Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uscvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!uscvax!kurtzman From: kurtzman@uscvax.UUCP (Stephen Kurtzman) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: We're next Message-ID: <909@uscvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 18:56:31 EDT Article-I.D.: uscvax.909 Posted: Fri Aug 16 18:56:31 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 21:01:16 EDT References: <3593@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: CS&CE Depts, U.S.C., Los Angeles, CA Lines: 56 > > I see the Communists had a big parade in Washington yesterday (Monday, > 12 August). Mayor Koch was there, Jesse Jackson was there, Coretta Scott King > was there---what a crowd! > > What we're watching is the beginning of the end of freedom in South Africa. > The US had a trusted allie in South Africa, one of the last bastions of anti- > communism. Now we're giving them the blade in the back. "Et tu, Brute? Then > fall South Africa!" > > But South Africa's demise was inevitable. The Kremlin decreed that South > Africa was one of two jewels that must fall to Internationalist Communism. > And so it will fall. For the next year we'll have to watch the bloodbath on > NBC Nightly News. And we'll have a flood of white South African refugees > heading for our shores. I can see the scenario as they arrive. "You're not > Black or Asian, and we don't consider the African National Congress an > oppressive government. Therefore, you cannot stay. Back on the boats, you > pro-Nazi swine!" > > We, the Good Ol' U. S. of A., are next on the Hit List. Once South Africa > is securely in the Soviet Bloc, rest assured that the Communist/Nazi/Inter- > nationalists will start the final assault against us. The Order of Battle is > already written. > > Sleep well tonight. We don't have too many more left. > > --Don Black > Mr. Black, why is everything a communist plot? You sound like the little boy crying wolf. If this is a communist plot submit evidence. Remember what happened when the little boy cried wolf too many times? I am afraid that due to people frothing at the mouth over commies under every table I can no longer take claims of communist threat seriously. Quite frankly there is so much disinformation spread by right-wing fanatics that the truth can't be discerned. As for South Africa being free: you must be joking! The majority of the people in South Africa do not even have citizenship. They are denied access to the political mechanisms in the country. They have no method of petitioning the government for a redress of grievances. So what does Botha do yesterday? Offers the possibility of citizenship to blacks in one breath and denies access to the political mechanisms in another (he said he is opposed to "one man, one vote"). What is citizenship if you are denied the rights of citizenship? Lastly, your implication that Koch, Coretta Scott King, and Jesse Jackson are communists is beneath contempt. If you have evidence - present it; if not - just work yourself up into a frenzy and hurt yourself, but don't call people names. Instead of trying to smear these people, why did you not just present the evidence that Koch, King, and Jackson protested the practices in South Africa that violate the inalienable rights of man? Why didn't you say that these people were calling for the government of South Africa to adopt the principles which Thomas Jefferson called self-evident? (Remember? "We hold these truths to be self-evident ...).