Scamming Nigeria's Scamsters - Second Thoughts

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Chronicle of a journey from youthful
know-it-all to old-fart astonishment.

Yesterday's muse about turning the tables on "401" scams operating from

Nigeria [complete with pijin-English epithets scrawled on placards held by presumed scammers] leads to today's question: Joseph Kony [right] is sought by the I.C.C. [the International Criminal Court] for what crime? "Genocide probably," comes to mind since it's the I.C.C. assuming you half follow the news and didn't add "but that's Africa, so what's new?" Since Forrest Whittaker won a 2006 Oscar for playing Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland, you'd be both right and well-informed http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455590/. Amin comitted genocide.....where? Rwanda? No that was later. Clinton apologized for the the US in Rwanda. We didn't invade Rwanda! Bill's always apologizing and should! http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200109/power-genocide.

Kony the wanted man is from Uganda, not Nigeria. Kony leads the Lord's Resistance Army and is the indiscriminate genocidal nightmare of men, women and children far from Kony's Northern Uganda headquarters. As far as Lagos, birthplace of the Nigerian 401 E-Mail Scam. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kony. Put another way, Africans feel about Komy the way Americans feel feel about Osama bin Ladin - only Komy's a lot closer to them than bin Ladin is to 99.98% of us. It's not out of bounds to think "X" number of Ugandans were terrified by Kona's madness and sundry random madnesses of his Lord's Resistance Army to end up transversing sub-Saharan Africa to land in Nigeria. A 20-year terror can do at least as much. "The US is the superpower!" raged a Ugandan man. "Why don't they help us!" Any former 9th Ward New Orleans resident can explain better than I. If I were hungry, and alone in a country whose unknown language added to my desperation and someone held out change and said "You! Hold this sign!" I'd do it day and night - but that's me.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniella-boston/genocide-in-uganda-the-a_b_21150.html

Final question: What is the difference between US Senator David Vitter [R] Louisiana and the man on the right?

Senator Vitter's sign's been cropped out of his photo.