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From: morrison@ubc-cs.UUCP (Rick Morrison)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: South Africa bogosity
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Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 15:53:48 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  5 15:53:48 1985
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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.