Reply #8: Of Course That Is What It Is, Sir [View All]

[The Magistrate]

It is an attempt to reduce the sales booked by the company, which by reducing its income must inexorably lead to the laying off of workers who would otherwise be employed building the equipment that has not been ordered. That is how boycott of a company works, on those oinstances where it works at all. You may well be of the view that the throwing out of work of a number of blue-collar types in the U.S. is a small price to pay for realizing in some measure your own views of justice in the Middle East, but it is unlikely the people actually affected would agree with you. It is just this sort of thing that feeds the disenchantment with the left displayed by a great many of our citizens who would ought to be responsive to left positions on domestic matters.