Afri-quote of the day

Posted by Guessedworker on Monday, 30 May 2005 15:10.

The ‘freedom’ we have gained is therefore but mere licence for us to behave as to the manner born, destined to build a society consumed by corruption, sexual depravity, autocracy and criminal violence

No, not Thabo Mbeki reflecting on the difficulties of post-apartheid South Africa. The quote is from a Telegraph article today, and shows Mbeki wackily characterising the supposed opinion of UK Chancellor Gordon Brown in a weekly Presidential epistle to the on-line newsletter, ANC Today.

“President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa rebuked Gordon Brown yesterday,” the Telegraph article begins, “accusing the “presumed successor to Tony Blair” of promoting nostalgia for British imperialism and joining in a “discourse” that “demonises” blacks.”

Mbeki, of course, is a specialist in denial. So we should not be surprised that he denies those social and economic outcomes the rest of the world wearily anticipates from his people. He once even found it in him to answer the anti-rape campaign of vicitim-activist Charlene Smith, writing in ANC Today only in the most general terms about ‘contact crime’ (rather than rape) and ascribing the causes to poverty and community degradation. Mountainous peaks in Serum Testosterone rythmicity, did you say? Never heard of it.

Meanwhile, the latest target of Mbeki’s wrath - our once-prudent Chancellor and PM-in-waiting - is working hard to solve Africa’s crises from without. That also, in its way, is an act of sublime denial. Mbeki, apparently, does not recognise a kindred spirit when he sees one.

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Comments:

Posted by Fred Scrooby on Mon, 30 May 2005 16:32 | #

” ‘We did it with apartheid,’ she adds. ‘We can do it again with the problems of rape and HIV.’ “ (—from the linked article about Charlene Smith)

I guess no one at The Christian Science Monitor newspaper noticed the typo: clearly, the correct quote from Mrs. Smith must have been,

“We did it with apartheid. And as a result of what we did with apartheit we’re now confronted with all these problems of rape and HIV.”

Posted by Phil Peterson on Mon, 30 May 2005 18:08 | #

One has to marvel at the tenacity of liberal delusion. Even after being raped they don’t see the fundamental problem. Amazing.

Posted by Fred Scrooby on Tue, 31 May 2005 02:35 | #

I just want to say the article on Charlene Smith by CBS correspondent Bob Simon, which Phil linked in his comment (above), deserves to be widely read, along with the one linked in the log entry. What’s happened to the former Union of South Africa since the advent of rule by the ANC has been a holocaust. It is shocking beyond belief not only that it happened but that white people in positions of responsibility around the West refuse to openly denounce it more than they’re timidly and indirectly doing. It should be loudly, deafeningly roared about at every public opportunity and rubbed in the noses of the liberals and the Negroes around the world. White people there are being robbed, beaten, raped, deliberately infected with AIDS, maimed, and horrifically killed, white men, white women, white children, white infants, white old people. The placing of South Africa’s and Rhodesia’s whites under Negro rule was strongly supported by the South African Anglo-Saxons and Jews as well as the liberal international community when other solutions were possible. It wasn’t supported by the Boers. Any Anglo-Saxon or Jewish South African who supported ANC rule there and then left the country instead of living under what he helped bring about is a filthy rotten stinking pig and the worst kind of moral criminal. Any Jew anywhere in the world who supported what was done, and is being done, to the Boers and other whites in South Africa loses his right to condemn the Nazi holocaust against Jews. There have been many holocausts. One was done to the Jews (more than one, of course, when you count the many pogroms down through history). Others were done to white Christians with the help of Jews. I have not heard liberal Jews and liberal Jewish organizations loudly speaking up about what’s going on in the holocaust they so vociferously helped set in motion. Why not?

Posted by Guessedworker on Tue, 31 May 2005 15:53 | #

Mass rape and government indifference/obstructionism is a pattern repeated in Sudan:-

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1634947,00.html

Posted by Fred Scrooby on Tue, 31 May 2005 16:36 | #

Sickening article, GW. Dr. Foreman should’ve given the go-ahead to publish the report then immediately gotten himself out of the Sudan before the “government” there (or rather, what passes for a government ...) could react by arresting him. He’s either an extremely idealistic and brave man or a fool.

” ‘These kind of false reports damage the image of Sudan,’ Mr Farid said yesterday.” (—from the article linked in GW’s comment)

Yeah, before this report was published the Sudan had the image worldwide of one of the true garden spots, a veritable paradise. People all over the world were breaking down the doors trying to relocate there permanently. Why did Dr. Foreman have to go ruin all that!

Posted by Fred Scrooby on Tue, 31 May 2005 16:37 | #

Not to mention the fact that Foreman is sometimes a Jewish name. If he’s a British Jew who’s now fallen into the hands of the Somali Moslems he’d better try to jump bail and get the hell out of there.