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From: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jamie Andrews)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: South Africa bogosity
Message-ID: <84@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 13:31:04 EST
Article-I.D.: ubc-cs.84
Posted: Mon Nov  4 13:31:04 1985
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References: <80@ubc-cs.UUCP> <894@lsuc.UUCP>
Reply-To: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jamie Andrews)
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Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Keywords: bogus miniwac lances majka sahel
Summary: 

>In article <80@ubc-cs.UUCP> andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (that's me) writes:
>>     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. 

In article <894@lsuc.UUCP> (Dave Sherman) writes:
>Uh-huh. And how many of the Blacks in the rest of Africa have
>political control over their own lives?

In this article I write:
     Not as many as we would like, I suppose.  What does that mean, that we
shouldn't protest S.African treatment of Blacks because Black governments
treat their own people badly?
     I'm against any government that treats its people badly (including the
current one in B.C. :-)).  The fact that S.A. is now the fad news item which
everyone is involved in does not mean that we shouldn't do in this case what
ought to be done in many cases.  If you tilt at every windmill that looks
bad to you, you're going to find that you don't have enough lances to go
around (to extend a metaphor).
     Now is the time to put sanctions on S.A., if only because the whim of
the media has turned to it as it turned to, say, Ethiopia as opposed to the
rest of the Sahel, or the TWA hostages as opposed to the other American
hostages in Beirut.  When we've cleaned that area up to our satisfaction (:-),
maybe we'll be able to have a crack at the other African dictatorships.



--Jamie.
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"A great king should be as a dog that killeth clean"