Yesterday, Thursday 21 November saw the
usual Thursday night demonstration against the Bankia bank in Madrid.
This is the case where the Bankia bank in its eagerness to
re-capitalise got thousands of mainly elderly to invest their life's
savings in special preferred shares, stating that they would be a good
return and they were as safe as houses!! Well we all know what
happened to houses in Spain. They bank went bust and the
administration took the lot. Elderly pensioners lost their life's savings
and are demanding their money back. Individual cases are taking years
to go through the courts and they are being offered a fraction of
their original money, if anything at all. Some however are in no position
to wait years as they are mainly elderly people. This is the usual inhuman, unjust,
compassionless treatment that we would expect from an exploitative
system run by the financial Mafia.
The demonstrators, armed with a
colourful array of banners, placards and posters, closed the main
Gran Via street with their numbers. This has been a regular protest
for some time now, but sadly the government and the courts know that
this is an elderly group, and if they drag their heels on this one,
the numbers will thin down. The scum can wait, the pensioners can't.
