Writer From The Economist Stupid Enough Buying Into Nigerian Spam Email?

Oh, if that isn’t the height of wingnuttery!  As soon as I saw Dr. Jabba the Roy’s post today, I had to look twice, and again at the link for The Economist. Even they can’t be this stupid.

THE e-mail from Nigeria claimed to come from an aide to the president and touted a business opportunity with potentially vast returns. But unlike similar-sounding messages from Nigerian princes and finance ministers—known in Nigeria as “419” scams after a section of the penal code—this one seemed genuine.

I know, dear readers, I’m still trying to get back on my chair after having read that.

Basically, this scheme is free markets, Nigerian style.  The privatization of Nigerian electricity and President Goodluck Jonathan, or rather, his flunkies, are feverishly looking for investors to raise 35 billion smackers over a ten year span for this project.  Now, it’s getting clearer.  Cons like Dr. Jabba the Roy and Con magazines like The Economist just go all ga ga giddy for privatization of anything and everything and fuck the consequences–much like that weird bird all “Coo-Coo for CoaCoa Puffs!”

It gets better, folks!

At a recent conference in Abuja Mr Jonathan wooed hundreds of investors, including executives from Goldman Sachs and General Electric.

Goldmann-Sachs? Aren’t they all in jail or outta business for corrupt business practices?  Well, that outta fit quite well with the Nigerian email spam scam.  I don’t care how the writer of The Economist words this, I’m pretty sure that email he/she received is also a scam no different than the others from the so-called Nigerian dignitaries.

So, again, why is this particular email different from the other spam emails from dignitaries and government members begging for money? Why is this more legitimate?

Another thing to be noted, the writer of that article has no by-line; they don’t put their name to the article. Are they too embarrassed to be publicly endorsing such an email?  I wonder if they sent money?  Better question still, since Dr. Jabba the Roy posted this to his blog, we must assume that he too endorses this. I wonder if he sent money or is about to himself, or the rest of his Blogging SupposiTory brethren.  Never under estimate stupidity of these connies; when will I learn? I’ve always said that unabashed greed and ignorance made for a dangerous combination; this is a glaring illustration of that.

Boys ‘n’ girls, what’s scary here, is these people could well be leading much of the world if that new right winged revolt that has been taking hold in Europe, as well as the tea-baggers in both Canada and the US, spending our money. Imagine them, investing our taxes on these email spam scams?  Chilling!