Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ubc-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!ubc-vision!ubc-cs!morrison From: morrison@ubc-cs.UUCP (Rick Morrison) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: South Africa bogosity Message-ID: <88@ubc-cs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 15:53:48 EST Article-I.D.: ubc-cs.88 Posted: Tue Nov 5 15:53:48 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 19:26:41 EST References: <80@ubc-cs.UUCP> <894@lsuc.UUCP> Reply-To: morrison@ubc-cs.UUCP (Rick Morrison) Distribution: can Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 30 Summary: In response to Jamie Andrew's: >>The real issue is not how arable the homelands are or what label one puts >>on the S.A. troops in Namibia. The issue is why the Blacks living >>within S.A. proper have no political control over their own lives. Dave Sherman (dave@lsuc.UUCP) writes: >Uh-huh. And how many of the Blacks in the rest of Africa have >political control over their own lives? Right on Dave! I think we should all congratulate S.A. on the fine job it is doing in protecting black South Africans from the inevitable disaster that awaits them should they ever achieve political self-determination. You know, the white race get's a lot of bad rep for its noble efforts to shelter these primitive, child-like people from themselves. It's high time the truly altruistic motives of S.A.'s racial policies were recognised and praised. S.A. is another amazing example of the lengths "defenders of democracy" will go in apologizing for the brutal and totalitarian actions of their political friends. The government in S.A. makes the Nicaraguans look like a bunch of boy scouts. Yet on the one hand (the right one) we have the Americans making lame excuses and talking about the need to consider the dreadful impact of economic sanctions on the blacks themselves. On the other, we have a virtual economic embargo coupled with funds for the contras - and damn the consequences. Bogosity is too kind a word for this kind of two-faced hypocrisy.