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From: berman@ihlpg.UUCP (Andy Berman)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: South Africa Again
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Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 14:24:04 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  9 14:24:04 1985
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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