ÖGMUNDUR, HAFNIÐ ICESAVE

HAFNIÐ ICESAVE KÚGUNINNI

Ögmundur, við skuldum ekki Icesave.  Enginn, ekki færustu lagaprófessorar, hafa getað vísað í nein lög sem gera íslensku þjóðina og ríkissjóð Íslands ábyrgan fyrir Icesave, ekkert frekar en bresku og hollensku ríkissjóðina og þjóðirnar.   Bretar og Hollendingar fóru með eftirlit bankans í þeirra löndum ekki síður en við og eru jafnsekir fyrir mistökunum.  

Það er ekki ykkar að velja hvort við verðum pínd inn í þrælasamning að ólöglegri kröfu Evrópubandalagsins, Breta og Hollendinga.  Það er ekki ykkar, Breta eða Hollendinga að ráða því að tekin séu af okkur þau sjálfsögðu mannréttindi að verja okkur fyrir dómi.  Sigurður Líndal og fjöldi lögspekinga hefur neitað lagalegri ábyrgð okkar fyrir Icesave.  Og siðferðileg skylda okkar er ENGU STÆRRI en Breta og Hollendinga sjálfra og Evrópubandalagsins í heild sinni.    

Hafnið þessari nauðung.  Haldi Bretar og Hollendingar sig hafa löglega kröfu á ríkissjóð munu þeir sækja okkur fyrir dómi.  Það vilja þeir þó ALLS EKKI vegna þess að þeir vita að Icesave krafan er ólögleg kúgun.  Við fórum eftir EVRÓPULÖGUM.  EES lögum sem segja skýrum orðum að EKKI MEGI gera ríkissjóði landa ábyrga fyrir innlánstrygginum hafi yfirvöld framfylgt lögunum eins og við gerðum.  Þeir vilja að við gjöldum laga þeirra sem gerðu ekki ráð fyrir allsherjar-bankahruni heils lands.  Þeir vita að ef þeir geta ekki gert okkur sek í hugum fólks muni fólk gera áhlaup á alla banka í Evrópu.  Þeir vita að EKKERT land getur staðið undir allsherjar-bankahruni.   Þeir vita upp á sig sökina, enda búnir að endurskrifa lögin og ætla aftur á bak með ólöglega kröfu á okkur.  Og aum íslensk stjórnvöld vilja ekki hafna nauðunginni.  Og Jóhanna Sig. hótar enn vetrarfrosti og öllu illu ef við ekki borgum reikning sem við skuldum ekki.  Glæpur út af fyrir sig.       

Hafnið þrælasamningi gegn litlum börnum og ófæddum börnum, foreldrum og gamalmennum þessa lands ef þið ekki viljið að allir flýji.  Hafnið Icesave alfarið og hættið að ræða þessa upplognu skuld í Alþingi.  Rukkið aðalskuldara Icesave, Björgólf Thor Björgólfsson Londonbúa og haldið okkur utan við Icesave.  

Og svo ég noti gömul orð Steingríms Joð: Það eru gungur og druslur sem ekki standa í lappirnar gegn yfirgangi.  Ykkur hefur ekki verið hótað lífláti og ykkur verður því ALDREI fyrirgefið ef þið ætlið að hleypa óendanlegri nauðunginni í gegn til að Jóhanna og co. geti dregið okkur niðurlægð inn í Evrópubandalagið til óvina okkar Breta og Hollendinga og til að þið getið haldið vinstri stjórn.  Það yrði ekki löng vinstri stjórn, Ögmundur.  Við látum ekki fara svona með okkur. 

 

ES: Ég skrifaði þetta bréf í síðu Ögmundar Jónassonar í dag, 29. nóv., 09.   Hann birti það 2. des.:

http://ogmundur.is/fra-lesendum/nr/4913/

AN OPEN LETTER: ICESAVE IS AN EXTORTION

ICESAVE: AN EXTORTION

 

ICESAVE IS AN EXTORTION AGAINST ICELAND BY THE EU, THE IMF, BRITAIN AND THE NETHERLANDS

 

As a citizen of Iceland and a parent I am compelled to write to you all about the Icesave coercion and extortion by the EU, the IMF, the British and the Dutch governments and with the obvious underlying help of the Swedish government, against the Icelandic nation.  It is clear to most of us what is happening and we will NOT stand for it.  We will write all over the world if that is what it takes and so have many Icelanders and foreigners.  

 

ICESAVE, or ICE-SLAVE as it is commonly called in Iceland, is NOT the obligation of the public of Iceland.  Icesave is a PRIVATE debt of a PRIVATE BANKRUPT BANK.  The main owner was Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson of London, England.  He was the biggest owner of Landsbanki (the Icesave bank) and so he is the main debtor of Icesave. 

NOT THE ICELANDIC PUBLIC. 

 

The Icelandic public does NOT owe Icesave.  The British and the Dutch governments and the EU are lying to the world about the Icesave issue.  They misuse their power with the IMF to force the Icelandic public to pay Icesave and it will destroy us.  Should the Icelandic government sign this illegal slave-contract, we will never finsih paying this horror.  Only the interest will bankrupt us and the balance will stay unpaid.  With Icesave it is the intention of the British and the Dutch to use us as a source of revenue.  It has clearly come out in the open and people over here have started writing about this and opposing it heavily.  The opposing political parties are outraged.  

 

Many people have fled the country and many more will flee if the slave-contract goes through the parliament.  We will NOT live in our country as slaves.  People call this ICE-SLAVE or another Versailles Contract multiplied.

 

Many economists, lawyers and others have opposed the legality of Icesave, both in Iceland and overseas.  Our most respected law professors claim there is NO LAW THAT OBLIGATES THE ICELANDIC NATION TO PAY ICESAVE.  

 

The Icesave bank (Landsbanki) operated undir EEA/EU laws and under the supervision of 3 countries: Britain, the Netherlands and Iceland.  NOT ONLY ICELAND.  The EEA or EU legal authorities never issued a legal complaint against the operation of Icesave.  The European law was faulty and rather than taking the responsibility for it, the EU looked for a scapegoat and Iceland was easy.  We did not write the law, we followed it.  Following is the law the Icesave bank operated under: 

 

From the EEA/EU directive 94/19/EC,

"Whereas this Directive may not result in the Member States' or their competent authorities' being made liable in respect of depositors if they have ensured that one or more schemes guaranteeing deposits or credit institutions themselves and ensuring the compensation or protection of depositors under the conditions prescribed in this Directive have been introduced and officially recognized." 

 

The Icelandic government fulfilled this EEA/EU law, even though the British and the Dutch governments say the opposite.  Nobody, not the EU, not the IMF, or anybody else, can come after the fact and demand we pay what we do not owe.  We WILL NOT be bullied.  We WILL NOT be humiliated any longer.  We WILL NOT be exploited by the EU, the IMF and those 2 old colonizing powers.  We will not be their new colony and pay for extortion.  I feel for the all the people who lost their money.  Yet we cannot pay what we do not owe.  

 

Only one political party here, the party of Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (prime minister) and Össur Skarphéðinsson (foreign minister) are very willing to do anything for the EU, their key and private issue.  And this has damaged our cause greatly against the external oppressive forces and isolated us.  Instead of speaking publicly for their own nation in the world, they yes-ed everything the EU demanded.  Totally against the will of the vast majority of the people and to our utter disgust and outrage.  Close to 90% of the nation is opposed to paying Icesave.  It appears that the 10% left must be the supporters of the corrupted political party.  A group of lawyers have filed a legal complaint against the politicians who intend to force illegal Icesave upon us. The people are collecting signatures in order to compell our President not to sign the horrenduous Icesave bill.

 

NOTE: Jóhanna and Össur´s political party is the only political party with EU on the agenda.  However, they only got 29% of the total votes and the majority of the Icelandic voters do NOT want to join the EU and have NO intention of doing so. So the EU, the Dutch and the U. K. parliaments need to STOP threatening our politicians by telling them we will not be allowed to join the EU if we do not pay ICESAVE.  At least 3 members (1 econmomist and 2 lawyers) of our parliament have reported threats of this nature.  And thank god we will not be allowed to join a uninon with the agressors: Britain and the Netherlands and a few other overpowering nations.  With the utmost regard for the other nations within the EU.      

 

If the British and the Dutch believe they have a legal claim, they should file one in a court of law.  But no, they will NOT have it.  They want to deny us our constitutional right to do so.  They absolutely DO NOT want this in front of a judge.  Do people not find that odd or suspicious???   No, they want to force the Icelandic government to sign a contract saying we will NOT follow a court judgement.  THAT WE WILL NOT FOLLOW A COURT JUDGEMENET.  That if a court decides with us, we can TALK to them, our agressors, and DISCUSS the judgement with THEM.  This is a criminal coercion.

 

The IMF has gone all over the world for a very long time and exploited and destroyed countries.  They force countries into colossal debt in order to collect money for City Bank and other huge banks and LARGER AND STRONGER countries like Britain and the Netherlands.  The IMF does this KNOWING these countries can NEVER pay the colossal debt or extortion.  That is a part of the plan to bankrupt the countries they pretend to be helping.  To bankrupt the countries´ companies and the people.

 

They keep interest rates high for the wealthy and drain the economy, they demand intolerable cuts in education and health care,  they demand very high taxes.  Then when the slaves can no longer pay - just like the IMF knew they couldn´t - they come in and demand property very cheap: They privatize the countries´ banks, companies and natural resources.  They have started this process in Iceland and Latvia. 

 

The IMF did this in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Panama, India and many, many other countries in Africa, Asia and South-America.  Now many of these countries are so-called 3rd world countries: Destitude and poor after the colonial and IMF exploitation.  The IMF should be shut down.  Now the IMF is in the process of destroying Iceland and Latvia. 

We will NOT live in OUR country as slaves.  We will NOT pay the illegal ICESAVE.   

 

 

Andrew Hill: For you the war is over:

 

In Iceland, this plan is compared with the Versailles treaty, blamed for wrecking Germany's economy after the first world war. It's a crass parallel. Yes, the Icesave collapse was in part a consequence of a wider economic campaign organised by generals who had no idea what they were doing. True, Britain did then use bully-boy tactics against Iceland that it would never have used against a bigger partner such as, say, India (another country whose banks were offering lofty interest rates to UK savers at the same time):

 

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c2709b8a-8933-11de-b50f-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1 

 

Eva Joly: Gordon Brown is wrong, Britain played a part in Icelandic bank collapse:

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/5961143/How-could-a-handful-of-men-in-Reykjavik-supervise-a-powerful-City-bank.html?state=target#postacomment&postingId=5968571

Joseph Stiglitz:

 

After watching the IMF at work during the 1997 East Asian economic crisis, Joseph E. Stiglitz, 2001 winner of Nobel Prize in economics, wrote in April 2000:

“I was chief economist at the World Bank from 1996 until last November, during the gravest global economic crisis in a half-century. I saw how the IMF, in tandem with the U.S. Treasury Department, responded. And I was appalled.”

“The IMF may not have become the bill collector of the G-7, but it clearly worked hard (though not always successfully) to make sure that the G-7 lenders got repaid.”

 

 Michael Hudson: Can Iceland and Latvia pay the foreign debts run up by a fairly narrow layer of their population? The European Union and International Monetary Fund have told them to replace private debts with public obligations, and to pay by raising taxes, slashing public spending and obliging citizens to deplete their savings:

http://www.counterpunch.org/hudson08182009.html

 

http://michael-hudson.com/articles/countries/090816Icelandspread.html

 

Nathan Lewis: IMF destroys Iceland and Latvia; The IMF should be abolished:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-lewis/the-imf-destroys-iceland_b_276193.html

 

 

 

ES: Þetta bréf var sent til alþjóðasamtaka og fjölda landsstjórna 19. - 27.  nóv., 09.