From a quote from Thomas Jefferson

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.
Thomas Jefferson, (Attributed)
3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)

That was as true then, as it is now. The same comments apply to every Debt-Based Economy in the World.

The above is exactly what we are faced with now. This Recession will see another quantum shift in assets from the people to the banks (and all the bank like institutions that surround them).

People should not get too side-tracked laughing at the silly bankers, because they will have the last laugh if we let them. They know that minor inconveniences such as being asked to give up a £16m Pension, is Chicken Feed in comparison to the steady shift in assets over to the banks. They are still in control, just a little exposed for the first time in decades.

Now is the best chance we have had in a very long time to see what harm the banks are doing on a Global scale.