Golman Sachs Spamming a "Robin Hood Tax" Vote w/ Cyber Attacks?

[amborin]

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On Sunday, the New York Times detailed in a front-page expose how Goldman may have hastened the demise of AIG....snip......On Tuesday, we reported the respected German magazine Der Spiegel revealed that Goldman did a billion dollar deal with Greece in 2002, which helped that nation hide its staggering debt for years.....snip

Now the trenchant traders at Goldman have picked a new target. Not satisfied with bringing the global economy to the brink, they now appear to be devoting time and energy to mini, cyber attacks on bank reform campaigners.

On Wednesday, British activists launched a major campaign to push Gordon Brown's government into adopting a "Robin Hood Tax" on financial transactions. "By taking an average of 0.05% from speculative banking transactions, hundreds of billions of pounds would be raised every year," their website claims.

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The Robin Hood Tax campaign website............On the first day of the campaign launch, the tech-heads running the site noticed that they were being spammed with 4,600 "no" votes in a short period of time.............Within 24 hours they say they traced the spamming to two computers, one allegedly registered to Goldman Sachs.

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Goldman has a lot to lose if such a tax becomes a reality. Goldman's computers may buy or sell shares as many as 1,000 times a second. It is these high-volume, high-speed trades that would take the biggest hit. Average investors, who hold stock for the long term, would hardly notice. A tax of 0.20 percent, as has been proposed in the U.S. Congress, could raise $100 billion per year. That is real money, money that could be used to put Americans back to work, rebuild our ravaged economy and meet other critical needs.....

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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/12-5

[cdsilv]

1. Need to block I/P ranges from investment banks on polls such as these.....

... let the employees of those banks vote from home, on their own ISP. Should not accept more than one vote per I/P address.

[asdjrocky]

2. I forget...

How much did they give President Obama in his campaign of hope and change?

[pscot]

3. Whatever the amount was

it seems to have bought what they wanted.