I Am Afraid of the Term Shill. . .

. . .because I think it fits right in line with these people's desire to minimize the crimes of which they are apart. Calling people shills makes it seem like they are simply promoting a commercial interest, like they are hocking detergent soap in the early 20th century.

I think people should be more inclined to call these people what they are, collaborationists. Although I use the term shill, I still think it is important to put these people into the proper historical context.

Shills would be the good Germans who sat back as their neighbors where rounded up and sent to the ghettos, only it is worse, because they are making a buck promoting the policies and positions that make it possible. If they had been alive in Nazi Germany, they would be promoting the Nuremburg Laws and Nazi expansionism into Czechoslovakia and Poland. They would have been backing the T4 program, just as they are supportive of Obamacare.

Shills are the Vichy French and the good Germans. That's what shills are. Call the traitors to the human race, nothing more, nothing less.