Oh now, the backscratching primitive is just being silly.
backscatter712 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-18-09 04:50 PM
Response to Reply #15
20. Considering that the banks have been committing a form of theft known as usury,
try to think of it as stealing back what was rightfully yours.
I remember hearing that during the Depression and other economic downturns, citizens would do things like eviction resistance. As in if a person was getting foreclosed on, the entire neighborhood would blockade the cops from evicting the person from his home.
We need to be doing more of that.
The boldened allegation never happened; there's no mention of such things in archives of the Great Depression.
What actually happened was that when a bank would foreclose on a farm, the neighbors would get together to bid--and Heaven help some unsuspecting potential purchaser who had no idea what was going on--and they would bid ludicrously small amounts, keeping the bank stuck with the farm, and it was hoped (it sometimes worked, sometimes didn't) making the bank more amenable to work out a deal with the farmer.
Or if there was a farm auction of goods not real-estate, neighbors would get together and bid one, two, or three cents on items--again, being sure unsuspecting potential buyers who hoped to make more reasonable bids, didn't--and then after the sale was over, the "buyers" gave the goods back to the dispossessed farmer.
Sometimes the neighbors vigorously tried to, physically, stop a sale. This especially happened in Iowa, where there actually occurred some lynchings, and threats of lynching, bankers and judges.
In all of the literature of the Great Depression that I've read--which is mountains of it--I've never seen any reference to urban resistance to eviction.
That could very well be that people in urban areas had been being evicted since God was a boy, and so urban evictions during the Great Depression weren't any big deal; they had always happened.
