Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpg.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!ihnp4!ihlpg!berman From: berman@ihlpg.UUCP (Andy Berman) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: South Africa Again Message-ID: <1053@ihlpg.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 14:24:04 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpg.1053 Posted: Fri Aug 9 14:24:04 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Aug-85 01:50:10 EDT Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 65 How refreshing it is to see a naked defense of the racist South African regime on the net. The Reaganites usually mumble some hypocritical lies about disliking apartheid, but continue to support the regime through trade and commerical investment. But Gene Mutscher bares it all in his recent remarks on South Africa: >The principal reason so many African countries are in a pickle is because >their farmers have acted rationally when faced with markets distorted by >a bunch of tinpot dictators and tinhorn politicians. A four-hundred year legacy of emasculation by slavery, estimated to have killed 100 Million Africans is conveniently ignored. A legacy of European colonialism that denuded the wealth of the African contident is ignored. >[The ANC] believes in violence as a means to solve the problem, Here Gene gives us the old hypocrisy, condemning the violence of the oppressed when they fight the violence of the oppressor. No act of force by the ANC or by the brave African people now standing up to oppose Apartheid can match the violence of the Racist regime in South Africa. Where is Mutcscher's comdemnation of the daily violence of Apartheid? There is violence in a regime that comdemns 80% of its citizens to 3th class status. There is violence in a regime that denies Black families the right to live together. There is violence in a regime that comdemns most of it's citizens to a marginal economic existence in the service of a minority. There is violence in a regime that forces Black women and children onto arid and unproductive "homelands" to face starvation and disease. The ANC was a non-violent organization for 50 years. Apartheid did not change. They have now accepted the sad reality that the racist regime will not change without armed resistance. Let those who are shocked by that examine their own standards of judgement. > The South African government has offered to free [ANC leader] > Nelson Mandela if he would > pledge to eschew violence. He refused. He can rot. The racist regime is now scurrying. They recognize their own end is coming. Mandela has offered to negotiate a peaceful end to the conflict. He will not give up a lifetime struggle against Apartheid. He will not "rot." His victory is near! >It is a never-ceasing source of amazement to me that when the propaganda >switch is thrown in Moscow, left-wingers all over the world start >dancing to the tune. Last year it was the freeze, now its Apartheid. >What's it going to be next year? >Gene Mutschler {ihnp4 seismo ctvax}!ut-sally!batman!gene >Burroughs Corp. The last refuge when arguments fail: bring out the old "Communist Conspiracy" theory. In the noble battle against Moscow, everything is permissible: Apartheid, killing peasants in Central America, you name it. Sorry Gene, folks just ain't buying that crap like they used to. The days of the Apartheid regime are numbered. The African People have decided that. The future is theirs. People of good will around the world support their just struggle. andy berman ...ihnp4!ihlpg!berman