And You Thought the Starrish Inquisition Was Out of Hand….

Posted on December 24, 2002 in Folly Watch Pointers

Snatched from the fangs of VA Spider:

It seems that the people of Malawi have been convinced by leaders of the political opposition that government officials have been gathering blood for sale to vampires. In return for the hemoglobin offerings, the vampires send the government CARE packages.

Could you imagine this rumor in the United States, with the possible tweak of the rumor that Bill Clinton was trading blood for oil? I could see pictures of needle tracks on White House staffers arms and records of Red Cross Blood Drives being subpoenaed. What, I wonder, would they finally have gotten Clinton on? Another fib? “Have you ever tasted blood?” they might ask him under oath and then, when he said “no”, show evidence of bleeding gums or him sucking a scraped knee as a child?

Truth be told, the kinds of things that Starr chased after weren’t much more credible: the Vincent Foster “murder” being the most notable of a series.

In the meantime, instead of laughing at Malawi, we should ask: what might we do to help this economically desparate people? And do something about the witch hunters who still lurk among us, spreading their dark tales of “miscegenation” and sexual improprietry as a means of diverting attention from their rampant extortion from the poor in our own land of the free ride for the rich.