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Title: Homeowners’ Rebellion: Could 62 Million Homes Be Foreclosure-Proof?
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Homeowners’ Rebellion: Could 62 Million Homes Be Foreclosure-Proof? 228 comments | by: Ellen Brown August 19, 2010 | about: BAC / C / CFC / FMCC.OB / FNMA.OB / JPM / WFC

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Over 62 million mortgages are now held in the name of MERS, an electronic recording system devised by and for the convenience of the mortgage industry. A California bankruptcy court, following landmark cases in other jurisdictions, recently held that this electronic shortcut makes it impossible for banks to establish their ownership of property titles — and therefore to foreclose on mortgaged properties. The logical result could be 62 million homes that are foreclosure-proof.

Mortgages bundled into securities were a favorite investment of speculators at the height of the financial bubble leading up to the crash of 2008. The securities changed hands frequently, and the companies profiting from mortgage payments were often not the same parties that negotiated the loans. At the heart of this disconnect was the Mortgage Electronic Registration System, or MERS, a company that serves as the mortgagee of record for lenders, allowing properties to change hands without the necessity of recording each transfer.

MERS was convenient for the mortgage industry, but courts are now questioning the impact of all of this financial juggling when it comes to mortgage ownership. To foreclose on real property, the plaintiff must be able to establish the chain of title entitling it to relief. But MERS has acknowledged, and recent cases have held, that MERS is a mere “nominee” — an entity appointed by the true owner simply for the purpose of holding property in order to facilitate transactions. Recent court opinions stress that this defect is not just a procedural but is a substantive failure, one that is fatal to the plaintiff’s legal ability to foreclose.

That means hordes of victims of predatory lending could end up owning their homes free and clear — while the financial industry could end up skewered on its own sword.

California Precedent

The latest of these court decisions came down in California on May 20, 2010, in a bankruptcy case called In re Walker, Case no. 10-21656-E–11. The court held that MERS could not foreclose because it was a mere nominee; and that as a result, plaintiff Citibank (C) could not collect on its claim. The judge opined:

Since no evidence of MERS’ ownership of the underlying note has been offered, and other courts have concluded that MERS does not own the underlying notes, this court is convinced that MERS had no interest it could transfer to Citibank. Since MERS did not own the underlying note, it could not transfer the beneficial interest of the Deed of Trust to another. Any attempt to transfer the beneficial interest of a trust deed without ownership of the underlying note is void under California law.

In support, the judge cited In Re Vargas (California Bankruptcy Court); Landmark v. Kesler (Kansas Supreme Court); LaSalle Bank v. Lamy (a New York case); and In Re Foreclosure Cases (the “Boyko” decision from Ohio Federal Court). (For more on these earlier cases, see here, here and here.) The court concluded:

Since the claimant, Citibank, has not established that it is the owner of the promissory note secured by the trust deed, Citibank is unable to assert a claim for payment in this case.

The broad impact the case could have on California foreclosures is suggested by attorney Jeff Barnes, who writes:

This opinion ... serves as a legal basis to challenge any foreclosure in California based on a MERS assignment; to seek to void any MERS assignment of the Deed of Trust or the note to a third party for purposes of foreclosure; and should be sufficient for a borrower to not only obtain a TRO [temporary restraining order] against a Trustee’s Sale, but also a Preliminary Injunction barring any sale pending any litigation filed by the borrower challenging a foreclosure based on a MERS assignment.

While not binding on courts in other jurisdictions, the ruling could serve as persuasive precedent there as well, because the court cited non-bankruptcy cases related to the lack of authority of MERS, and because the opinion is consistent with prior rulings in Idaho and Nevada Bankruptcy courts on the same issue.

What Could This Mean for Homeowners?

Earlier cases focused on the inability of MERS to produce a promissory note or assignment establishing that it was entitled to relief, but most courts have considered this a mere procedural defect and continue to look the other way on MERS’ technical lack of standing to sue. The more recent cases, however, are looking at something more serious. If MERS is not the title holder of properties held in its name, the chain of title has been broken, and no one may have standing to sue. In MERS v. Nebraska Department of Banking and Finance, MERS insisted that it had no actionable interest in title, and the court agreed.

An August 2010 article in Mother Jones titled “Fannie and Freddie’s Foreclosure Barons” exposes a widespread practice of “foreclosure mills” in backdating assignments after foreclosures have been filed. Not only is this perjury, a prosecutable offense, but if MERS was never the title holder, there is nothing to assign. The defaulting homeowners could wind up with free and clear title.

In Jacksonville, Florida, legal aid attorney April Charney has been using the missing-note argument ever since she first identified that weakness in the lenders’ case in 2004. Five years later, she says, some of the homeowners she’s helped are still in their homes. According to a Huffington Post article titled “‘Produce the Note’ Movement Helps Stall Foreclosures”:

Because of the missing ownership documentation, Charney is now starting to file quiet title actions, hoping to get her homeowner clients full title to their homes (a quiet title action ‘quiets’ all other claims). Charney says she’s helped thousands of homeowners delay or prevent foreclosure, and trained thousands of lawyers across the country on how to protect homeowners and battle in court.

Criminal Charges?

Other suits go beyond merely challenging title to alleging criminal activity. On July 26, 2010, a class action was filed in Florida seeking relief against MERS and an associated legal firm for racketeering and mail fraud. It alleges that the defendants used “the artifice of MERS to sabotage the judicial process to the detriment of borrowers;” that “to perpetuate the scheme, MERS was and is used in a way so that the average consumer, or even legal professional, can never determine who or what was or is ultimately receiving the benefits of any mortgage payments;” that the scheme depended on “the MERS artifice and the ability to generate any necessary ‘assignment’ which flowed from it;” and that “by engaging in a pattern of racketeering activity, specifically ‘mail or wire fraud,’ the Defendants ... participated in a criminal enterprise affecting interstate commerce.”

Local governments deprived of filing fees may also be getting into the act, at least through representatives suing on their behalf. Qui tam actions allow for a private party or “whistle blower” to bring suit on behalf of the government for a past or present fraud on it. In State of California ex rel. Barrett R. Bates, filed May 10, 2010, the plaintiff qui tam sued on behalf of a long list of local governments in California against MERS and a number of lenders, including Bank of America (BAC), JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and Wells Fargo (WFC), for “wrongfully bypass[ing] the counties’ recording requirements; divest[ing] the borrowers of the right to know who owned the promissory note ... ; and record[ing] false documents to initiate and pursue non-judicial foreclosures, and to otherwise decrease or avoid payment of fees to the Counties and the Cities where the real estate is located.” The complaint notes that “MERS claims to have ‘saved’ at least $2.4 billion dollars in recording costs,” meaning it has helped avoid billions of dollars in fees otherwise accruing to local governments. The plaintiff sues for treble damages for all recording fees not paid during the past ten years, and for civil penalties of between $5,000 and $10,000 for each unpaid or underpaid recording fee and each false document recorded during that period, potentially a hefty sum. Similar suits have been filed by the same plaintiff qui tam in Nevada and Tennessee.

By Their Own Sword: MERS’ Role in the Financial Crisis

MERS is, according to its website:

... an innovative process that simplifies the way mortgage ownership and servicing rights are originated, sold and tracked. Created by the real estate finance industry, MERS eliminates the need to prepare and record assignments when trading residential and commercial mortgage loans.

Or as Karl Denninger puts it:

MERS’ own website claims that it exists for the purpose of circumventing assignments and documenting ownership!

MERS was developed in the early 1990s by a number of financial entities, including Bank of America, Countrywide (CFC), Fannie Mae (FNMA.OB), and Freddie Mac (FMCC.OB), allegedly to allow consumers to pay less for mortgage loans. That did not actually happen, but what MERS did allow was the securitization and shuffling around of mortgages behind a veil of anonymity. The result was not only to cheat local governments out of their recording fees but to defeat the purpose of the recording laws, which was to guarantee purchasers clean title. Worse, MERS facilitated an explosion of predatory lending in which lenders could not be held to account because they could not be identified, either by the preyed-upon borrowers or by the investors seduced into buying bundles of worthless mortgages. As alleged in a Nevada class action called Lopez vs. Executive Trustee Services, et al.:

Before MERS, it would not have been possible for mortgages with no market value ... to be sold at a profit or collateralized and sold as mortgage-backed securities. Before MERS, it would not have been possible for the Defendant banks and AIG (AIG) to conceal from government regulators the extent of risk of financial losses those entities faced from the predatory origination of residential loans and the fraudulent re-sale and securitization of those otherwise non-marketable loans. Before MERS, the actual beneficiary of every Deed of Trust on every parcel in the United States and the State of Nevada could be readily ascertained by merely reviewing the public records at the local recorder’s office where documents reflecting any ownership interest in real property are kept...

After MERS, the servicing rights were transferred after the origination of the loan to an entity so large that communication with the servicer became difficult if not impossible... The servicer was interested in only one thing – making a profit from the foreclosure of the borrower’s residence – so that the entire predatory cycle of fraudulent origination, resale, and securitization of yet another predatory loan could occur again. This is the legacy of MERS, and the entire scheme was predicated upon the fraudulent designation of MERS as the "beneficiary" under millions of deeds of trust in Nevada and other states.

Axing the Bankers’ Money Tree

If courts overwhelmed with foreclosures decide to take up the cause, the result could be millions of struggling homeowners with the banks off their backs, and millions of homes no longer on the books of some too-big-to-fail banks. Without those assets, the banks could again be looking at bankruptcy. As was pointed out in a San Francisco Chronicle article by attorney Sean Olender following the October 2007 Boyko [pdf] decision:

The ticking time bomb in the US banking system is not resetting subprime mortgage rates. The real problem is the contractual ability of investors in mortgage bonds to require banks to buy back the loans at face value if there was fraud in the origination process.

The loans at issue dwarf the capital available at the largest US banks combined, and investor lawsuits would raise stunning liability sufficient to cause even the largest US banks to fail...

Nationalization of these giant banks might be the next logical step — a step that some commentators said should have been taken in the first place. When the banking system of Sweden collapsed following a housing bubble in the 1990s, nationalization of the banks worked out very well for that country.

The Swedish banks were largely privatized again when they got back on their feet, but it might be a good idea to keep some banks as publicly-owned entities, on the model of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. For most of the 20th century it served as a “people’s bank,” making low interest loans to consumers and businesses through branches all over the country.

With the strengthened position of Wall Street following the 2008 bailout and the tepid 2010 banking reform bill, the US is far from nationalizing its mega-banks now. But a committed homeowner movement to tear off the predatory mask called MERS could yet turn the tide. While courts are not likely to let 62 million homeowners off scot free, the defect in title created by MERS could give them significant new leverage at the bargaining table.

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#1. To: tom007 (#0)

It is a shame that so many use the letter of the law to deny their own, individual responsibilities and characteristics about their own consent entering into a contract of mutual benefit.

It disgusts me and shows why America is all fucked-upped to begin with.

"we ought to lay off the criticism" -- Pinguinite, circa 2010-05-26 22:17:22 ET

buckeroo  posted on  2010-08-21   17:33:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: buckeroo (#1)

If fraud is conducted by both parties to a contract then which party is the responsible party? While I fall short of endorsing the practice I must ask who IS the party most responsible for the fraud.

The Lender selling and writing a fraudulent mortgage?

Or the sucker who bought it?

I have no sympathy for the predatory banksters who drove up the cost of housing through the roof by writing loans that should never have been written ensnaring purchasers who were naive enough to think it great. Neither have I any sympathy for the artifices they, the Banksters, practice to avoid legitimate fees, nor the "securitization" of bad mortgages as triple A debt instruments.

They are hoist by their own petard. I feel just sooooooooooooo sorry for them.

"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator

Original_Intent  posted on  2010-08-21   17:56:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: buckeroo (#1)

All's fair in love and war. And this is war. And we didn't start it, the banksters did.


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PSUSA  posted on  2010-08-21   18:00:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Original_Intent (#2)

If fraud is conducted by both parties to a contract then which party is the responsible party?

Isn't that an assumption on your part?

When free and unlimited credit was available, many chose to use what little collateral they had (small down payments, limited incomes, less than normal credit scores, etc.) to score the homes of their choice.

The lenders may make offers to potential buyers but the contracts are imposed by the lenders NOT the buyers..... so the ENDGAME is based upon the shoulders of those that engage in a contract.

I am sure I can travel to any large city and find prostitutes and illicit narcotics dealers but that doesn't mean THEY are responsible for my behaviour... or are you saying otherwise?

"we ought to lay off the criticism" -- Pinguinite, circa 2010-05-26 22:17:22 ET

buckeroo  posted on  2010-08-21   18:12:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: PSUSA (#3) (Edited)

All's fair in love and war

Nice ol' expression....

All's fair in love and war.

Prov. Cliché In some situations, such as when you are in love or waging war, you are allowed to be deceitful in order to get what you want. (Often said as an excuse for deception.) I cheated on the entrance exam, but I really want to get into that school, and all's fair in love and war. To get Judy to go out with him, Bob lied and told her that her boyfriend was seeing another woman. All's fair in love and war.

I don't care to read that sort of stuff.... minor edit...

"we ought to lay off the criticism" -- Pinguinite, circa 2010-05-26 22:17:22 ET

buckeroo  posted on  2010-08-21   18:39:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: buckeroo (#4)

Wrong rationale. When you take nice people who allow their eyes to grow bigger than their wallet and a convincing salesman, which IS what a Mortgage Broker is, then you have a recipe for another human malaise. Because someone IS a sucker does not require you to take advantage of them.

"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator

Original_Intent  posted on  2010-08-21   19:50:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Original_Intent (#6)

Because someone IS a sucker does not require you to take advantage of them.

Of course.

But weren't these same "nice people who allow their eyes to grow bigger than their wallet" responsible for their own capacity and capabilities to seal the deals they wanted?

"we ought to lay off the criticism" -- Pinguinite, circa 2010-05-26 22:17:22 ET

buckeroo  posted on  2010-08-21   19:58:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Original_Intent (#6)

How dare you try to blame this on the poor, poor, downtrodden, sweet, innocent, misunderstood, holocausted money changers, you, you, you, anti-semite, you.

They had no way of knowing that a 93-year old black woman with no assets or income other than her Social Security check wouldn't be able to make the payments on a 30 year, three-quarters of a million dollar mortgage.

I just thank Jeebus that we have a benevolent FedGoob that protects & makes whole the poor, poor, downtrodden, sweet, innocent, misunderstood, holocausted banksters that are swindeled by the ever- predatory citizenry.

P.S. - I heard the 93-year old black woman was a Muslim that was 45 minutes away from wiping Israel & the jews off the face of the map with her massive nuclear arsenal.

Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)

Esso  posted on  2010-08-21   20:21:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: PSUSA (#3)

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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.

Eric Stratton  posted on  2010-08-21   20:24:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Esso (#8)

Exactly. Well put.

"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator

Original_Intent  posted on  2010-08-21   20:30:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: Esso (#8)

P.S. - I heard the 93-year old black woman was a Muslim that was 45 minutes away from wiping Israel & the jews off the face of the map with her massive nuclear arsenal.

But no references to fact or TRUTH...

"we ought to lay off the criticism" -- Pinguinite, circa 2010-05-26 22:17:22 ET

buckeroo  posted on  2010-08-21   20:34:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: buckeroo (#7)

But weren't these same "nice people who allow their eyes to grow bigger than their wallet" responsible for their own capacity and capabilities to seal the deals they wanted?

On one level I agree with you, but then I remember the practices that were ongoing of making a loan to virtually anyone regardless of qualifications so the broker could pocket the commission. It was a planned event of relaxing credit to the point where unqualified people were given loans that the broker knew they could not afford - particularly when there was a balloon payment 3 years out. In many of these loans a prudent fiduciary would not have loaned some of these people the money to plug a parking meter. So, you have unsophisticated people, a convincing, but unscrupulous, salesman and credit relaxed, I believe intentionally to create a balloon, and so what you have is a recipe for what happened. I have no sympathy for the banksters.

"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator

Original_Intent  posted on  2010-08-21   20:37:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: Original_Intent (#12)

It was a planned event of relaxing credit to the point where unqualified people were given loans that the broker knew they could not afford -

We all know.

I am not picking on you at all. I am just attempting to see your posts based upon some earlier ideas, is all.

But, the bottom line is: each and everyone of us are responsible for our own contracts....

"we ought to lay off the criticism" -- Pinguinite, circa 2010-05-26 22:17:22 ET

buckeroo  posted on  2010-08-21   20:47:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: buckeroo (#13)

But, the bottom line is: each and everyone of us are responsible for our own contracts....

Unless you're a bankster, of course, then the government gives you trillions of dollars to repay your losses on the swindle.

Where's that money come from? What happens to the millions of homeless that were caught in the swindle?

Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)

Esso  posted on  2010-08-21   21:00:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: Esso (#14)

I think the HUGE issue about cheap real estate loans occurred with government directives... it started with Clinton and Bush carried through the same small family jargon affording a home on their own.

And the government protects the banks. Why? THEY CREATED THE PROBLEM USING GUIDELINES FOR THE BORROWERS WITH LITTLE OR NOTHING DOWN.

But the REAL problem is beyond any government entity. It is all about the People that danced to the piper.

"we ought to lay off the criticism" -- Pinguinite, circa 2010-05-26 22:17:22 ET

buckeroo  posted on  2010-08-21   21:10:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: buckeroo (#5) (Edited)

Sure, it's a cliche. It expresses a universal truth.

It's not deceitful to use the enemies laws and rules against them. That's fair, and that's war. They made these laws to benefit themselves and to harm us, and that is tantamount to a declaration of war against us. We didn't start it.

Turning the tables on them is an excellent tactic.

.


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PSUSA  posted on  2010-08-21   22:46:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: Esso (#14)

But, the bottom line is: each and everyone of us are responsible for our own contracts....

Unless you're a bankster, of course, then the government gives you trillions of dollars to repay your losses on the swindle.

Where's that money come from? What happens to the millions of homeless that were caught in the swindle?


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I've listened to preachers I've listened to fools I've watched all the dropouts Who make their own rules One person conditioned to rule and control The media sells it and you live the role ~Ozzy Osbourne: Crazy Train

PSUSA  posted on  2010-08-21   22:49:27 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: PSUSA (#3)

All's fair in love and war. And this is war. And we didn't start it, the banksters did.

The best way to battle the banks, is not to participate in their fraud(s). If one is willing to sell one's soul and do wrong, in order to wreak vengeance on another's perceived or real wrong, then there is no good in either party and no good comes of the entire confrontation.

People who welch on their debts are scum. I understand that banks, too, are scum. But everybody knows the deal, and I'd wager a fine large percentage of the people taking those loans knew full well, deep inside, that they couldn't afford it. They were not avengers, they were just as depraved and greedy as the lenders.

All parties in this are a pox on humanity, and the rest of us will end up carrying the loans of the welchers, and "bailing out" the bottom lines of the banks. End of the day, brother, you and me, we're screwed by both of these jack hole groups.

"The more artificial taboos and restrictions there are in the world, the more the people are impoverished.... The more that laws and regulations are given prominence, the more thieves and robbers there will be." - Lao Tzu, 6th century BC

SonOfLiberty  posted on  2010-08-21   23:36:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: Original_Intent, psusa (#2)

i agree. who feels sorry for these bastard USURY worshiping banksters!?? screw them and all their ilk. i heard about these mortgage situations last year. i love this stuff. simply delicious. lol!! by the way on a smaller scale, i learned years ago from consumer advocate Clark Howard,, if a creditor/ collection agency is bothering someone, tell them to google DROP DEAD LETTER CLARK HOWARD. invokes federal law. works. awesome stuff. :-)

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Artisan  posted on  2010-08-22   1:03:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: Original_Intent (#2)

predatory lending is a serious problem & is actually a very serious sin. in Scripture withholding just wages from workers is a sin that cries out to Heaven for justice'. Some time i'll share my experience w/ a predatory lender who tried to trap me. the result was funny as heck cuz i researched the legal details & s-c-r-e-w-e-d--- them, lmao just remembering it.

"if I have all faith so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing." 1 Cor 12:31—13:13
"I don't know where Bin Laden is. I truly am not that concerned about him"
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Artisan  posted on  2010-08-22   1:16:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: Esso (#14)

But, the bottom line is: each and everyone of us are responsible for our own contracts....

Unless you're a bankster, of course, then the government gives you trillions of dollars to repay your losses on the swindle.

Excellent rebuttal!

Ol' bucky is blinded by love and fails to see that the crims he bleeds all over 4 for fully intended to sell mortgages for commissions on the front end (mortgages they'd have never sold if they held the paper as banks did in the past) to then sell to others who bundled the paper which they then resold as "investments" to teachers and civil service unions and municipal and state pension plans (and any others that Bernie Madoff was too rich and busy to "help") and to later buy back bundles of bad paper and foreclose on it. (see Depression 2.0)

Needless to say, the tedious job of assigning 62 million-plus mortgages to the buyers would have been so labor intensive that it would have discouraged both buyers and sellers,Photobucket and because the sellersPhotobucket stood to lose nothing if their non compliance was later exposed they didn't bother to tell buyers (like the Orange County CA Employees Union) that they were buying the equivalent of cars with no pink slips.

Also, many people took out mortgages on property they owned free and clear because they were being robbed by inflation and were losing ground so fast that they were desperate. They were driven to imprudent action while trying to resuscitate the American dream. The banksters were driven by greed and committed crimes on multiple levels. And the "profits" that their bundled mortgages were promised to yield were the guaranteed inflation of home prices which they also intended to see to, robbing all Americans and foreign holders of dollars in the process. (This cozy one bedroom log cabin is a bargain at one million dollars, and includes a built in DAWGGY door for your pets' convenience and at no additional charge!)

How can anyone suggest that we have a first obligation to guarantee the survival of the goddam crooks who planned to destroy us all as they built fortresses of solid gold bricks?

Fear not for the buckster will always have a reply when confronted with questions about his distorted view of morality.

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"Vhat part of Kosher usury ethics don't you understand?" Photobucket__buckaroo Streisand-Goldstein

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#22. To: SonOfLiberty (#18)

People who welch on their debts are scum. I understand that banks, too, are scum. But everybody knows the deal, and I'd wager a fine large percentage of the people taking those loans knew full well, deep inside, that they couldn't afford it. They were not avengers, they were just as depraved and greedy as the lenders.

I think you're right.

I knew when I first saw the ads on telephone poles and on benches along the street about these "no down payment" deals that there was trouble ahead. I saw it all coming. I just didn't know how bad it would get.

The people that took the deal probably knew deep down inside that they couldn't afford it, but the banksters KNEW UP FRONT that the people couldn't afford it and they did the deal anyway. It was an intentional fraud committed by the banksters, because they knew what the end result would be. Due diligence went out the window.

The idiots that took the deal imo made the mistake of doing it out of excitement at the prospect of having a nice house. It was an emotional decision. The banksters played them. So, the way I see it, anything that can be used to play the banksters is fine with me.

It's not a good idea to go into something like this with anything but a clear and sober mind. There is no room for any emotions.

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PSUSA  posted on  2010-08-22   7:30:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#23. To: buckeroo (#1)

It is a shame that so many use the letter of the law to deny their own, individual responsibilities and characteristics about their own consent entering into a contract of mutual benefit.

Who said the "banks" were gods that had the divine right to create credit out of thin air ... and then to foreclose on REAL PROPERTY that they have no investment whatsoever in ?

Buck you're a fucking moron !

"To communicate anything to a goy about our religious relations would be equal to the killing of all the Jews, for if the goys knew what we teach about them, they would kill us openly".

(Book of Libbre David, 37.)

noone222  posted on  2010-08-22   12:22:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#24. To: PSUSA (#22)

But everybody knows the deal,

The deal ? The deal that banks pay nothing for the credit they (allegedly) lend ... but when things go south they get a brick and mortar structure in foreclosure.

"To communicate anything to a goy about our religious relations would be equal to the killing of all the Jews, for if the goys knew what we teach about them, they would kill us openly".

(Book of Libbre David, 37.)

noone222  posted on  2010-08-22   12:25:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#25. To: noone222 (#24)

The deal ? The deal that banks pay nothing for the credit they (allegedly) lend ... but when things go south they get a brick and mortar structure in foreclosure.

If they don't pay, yes. They know they have to pay the mortgage payments. Anyone with the wisdom of a domestic turkey would not have even considered the deal. But once morons get an idea into their pointy little heads, there's no stopping them.

I didn't say what the banksters did was right. They knew better and they took full advantage of the starry-eyed idiots that signed on the dotted line. And they knew that they'd get a bailout too, IMO.

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PSUSA  posted on  2010-08-22   13:31:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#26. To: PSUSA (#25)

If they don't pay, yes. They know they have to pay the mortgage payments. Anyone with the wisdom of a domestic turkey would not have even considered the deal. But once morons get an idea into their pointy little heads, there's no stopping them.

I didn't say what the banksters did was right. They knew better and they took full advantage of the starry-eyed idiots that signed on the dotted line. And they knew that they'd get a bailout too, IMO.

Having the obligation to pay something "back" requires something was lent, doesn't it ?

I guess we're in agreement about the morality issues related to paying back things borrowed as agreed.

But the difference with respect to the subprime mortgages is that the banks really never lent anything to anybody. Of course, we've all been duped into a system that's built upon illusions. One of those illusions has been that when someone borrows money from a bank that the bank lends them depositors funds. This is an illusion. The bank "monetizes" the promissory note which is the same thing as loaning someone their own credit.

So, the entire transaction between the "lender" and the "borrower" from its inception was and is FRAUDULENT.

The only thing that makes it all possible is the "faith" of the people based upon the "word" of the government. The government is lying and the people have misplaced their faith. And, that's why we're allegedly 23 Trillion in DEBT !

"To communicate anything to a goy about our religious relations would be equal to the killing of all the Jews, for if the goys knew what we teach about them, they would kill us openly".

(Book of Libbre David, 37.)

noone222  posted on  2010-08-22   14:16:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#27. To: noone222 (#26) (Edited)

Well, do you expect people to get free houses? Where do I sign up?

This whole thing is a house of cards that they built up. People misplaced their faith into believing that there will not be a strong wing to blow down that house of cards. You're right. It is a fraud. All of it.

You can't find any answers within this fraudulent system. It has to be destroyed first. Things are too convoluted now to find an answer that will not create even more problems. Imagine a machine built by Rube Goldberg, tripping on acid, and you have to fix it with both hands tied behind your back. IMO that is what this system is like.

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PSUSA  posted on  2010-08-22   14:27:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#28. To: PSUSA (#27)

Well, do you expect people to get free houses?

That's exactly what the banks get. Free houses !!!

"To communicate anything to a goy about our religious relations would be equal to the killing of all the Jews, for if the goys knew what we teach about them, they would kill us openly".

(Book of Libbre David, 37.)

noone222  posted on  2010-08-22   14:30:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#29. To: PSUSA (#27)

Imagine a machine built by Rube Goldberg, tripping on acid, and you have to fix it with both hands tied behind your back. IMO that is what this system is like.

That's pretty funny ... but all we really have to do is return to honest money or at a minimum return to treasury notes where the interest, if any, is repaid to ourselves instead of international bankers.

"To communicate anything to a goy about our religious relations would be equal to the killing of all the Jews, for if the goys knew what we teach about them, they would kill us openly".

(Book of Libbre David, 37.)

noone222  posted on  2010-08-22   14:31:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#30. To: noone222 (#29)

OK, how can that be done? You're talking theoretical, I'm talking practical.

The bankters won't just give up and die. They will need some help, to give them a little push into their graves. IMO this can only happen after the system crashes down due to it's own weight.


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PSUSA  posted on  2010-08-22   14:39:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#31. To: PSUSA (#25) (Edited)

And [the money changers] knew that they'd get a bailout too, IMO.

That's what made this such a sweet deal for the tribe, they couldn't lose.

Profit 1: Commission & fees on the sure- to-fail loan.

Profit 2: Selling the mortgage to suckpoop goy pension funds & investors.

Profit 3: Repossess real estate from the dupes, leaving them homeless. Repeat process at profit #1 until the ponzi scheme collapses.

Profit 4: Collect trillions from the federal jewzio-controlled government when the house of cards falls apart.

Contingency plan: If the suckpoops wake up and threaten prosecution, flee to the homeland on El Al flight #1 with the loot, where you can't be extradicted under any circumstances.

Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)

Esso  posted on  2010-08-22   14:43:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#32. To: tom007 (#0)

I read an article less than a year ago, about a guy who had bought a house for about $1.5 million and could no longer pay for it.

The bank tried to foreclose, he demanded the bank show him the original title (which they could not do) and the judge ruled, since the bank cannot show they own the house, the man can stay in it.

He still lives in it, as far as I know, and makes no payments.

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Turtle  posted on  2010-08-22   14:50:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#33. To: PSUSA (#30)

The bankters won't just give up and die. They will need some help, to give them a little push into their graves. IMO this can only happen after the system crashes down due to it's own weight.

I'm willing to help em !!! (Sarcasm).

You're likely correct. The system may well have to collapse but I think they'll try to impose a new system upon everyone as an out. Create another bubble in effect. The goal is control because there ain't no money (only credit).

There will have to be a definitive change in people's perception of what money truly is, and what the medium of exchange does to change the law.

Most of us are aware that the elites have controlled the masses throughout history by knowing things the masses didn't know. Today, fiat currency and credit are the magik act that has the masses fucked !

"To communicate anything to a goy about our religious relations would be equal to the killing of all the Jews, for if the goys knew what we teach about them, they would kill us openly".

(Book of Libbre David, 37.)

noone222  posted on  2010-08-22   14:54:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#34. To: noone222 (#33)

The system may well have to collapse but I think they'll try to impose a new system upon everyone as an out. Create another bubble in effect. The goal is control because there ain't no money (only credit).

I don't know if that's possible. A crash means that they have lost all control, so I don't see how they can then regain enough control to get an alternative system up and running when the shit is hitting the proverbial fan. That shtf is, imo, not something that they can stop.

I don't know though. I guess time will tell.

There will have to be a definitive change in people's perception of what money truly is, and what the medium of exchange does to change the law.

Agreed. I just don't know how, apart from living thru hell on earth, their attitudes can change. Maybe they just won't be able to adjust, and die, because they love this world too much.

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PSUSA  posted on  2010-08-22   15:10:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#35. To: Esso (#31)

That's what made this such a sweet deal for the tribe, they couldn't lose.

Profit 1: Commission & fees on the sure- to-fail loan.

Profit 2: Selling the mortgage to suckpoop goy pension funds & investors.

Profit 3: Repossess real estate from the dupes, leaving them homeless. Repeat process at profit #1 until the ponzi scheme collapses.

Profit 4: Collect trillions from the federal jewzio-controlled government when the house of cards falls apart.

Contingency plan: If the suckpoops wake up and threaten prosecution, flee to the homeland on El Al flight #1 with the loot, where you can't be extradicted under any circumstances.

QFT!


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PSUSA  posted on  2010-08-22   15:11:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#36. To: buckeroo (#1)

It disgusts me and shows why America is all fucked-upped to begin with.

People like you are why America is fucked up. Go do us all a favor and kill yourself.

God is always good!

RickyJ  posted on  2010-08-22   15:14:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#37. To: RickyJ (#36)

You can't have a nation based upon a citizenry that can't read or write besides living in a make-believe world. It takes responsible people willing to stand up to a certain standard of principles and that is to be (at least) capable of abiding by a simple agreement.

"we ought to lay off the criticism" -- Pinguinite, circa 2010-05-26 22:17:22 ET

buckeroo  posted on  2010-08-22   15:18:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#38. To: Esso (#31)

If the suckpoops wake up and threaten prosecution, flee to the homeland on El Al flight #1 with the loot, where you can't be extradicted under any circumstances.

At that time the A-rabs would be lickin their chops ! (Suckpoops would be glued to CNN to watch the entire state of Israel turned into a micro-wave oven ! )

"To communicate anything to a goy about our religious relations would be equal to the killing of all the Jews, for if the goys knew what we teach about them, they would kill us openly".

(Book of Libbre David, 37.)

noone222  posted on  2010-08-22   15:18:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#39. To: HOUNDDAWG (#21)

Ol' bucky is blinded by love

I have no sympathy for someone that engages in an agreement and then abruptly quits that same agreement. BTW, those same criminal homeowners are liable for what promises they broke and if nothing else the IRS will nab their asses.

"we ought to lay off the criticism" -- Pinguinite, circa 2010-05-26 22:17:22 ET

buckeroo  posted on  2010-08-22   15:23:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#40. To: PSUSA (#22)

I don't disagree. However, I don't give a pass to effeminate emotionalism either. The head of the house is (or was) the man. He has the obligation to be logical and think through the best interests of the family. If he became a Chick With A Dick, then to hell with him.

I'm being as refined and gentile as I can when I express that thought, of course. :)

As an afterthought, the banks were, more or less, forced to give the sucker deals by Congress and various presidents, starting with Carter. I recall Clinton promising to sue the living shit out of banks that didn't loan money against their own financial self interest. Not defending banks, just saying, there's a large gorilla in the living room we're ignoring. ;)

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SonOfLiberty  posted on  2010-08-22   20:03:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#41. To: SonOfLiberty (#40)

We're on the same page. There's a lot of blame to go around. I don't see anyone as being innocent, just varying degrees of guilt.

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PSUSA  posted on  2010-08-23   7:41:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#42. To: PSUSA (#27)

Well, do you expect people to get free houses? Where do I sign up?

www.freedomclubusa.com/you_funded_your_own_loan

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