Gold Confiscation Begins? Report of 2 Dozen Gold Krugerrands Stolen by CIA

[mamboni]

Is this from the onion?

No, but I'll be the furst to admit that the story sounds fishy. I'm not convinced it is true. This could be an attempt to conceal a family theft. Or someone decided to throw a big fish tale to Quayle and watch him run with it. But the story brings up a larger point: is it inconcievable that this could happen? IMHO, in extreme circumstances, the government can justify any action, the laws be damned and the people are in practice impotent to stop them. For me, Cyprus was a wake up all. Any wealth not in your own possession is up for grabs. And governments the world over are indebted like never before in all of history and desperate for money, anyone's money. The ECB/Troika made a play for reputed $trillions (not a few $billions) of Russian ex-KGB money, money ostensiby controlled by Putin and the Russian government. That's desperation in my book. It has blown up in their faces: the Russians front ran their grab and pulled it all out months ago. Now the ECB/troika have to face the Cypriot people who haven't been told the truth: you have lost everything because all of the money is gone. The thing about American banks is, they have no money either. It is all an illusion. But the mob doesn't understand this because it's too busy cashing welfare checks and shopping at Walmarts. The mob will not accept such intellectual explanations for why the money ran out. Government will have to come up with it. And if it means looting the savers and asset owners, so be it: it's for the good of the collective.

You savvy?