I think the word is desperation. And that's understandable. You see, the phrase "under color of law," which I have just recently learned, can be interpreted in several ways. On one level, it refers to what is essentially criminal behavior being perpetrated by an individual acting behind the shield of a law-enforcement position. On another level--one that the Congress has evidently favored for several centuries--it refers to using the law to subjugate, intimidate and deprive certain individuals and populations of their rights by passing a law and making the deprivation by private entities (fictional persons) legal.

The beneficiaries of this system of legal deprivation have always been the ruling elite which, in recent decades, have become identified with the financial class--i.e. the people who control the money (our money, btw) have controlled who benefits and who's deprived in our modern economy.

The perception that this traditional system of deprivation under law is going to be overturned is very upsetting to people who accommodated themselves to universal suffrage and thought they had the problem solved by retaining control of the bucks. The people, through their representatives, directing who gets the money and for what it will be spent, spells disaster for the ruling class. They fear revenge.

That's what all that "law and order"--> "homeland security" thing was about. The ruling class was preparing for another sixties-like eruption, expecting that they would watch from inside their gated communities. Then it didn't happen. Instead, the hordes peaceably assembled and then went to the ballot box, instead of ramming in the doors of the banks, where the money is being sequestered, as was the gold of old. Obama doling money out of the Treasury and by-passing the bondsmen is truly frightening.

But, you see, they had a chance to participate. When they said they had no money to lend, the Congress authorized the Treasury to give them some, under the condition that the money would be lent to Main Street. When it wasn't, a new strategy needed to be found to circumvent the recalcitrant banksters.

The ploy now is to promote the use of "digital currency," which will enable the financial class to regain control. Cash, VISA tells us in their new campaign, "Currency of Progress, is bad. Currency that flows out of the people's Treasury is to be spurned as inefficient and unreliable, compared to the digital kind. They no longer call it plastic.