if banks are responsible, why support their crimes with our money?

I think it can be summed up in one simple word "lazy". Personally, I laughed my a$s off when they did their little bank transfer day. Not only did it make no impact on banks at all, but the morons at Occupy scheduled it on a SATURDAY, when most banks are closed.

well, I always only leave a few bucks on my bank account as I don't trust them anyway. @ Taskr36, you mean this case http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/11/21/41621.htm that's what actually reminded me of the Cantona story. If the Occupy movement is able to organize those many demonstrations and protests nationwide they may be able to organize a coordinated withdrawel of cash as well.

if they were so against the big banks, why would they have their money in there anyway?

Hi Bill, long time no see - glad to see you :-) ''If everyone tried to take their money out, only the first lot would actually succeed as the money would run dry.'' if that's true then this would mean that the money that people have earned does not belong to them anymore, IOW the banks would have stolen it from them. I can very well imagine this to be true, so... the ''only'' thing we could do to change the money system would be to not accept money as a currency anymore. Who needs money anyway, only those who are too lazy to do work and want to live life to the full. Intellectual people for example (like scientists, politicians, philosophers etc) ''need'' others to do the (dirty) work - whether they are aware of it or not - so that the former can better deal with their intellectual ''work''. The only way they can make others work for them is to create a currency (money) which needs to be accepted by all (especially the working population) AND of course make sure that most of the money gets into their hands (what better way to achieve that than creating ''electronic'' cash, like you indicate). That's why scientists, politicians and all the other ''intelligent'' chaps earn much more money than the usual worker which has a very stressful life due to his/ her life as he or she has to DO much more in order to maintain their standard of living. And don't forget about taxes and other money tools to ''keep people working'' :D Of course, anyone - even a worker - (who is ignorant enough of social problems like poverty and exploitation of people) can accumulate almost as much money as he wants to if only he's criminal enough. That's why we have so much corruption and many other severe probs in our world today. Yeah, I know. ''Everyone'' wants to lead a ''rich'' life and will find reasons why he / she is privileged to get more money than others but if we're honest ... if you want to be (financially) better off than others you'll - in the end - have to exploit/ cheat on them to a more or less high degree depending on ''how much'' you want to be better off, be it that you exploit/ cheat on them yourself or via tools provided by legislation. And btw, you don't need to even know/ see those who you ''use'' - how convenient! Nowadays we have entire governments who do the job for us via trade agreements with ''poor'' countries or - if those countries don't ''obey'' - via fighting wars with them. Of course they don't ''fight'' themselves. They simply send SOLDiers there to fight and die ''for us''. Environmental issues would be another related topic. Hell, it's all related to money, sigh...

Yes, it has been a while. Good to see you too. I have not been here much of late as I have been really busy with work and during the month of November I did not come here at all as I was participating in a challenge over at Squidoo where I built 30 web pages in 30 days. You can check out what I did here: http://www.squidoo.com/30-pages You have some good points there. You are right, the wealth creation game is easy to play and anyone can do it as long as they are willing to forsake at least some of their ethics along the way. Even the most ethical of the financially successful people out there have had to be at least a little bit ruthless and possibly selfish along the way. Either that or they have worked their whole lives, enjoying absolutely no recreation time. Have you seen the documentary "Money as debt"? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc3sKwwAaCU It sums up the money system and how money is created fairly well. There is also a follow up "Money as debt 2" which I have not seen yet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCu3fpg83TY As for the wars, yes it is very sad that many people lose their lives over greed and the lust for money. It is sad that they are hailed as heroes for fighting these unnecessary wars too.

as long as the money is ''in use''... but it could make them vulnerable if politics would treat them as ''terrorists'' and the bank would freeze their account

yes, if there's one thing I've learned about banks (and big companies) then it's that they closely observe their clients and try to avoid any negative ''developments''. After all it's their customers' money they exist from. So I agree, the banks would be in a real mess.