We learned from a previous post, agents of the United States government can do what they want, when they want. However, they can’t do it where they want, at least not in Iceland. The leaders of Iceland, who also had the hutzpah to say “no” to their banksters, have expulsed FBI agents who entered Iceland unannounced and were spying on citizens of Iceland.
Is it asking too much of our Canadian leadership to do the same, especially as it regards the residents and citizens of Canada and their banking information?
Is it asking too much? Nope! Not at all!
Yankee go home!
Unfortunately, the Canadian Government is sitting there going…”The US is our friend…”
~disgusted~
How does one become a citizen of Iceland?
@ “a”
I was wondering that too. It appears easier for EEA citizens than non-EEA citizens to immigrate to Iceland. Iceland is rated very high by the UN as a desirable place to live and it certainly handled the banking crisis cleverly. I had a 2 day stopover there many years ago and found it to be a fascinating place.
http://www.mcc.is/english/extra/immigrate-to-iceland
Woo! EFTA member citizen here.
I went to Iceland many years ago for a very long weekend in June. It’s very weird going into a club at midnight with daylight and coming out at 3am and it was still daylight (or daylight again). I’m sure I could get used to the summer but I certainly wouldn’t want to live there in the winter.
But it certainly had amazing scenery. We took the Golden Circle tour with geysers and waterfalls en route. Also saw the blue lagoon. Never understood why they put the airport an hour outside Reykjavik when there’s virtually nothing in between.
Not sure the Icelanders would agree about the handling of the economic crisis. Iceland suffered severely though they were smart enough to take their pain all at once as opposed to the Chinese water torture policy implemented just about everywhere else. I’m pretty sure stock market and their currency crashed and I think the entire banking system went bankrupt or was nationalised to prevent bankruptcy.
They also sat down as a country and began to rewrite their constitution in the aftermath with input from all, and they have probably the best educational system in the world. I could never convince my husband we needed to live somewhere even colder than where we are now (as we head into our fourth month of snow).
@a
C’mon Canada’s not doing too badly:
http://www.conferenceboard.ca/hcp/details/education.aspx
In either Canada or Iceland, take plenty of vitamin D.
Interestingly enough, Iceland was also the country that granted Bobby Fischer citizenship after the US tried to arrest him for playing chess in Yugoslavia.
Now, when is Hong Kong going to get around to expelling IRS attache William Cheung like one of our legislators suggested three years ago:
http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201004/14/P201004130213.htm
Bravo Iceland !!!!!!
@Eric, that’s a very interesting press release and worthy of its own post. I wonder, as the finder of the press release if you would like the honour. It seems to me that the United States is also lying through their teeth in their response to the Hong Kong government:
So why do they need a Criminal Investigation Division (CID) IRS agent in Hong Kong if they are carrying out “liaison duties” in Hong Kong. This bald-faced lie is all too typical of the two-faced double-standard lying scondrouls who are enforcing US federal laws.
And the FBI agents that were in Iceland weren’t spying on the citizens of Iceland. They were investigating the possibility of trade relations on behalf of the growing igloo industry in the US.
Ha, after Mr. Fatbardt gets us and rips us off of all of our assets, we can go to Iceland and live in luxury igloos.