Update on what's been going on in Iceland

A few of my American friends have been wondering about the situation here in Iceland. Things haven't gotten better, most of what the new ruling party promised hasn't been happening. Instead they are going against what they promised. At the moment they are deciding if they're going to take on the Icesave bank and the majority wants to. If we take on the Icesave bank we're basically accepting the terrorist laws the British put on us. They don't want to charge the British for putting us on the terrorist list, instead they want to kiss their ass and make us pay for the Icesave bank dept. Here is a link to the freezing order on the British HT Treasury website: http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/fin_sanctions_landsbanki.htm
(We were taken off the terrorist list but are still on their website. Note: this bank was privately owned before the collapse).

In the mean time the criminals that created all these companies and banks are running around and hiding their money on the Cayman Islands or putting their properties on a relative's name. Not one of them has been charged and non of their accounts have been frozen??? The word on the street is that these men have paid our politicians in the past and these politicians are all corrupt with their money.

We got Eva Joly to investigate what happened before the banks collapsed. They're giving her a hard time and making her job very difficult.
About Eva Joly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Joly

In the mean time people are losing their homes and some are even leaving Iceland for good. I know a single mother that doesn't get any money because she was a student this winter and can't get daycare for her kids. So my wonderful government told her she isn't eligible for welfare or unemployment. Nice, they're putting their own people out on the street with no assistance. Why do we even pay 37% in taxes here?

Anyway, I protest as much as I can. A few of us took over an empty house on Monday owned by one of the criminals here and the police were called.

Some people have asked me why I keep protesting. I'm always remind of this saying which I ran across while I was writing an essay in High school about the Holocaust in WW II:

In Germany they first came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me —
and by that time no one was left to speak up.
- Martin Niemöller