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A Warning For America From South Africa [Excellent! Must read!]
The National Messenger ^ | January 2005 | Gemma Meyer

Posted on 08/09/2009 8:51:32 AM PDT by upchuck

NOTE: This article was written in January, 2005. But it is actually more applicable and prophetic today than it was then. It is a little long but well worth your time.

By Gemma Meyer (Gemma Meyer is the pseudonym of a South African journalist. She and her husband, a former conservative member of parliament, still reside in South Africa.)

People used to say that South Africa was 20 years behind the rest of the Western world. Television, for example, came late to South Africa (but so did pornography and the gay rights movement).

Today, however, South Africa may be the grim model of the future Western world, for events in America reveal trends chillingly similar to those that destroyed our country.

America's structures are Western. Your Congress, your lobbying groups, your free speech, and the way ordinary Americans either get involved or ignore politics are peculiarly Western, not the way most of the world operates. But the fact that only about a third of Americans deem it important to vote is horrifying in light of how close you are to losing your Western character.

Writing letters to the press, manning stands at county fairs, hosting fund-raising dinners, attending rallies, setting up conferences, writing your Congressman - that is what you know, and what you are comfortable with. Those are the political methods you've created for yourselves to keep your country on track and to ensure political accountability.

But woe to you if - or more likely, when - the rules change. White Americans may soon find themselves unable or unwilling to stand up to challenge the new political methods that will be the inevitable result of the ethnic metamorphosis now taking place in America. Unable to cope with the new rules of the game - violence, mob riots, intimidation through accusations of racism, demands for proportionality based on racial numbers, and all the other social and political weapons used by the have-nots to bludgeon treasure and power from the haves - Americans, like others before them, will no doubt cave in. They will compromise away their independence and ultimately their way of life.

That is exactly what happened in South Africa. I know, because I was there and I saw it happen.

Faced with revolution in the streets, strikes, civil unrest and the sheer terror and murder practiced by Nelson Mandela's African National Congress (ANC), the white government simply capitulated in order to achieve "peace."

Westerners need peace. They need order and stability. They are builders and planners. But what we got was the peace of the grave for our society.

The Third World is different - different peoples with different pasts and different cultures. Yet Westerners continue to mistake the psychology of the Third World and its peoples. Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe are perfect examples of those mistakes. Sierra Leone is in perpetual civil war, and Zimbabwe - once the thriving, stable Rhodesia - is looting the very people (the white men) who feed the country. Yet Westerners do not admit that the same kind of savagery could come to America when enough immigrants of the right type assert themselves. The fact is, Americans are sitting ducks for Third World exploitation of the Western conscience of compassion.

Those in the West who forced South Africa to surrender to the ANC and its leaders did not consider Africa to be the dangerous, corrupt, and savage place it is now in Zimbabwe and South Africa. Those Western politicians now have a similar problem looming on their own doorsteps: the demand for power and treasure from the non-Western peoples inside the realm.

It is already too late for South Africa, but not for America if enough people strengthen their spine and take on the race terrorists, the armies of the "politically correct" and, most dangerous of all, the craven politicians who believe "compassionate conservatism" will buy them a few more votes, a few more days of peace.

White South Africans, you should remember, have been in that part of Africa for the same amount of time whites have inhabited North America; yet ultimately South Africans voted for their own suicide. We are not so very different from you.

We lost our country through skillful propaganda, pressure from abroad (not least from the U.S.A.), unrelenting charges of "oppression" and "racism," and the shrewd assessment by African tyrants that the white man has many Achilles' heels, the most significant of which are his compassion, his belief in the "equality of man," and his "love your neighbor" philosophy - none of which are part of the Third World's history.

The mainline churches played a big role in the demise of Western influence throughout Africa, too; especially in South Africa. Today's tyrants were yesterday's mission-school proteges. Many dictators in Africa were men of the cloth. They knew their clerical collars would deflect criticism and obfuscate their real aims, which had nothing whatever to do with the "brotherhood of man."

Other tyrants, like the infamous Idi Amin, were trained and schooled by the whites themselves, at Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard. After receiving the best from the West, they unleashed a resentful bloodlust against their benefactors.

From what I have seen and read thus far, I fear Americans will capitulate just as we did. Americans are, generally, a soft lot. They don't want to quarrel or obstruct the claims of those who believe they were wronged. They like peace and quiet, and they want to compromise and be nice.

A television program that aired in South Africa showed a town meeting somewhere in Southern California where people met to complain about falling standards in the schools. Whites who politely spoke at the meeting clearly resented the influx of Mexican immigrants into their community. When a handful of Chicanos at the back of the hall shouted and waved their hands at them, the whites simply shrunk back into their seats rather than tell the noisemakers to shut up. They didn't want to quarrel.

In America, the courts are still the final arbiters of society's laws. But what will happen when your future majority refuses to abide by court rulings - as in Zimbabwe. What will happen when the new majority says the judges are racists, and that they refuse to acknowledge "white man's justice"? What will happen when the courts are filled with their people, or their sympathizers? In California, Proposition 187 has already been overturned.

What will you do when the future non-white majority decides to change the names of streets and cities? What will you do when they no longer want to use money that carries the portraits of old, dead white "racists" and slave owners? Will you cave in, like you did on flying the Confederate flag? What about the national anthem? Your official language?

Don't laugh. When the "majority" took over in South Africa, the first targets were our national symbols.

In another generation, America may well face what Africa is now experiencing - invasions of private land by the "have-nots;" the decline in health care quality; roads and buildings in disrepair; the banishment of your history from the education of the young; the revolutionization of your justice system.

In South Africa today, only 9 percent of murderers end up in jail. Court dockets are regularly purchased and simply disappear. Magistrates can be bribed as can the prison authorities, making escapes commonplace. Vehicle and airplane licenses are regularly purchased, and forged school and university certificates are routine.

What would you think of the ritual slaughter of animals in your neighbor's backyard? How do you clean up the blood and entrails that litter your suburban streets? How do you feel about the practice of witchcraft, in which the parts of young girls and boys are needed for "medicinal" purposes? How do you react to the burning of witches?

Don't laugh. All that is quite common in South Africa today.

Don't imagine that government officials caught with their fingers in the till will be punished. Excuses - like the need to overcome generations of white racism - will be found to exonerate the guilty.

In fact, known criminals will be voted into office because of a racial solidarity among the majority that doesn't exist among the whites. When Ian Smith of the old Rhodesia tried to stand up to the world, white South African politicians were among the Westerners pressuring him to surrender.

When Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe murders his political opponents, ignores unfavorable court decisions, terrorizes the population and siphons off millions from the state treasury for himself and his friends, South Africa's new President Thabo Mbeki holds his hand and declares his support. That just happened a few weeks ago.

Your tax dollars will go to those who don't earn and don't pay. In South Africa, organizations that used to have access to state funds such as old age homes, the arts, and veterans' services, are simply abandoned.

What will happen is that Western structures in America will be either destroyed from without, or transformed from within, used to suit the goals of the new rulers. And they will reign either through terror, as in Zimbabwe today, or exert other corrupt pressures to obtain, or buy votes. Once power is in the hands of aliens, don't expect loyalty or devotion to principle from those whose jobs are at stake. One of the most surprising and tragic components of the disaster in South Africa is how many previously anti-ANC whites simply moved to the other side.

Once you lose social, cultural, and political dominance, there is no getting it back again.

Unfortunately, your habits and values work against you. You cannot fight terror and street mobs with letters to your Congressmen. You cannot fight accusations of racism with prayer meetings. You cannot appeal to the goodness of your fellow man when the fellow man despises you for your weaknesses and hacks off the arms and legs of his political opponents.

To survive, Americans must never lose the power they now enjoy to people from alien cultures. Above all, don't put yourselves to the test of fighting only when your backs are against the wall. You will probably fail.

Millions around the world want your good life. But make no mistake: They care not for the high-minded ideals of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, and your Constitution. What they want are your posessions, your power, and your status.

And they already know that their allies among you, the "human rights activists," the skillful lawyers and the left-wing politicians will fight for them, and not for you. They will exploit your compassion and your Christian charity, and your good will.

They have studied you, Mr. and Mrs. America, and they know your weaknesses well.

They know what to do.

Do you?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; anc; lessons; mandela; mugabe; nelsonmandela; racism; southafrica; thewest; zimbabwe
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To: penelopesire
Excellent post!

Thank you. I hope this gets spread far and wide.

41 posted on 08/09/2009 10:43:31 AM PDT by upchuck (Psalm 109:8 ~ Let his days be few; and let another take his office.)
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To: NaughtiusMaximus

Excellent. Bump for RJ.


42 posted on 08/09/2009 10:44:12 AM PDT by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: arasina
Excellent article! Thanks for posting it.

Thanks for the kind words. Email this to all your friends.

43 posted on 08/09/2009 10:45:34 AM PDT by upchuck (Psalm 109:8 ~ Let his days be few; and let another take his office.)
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To: upchuck

BTT


44 posted on 08/09/2009 10:48:24 AM PDT by BIGLOOK (Government needs a Keelhauling now and then.)
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To: upchuck

Credit where credit is due. I got this in an email from ex-Freeper Peach. I’m sure some of you remember her. She provided the link.


45 posted on 08/09/2009 10:48:48 AM PDT by upchuck (Psalm 109:8 ~ Let his days be few; and let another take his office.)
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To: upchuck
They will exploit your compassion and your Christian charity, and your good will.

Rush has been pointing this out for years.

Consider emailing this article around - it may serve as a wake up call to a few who think they don't need to get involved or that this thing is going to get turned around via normal channels.

46 posted on 08/09/2009 11:01:13 AM PDT by Natural Born 54
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To: upchuck

BTTT


47 posted on 08/09/2009 11:16:41 AM PDT by Osage Orange (“A community organizer can’t bitch when communities organize.....” - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: upchuck

You are most likely unaware that a poster by the same name is an AIDs infected loser, it’s not his real name — he had it changed, posts BS on Libertypost.org and is ignored by everyone. I think he was David Hoffman from the Midwest, but I won’t go check my database, it’s not worth it.

Look at the date on the article you posted. Wonder where it lifted it from.

Unless the poster at LP stole this guys name it is a total waste product.

Could very well be the case the loser at LP is the fraud, it’s definitely an asshole.

And I don’t know if this is the same a**clown, maybe the same guy pre-AIDS? I don’t know. Why the same exact spelling of the name?


48 posted on 08/09/2009 11:23:31 AM PDT by Eagles2003
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To: I am Richard Brandon

The greatest kindnesses that could be done to Zimbabwe would be to:
A) kick the U.N. out completely,
B) cease all aid to that country,
C) cease all trade with that country
C) arrest and imprison all members of Mugabe’s clique and their families if they set foot outside the country.

The problem would solve itself in about 3 months.


RIGHT ON!


49 posted on 08/09/2009 11:52:44 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: upchuck
From the text:

Millions around the world want your good life..... What they want are your possessions, your power and your status.

There would be no rational debate on this subject in many cases. Simply there would be cries of "racist". The facts stated are hardly able to be disputed. Either much of South Africa barely contains a rule of law and fear reigns- or it is a show piece of what can be done post colonialism.

America the last bastion of Western Civilization. I would count Canada as well, sadly not by good old fashioned commonsense standards, that were applied over forty years ago, for immigration. No, it is the thin population (32 million) and the vast distances that are between cities.

What is happening is that the ruling class in Canada, simply retreat to an enclave. Not quite gated communities exactly, but priced beyond any unpleasant vociferous "new" Canadians. I dare say the same thing is happening in America. For example, I have driven through the South Side of Chicago. I understand there is a nearly all white enclave called Tinley Park. One of President Obama's former mentors, who is black has a mansion there.

In England, which is going down the tubes and the first riots are surfacing, the ruling class often use a fast railway system. It brings them at night to country side and a small town. Joe Six Pack or Joe Pint of Beer stays with the problems of protected minorities, in their neighborhoods. Some police women having to practice wearing burkas yet.

I may live out to see the result- God bless America.

50 posted on 08/09/2009 12:02:19 PM PDT by Peter Libra
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To: hinckley buzzard
There is little difference between ACORN, SEIU and Chavez's thugs.

This is CLASSIC Communist agit-prop being carried out on the streets of America...and it's being LED by the White House.

If we survive this it'll be a miracle...and at great loss of blood and treasure.

51 posted on 08/09/2009 1:06:45 PM PDT by Mariner
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
On the website DU.

One poster there, who said he was white, hoped for the day when an influx of foreign cultures would become a majority in the US and destroy the "white" western culture.

Shades of the late Susan Sontag of the "white race is the cancer on the earth",statement

I would suggest to such a poster that he is quite clever. Thus he may get a steady job as a public toilet concierge, or attendant as they are called in the UK.

He has his quote as a reference.

52 posted on 08/09/2009 1:21:42 PM PDT by Peter Libra
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To: upchuck

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53 posted on 08/09/2009 2:19:30 PM PDT by Eagles2003
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To: upchuck
A Warning For America From South Africa [Excellent! Must read!]

What, somebody needs my help in closing a $200 million mining contract; all I have to do is give my banking info?

OK, I'll look it over...

54 posted on 08/09/2009 2:37:43 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (The revolution IS being televised.)
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To: upchuck
Do you?

Yes, we do, thank you. We'll do what we always do: protect the inalienable rights, enumerated in our founding documents, of our citizens and trust them to govern themselves.

It's a remarkably robust system.

55 posted on 08/09/2009 2:46:15 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (The revolution IS being televised.)
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To: Eagles2003
Simple Google search on David Ben-Ariel:

And?

56 posted on 08/09/2009 8:52:07 PM PDT by upchuck (Neuter them in 2010 - Send them packing in 2012.)
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To: STONEWALLS

Thanks for the info. It’s long but well worth reading. They have some good ideas.


57 posted on 08/10/2009 7:20:19 AM PDT by RC2
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To: upchuck

BTTT


58 posted on 08/25/2009 7:38:47 PM PDT by sonofagun
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

I don’t think we’ll ever become “post-racial” as the Left puts it. In fact, I think it’s a particularly cynical lie on their part. We’ll NEVER bet beyond race in this country. At least, not until we either break up or have an exceptionally violent upheaval. The “elite left”, the race baiters, have too much to gain by keeping tensions alive. Racial tensions bring them power and wealth, a never-ending gravy train for the dishonest. The far, far, worse part, though, in my opinion, concerns the people in our inner cities. Partly from agitprop, partly from carefully nursed and husbanded bile, the hatred will get so intense that I don’t see any way out that doesn’t involve bloodshed. I can’t help but think that there’s a significant portion of blacks who will never accept any form of reconciliation. Maybe it will take another 20 or even 50 years before everything blows up, but I can’t see it not happening. At this point I think the only reason it hasn’t already is simply due to numbers. I get the feeling that, in the minds of many, there’s a huge bill due them, one which can only be paid in blood — oceans of it.


59 posted on 08/25/2009 8:06:23 PM PDT by Windcatcher (Obama is a COMMUNIST and the MSM is his armband-wearing propaganda machine.)
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To: Windcatcher

“...Rivers of Blood...”- Thomas Jefferson


60 posted on 08/26/2009 10:07:19 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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