"O when the spivs go marching in" ["I am Charlie"]

Alexander Boot ^ | 1/12/15 | Alexander Boot

[CondorFlight]

(snip)

Instead of ‘Je suis Charlie’, the demonstrators should have been shouting ‘J’accuse’.

And the objects of appropriate rage were all there, at the head of the rally, putting their heads on one another’s shoulders and looking oh so statesmanlike.

They should have been pinned to the wall and asked, fists at their noses, how they allowed this tragedy to happen and what they are going to do to make sure such tragedies don’t happen again.

Those 17 people didn’t die in an Alpine avalanche or a car accident. They were monstrously murdered by the enemies in our midst, those born within our civilisation but committed to destroying it.

The monsters didn’t operate in a vacuum. They operated in a poisoned atmosphere largely exhaled by our political establishment.

(snip)

[dfwgator]

Je Suis Enoch!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

‘Je suis Charlie’

This phrase will soon be banned in the USA because it sounds too much like JESUS, Charlie!

Maybe THAT is why Obama did not go or march in the ‘Je suis Charlie’ protest.

[Iron Munro]

I haven’t seen anyone use the word “spiv” in 30 years or more.

[WashingtonSource]

What is a spiv?

[WashingtonSource]

I found the answer to my question. A spiv is “a man, typically characterized by flashy dress, who makes a living by disreputable dealings.”