Posted on 12/08/2002 10:21:39 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March
Definitely wrong.
No. The white South Africans developed a very successful and productive economy. They made the mistake of not controlling immigration of blacks, which numbers threatened to overwelm their system. They developed controls to prevent being over-run. That wasn't acceptable to the PC West who locked onto the race issue.
Would you throw gasoline filled tires around the necks of your political opponents (fellow anti-apatheid blacks, of course) and light them like Winnie Mandela?
With cheap and almost slave black labor.
They made the mistake of not controlling immigration of blacks, which numbers threatened to overwelm their system. They developed controls to prevent being over-run. That wasn't acceptable to the PC West who locked onto the race issue.
Race issue? I think that opposition to a government that denied blacks the most basic of their political rights and eventually stripping them of their citizenship is a little more than political correctness run amuck.
No, but I would have used similar tactics when faced with an oppressive white-minority government.
Would you throw gasoline filled tires around the necks of your political opponents (fellow anti-apatheid blacks, of course) and light them like Winnie Mandela?
Of course not.
And so you can somehow justify a government that's plunging everyone into the dark ages and brutality. The entire region is going that direction now that whites are being murdered or expelled.
You have avoided all questions about youself, Mr. Steve Tuck. But in the process we know you can justify brutality and economic collapse that takes blacks down also, all for some sort of twisted racial justice? No thanks, hot-shot!
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You continue to duck the first question I asked you. What would you have done if your government had gradually taken away your political rights and eventually your freedom?
Tactics is a rather broad category. I would have waged a war against the white-minority government. Soldiers do not torture and execute prisoners.
Now, what would you have done in a similar situation?
These people are managing the destruction of western civilization in South Arfica - and the region. All that's going to remain is tribalism. Back to the stone age. How disgusting.
And how would that have brought apartheid to an end?
When fools invite Communists to 'liberate' them from 'imperialism', they sell themselves into slavery.
They were slaves under apartheid. At least now they can choose their government.
The Sandinistas did...
Rule of law has given way to rule of the mob.
You could say the same about Russia. Should we bring back the Communists?
SA is a million times worse today than under aprtheid.
Tell that to the blacks who lived under apartheid...
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