Posted on 01/23/2011 7:04:42 PM PST by FreeKeys
Dr. Jonas Mahleiro Savimbi, Angolan patriot, African nationalist, Christian leader and founder and president of UNITA was murdered by government forces in Moxico, Angola, [in 2002]. Despite the fact that Angolan oil output is the largest in all of sub-Saharan Africa, with the exception of Nigeria, its people are among the poorest in the world. Savimbi was the leader of the only organized opposition to the totalitarian rule in Luanda. He sacrificed his life for more than 40 years in pursuit of liberty and self-determination for his people. He had a following in Angola up until his death because he personified hope for the most marginalized and downtrodden segment of Angolan society, the indigenous non-assimilated African people. The son of an evangelical pastor and railway stationmaster, he relied on his Christian faith for strength, courage and wisdom to wage a lifelong struggle for the freedom of the Angolan people. Africa has lost one of its best Christian leaders and America has lost one of its most faithful Cold War allies. Chevron and other oil companies and their minions in the top ranks of both major political parties degraded themselves ... even consenting to have their employees in Angola guarded by Fidel Castro's Cuban Communist troops. At the State Department, Ronald Reagan's Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, Chester Crocker, consistently strove to undercut the Reagan Doctrine and to undermine Dr. Savimbi's UNITA freedom fighters. Herman Cohen who, under George Bush the elder, succeeded Crocker as Assistant Secretary for Africa, was such a despicable traitor to the cause of freedom and to America's national interests that he hired himself out as a foreign agent to the Leninist tyrants who still rule in Luanda, Angola. In 1992, Savimbi won a popular election, which victory was stolen from him
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Day by day I shudder/fear at the number of those traitors working against freedom and Christianity in govt.
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You said it! Most people simply can not accept that there are those in our own government who would gladly support a dictatorship in the USA.
Of possible interest? Does anyone have other insights into the history of Angolan oil?
It’s part of satanic OPEC—which is bad in itself and it gets worse:
http://arabnews.com/economy/article240174.ece
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