 topcallingtroll
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True wisdom....rodent

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:48 | 876560 JW n FL
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by butthead
on Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:10
#876376

 

What I want to say I can't say because if I say what I want I will be hunted down same as him...bummer.  The functions of the US government today are to lie, cheat, steal, and kill.  So far they've been killing foreigners but that will change bye and bye as all governments turn against their own people when corned as they are today.  Bye and bye the US military will be used to protect the politicians, banksters, and the elite...from us.

********************************************************************************

The years of house to house training in the mid east will come in handy when they get back home... all the better to keep you in line with my pretty.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 14:17 | 876703 Rodent Freikorps
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Heh.

The other side of the coin is that those trained to stop insurgencies, should be pretty damn efficient at conducting them.

Wouldn't you think?

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 16:45 | 877279 JW n FL
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Semper Fi Bitches!

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:10 | 876380 barkingbill
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i doubt that he really threatened to kill anyone. probably just set up. 

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:11 | 876384 LongSoupLine
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Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:14 | 876398 Apostate
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It would be pretty easy to hack someone's blog to write all kinds of crazy bullshit on it.

Just sayin'. 

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:21 | 876423 Jerry Maguire
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I think amending the constitution is a better idea.

http://strikelawyer.wordpress.com

Violence is a terrible step to take.

 

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:24 | 876430 topcallingtroll
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Violence is indeed a terrible step, but i look to the words of our founding fathers.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:40 | 876512 JW n FL
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Fuck that, spray them all! You Crazies!

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:50 | 876566 topcallingtroll
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Ok... i can no longer resist...spray away...just dont tell my mommy.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:52 | 876579 cclaeys
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lol - now that there is funny.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:21 | 876424 topcallingtroll
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Ok...can vincent be a saint in our new religion? The secret cult of the hedgies. I want his autograph and i will send him cigarette and snack cake money.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:27 | 876442 gwar5
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Too bad Bernie Madoff didn't get this much attention. 

He looks too principled and just pissed, ala Andrew McGuire

He had great returns, not broke, and was still taking on TPTB.

This just looks like a big warning shot across the bow to others

McCrudden would make a good congressional Ron Paul witness.

 

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:29 | 876451 killben
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Even if I feel otherwise, I want to say it here .. Ben Bernanke and Tim Geithner are true saviours of America. But for these 2 great souls Americans would have been out on the streets.

America is lucky to have such men at its helm!!

 

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:42 | 876526 topcallingtroll
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Ur complete support is duely noted....and we all unanimously agree. But the fbi is still welcome to my twink porn...wife is a great cameralady

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:45 | 876548 JW n FL
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Nice!

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 15:14 | 876944 Milestones
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The words of a true and thoughtful patriot. It is wonderful to see such stirring comments about visionary men who's only goal is to assist their country in time of need.     Milestones

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:30 | 876457 alien-IQ
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There is nothing in the world more dangerous than a man with nothing left to lose.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:42 | 876525 JW n FL
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I would dis-agree.. Hungry, pissed off people maybe...

 

The gravy train for un-employment is still in full swing (extension mode) so no worries... except from the Crazies... now, when the sheepeople get hungry... then there will be a problem, and those crazies... wont be so crazy looking.

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:46 | 876554 topcallingtroll
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Hungry pissed off people have nothing left to lose....and i will arm them heavily and legally at a time of my.choosing...hear that fbi? You can find me if u want. i only hide from telemarketers. thats all i fear.

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