No Weapons, No Blood! – How About Some Raw People Power?

On By southwerkIn business ethics, ethics

Eric Cantona, a famous soccer player, calls for de-funding the banks by the general population withdrawing their money.

“No weapons, no blood,” Cantona said, invoking the calling card of notorious French bank robber Albert Spaggiari, who in 1976 made off with millions of francs after tunneling his way into a branch of Societe Generale.

Cantona’s call has been taken up by “Stop Banque,” a France-based movement that is advocating a run on banks on Dec. 7. The group’s Facebook page has 10,872 fans and has spawned a number of other Facebook groups, including “Revolution by withdrawing banks’ money,” which calls on citizens to strike “a terrible blow” at the heart of the global economy. It currently has just over 300 followers.

A French soccer star who played for the U.K.’s Manchester Untied for nearly five years, Cantona is nothing short of a living legend to many of his fans. He was named the team’s player of the century in 2001 and is fondly nicknamed “King Eric.”

His call for a financial revolution has prompted France’s economy minister to speak out. On Wednesday, Christine Lagarde told him to stick to football not finance, telling a news conference, “Mr. Cantona is no stranger to controversy. He is a great footballer, but I’m not sure we need to pay heed to all his suggestions.”

Doesn’t sound like a bad suggestion to me. The banks appear to have little to fear from the feds. Maybe being afraid of us would frighten them into acting more like members of the community and less like pirates.

James Pilant

3 thoughts on “No Weapons, No Blood! – How About Some Raw People Power?”

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    Attention! BankRun 2010:

    BankRun 2010 is a movement initiated by retired football player Eric Cantona. It organizes a massive collective withdrawals of money from the banks. It is organised on the Internet by a network of Facebook events.

    I thought as many others that the movement initiated by Eric Cantona was spontaneous and naive and thought that I could hang myself to it in order to establish La Nouvelle Économie. After a Skype discussion with Géraldine Feuillien I came to the conclusion that it was a movement whose brain manipulator is still unknown but whose purpose is to establish an economic system probably fascist that will emerge by terror rather than a movement that will foster the economic interests of each of us.

    The page of our community contains precious instructions concerning measures to be taken before December 7 to preserve your life savings.

    La Nouvelle Économie
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