Wednesday, November 02, 2005



These things happen in a monarchy...

The king of Tonga has a plan. According to his speech from the throne at the closing of Tonga's legislative assembly, there's a mysterious investor who wants to park a billion dollars in Tonga's central bank and take it out when they need to.

Unfortunately, according to the Dominion-Post, there's a high likelihood that he's from Nigeria.

This is what happens in a monarchy, where there's not even a tenuous link between power and merit, and where there is no way of holding rulers accountable for their mistakes.

2 comments:

Lefties are so good at not reading things properly-

The article actually said the investor was American and that the offer looked suspiciously like the Nigerian type scam. Not that the investor was Nigerian.

Posted by Anonymous : 11/02/2005 12:56:00 PM

I'm sure Americans are quick learners when it comes to scamming - and want to be top in everything so why not in the Nigerian national pastime?

Posted by Hans Versluys : 11/02/2005 03:39:00 PM