According to a Bloomberg News report, senior staff at the banking-investment-and-highway-robbery firm Goldman Sachs "have loaded up on firearms". Apparently, they're tired of being subjected to so much public scorn - and are preparing to literally fight back, if necessary.
Yes, it's another sign of the Apocalypse: Goldman Sachs guys kicking into Godfather gear and going to the mattresses....though I doubt we're talking Sealy Posturepedics. Knowing Goldman Sachs, the only bedding that will do is something from Swiss manufacturer Hastens, which has managed to combine horsehair comfort with patented spring technology and create a state-of-the-art mattress that retails for about $60,000.
Armed investment bankers. Think the economy is in trouble now? Wait till Ben Bernanke sleeps with the fishes.
Goldman Sachs people do everything on a grand scale. They make big money. They get big bonuses. They lose big money. They accept big government-bailout funds...and then celebrate by giving themselves more big bonuses. Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein once had the big cojones to label his company's pig-wallow avarice "God's work".
All that bigness has me wondering if there's more to this story than paranoid venture capitalists packing heat.
I'm picturing chauffeur-driven Hummers lined up outside the Goldman Sachs building in New York. I can see a steady stream of stern-faced men and women darting in and out, dressed in custom-made Armani camouflage suits.
I don't believe for one second that the 43-story Goldman Sachs "world headquarters" now under construction in lower Manhattan is just another 43-story world headquarters. It's a cleverly-disguised nuclear facility (with a great wine cellar). Designed to produce weapons-grade plutonium.
I believe Goldman Sachs wants to become the world's first super-power investment bank, king of the rogue corporations.
Skim the speeches of Goldman Sachs' Lloyd Blankfein, God's good bud. The clues are there. He continually denies the recession ever happened. He has cryptically stated on several occasions that Federal Reserve banks "should be wiped off the face of the map". In remarks made last April at a meeting of the Council of Institutional Investors, Blankfein went so far as to say (nay, insist) Goldman Sachs deserves a seat on the United Nations Security Council.
With health care legislation on the road to nowhere, President Obama might be better off focusing his attention on the possibility of a nuclear-powered Goldman Sachs. He could call Congress into emergency session and propose legislation declaring a national "Goldman Sachs Appreciation Day"...providing the company agrees to be monitored by U.N. weapons inspectors. Or Obama can try bringing Goldman Sachs into the fold by simply setting wheels in motion to grant it statehood.
Then again, the President is about to send 30,000 troops to Afghanistan. On their way overseas couldn't they make a quick stop on Wall Street?
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" “I just wrote my first reference for a gun permit,” said a friend, who told me of swearing to the good character of a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker who applied to the local police for a permit to buy a pistol. The banker had told this friend of mine that senior Goldman people have loaded up on firearms and are now equipped to defend themselves if there is a populist uprising against the bank. "
Not a permit to carry, just a permit to buy. As per the requiremen
Next, we are dealing with third hand info. The reporter got it from a friend who in turn was told by a banker. Nothing direct. Nothing attributab
IOW, this is a NON-STORY. It may as well have come from www.rense.
Nothing to see here folks. Move along.