A 70-strong group of mostly young people took part in protests at Landsbanki in Reykjavik yesterday, saying that the consequences of the bank’s previous actions should not have been allowed to fall on the shoulders of innocent children to sort out in the future.
The protesters shouted and waved placards demanding the resignation of Tryggvi Jonsson, just one of several individuals they believe should no longer be in the employ of the bank after its collapse and nationalisation in October. “A new name, new social security number and new bank president is not enough if you’ve got the same old people and ideas at the helm,” the protesters’ statement said. “Now is the time for the bank bosses to bear the responsibility their sky high salaries presuppose.”
MBL.is reports that businessman Jon Gerald Sullenberger was among the protesters for the first time, and says he intends to continue protesting. Sullenberger is best known as the former business partner of Jon Asgeir Johannesson, and star witness in the drawn-out fraud and tax evasion cases against him subsequent to their falling out.
Sullenberger has lived in America for several years and has only recently returned home, apparently out of a desire to help his country rebuild its economy: “When someone joked to me that the last person out of Iceland should turn the light off, I said to him that I’d come back with a torch, find the light switch and turn the lights on again,” he said to MBL.is.
Police followed the protesters carefully as they demonstrated in a Landsbanki office and then at the branches on Austurstraeti and Laugavegur, but did nothing to intervene as proceedings were loud but peaceful.
Sullenberger last week pledged to open up a new chain of discount food stores to rival Jon Asgeir’s Bonus chain, “If the nation will support me”.
Photo: mbl.is/Júlíus
I’ll support anything that goes against Mafia.
As I mentioned in a post yesterday it is time to turn attention to the bankers and business crooks as it is not only the government to blame.
As for a new supermarket chain to challenge Baugur bring it on.
Like I said yesterday Baugur control 60% of the food and about 40% of the clothing in Iceland.
The prices could be cheaper than Bonus if the competition can get in , now is the time as Baugur as less money to finance.
SJÁIÐ, ÞETTA ER BARA DÆMI UM HVAÐ ER VERIÐ AÐ TALA Á ÍSLANDI Á ÞESSUM DÖGUM:
“Ástæður:
* Humac er nýbúið að fara á hausinn, þrotabúið skuldar Apple INC helling. Humac fær engar vélar á næstunni fyrr en búið er að vinna úr þeim málum.
* Horfur á gengismálum eru mjög svartar og óstabílar til langs tíma. Engin leið til að segja neitt til um hvað vélarnar kosta.
* Það er að byrja kreppa á Íslandi. Fólk heldur að það sé allt komið á botninn en Ísland er rétt svo komið fyrstu tvö skrefin í 100m hlaupinu. Ástandið verður miklu miklu verra eftir áramót….”
ER ALLT Í BESTA LAGI EÐA, HVAÐ MEÐ STÓRASTA LAND Í HEIMI??
JESÚS!!, HVAÐ AÐ GERAST Á ÍSLANDI MAÐUR?!!
JESUS!!, WHAT IS GOING ON IN ICELAND MAN?!!
ER ENÞAU FÓLK ÞARNA ÚTI SEM SEGJA AÐ ÞAÐ ER ALLT Í BESTA LAGI Á ÍSLANDI??? ER VERIÐ AÐ GRÍNAST EÐA??
IF I WAS IN AT THE GOVERN OF THIS COUNTRY I WOULD SURELY HAD FLEED TO A LOST COUNTRY BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR. BECAUSE ICELANDERS ARE GOING TO BE THE PROTAGONISTS OF ONE OF THE FIRST REVOLUTIONS OF THE XXI CENTURY…
PEOPLE IS GETTING VERY VERY ANGRY, AS EACH DAY PASSES THEY ARE MORE AND MORE, THEY HAVE LOST EVERYTHING THEY HAVE, SO THEY WILL FIGHT UNTIL THE END BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOTHING LEFT TO LOOSE!!!
REVOLUTION NOW!!!
OUT WITH THE ENEMIES OF THE ICELANDIC NATION!!!
A GOVERN OF EMERGENCY NEEDS TO BE CREATED NOW!!! THOSE MAFIA ASSETS AND POSSESSIONS NEED TO BE CONFISCATED. WE NEED THE ASSISTANCE OF AN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AND OBSERVATION TEAM OF THE UNO!!! NOW!!
Icelanders have been raped by Hagar who buy substandard merchandise and sell it well above market prices. The nation should boycott them!!
As Jon Schullenberger suggests, I think it is a good idea to challenge Jón Asgeirs and the other “gamlers” (who has traded and fraud their way to own their individual bite of the Iceland nation) by fx. building a new food chain. And it is also important that the population supports these acts.
It would be nice to see some honesty amongst business people and by the government. I bet the rather creepy passivize actions and silence from the government makes things even worse. It makes you wonder how “good” friends these top business men, banks and politicians are. And I am sure that a lot of these people has been bribing each other in order to maintain their positions and status. If that was not the case, I am sure we would have seem more ministers resigning, and those who has committed financial crimes would have been prosecuted more effectively and quick. I come from another Nordic country, and I am chocked to experience what I would regard as “dictatorship” and corruption amongst the people that a citizen should be able to trust. The signs of corruption and lies seems endless and these almost sociopaths seems only to have eye for their own profits. Iceland is small, and people might know each other well and people might help each other out for good or for worst. These individuals who have committed financial and/or political crimes and made sure that this financial crisis not only affected Icelands economy but ruined lives of many citizens. Yes, we are paying for their corruption, debts, gambling, lies and thanks to their non-present conscience, the Icelandic citizens are forced to clean up for their financial mess and stand up to the politic laughter showing that Iceland apparently is not run as a democratic and respectable nation.