America is a bunch of lousy racist imperialist warmongers!
Good job Nelson, now wait for further instructions!
Awww, yeah, we gonna kill us some white folks now, right Mugabe?
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]
I don't disagree, IF the border and illegal numbers problem isn't dealt with. I have confidence we'll get the job done, with George W. showing us the way. Now, we have an obligaton to help, push on our Congressmen. Hey, this IS America after all! We've faced worse than this before.
10-4, LOL!
I don't expect people to change their behavior unless something in their life changes. GW has not been taking the border problem seriously. He's great about insisting on conservative judges, willing to confront the ABA. He's great about sticking to his guns on tax cuts. He's great the way he led us to victory over the Taliban. But Geraldo on Fox News showed just how vulnerable the Mexican border is, and nadda. Zip. GW has done nothing but make the Mexico border problem worse. Quite simply, there's a big fly in the ointment.
This reminds me when people kept saying that GW was going to handle the Clinton investigations better than we think. He was going to 'play it close to the vest'. Heck. He put the cards right in his pocket! It didn't buy it then. And I don't buy it now.
It's good to be confident and optimistic. But trust someone to change when no logical reason is given to explain why, and you are on the road to disappointment.
We all have our own take on situations. I never saw any true gain in George W. pushing the Clinton investigation. We would have bogged down and President Bush would have quickly been characterized as small-minded or some such.
There was no forward motion going to come from focusing our energies on looking back, not to mention the 9-11 horror landing on us all. We needed leadership and got it.
I'm confident George W. will deal with the border problems, but those are not the only issues on the table right now as you know.
Yessir, exactly! Not unlike the Hispanics coming north to the US. We DO have to address this or the situation will get out of hand. As I said elsewhere, I expect President Bush will address the illegal immigration flood effectively, with our help.
Did you oppose apartheid? If so, how would you have brought apartheid to an end?
I am happy to answer this "simple" question. Why focus on apartheid as opposed to the economic well-being of South Africa and its capacity to grow, prosper and so provide more for business owners AND workers?
What's so awful about separatjng the living areas of blacks and whites? The integration folks got all hung up on this and started focusing on punishing the white minority for having the wrong "attitudes" about blacks and whites.
Given time, the economic situation for blacks would have improved within South Africa under apartheid. These are the facts, but unacceptable to the liberal PC crowd in the west.
Economic growth and development would have solved the problems faced by blacks in South Africa. However, the other factor completely ignored was the horrid economic situation in surrounding countries that caused blacks to go to prosperous South Africa. Who exactly is responsible for those weak economies? Not South Africa.
Even then, I wondered why so many black Africans were flocking to South Africa if it was so terrible. But I was not very outspoken in my agreement with conservatives back then, having rat leanings, and registering to vote as a rat. Despite that, I opposed meddling there. It was my opinion, even back then, that we had greater evils that needed our attention.
Good job Nelson, now wait for further instructions!
Awww, yeah, we gonna kill us some white folks now, right Mugabe?
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