[another cricket]

The moral of the story is never loan money to the powerful. They usually find it easier to kill you rather then repay you. The kings of Europe were pulling these kinds of stunts on their Jewish bankers long before the Templars came along.

a.cricket

[weikel]

Good lesson I wonder what will happen to the bankers when the government here in the US finally decides they can't pay( and they can't the national debt will never be paid off in a billion years).

[Pharmboy]

Yep--exactly what Edward I (Longshanks of Braveheart) did to the Jews. In order to finance all of his wars, he borrowed heavily from the English Jews. He decided it would be much easier to expel them from the country, not pay them back, and confiscate their stuff to boot! Whatta plan!

[MissAmericanPie]

Very astute observation.