NCUA Regional Rioting Begins...

Leadership is always, at heart, a question of courage.  Very difficult to step out front, to show your true colors, to sail into the wind, to cut against the grain, to speak truth to power.... but quite a few Region III credit unions (located in at least six different States!) have done just that...


                                               Declaration of Grievances


..... sort of reminds me of another group of John Hancocks who said this in July of 1776:






"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life,  Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. - That to secure these rights,  Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, - That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.  Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.  But when a long train of abuses and usurpations....


.... whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive.... to alter or abolish it....But when a long train of abuses and usurpations....


      .... looks like a train just pulled out of the station in the Volunteer State.