Barclays always was, and still is, an awful bank, and it's a pretty good bet that wherever you find sweatshops, child labour, dodgy arms deals or 21st century slavery you will find a helpful man from that establishment if you look hard enough.
Which makes it even funnier when the PR department
for the local Barclays tries to intimate it has a cuddly management
who care about the dispossessed of the world and want to make things
right. Now, on reading this sledgehammer-subtle piece of hackery
(see
http://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/isle-of-man-news/recognised-for-operation-christmas-child-efforts-1-6347796
) I don't think even for a second Barclays actually gave money to
these chancers, but it's doubly funny when the muppets who run the
gaff fall for a scam which shouldn't have fooled anybody apart from
home-schooled Alabama rednecks. And, of course, triple funny when
reading the comments and realising that island educational standards
are even lower than Alabama.
Oh, if you don't already know why I'm alternately
laughing my socks off and banging my head against a wall in sheer
disbelief, just go to https://sites.google.com/site/occalert/
.
And believe me, as someone who's monitored this
and similar scams since Franklin Graham and his shady peers started
thinking them up, the OCC Alert site is remarkably polite.
When you
start to find stories elsewhere of, for example, Franklin Graham
trying to persuade George Bush to send bibles instead of aid to
saturation-bombed Iraq, or Samaritan's Purse telling victims of a
South American disaster that they could only shelter in tents
subsidised by US Aid if they attended Baptist services and
effectively renounced their Catholic upbringings, then you might see
why even the Southern Baptist Convention wants nothing to do with
Graham any more.
I would like to believe that in 2014 the island
can finally wise up to such nonsense. But reading the inane comments
I know that is still far too much to ask.
But I still wish you all the best for 2014, in
the hope that at least some of us can both laugh and rise above such
idiocy.
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