Blaggards

One overweening insult of the last half century is: “you’re a RACIST!” Every time liberals find themselves behind a rock, they trot out this slur ... designed to shut the opposition up ... and then stand back smiling while the accused tries to disprove this slander. For some stupid reason, Democrats are never racists ... only Republicans. And for some confounding reason, we on the right too often assume a hang-dog look.

A while back, an AOC-like friend of my daughter’s accused me of being a racist because I didn’t vote for Barack Obama.  I was quite insulted ... and forever wrote her off ... an actual prejudice with which I will indulge myself in this case.

Matter of fact, I think I will next try to use reverse English against these slur merchants. The current term for them is race baiters. Not strong enough. I think I will dub them “skin scammers” ... or maybe “malanin mountebanks” ... perhaps MELBANKS for short. But the best to me would be that good ole Irish insult, BLAGGARDS.

Tribute

“Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute” -- Thomas Jefferson (his response to the Barbary pirates demand for money to keep them from attacking U.S. shipping.)

Tribute is nothing more than ransom paid to keep some entity from harming you. There are many instances of this practice … from the Mafia demanding a percentage of the profits of businesses as “protection money” to Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and other race baiters shaking down American businesses so that they are not accused of “racism” … see: ABC News Story.

Now the Muslims are getting into the payoff racket with demands for “Halal certification” which is a statement that a food purveyor has met the standards of the Islam faith. In exchange for paying a fee schedule, these purveyors are “allowed” to sell their products or services to the Muslim community … see the Australian schedule of demands: Q Society Story and in Malaysia: Malaysian Halal Rate Schedule. Unfortunately, many suspect that this certification money finds its way into funding much Muslim terrorism around the world.

In fact the recent jihad attack by a Muslim radical from Iran on a Sydney, Australia coffee shop seems somehow connected with this shop’s refusal to pay Halal tribute … see: Atlas Shrugged Story. Unfortunately, the number of businesses who do pay this Halal bribe seems to be large and growing.

What did Lenin say, “The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them?” But, in this case, we seem to be giving them the rope.

Afterward: For validation of Sharpton's sleezeball style see: NY Post Story. Also my wife had an interesting comment, "Aren't taxes a form of protection money?"