Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watrose.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watnot!watrose!gdvsmit From: gdvsmit@watrose.UUCP (Riel Smit) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: How Don Black gets his message across Message-ID: <7523@watrose.UUCP> Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 08:52:51 EDT Article-I.D.: watrose.7523 Posted: Fri Aug 23 08:52:51 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 18:15:37 EDT References: <3593@decwrl.UUCP <909@uscvax.UUCP <667@mit-vax.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 28 Keywords: communism, plots, Mandela, Koch, Jackson, King In article <667@mit-vax.UUCP> oaf@mit-vax.UUCP (Oded Feingold) writes: > In a sense, Mr. Kurtzman, Comrade Black is correct: Consider the >following news item, regarding Nelson Mandela's daughter: > > Her father, commander in chief of an armed > political wing of the African National Congress, > is serving a life sentence for treason. _Under_ > _South_ _African_ _law_, any organized opposition > to the system of segregation known as apartheid IS > DEFINED AS COMMUNIST and therefore treasonous. > ------------------------------------------------------------ > UPI (8/17/85) > Caps mine -- oaf Careful now (did I hear the word misinformation?). Under the above definition the official opposition party in South Africa (the Progressive Federal Party) is communist. While I agree that some of them have been called commies by the government (as some Democrats have been called by some Republicans), IN NO WAY does ANY South African law states that any organized opposition to apartheid is communist. (Yes I know you did not say it, but it still remains a blatent lie.) > Eventually, the >Marxists will dominate the ANC, I am not so sure about the "eventually". I think they already do - at least if judged by the literature they distribute in South Africa (which is not quite the same as that which you find here -- here it has been "cleaned up" for western consumption).