re: #13 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

I was listening to a discussion of the Nigerian email scam. Even though it looks so silly it’s quite sophisticated. It can’t be too clever that only smart people bite, only to back out later when they realize wassup. It can’t be too stupid that only people with little money give it a go. It has to walk a fine line to get people gullible enough to nibble, yet still have enough money worth stealing.

British chatterata Polly Toynbee blamed George W. Bush and “Texas oil industry values” when she lost money in a Nigerian scam a few years ago.

The image of capitalism now being spread about the world is cowboy stuff: little gleaned from America extols the virtue of regulation, restraint and control. We reap from the third world what we sow: if some Nigerians learned lessons in capitalism from global oil companies that helped corrupt and despoil that land, it is hardly surpising they absorbed some of the Texan oil values that now rule the White House.

British capitalists pillaged ruled Nigeria for a hundred years and created its legal and educational systems, but I guess their gentlemanly form of capitalism just didn’t take with the locals.

It goes without saying that many RWNJs believe Obama is the instigator; indeed, the likely kingpin; of the current crop of Nigerian scammers.