{"id":189158,"date":"2010-05-13T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/13\/i-love-me-some-viking-justice\/"},"modified":"2010-05-13T17:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T22:38:00","slug":"i-love-me-some-viking-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/13\/i-love-me-some-viking-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"I Love Me Some Viking Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Much more satisfying than putting their photos on the urinals<\/span><\/div>\n

Iceland, a tiny nation of only 317,593 souls has looked at its epic bank failures, and said, “Why yes, we do<\/span> have to make a federal case out of this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

More than a year and a half after Iceland’s major banks failed, all but sinking the country’s economy, police have begun rounding up a number of top bankers while other former executives and owners face a two-billion-dollar lawsuit.<\/p>\n

Since Iceland’s three largest banks — Kaupthing, Landsbanki and Glitnir — collapsed in late 2008, their former executives and owners have largely been living untroubled lives abroad.<\/p>\n

But the publication last month of a parliamentary inquiry into the island nation’s profound financial and economic crisis signaled a turning of the tide, laying much of the blame for the downfall on the former bank heads who had taken “inappropriate loans from the banks” they worked for.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What a quaint and old fashioned idea. When people corruptly enrich themselves at your expense, investigate.<\/p>\n

If you find that they broke the law, arrest them and try them<\/span>.<\/p>\n

I vote for going medieval on the bankers asses.<\/p>\n

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Perhaps the bankers should learn this old prayer, “A furore normannorum libera nos domine<\/span>.”*<\/sup><\/p>\n

*<\/sup>From the fury of the Northmen<\/a> deliver us, O Lord!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Much more satisfying than putting their photos on the urinals Iceland, a tiny nation of only 317,593 souls has looked at its epic bank failures, and said, “Why yes, we do have to make a federal case out of this: More than a year and a half after Iceland’s major banks failed, all but sinking …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1004,972,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance","category-justice","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}