re: hermes..the london attacks: what is to be done
Oh and btw...as for money lending and usury
Another of the myths you lot love to use as your stereotypification of jews continues
Did you know, for example, that for the most part, Jews in Europe gravitated to money-lending BECAUSE they were banned from almost all other pursuits?
And for the most part, their interest rates were controllled to a very low level by the governments of the lands in which they were continually oppressed.
Most cities had a ghetto and restrictions were placed on Jews living in the ghetto. They were only allowed to leave during the day and were locked inside at night.
In Italy as an example, Jews were only permitted to work at pawn shops, act as money lenders, work the Hebrew printing press, trade in textiles or practice medicine.
Detailed banking laws kept their interest rates low and made life difficult for many of the poor pawnbrokers and moneylenders.
