Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site mhuxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!ihnp4!mhuxt!js2j 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 Article-I.D.: mhuxt.1047 Posted: Fri Aug 9 16:56:01 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Aug-85 00:37:12 EDT References: <1009@ihlpg.UUCP> <153@batman.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 36 > > 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 ihnp4!mhuxt!js2j "My SO is red hot. Your SO aint doodely squat."