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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: South Africa
Message-ID: <1047@mhuxt.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 16:56:01 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  9 16:56:01 1985
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> >     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.
> 
> 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.

    Any evidence or source for these allegations?  And why do you contradict
yourself so quickly:
> > Their leader Nelson Mandela has been imprisoned for 20 years.

    Evidently at least *one* of them risked getting hurt.

> 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?
> 
> 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.
-- 
Jeff Sonntag
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