COMMENTARY: Also, from Wikipedia: “The term MORT GAGE comes from the Old French “dead pledge,” apparently meaning that the pledge ends (DIES) either when the obligation is fulfilled or the property is taken through FORECLOSURE.”
I’ve long been aware that the MORT of ‘mortgage’ means or comes from the root ‘DEATH.’ Many of us are fighting valiantly to prevent the DEATH of our American Dream through FORECLOSURE, a dying of the light against which we must RAGE.
Wasn’t our pledge – our GAGE – which we supported with our toil, sweat and sacrifice, after all, aggregated into a pool of assets that could be leveraged, sometimes egregiously, seventy to one, and ignited to produce explosive and insured profits totally disproportionate to what we put at risk? Did we MORTgagors participate or benefit from these excesses?
We should ‘not go gentle into that good night.’ We should accede neither to short sales nor to loan modifications that strip us of our rights.
Nor should we hand back the keys and walk away from a just fight, if our claim is superior or equity requires we stand our ground or firmly push back.
Remind those who took and parlayed our pledges- upon which we built our dreams – that to come with unclean hands and ask that justice be done, they too must do justice!
For countless millions, this presently is nothing short of a life and death struggle. Do not GO GENTLE! Rage, RAGE!
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
