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From: gene@batman.UUCP (Gene Mutschler)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: South Africa
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Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 10:02:37 EDT
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[background (Berman? (who else))]
> > >     The major revolutionary movement is led by the African National
> > > Congress (ANC)...
> > >    The ANC is committed to a multi-racial society. It's 20-person
> > > leading body comprises Africans, Indians, Whites and persons of
> > > mixed race.
[me, originally]
> > Mixed races indeed.  However, they all have three things in common:
> > 1) Each is a socialist or a communist.
> > 2) None has ever been engaged in the production of wealth.
> > 3) While each believes in violence as a means to solve the problem,
> >    you can bet that none of them will soil their hands with blood or
> >    risk getting hurt--that's what mobs are for, after all.
[sonntag]
>     Any evidence or source for these allegations? 

Perhaps the original poster can refute them simply by listing the names
and occupations of this benighted group...My sole source is years of watching
this sort of thing happen.  Remember the Khmer Rouge?  The leaders of this
group were as I described.  See Johnson, _Modern Times_ for a list of
contemporary accounts.  The Khmer Rouge were not the first, and certainly
not the last.

[re Nelson Mandela]
> 
> > 2) The South African government has offered to free him if he would
> > pledge to eschew violence.  He refused.  He can rot.
> 
>      He refused to falsely pledge non-violence when a lie was all it would
> take to free him.  That's pretty damming evidence against him, isn't it?

Right now, he's of more use in prison than out.  If (and unfortunately when)
Mandela is released, theSouth African government would follow him so
closely that he could not accomplish anything.  Inside, he's a martyr to the
cause and has but to sneeze and the American left chants "gezundheit" in
unison.

> > 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?

>      Translation:  Everyone who disagrees with me is a soviet puppet.
1) Not a puppet--but probably not thinking for themselves either.
2) You didn't answer my question.  Hasn't Trend Control contacted you yet?
-- 
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