Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jeff Liebermann Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis,rec.arts.tv,uk.comp.sys.mac,edm.general,sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism is Tearing America Apart Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 12:43:57 -0700 Lines: 63 Message-ID: References: <0001HW.2C03BD0B032D7BBD30E57938F@news.giganews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net y4/xVYYGAjVZ5Z49GtrsaA3bu5cY7li2hauO+srQnCDCTgmjrv Cancel-Lock: sha1:I852n0bFaJCs/yfS63B42ru/4TM= sha256:UjugXeRFtus+rQue0+7ThMg4ThJPZJrEWoC91z4pYHY= User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Bytes: 4579 On Sun, 26 May 2024 14:41:38 -0700, john larkin wrote: >One major cause of anti-semitism was that both Christians and Muslims >considered usury, lending money at interest, to be sinful. So people >and kings had to borrow from Jews to finance their farms and >businesses and wars. It was then more convenient to have inquisitions >and pogroms and genocides than it was to pay them back. Mostly correct. Usury was charging excessive interest rates. While in college in the 1960's, I was the local loan shark. The college (Cal Poly, Pomona) had large number of foreign exchange students, mostly from Iran and Saudi Arabia. They were all the son's (no daughters) of the rich upper classes in their countries. All these students were granted very little pocket money by their parents on the assumption that if they lacked the funds to play around, they would spend their time studying. It didn't work, but that was the plan. So, the students went to disreputable sources (like me) for borrowing money. I had no trouble getting paid because I knew that the very last thing they wanted was for me to inform their parents of their son's activities. My last loan was to a "white man" who begged me for a loan. I shouldn't have done it, but made the mistake of charging over 10% simple interest, which was the limit for usury for personal loans. When he couldn't pay me back, he filed a complaint with the local district attorney's office. Since I was obviously guilty, I made a deal to forgive the loan and close down my business in trade for dropping the usury charges. The anti-semitic fear of bankers originated with Jesus, who threw the "money changers" out of the temple in Jerusalem. That meant that Jesus, and therefore God, take a dim view of handling money and banking. The result was that Christians were prohibited from engaging in banking. Since nobody was interested in loaning money without also collecting interest, a way around this prohibition needed to be contrived. Anyone borrowing money was expected to provide a "gift" to the lender as well as providing something of value as security. Repayment was a problem for the Templars. They were a Christian order and therefore could not charge interest or handle money. They had an easy solutions. If one wanted to borrow money, they had to have one of their sons join the order. The loan was also not considered a loan into today's sense. It was a "gift". That meant it did not need to repaid until the lender asked for repayment. Repayment was usually in the form of another "gift" of greater value. No money changed hands. That worked reasonably well until the rise of the guild system, which were monopolies on lucrative occupations. In keeping with the traditional anti-semitic policies, the European Jews were systematically excluded from all the guilds leaving low wage manual labor the only work available for Jews. However, the one profession where Jews were allowed was banking because none of the Christians were allowed to engage in banking. The Christian tolerated this exception because the Jews could be purged at any time if there were difficulties repaying the loans. The Christian borrowers kept things reasonable because they knew they would eventually need another loan. -- Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com PO Box 272 http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Ben Lomond CA 95005-0272 Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558