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“Nelson Mandela’s Legacy” [Africa Ping]
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| George V. Caylor
Posted on 12/08/2002 10:21:39 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March
Two weeks ago we discussed my 1985 trip to Africa, and my observations of chaos in the making.
In 1985 I took my Dad Glenn Caylor with me on an extended safari into the African “bush”. We were hunting some really big game including the Namibian Eland which weighs over a ton and can jump over a ten foot fence - easily.
One night we were driving back from hunting on the Botswana border and had a flat tire in the middle of nowhere. Americans can hardly fathom the term “nowhere” unless they’ve traveled the Outback of Australia or the Kalahari Desert.
Our guide Hennie Koetse’s flashlight was broken so we had to build a small fire to light our work. Our stop and the fire made me nervous because we had been informed earlier that the communist African National Congress (ANC) had been in the area attacking farms and killing farmers. The Republic of South Africa sent in an anti-guerilla unit to ‘suppress’ the violence. The action was fairly close to us and I could imagine myself in some communist guerilla’s crosshairs. Obviously we made it through the night with no casualties.
Most of us have heard of the African National Congress and its most famous member, Nelson Mandela. He was one of the founders of the ANC and was an avowed communist. Mandela was sentenced to life in prison for murdering a policeman and several black magistrates.
Under pressure from America, Nelson Mandela was released from his life sentence. He was then immediately elected as Republic of South Africa’s president.
While Mandela was in prison, he exerted a great deal of power and influence over the affairs of RSA. His wife Winnie was a communist agitator who instigated the torture deaths of dozens of blacks who did not want to be communists. Her most common death-by-torture device was the “necklace” which I won’t describe. It’s just too barbaric. Winnie, however, became the darling of the American press and graced our television sets nightly with her rhetoric. Due to her communist leanings, our press overlooked and forgave her little torture hobby.
How has Republic of South Africa fared since it elected Nelson Mandela as its leader? According to our own Jesse Jackson, South Africa is now “an international role model of what can be. Truly a Utopia. A miracle.”
Before we look at South Africa today, we need to remember that this country once had the lowest crime statistics, the highest employment and one of the best health care systems in the world. Blacks from black-governed neighboring countries crossed into “white racist” South Africa by the millions. When I was there, doctors made routine cost-free visits to everyone’s homes. The economy was strong, people were well-fed, healthy and safe.
Let’s take a look at Mandela’s new so-called “miracle” and see if it holds water.
“The culture of South Africa has become so deformed that we no longer have respect for the rights of others. No state on earth has failed as dismally as ours to meet the fundamental test of any civilization: to enforce law and order, to protect the lives and property of its citizens.” - Police Commissioner George Fivaz.
The problem was ANC’s new laws that protected the rights of everyone but law-abiding citizens. Over 20,000 of South Africa’s most highly trained policemen and women resigned or took early retirement from the force. This left a gap that criminals soon exploited. (Sound familiar?)
Another problem is with the ANC’s new justice department. Of every 109 murders, only nine result in a prison sentence. In other words, you can literally get away with murder 90% of the time.
South Africa is now the “rape capital” of the world - more than double the rate of any other country. Rape cases are seldom, if ever, prosecuted. Black women suffer in silence and their rapes are no longer even reported.
One in three black adults are infected with the AIDS virus. This will leave the country decimated much the same way as neighboring Kenya and Uganda where entire villages are comprised of only the very young and the very old. Their inhabitants of sexual activity age are dead.
I have two friends working as missionaries to those villages. They are building orphanages, clothing the children, and teaching them to survive. The working adults are simply no longer there.
Finally, unemployment has risen to nearly 50%. Of course, blacks now have the vote. And in every election, their black leaders tell them how to vote. Not exactly the freedom promised by Mandela. Jesse Jackson had it wrong. The “new” South Africa doesn’t sound quite like paradise to me. But maybe it is to him.
© 2002 by George V. Caylor. All rights reserved. George Caylor is a wealth planner and syndicated writer in Lynchburg, VA. To read past columns or e-mail him, go to www.OnTheRightSide.com [or the source link at the top]
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To: nopardons
Really ? It " sounds " racist to YOU, because you don't know the entire story. So, what did Verwoerd, who authored the bill, mean when he said "I will reform it [black education] so that Natives will be taught from childhood to realize that equality with Europeans is not for them."
To: SteveTuck; *AfricaWatch
At the World Conference Aagianst Racism, the coalition of Communist Pan-Africans and Antisemitic Islamofascists demanded reaparations for slavery from the west (despite the fact that slavery is still legal in many African nations today) and the declaration that Zionism was a form of racism and that Israel is an Apartheid state.
The Communists are merely trying to repeat the success they achieved in SA, by using the same racist tactics to destroy Israel. They don't care about liberating people, they only care about destroying sovereign nations and enslaving them to the yoke of Communism.
The United States delegation rightly boycotted this racist antisemitic shakedown.
The following week, we saw the result of our refusal to capitulate to this extortion.
But we imperialists had it coming, right?
It's clear that you don't believe that the Afrikaners had a right to a white state. Do you believe Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state?
At this years UN conference on Sustainable Development, the marxist SA president Mbeki proclaiamed that the unequal distribution of the world's wealth was a form of Global Apartheid. Don't you see the implication? The African Marxists want to do all over the world what they have done to South Africa. They don't care about racial oppression. They are Communists who want to destroy all capitalist nations and loot us for our wealth. Do you join them in the global struggle to advance the glorious cause of International Socialism? Do you support their international reign of terror, as you support their reign of terror in South Africa? How far will you go to advance Communism?
No matter what you say about apartheid, it will not change the fact that you are trying to defend the actions of racist antisemitic communist murderers. You say you use facts and logic but you make the logical error that apartheid justifies the brutal communist reign of terror.
Your whole purpose on this thread has been to attempt to justify Mandela's maniacal violence. There were those in South Africa who tried to oppose apartheid peacefully, but these were precisely the people who Mandela considered traitors to his evil cause, and who his followers necklaced and burned to death. The same thing is happening in the West Bank. Mandela's buddy Arafat murders anyone who thinks that terror and violence are not the way to win freedom.
Is this how you would respond to those who peacefully opposed your violent struggle? Do you want to see their communist terrorism used to achieve 'social justice' right here in America? Before you answer, remember that for all the violence, terror, and genocide waged by Mandela and his Communists, it took a white man, DeKlerk, to 'liberate' the blacks. It wasn't Mandela's terror that achieved their 'freedom'(actually communist enslavement), but rather foreign political pressure placed on the white government by foolish liberal admirers of Mandela. (like yourself)
You repeatedly ask what we would do if the gov't 'had gradually taken away all your rights and eventually took away your citizenship.' This is precisely what the evil racist communist governments of SA on Zimbabwe are doing now to the white minorities. Do you think that the whites should now engage in armed struggle against the blacks who are exterminating them?
Don't you see you are simply stoking the flames of race war?
KILL THE BOER, KILL THE FARMER
To: Tailgunner Joe
The United States delegation rightly boycotted this racist antisemitic shakedown [demand for reparations].The following week, we saw the result of our refusal to capitulate to this extortion.
Your pathetic and illogical attempt to link a demand for reparations with the 9/11 attacks clearly demonstrates the weakness of your emotional argument. The two events are not even remotely related.
It's clear that you don't believe that the Afrikaners had a right to a white state. Do you believe Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state?
They have a right to exist. They have an obligation to treat all of their citizens fairly.
To: SteveTuck
Try harder buddy. You are defending terrorism. You are on the side of communists, terrorists, anti-semites, and racists.
To: Tailgunner Joe
Try harder buddy. I am not the one that linked 9/11 with a demand for reparations
You are defending terrorism. You are on the side of communists, terrorists, anti-semites, and racists.
Not even close. Not by a long shot. Opposing apartheid and supporting the right of a people stripped of all their political rights does not make me a supporter of terrorism, racism, communism, or anti-semitism.
To: SteveTuck
I made my argument. Your dismissal of it without any counter-argument at all is what is pathetic.
Your defense of terrorism and communism is not pathetic, it is reprehensible.
To: Tailgunner Joe
I made my argument. Your dismissal of it without any counter-argument at all is what is pathetic. Explain to me the link between a demand for reparations and the 9/11 attacks that occurred one week later.
Really, please explain this to me.
I need a good laugh.
Your defense of terrorism and communism is not pathetic, it is reprehensible.
How you equate my opposition to apartheid with terrorism and communism defies all logic. I would get a better argument out of my four-year old son. Go head and post away, but I have no desire to engage in a discussion with someone so lacking in logic.
To: SteveTuck
supporting the right of a people...The right to do what? You have already expressed your approval of the communist Mandela's murderous atrocities in his quest for tyrranical power and the destruction of capitalism. As long as there are traitors like you who express approval for the actions of terrorists, there will continue to be terrorist attacks on civilians. You are a terrorist sympathizer.
To: Tailgunner Joe
You have already expressed your approval of the communist Mandela's murderous atrocities in his quest for tyrranical power and the destruction of capitalism. Lie #1. Find a single statement I made that supports this allegation.
As long as there are traitors like you who express approval for the actions of terrorists, there will continue to be terrorist attacks on civilians.
Lie #2. Find a single statement I made that supports this allegation.
You are a terrorist sympathizer.
Strike three
To: Tailgunner Joe
Really, please explain this to me.I already did. But you are very thick skulled so I will continue to treat you like a little child.
The Communists demanding ransom in Africa are the ideological and actual allies of the antisemites waging war on Israel. Their (and your) justifaction of their brutality is 'Apartheid'. Not just in Africa, but in Israel and all around the world. Educate yourself.
To: SteveTuck
To: Tailgunner Joe
The Communists demanding ransom in Africa are the ideological and actual allies of the antisemites waging war on Israel. Their (and your) justifaction of their brutality is 'Apartheid'. Not just in Africa, but in Israel and all around the world. Educate yourself. You stated that there was a direct link between the demand for reparations and 9/11. No such link exists and you are fool to believe otherwise.
To: Tailgunner Joe
You said it. Now come to terms with your inhumanity. I said that I would have waged a military-type campaign if my government gradually took away my political rights and stripped me of my citizenship. You could ague against my position, which would put you in opposition to our Founding Fathers.
To: SteveTuck
You are a fool to believe that the Communist murderers have done anything but make SA into a living hell. What good is lowering infant mortality rates when you exponentially raise baby-rape?
To: SteveTuck
The antisemitic Islamics and the Racist Communist Africans speak with one voice. Anti-americans like you listen.
To: Tailgunner Joe
You are a fool to believe that the Communist murderers have done anything but make SA into a living hell. Another lie. When have I said anything remotely positive about the Communists?
To: SteveTuck
They were slaves under apartheid. At least now they can choose their government.97 posted on 12/08/2002 9:48 PM CST by SteveTuck
No they can't. Communists don't believe in freedom or democracy.
To: Tailgunner Joe
No they can't. Communists don't believe in freedom or democracy. Did the ANC win both elections fair and square?
To: Tailgunner Joe
Still waiting for you to prove you weren't lying, assuming the truth is important to you.
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