This explains the mindset and MO of bankers quiet well.
Enjoy.

Today’s show was on James Traficant, Jr.

He was a Rep from the state of Ohio from 1985 until 2002.
He was voted out of congress in 2002.

From Wikipedia:

On April 15, he was convicted of 10 felony counts including bribery, racketeering, and tax evasion.

After Traficant’s conviction, the House Ethics Committee heard sworn testimony broadcast on C-SPAN^[13] – from a patent-holding test pilot who has a Top Secret security clearance – about the DOJ’s brush-off his whistle-blowing about tax fraud and Torricelli money-scrubbing by the Cafaro Company of Youngstown, and about criminal prosecutorial misconduct and attempted witness tampering by the DOJ in the Traficant case.

Ohio Congressman [now Governor] Ted Strickland was so disturbed by these sworn and televised allegations of DOJ misconduct that he publicly called for an investigation.^[14] But DOJ ‘internal affairs’^[15] ignored Strickland, never investigating either the sworn military earwitness affidavit^[16] or the attorney billing records ^[17] that corroborated the dates/times of harassing witness tampering phone calls testified to on C-SPAN and in the affidavit.

The House Ethics Committee recommended that Traficant be expelled from Congress. On July 24 the House voted 420-1 to expel him. Gary Condit was the lone “no” vote, and nine members voted “present”. Among those who voted present was Ron Paul. Surpisingly Kucinich voted to expel Traficant.

Although Paul voted present and not against him, he had this to say about Traficant in July of 2002:

source: http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2002/cr072402b.htm

“Mr. Speaker, many of Congressman Traficant’s actions are impossible to defend. Mr. Traficant likely engaged in unethical behavior. I hope all my colleagues would join me in condemning any member who abused his office by requiring staff to pay kick-backs to him and/or do personal work as a condition of employment. I also condemn in the strongest terms possible using one’s office to obtain personal favors from constituents, the people we are sent here to represent. Such behavior should never be tolerated.“

“However, the most disturbing accusations concern the possibility that Mr. Traficant was denied basic due process by not being allowed to present all of his witnesses at the trial. This failure raises serious questions whether Mr. Traficant had the opportunity to present an adequate defense. These questions are especially serious since one of the jurors from Mr. Traficant’s criminal trial told the Cleveland Plain Dealer that had he heard the testimony of Richard Detore at Mr. Traficant’s trial, he would have voted “not guilty.”“

Some of Traficant’s most powerful statements:

United States Congressional Record, March 17, 1993 Vol. 33, page H-1303 Speaker-Rep. James Traficant, Jr. (Ohio)

addressing the House: “Mr. Speaker, we are here now in chapter 11.. Members of Congress are official trustees presiding over the greatest reorganization of any Bankrupt entity in World history, the U.S. Government.

We are setting forth hopefully, a blueprint for our future. There are some who say it is a coroner’s report that will lead to our demise. It is an established fact that the United States Federal Government has been dissolved by the Emergency Banking Act, March 9, 1933, 48 Stat. 1, Public Law 89-719; declared by President Roosevelt, being bankrupt and insolvent. H.J.R. 192, 73rd Congress m session June 5, 1933 – Joint Resolution To Suspend The Gold Standard and Abrogate The Gold Clause dissolved the Sovereign Authority of the United States and the official capacities of all United States Governmental Offices, Officers, and Departments and is further evidence that the United States Federal Government exists today in name only. The receivers of the United States Bankruptcy are the International Bankers, via the United Nations, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

All United States Offices, Officials, and Departments are now operating within a de facto status in name only under Emergency War Powers.

With the Constitutional Republican form of Government now dissolved, the receivers of the Bankruptcy have adopted a new form of government for the United States.

This new form of government is known as a Democracy, being an established Socialist/Communist order under a new governor for America.

This act was instituted and established by transferring and/or placing the Office of the Secretary of Treasury to that of the Governor of the International Monetary Fund. Public Law 94-564, page 8, Section H.R. 13955 reads in part: “The U.S. Secretary of Treasury receives no compensation for representing the United States.”

These are later statements by Traficant:

TITLE:EASIER TO FIND ELVIS THAN A GOOD FACTORY JOB HERE IN AMERICA November 12, 1997

Mr. Speaker, Kodak is laying off 10,000 workers. Now if that is not enough to overexpose your most recent negative, Fruit of the Loom is cutting 3,000 jobs and moving to Mexico. Unbelievable. It is getting easier to find Charlie Trie and Elvis than it is to find a good factory job here in America.

Beam me up. I think it is time for Congress to ask themselves a very simple little commonsense question: If our trade program is so great, why does Japan not do it? Think about that.

I yield back all the balance of jobs and say one last thing here. From snapshots to long johns, American workers just keep getting their assets kicked.

SOURCE: http://traficant.com/

house video of the 2002 Traficant proceedings!

part1

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