“Because of your continuing lack of willingness to come to Florida and hear our cries, I have no choice but to challenge you until you do so,” Al Pina, chairman of the Florida Minority Community Reinvestment Coalition said in a letter to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke released to the press. “I will no longer ALLOW YOU to ignore our communities, businesses or families. On January 5, 2010 I will begin a hunger strike in front of the Federal Reserve Building in Washington D.C. And such demonstration will not conclude until you agree to come to Florida to hear the cries of our communities, businesses and families,” he went on to say.

Since it’s a fact that private bankers sit on all the regional Fed bank boards and, obviously, influence them, and they are, after all, supposed to regulate and enforce fair lending laws, I would say that Al has quite a reasonable point there but I really doubt that Bernarke will hear it, or pay much attention to his hunger strike, unless, of course, the media does. I mean if Sarah Palin, whose I.Q. hovers somewhere between a banana and a baloney sandwich, can actually be taken seriously as a potential presidential nominee, just because she has been awarded too much publicity and had someone ghost-write a book for her, then anything’s possible.

One thing though, I'm from D.C. and I can tell you that if one more hungry
human being hanging around downtown D.C. moves anybody in any capacity who is in a position of power it will be quite an unusual and highly unlikely circumstance.

May our friends respect us, trouble neglect us, angels protect us and heaven accept us.