Monday, 30 December 2013

A new job.




I remain Editor in Chief at SACNS News Service. I always believe in full disclosure, so I am noting that I am also now Les News South Africa correspondent.

This may be seen here: https://twitter.com/LesNews/lists/correspondants .

I am still working out a bit of it, but it is something I am welcoming at present. I will continue to report truth even difficult truth at SACNS. Hopefully I will also be able to do good through also reporting for Les News.

My first part, involved former president Mandela:



White Lions (Photo Credit SABC: Bloemfontein Zoo to breed the rare white lions http://ift.tt/19GDNts )

Sunday, 29 December 2013

New French 75% Tax... a disincentive to employees, or a strengthening of state power? Or both?

It was about a year ago... Francois Hollande's socialists were taken to court. The French Constitutional Council angrily struck down a law that would tax individuals 75% of their income above a certain amount. Hollande's Marxist core took a brief step back and puzzled on how to attack the wealthy. Not the wealthy independently this time, but employees.If a company paid their employees above a certain amount, Hollande would have the company taxed the 75%. His ingenious scheme has no parallel other than the Collins v Minister of Interior 1957 (1) SA 552 (A), which heralded apartheid by a similar such moving of semantics and maintenance of substance. The French Constitutional Council has validated this slightly different move that largely keeps substance.

The question must be asked then: won't such a move disincentivise French employees from working all the more to achieve a higher salary beyond a certain point? Will not the skills exodus from France increase by this taxing of those who work hard enough to earn that amount? How will something which contributes such a small amount to Gross Domestic Product but causes those wealthy enough and skilled enough to earn such an amount to leave France really benefit the people?

The simple answer is it won't by in large benefit the French people, but there are many examples in history of grand utilization to rely on.

When Apartheid came to dominate South African politics, Catholic schools lost their government funding. As a powerful force against disintegration, it was inevitable the church would be targeted. Communist China had university professors and the wealthy targeted and humiliated or dealt with in her early days. Stalinism took a similar approach.

The ancient Spartans ruled over a slave population. If a slave became too good at harvesting or too skilled, the Spartans would end the life of that slave with a knife in the night. It was an effective mechanism of control. A government or slave master who takes on the hardest working, most effective people, destroys the desire to be exceptional, and along with it most grand cultures in which competition to authoritarianism might covertly fester in an intelligent, or clandestine manner.

Zheng who would build the great wall of China and the Terracotta army, moved all the aristocratic families away from their fiefdoms into his capital in his Qin dynasty. It would fare him well as he taxed the Chinese to near extinction before his dynasty disappeared.

What better way to enforce socialism and the power of government than to disincentivise those who work the hardest for their companies, and cause them to either be taken down significantly, or move countries as many French entrepreneurial future leaders have?

People who make a lot of money are admired by others, listened to by others, unless they are demonised as many modern authoritarian regimes attempt to.

So why did the Spartans murder the best of their slaves? Mediocre workers are better than free workers to a slave-master. A mediocre worker does not challenge the slave-master. Even if one does, he is a mediocre worker, what does he know?

But, a successful hard working individual, a super-ultra-talent who warrants a massive salary... if they challenge the government? Well, the socialists demonise such a person, and when that is not enough they punish them for being exceptional, for not being the mediocre same that socialism requires of her adherents. When that is not enough, the socialist regime tries to take away the exceptional in the person by stealing their fruits of success. Driven by envy, others might relish in this taking down of the great. Others might believe the lies that those who work hard to etch out a future are the devil himself. The people on social welfare might be compared to angels... as they are in the modern world: the chief concern of the state.

Perhaps if instead of punishing ingenuity and expertise, governments such as in France were to incentivise such, the poor might be drawn out of poverty.

Unfortunately marxism creates the concept of inequality... that if the rich get richer it is a bad evil thing. Perhaps if rather than fighting inequality and making it in the best interest of exceptional individuals not to play the game, governments were to fight the real enemy of poverty with the aid of the exceptional... well then... perhaps there would be no place for Hollande's socialists to get votes...

Indeed, Hollande, France's least popular president has found a way to romanticise poverty... all as his economic incompetence insures all the more that France's poverty lines excel in expansion. Meanwhile those employees who are targeted for fulfilling expert work, shall likely find somewhere else to grace with the fruits of their labour, somewhere that values hard work, and those who conduct it and then spend their money from it in such a place.

This article originally appeared in the publication: Marc Evan Aupiais Professional, under the title: 'New French 75% Tax... a disincentive to employees, or a strengthening of state power?'.

A time of simple study

The following is taken from Marc Evan Aupiais Professional, a personal site of myself.

I have been spending my time reading. Reading different accounts of early French and Chinese history. I read of the great Charlamagne. I read of the terrible Xin dynasty, the brilliant dictatoriship of the Qin, and the brilliance of the Han (briefly interrupted by the terrible Xin).

For me the interplay of the path of Confucious with the relevent dynasties is amazing and momentous. From the burning of books by an anti-confucian Qin emperor (who built the Great Wall of China and the Terra Cotta army), to the Han Liu Bang who urinated in a scholar's possession to show disrespect to that profession while allowing confucian religion to flourish. Most notable to me is that the Xin dynasty sought to exactingly enforce confucian beliefs, to the destruction of the poor and the detriment of the wealthy.

So? How does this relate to the first Holy Roman Emperor?

For me it relates most ostencibly to the value of literacy and of education. Confucism is called the scholarly tradition by the Chinese. It seeks to promote the best from the past by study. It seeks to incorporate learning and spread literacy. Charlamagne sought something similar: an educated France which could be bent to his will. His greatness was in his cultural achievements, not his mass murders. His push for better education and restoration helped to regain western europe with the blessing of the weak and foolish papacy of the time.

They say museum visits make the poor and underprivileged more likely to succeed in life, and to pursue education. They being people who studied the matter in America. Education and not marxism is the great uplifter of humankind. Culture also is. It is by turning to culture and history and learning that we truly graduate in humanity.

So, I thought to take a short break from my enjoyable studies of humankind. Why? Because of what I learnt, what I always knew. Culture is the core of humanity.

See the original post here: A time of simple study...

Monday, 23 December 2013

Death of a gunmaker... Mikhail Kalashnikov has left humankind sometimes better... yet through loss!

Western media no doubt will bring up anything to discredit the man, I am sure there is much. The guns he made were incisive and changed the people and the landscape of the planet upon which we rest. Perhaps if he were an American he would be celebrated: The creator of the most deadly gun in history, the one that has killed the most people. That is a terrible title to hold. If he were Western though, they would praise him for it. Would the maker of the Sherman Tank or the Apache helicoptor be seen as a monster in Western worldviews?

Yet, what else can be said of the AK 47, the legacy of Kalashnikov? It is the gun on which most guns are based in the military world. It is the weapon of choice for revolutionaries and those who otherwise would be dead at government hands. It is a durable weapon. It is a great feat of engineering, just as diesel was. Both come from that unfortunate system which yes was a statist system which thrived on mass murder and government theft from the people the government pretended even to themselves that they served.

Does this make the USSR a good? No. It does make Kalashnikov a man who made an engineering feat, and a man who deeply changed history. The original guns are what caused the French Revolution and the American one. Both can be viewed as great evils or powerful forces for change and even eventually as goods. This might not have been so clear in the American civil war, as revolution turned brother against brother and cost many lives for the sake of a small, yet vital thing: principle. AK 47s made equal what was not... for but a short while. Those who used them were much as the early American rebels... these weapons are still used to slaughter masses and to protect many.

Are guns evil? No. They are a means to an end.

Was Kalashnikov an evil man?

A journalist from Russia Today thinks not: ' [I] interviewed Mikhail Kalashnikov 3 times over the last 10 years. He was such a humble and noble man. RIP,' Alexey Yaroshevsky mourned, 'I asked Kalashnikov if he felt jealous. He said, "I could've had billions, but I didn't want it. All I ever wanted is [for] my country to be safe."'

Saturday, 21 December 2013

A very suddenly dangerous, volatile firestorm erupts around businesswoman Justine Sacco.

A very suddenly dangerous, volatile internet firestorm erupts around businesswoman Justine Sacco.

It started as a whimper. A snide comment perhaps. There are many misperceptions of Africa. There are many perceptions of Africa. A white American woman associated with the left-wing of their politics, made an unexpected and controversial likely intended to be humorous statement. Certainly it must have been intended as a humorous statement. She said that she was going to Africa but that was okay, because according to her tweet white people cannot get AIDS in Africa.

Fate waylays the best intentions. A woman working for a company responsible for the left-wing rag The Daily Beast, a dating site for black people, dictionary.com, match.com, and so forth might be considered an extremely liberal left wing woman. She might be considered to have very good views of Africans or at least African-Americans. The same woman by the name Justine Sacco however made a comment very insulting to African-Americans and to Africans of an African ethnicity. Media have since discovered that the woman in question has made other jokes which might be considered highly inappropriate, such as about a sex dream about an autistic person.

‘Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!’ Went the anthem of her terribly inappropriate tweet.

There can be several ways to read this inappropriate tweet. She certainly is going to Africa. She says she hopes she doesn’t get AIDS. Then she says she was just kidding because she is white. This therefore can be interpreted in two ways: firstly that she doesn’t mind if she does get HIV Aids because she is white. In context this statement does not seem to make sense. The second way in which this can be interpreted is that a white person need not hope that they won’t get AIDS because they won’t get AIDS. Either way HIV AIDS is associated by the individual in question with Africa. The way I read the tweet the first time I read it: was that the author of the tweet was mocking social perceptions of Africa and of black Africans and African Americans. After all, black Africans are often portrayed in Western media as infested with HIV AIDS: perhaps she was mocking this perception. This would seem to fit with the ideological base seemingly represented by the company she worked for. That is not how most users of Twitter interpreted it.

So how much of her perception was true? The HIV rate in South Africa is quite high. Edward C Green of Harvard University stated a few years back that in Africa HIV AIDS is connected to a specific set of cultural behaviours. Where it was an epidemic was in the gay community as in the rest of the world. However where it was an epidemic among heterosexual adults, this was only within cultures, nations, and societies where the practice of polygamy was an accepted part of cultural practice. As white South Africans don’t tend to practice polygamy their exposure to HIV tends to depend on whether they are homosexual men or straight. Among heterosexual white South Africans the amount of them infected with HIV is almost identical to the amount infected with HIV among heterosexual white non-polygamists in the United States of America. This is not due to skin colour but to differences in cultural behaviour. In Uganda the spread of HIV was slowed down tremendously and way in advance of where it was slowed down anywhere else. This is because the practice of polygamy was opposed by the government vocally. Most new infections in Uganda occur among the older population which still practice polygamy.

Does this mean that no white South Africans have HIV AIDS? No. Does this mean that all ethnic Africans have HIV AIDS? No. Does this mean that the person in question had no chance of gaining HIV AIDS on a trip to Africa? No.

Whether she was well-informed or ill informed, the individual in question made a tweet which caused an unusual firestorm. In a seeming threat to her physical safety and a threat of lynching, a hashtag asked when she would be landing in Africa. Some say that the reaction proves that there are Africans on Twitter. Others consider it extremely concerning that a seeming threat of lynching was easily visible to the international community today. The vocal and sometimes terrifying statements on the Twitter social network brought up some bad memories of South Africa’s President being booed publicly at the funeral related memorial service in front of many world leaders.

If the person in question was in fact mocking perceptions of Africa, it certainly backfired. Her career might well be over. She might not be racist. She might be informed or ill informed. The braying for her blood however did not wait for her flight to land. The incessant shaming sparked an event which could end even worse. Is witch hunting those with unpopular views the best way to change those views? I think in fact quieting debate and turning to name-calling of those who may or may not be ill informed: only perpetuates ill opinions of Africa.

It is a mark of a civilised society that even those with the most unpopular views are debated rather than shamed. This is not what occurred today. A better response might have politely informed her that she was wrong in the opinion of the person saying so, and requested that she withdraw her comment, defend it, explain it, or otherwise draw attention to the reality on the ground.

Instead the world got to see: a group of angry African people threatening the safety of a westerner. The result is no doubt similar to the perception created by the booing of our president at the memorial service. Is this the perception any South African wants to create of their country…

Update: Justine Sacco has apologised to the Johannesburg Star, stating that the tweet was unnecessary and borne of lack of experience of the plight of people affected by the disease. She said she deeply wanted to apologise to South Africans first and foremost, hence the interview with the Star. She also shared this fact of the interview with an America based broadcaster.

Sunday, 15 December 2013

A disquieting scheme of deeds in the pope's name. #FFI

A scheme most disquieting is quietly a foot. Words like 'house arrest' and quieting of dissent have been uttered by some. There are serious questions asked by media honestly stating: does this represent a massive switch of Catholicism towards an ideological left wing? Media have portrayed a skirmish between left and right, with the pope's man clamping down extensively on conservative Catholics, but the Vatican giving a slap on the wrist to the left wing. Usually Catholics might lash out at media for such allegations, but when asked on the matter by SACNS, Rorate Caeli stated that allegations were 'very fair. We can't blame the media for our Church's faults!' With such a murky topic, with such a minefield of issues, an expert hand is required to ink a extensively versed response to these alleged goings on. I approached Stephen Korsman for just this purpose, his op/ed which I believe is balanced and expert, for the SACNS, follows.

Stephen Korsman is an expert on issues pertaining to the Extraordinary Form / Latin Mass, and has a good knowledge of the disputes involving traditionalist versus ideologically liberal extremes, as well as the approaches the Vatican has taken on both. He is considered to be an orthodox Roman Catholic, and to be knowledgeable about Catholicism. The SACNS believes him expertly versed in this matter at hand.

Op/Ed by Stephen Korsman

The Pope, the Latin Mass, and the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate

Over the past few months there has been a lot in the traditional / conservative Catholic news about the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate (FFI), and Rome's handling of their internal crisis. Opinions have covered a wide spectrum, from accusations of persecution of the FFI for their growing attachment to the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite Mass, to condemnation of the FFI for "crypto-lefebvrian" anti-Vatican II tendencies, and, on the liberal side, to hope that Pope Francis will clamp down more universally on the celebration of the traditional Latin Mass.

The problem with working out where the blame lies is that Rome has not published all the documentation so that we, around the world, can all make up our own minds pending a democratic vote on the subject - this is not how internal investigations work. What clearly has happened is that Pope Francis became involved, the Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life appointed someone he deemed competent to sort out the problem (Father Fidenzio Volpi), and action was taken in order to prevent the problem from worsening.

What was the problem? The FFI was established in 1970, and, from its inception, used the Missal of 1970 (the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite Mass). (Note: the ancient and original order of Franciscans, the Order of Friars Minor, formed in 1209 AD, is not involved in this situation.) Over time, several FFI friars came to prefer the Missal of 1962. Tension arose between the two groups. Why this happened is uncertain. Some have accused some of those using the 1970 Missal of liberal antagonism towards the 1962 Missal. Some have accused those who prefer the 1962 Missal of a growing anti-Vatican II outlook, as well as attempts to snuff out the use of the 1970 Missal, and a personality cult surrounding their founder. It remains unclear who was in the majority, and how widespread any antagonism was. It does seem certain that their founder, Father Stefano Manelli, preferred the 1962 Missal, and that initially the problem came to light when a petition was sent to the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei requesting the establishment of a new institute using only the 1962 Missal. This movement apparently goes back as far as at least January 2012.

What action was taken? Apparently Fr Manelli was removed from active supervision of the friars, and contact with the outside world was forbidden. Several friars were relocated to other areas of the world. The celebration of the Extraordinary Form Mass was prohibited, unless permission was granted for pastoral reasons (and I believe that it has been granted in certain instances). At least one, but not all, of their websites have been taken down. More recently, their seminary has been suspended, with priestly and diaconal ordinations suspended for one year. Their missions in Italy and their Third Order have been suspended. And they will be required to take an oath formally acknowledging that the Ordinary Form is an authentic expression of the Catholic Church's liturgical tradition, and that they accept the documents of Vatican II.

Is this action justified? It's hard to tell. It all depends on who is in the wrong, and what the actual facts behind the situation are - and these are unclear. If there is theological strife within an order, temporarily closing a seminary is justified. If extremist views incompatible with the Catholic faith are held by some, similar action is justified. The oath - well, it is not unreasonable for Catholic orders to be expected to accept the normative liturgy of the Catholic Church has authentic, or for them to acknowledge an ecumenical council. And is it only allegedly "traditionalist" groups that are being supervised in this way? A similar process has been instituted for the liberal nuns in the USA. And the speed at which action has been taken? A single order with a well-defined crisis is far easier to act on than a large and more complex collection of orders and dissenting nuns.

Who is to blame? I don't know. It is clear that there are clergy who are antagonistic towards the Extraordinary Form of the Mass, and those who prefer it. A group of Italian bishops approached Pope Francis and complained that the Extraordinary Form was divisive, and Pope Francis' response was that the old and the new both have their place. It is also clear that some who prefer the Extraordinary Form are antagonistic towards the Ordinary Form, and towards Vatican II. Whether one or both of these factions is the problem here is not clear. And how much Pope Francis knows is unclear - in the words of Fr Hunwicke, "I simply do not believe that our beloved Holy Father knows the half of what is being done in his name."

What does this mean for the Extraordinary Form's future? Cardinal Raymond Burke, Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, and a previous Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, see no indication from Pope Francis that he opposes the Latin Mass - in fact, they have both heard his support for it. It is highly unlikely that Pope Francis would reverse decisions made by his two predecessors. He would gain nothing, and alienate many. He may not be as interested in the Extraordinary Form as Pope Benedict XVI was, but he's also not interested in restricting it. The situation with the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate is a limited dispute within a single order, and not a universal attack on the Extraordinary Form of the Mass.


FFI websites:
http://www.franciscansoftheimmaculate.com/ (taken down, old material available via the Internet Archive here - https://web.archive.org/web/20130119171628/http://www.franciscansoftheimmaculate.com/)
http://www.immacolata.com/index.php/en/ (not taken down)

Opinion pieces:
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2013/12/fr-z-on-fr-finigan-on-the-franciscan-friars-of-the-immaculate/
http://the-hermeneutic-of-continuity.blogspot.com/2013/12/oath-to-be-administered-to-franciscans.html
http://liturgicalnotes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/franciscans-of-immaculate-more-oaths.html
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/popes-crackdown-order-alarms-traditionalists

Rorate Caeli opinion and traditionally biased information:
http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2013/12/for-record-situation-with-franciscans.html

Fr Volpi's recent decisions:
http://www.corrispondenzaromana.it/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Lettera-Volpi.pdf [Fr Volpi, Dec 2013]

Interview with FFI Procurator General, Fr Alessandro Apollonio:
http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/inquiries-and-interviews/detail/articolo/tradizionalisti-traditionalists-tradicionalistas-27026/

That the Latin Mass will not be suppressed:
http://youtu.be/Edq69fJLnXo?t=22m40s
http://commonsensecatholicism.blogspot.com/2013/11/pope-wont-stop-latin-mass-in-other-news.html


Editor's note: On the Extraordinary Form in South Africa a good resource, according to Stephen Korsman who is affiliated to such resource: is Una Voce Cape Town, available at:


Page: https://www.facebook.com/UnaVoceCapeTown Discussions: https://www.facebook.com/groups/unavocecapetown

Thank you very much Stephen Korsman for sharing your informed opinion with the SACNS. We very much appreciate your time and effort in bringing our readers an accurate picture of such a complex minefield of issues.

Sunday, 8 December 2013

Rebecca Black releases... 'Saturday'... on a Saturday!

'Musical genius' or bad annoyance: ... Rebecca Black releases... 'Saturday'... on a Saturday!



She symbolises the tool of annoyance utilised by many a two year old to annoy their parents... yes, she created the pop song Friday...

Now, Rebecca... the annoyance... Black has released a sequel which somehow has more likes than dislikes...

And more strange rapping, with the um semi-chorus: Yesterday was Friday... Today is Saturday...

Coming to an annoying kid near you soon... Sunday?

And yes... it is bad...

Warning... contains blasphemy and the phrase 'Where is the peanut butter'... I know... weird...



http://www.youtube.com/embed/GVCzdpagXOQ

And for the hard core fans... the type who can watch paint dry and smile...



http:////www.youtube.com/embed/kfVsfOSbJY0






Saturday, 7 December 2013

Mandela: 'If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is USA' #WhoWasMandela?

Nelson Mandela was a complex man, and undoubtedly left wing and generally opposed to American actions. I spoke briefly about Nelson Mandela for the SACNS, the real Nelson Mandela: how he introduced anti-white policies in 1997, expanded abortion, and how his ANC engaged in literal witch hunts etc. Russia Today has compiled fascinating quotes of the late South African stuggle leader. Think Progress, which I will note in quoting AP later notes Mandela's outrage that Osama Bin Laden was labelled a terrorist.

Nelson Mandela was a complex man who did great good but also some questionable or controversial activities. We should mourn the real Nelson Mandela, not a media myth.

On the Iraq war intentions of America, Mandela said:

'“If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care for human beings,”'

'“If you look at those matters, you will come to the conclusion that the attitude of the United States of America is a threat to world peace.”'

Of Israel, a Western favourite, Mandela said:

'“Israel should withdraw from all the areas which it won from the Arabs in 1967, and in particular Israel should withdraw completely from the Golan Heights, from south Lebanon and from the West Bank,”'

and:

'“The UN took a strong stand against apartheid; and over the years, an international consensus was built, which helped to bring an end to this iniquitous system. But we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.”'

The Freedom Charter was not the only communism Mandela supported. Mass slaughter of opponents in Cuba ring a bell?

'“From its earliest days, the Cuban Revolution has also been a source of inspiration to all freedom-loving people. We admire the sacrifices of the Cuban people in maintaining their independence and sovereignty in the face of the vicious imperialist-orchestrated campaign to destroy the impressive gain made in the Cuban Revolution….Long live the Cuban Revolution. Long live comrade Fidel Castro.”'

Gaddafi was an enemy of the west, but not of Mandela:

'“It is our duty to give support to the brother leader…especially in regards to the sanctions which are not hitting just him, they are hitting the ordinary masses of the people … our African brothers and sisters,”'

Dec 6 | 'Mandela’s sharp statements rarely cited in mainstream media' | Russia Today
http://rt.com/news/mandela-sharp-quotes-media-860/

Think Progress noted this quote from Associated press:

'The labeling of Osama bin Laden as the terrorist responsible for those acts before he had been tried and convicted could also be seen as undermining some of the basic tenets of the rule of law,'

Jan 3 2002 | AP | 'MANDELA SOFTENS SUPPORT OF U.S.' | DINA KRAFT

And a fuller telling of Mandela's Iraq comments are:

'"It is a tragedy, what is happening, what Bush is doing. But Bush is now undermining the United Nations," Mandela told the International Women's Forum.

[...]

"What I am condemning is that one power, with a president who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust."

[...]

"If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don't care."

[...]

"Why is the United States behaving so arrogantly?" he asked. "All that (Mr. Bush) wants is Iraqi oil," he said.

He accused Mr. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair of undermining the United Nations and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who is from Ghana.

"Is it because the secretary-general of the United Nations is now a black man? They never did that when secretary-generals were white," he said.

He said Mr. Bush was "trying to bring about carnage" and appealed to the American people to vote him out of office and demonstrate against his policies.

He also condemned Blair for his strong support of the United States.

"He is the foreign minister of the United States. He is no longer prime minister of Britain," he said. That echoes a theme adopted by war opponents in Britain. Blair is to meet Mr. Bush for talks on Friday. '

Jan 30 2003 | CBS | 'Mandela Slams Bush On Iraq' | JARRETT MURPHY

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mandela-slams-bush-on-iraq/

And as I noted previously:

Nelson Mandela would be arrested and tried in relatively early days of anti-apartheid movement. I always find it strange that his lawyer became so famous and so acclaimed for intentionally losing a case. I would have tried to find some loophole. Instead the argument was that the court had no right to try Nelson Mandela. No wonder Nelson Mandela smiled after being convicted, that was exactly his intention. If Nelson Mandela had intended to be acquitted, his argument would have been one on technicality. Nelson Mandela himself was trained in law. Neither he nor his lawyer attempted to find loopholes which could have got him off.

Nelson Mandela thus went to jail and spent 27 years in jail. There are plenty of people who spent 27 years in jail who are not lauded for this. Likewise with Jesus Christ there were plenty of people who were crucified who were not lauded for being crucified. Nelson Mandela spending 27 years in jail is only an act of greatness if he did not deserve to go to jail in the first place. It is this perseverance for which Nelson Mandela has his fame. An ordinary criminal will persevere in jail however. It is Nelson Mandela’s loyalty to his cause however that is lauded by the world. Whether he persevered or not he would spend 27 years in jail.

Towards the end of apartheid African National Congress was becoming increasingly militant. A civil war was seen as almost certain. The movie Endgame details pre-negotiations organised by the mining industry in a hope of saving South Africa. As a result of these negotiations, something very unusual began to happen. Without consulting Parliament or anyone in his own political party, President FW De Klerk suddenly announced that Nelson Mandela would be released from jail. There is a reason why both FW De Klerk and Nelson Mandela gained the Nobel Peace Prize. It was not the creation of a new South Africa. South Africa had existed all along. It was negotiating to prevent a civil war which it seemed all but certain. This is why Nelson Mandela was great. Despite spending 27 years in jail, Nelson Mandela had enough of a good head on him: to avert a civil war and to aim at peace. Nelson Mandela could not have done this alone however, FW De Klerk is equally important in this regard.

In the year 1995 president Nelson Mandela attended the Rugby World Cup. Rugby remains a white sport in South Africa just as local soccer remains a black sport to this day. Nelson Mandela attended a white sporting event. Nelson Mandela penned beautiful speeches or at least spoke them: speeches about forgiveness and diversity and the unity of a nation which was one. These speeches caused the South African people to unite. It is because of the charisma of Nelson Mandela that South Africans became one nation through the Rugby World Cup victory according to multiple accounts on the matter. His speeches throughout the period in question were very charismatic and worked in uniting different race groups to a national ANC agenda.

In creating a new constitution however Nelson Mandela was less forgiving. The constitution itself was aimed at limiting the rights of white South Africans. To this day companies brag of being all black, of refusing to whites, any form of employment. If a white company were to do that in contrast they would be taken to court. Nelson Mandela also created a constitution in which the African National Congress specifically wanted to ensure that pornography would always be legal (On pornography the major case is, the child pornography case of: De Reuck v Director of Public Prosecutions (Witwatersrand Local Division) and Others (CCT5/03) [2003] ZACC 19; 2004 (1) SA 406 (CC); 2003 (12) BCLR 1333 (CC) (15 October 2003) http://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZACC/2003/19.html). The constitutional court affirmed this: they permitted laws preventing child pornography viewing to stand as the government had followed the correct procedures which would allow any constitutional rights to be circumvented in the right scenario. The constitution was also specifically drafted with the intent of making homosexual marital like unions something which law would enforce, according to the case Fourie and Another v Minister of Home Affairs and Another (232/2003) [2004] ZASCA 132; [2005] 1 All SA 273 (SCA) (30 November 2004), gay 'marriage' is demanded by the Constitution. Nelson Mandela also ensured a constitution which would legalise homosexuality, but also result in deep persecution of Christians who did not accept homosexual marriage, a persecution which is ongoing. The drafters intended to create a right to abortion it would seem. A new court was created to judge the constitution, a court which would be stocked full of liberals and ANC loyalists: the Supreme Court of Appeal could not be trusted to be loyal to the African National Congress agenda for the constitution and so a ‘constitutional court’ was created to ensure that the ANC vision of the constitution was maintained. And so in 1996 the African National Congress created a massive expansion of abortion from a rare grudgingly done and frowned upon action: to one of the most liberal abortion systems in the world, through the termination of pregnancy act, which also extensively limited the rights of conscientious objectors in certain circumstances and of those who believed abortion to be immoral and something to protest against. The majority of pregnancies in South Africa, at least about 57% inclusive of backstreet abortions: end in intentional induced abortion. A statistic available online lists abortions at 50% in 2007. The most recent poll available on the matter found that 90% of South Africans consider abortion always immoral. On abortion see: Christian Lawyers Association of SA and Others v Minister of Health and Others 1998(4) SA 1113 (T).

By 1997, the African National Congress realised something which the nationalist party had realised years ago. As presided over by president Nelson Mandela: the African National Congress created a policy paper that from now on the party would not promote a rainbow nation, but an Africanist worldview, which they hoped would gain them votes. You might have read of how the African National Congress every single election states that South Africans must vote for them because all that white South Africans want to do is bring back apartheid in their perspective. This is because of a policy paper the African National Congress created under the leadership of Nelson Mandela. Where there was risk of civil war the African National Congress pushed the idea of a rainbow nation which Nelson Mandela is most associated with. Nelson Mandela, and the African National Congress under his leadership also cancelled this rainbow nation policy.

The African National Congress would introduce black economic empowerment, punishing businesses for hiring white South Africans and punishing businesses which were owned by white South Africans. If an orphanage was in a majority white area it would risk being shut down as the government would punish companies who donated to charities which looked after white South Africans and charities which looked after white and black South Africans. Charities which didn’t look after a certain quota of black South Africans and turn away white South Africans to fill for this quota have to this day risked losing all corporate funding due to tax punishments from the government. This is the BEE policy. This is not a policy which Nelson Mandela has opposed. In fact Nelson Mandela was certain to include justification for it in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996.

In his later years Nelson Mandela joined a group of statesman called the Elders. Amongst other things this non-governmental organisation promotes far left policies and abortion. Nelson Mandela has also consistently campaigned for the African National Congress. He is known for putting the party first. Nelson Mandela has also been known for his close links to dictators such as Castro and Robert Mugabe. His descendants have been known for allegations involving tender improprieties, and for seemingly having charges dropped against them in court where prosecutors had previously claimed there was a case. Some of his descendants also have a reality show where they go about shopping.

Nelson Mandela did not create a utopia in South Africa. According to Agence France-Presse he leaves South Africa disillusioned and unequal (On this see: AFP "Mandela quitte une Afrique du Sud désenchantée et inégalitaire" Par Claudine RENAUD at 6 December 2013 http://fr.news.yahoo.com/mandela-quitte-afrique-sud-d%C3%A9senchant%C3%A9e-in%C3%A9galitaire-223926214.html ). So what did Nelson Mandela do which was so great? Nelson Mandela was a demagogue. His charisma was uniting. South Africa ended apartheid and South Africa created peace. The man that the United States of America listed as a terrorist many years after he became national President of the Republic of South Africa: played a large role in uniting South Africa. This is the Nelson Mandela who should be remembered: a very human man, a man who engaged in some questionable activities in his lifetime, but a man who in his actions helped unite the nation and to prevent a civil war. For that I am grateful to Nelson Mandela and FW De Klerk. However it is important to remember Nelson Mandela the man, and not Nelson Mandela the media created myth, who bears little resemblance to the real Nelson Mandela. It was the fact that Nelson Mandela was an ordinary South African, which so inspires the entire world, by what he did through perseverance!

Note from editor: much of the information in this article is from sources such as books, law cases, back copies of American and other newspapers and so forth. These are not always readily available to the average member of the public, but are also propietary. Should you struggle to find information sources online, please feel free to contact us, but do search firstly. One example of us responding to such a request is the placing of a link to a 2007 article relating to abortion within this article, which is why we are writing this editor's note. Most of the information herein should be available online, although we purposely chose to rely on more accurate non-online sources. What information is not available online should be easily found in a well stacked public library. The author of this piece writes from memory of studying the matters in law school, and the syllabus relating to Constitutional Law and Customary law, and Criminal law at the University of the Witwatersrand, which included little known information such as evidencing the ANC policy document, and other valuable documentary evidence which is rare enough to be available largely only to tertiary students who require the information. The history of witchcraft in South Africa likewise is based on historic research in an offline format. The early missionary accounts, and several offline accounts by experts, are particularly valuable as such, although obviously the missionary accounts have a Christian format to their language. The African National Congress witch trials are extensively recorded in historic material looking back at that precarious time. However, there are less complete online accounts of this fascinating subject, which no doubt should be available to the average reader. Any information you struggle to check or verify if you are that type, please contact us for.

Friday, 6 December 2013

The Man and the Media Myth: There are two Nelson Mandela’s who passed away.

There are two Nelson Mandela’s who passed away.

The one is the Nelson Mandela of media. He is a living legend who is owned by the ages, who no doubt will be worshipped and praised 1000 years from now. He is the Nelson Mandela who is Odysseus he is the Nelson Mandela who is Hercules. He is a deity who is unparalleled in all the world. Nelson Mandela was not Odysseus. Nelson Mandela was not Hercules. The greatness of Nelson Mandela was his persistence. He was not uniquely special but he persevered in pursuing what he wanted. That was his greatness. A great man doing something great is not something entirely notable: it is when an ordinary man does something exceptional that something is very worthy of noting. Nelson Mandela defied his odds, but his methodology, his life was all but ordinarily, we must not forget the perseverance by an ordinary man and not some myth. That is the greatness of Nelson Mandela. It was the South African people who ended what became known as Apartheid and it was the South African people who embraced peace. Nelson Mandela was one of the South African people. Understanding the TBVC system, this is an important statement. Nelson Mandela was one of the South Africans, when South Africa was five different nations. In mourning our Nelson Mandela, South Africa must not forget that one man did not defeat apartheid, or create peace, rather, a national effort of all of us did. For his role in preventing civil war in South Africa, Nelson Mandela is correctly credited as having done something great.

When the British marauding forces made conquest against South Africa, they retained the local system of chiefs, and the local customs and laws which applied to black South Africans. There was a difference between a colonist and a local. There was the belief that a local was inferior. While the Cape Colony allowed minor rights for black and coloured South Africans, the other three colonies were not quite as a liberal. It is the British who started the separation in South Africa.

South Africa was a founding member of the precursor of the United Nations. The United Party was loved across the world, and South Africa and its guidance, played a key role in uniting the nations of the world. At independence in 1961 however, it was the nationalist party, an Afrikaans party which began to gain such great influence. They decided to eliminate the vote for all coloureds and all Blacks. These were voting blocs which mostly supported the United Party. In that sense much of Apartheid started not as a diabolical scheme, but as a mechanism for gaining more votes. The two Collins cases and so forth are important in this sense.

You might have heard of passbooks during apartheid, you probably however do not understand why these books were issued. They were issued because the apartheid government decided to continue the British policy of separateness in South Africa.

In Canada the Canadian colonists created reservations for the native Indians. This Canadian policy was the foundation upon which apartheid was created. Black South Africans were placed in the TBVC states. Black South Africans were ruled by black South Africans of their own tribe. Does this not represent the American and Canadian system of reservations? Does this not represent the Australian system of reservations? In first-year English one of our lecturers at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg stated that when Westerners and Americans raised the issue of South Africa’s past relating to Apartheid this specific lecturer would ask which was worse: wiping out the native population of the land through smallpox, conquest and other means: or not wiping out that population but acting in an imperialist manner against them. Reservations still exist in the West, systems similar to apartheid still exist in the West. The native Indians of Canada and America who live in these reservations, are often associated with high crime rates, drug use and alcohol: but what is done against them is not considered to be apartheid. Apartheid in the true sense is the TBVC states. That is what apartheid was: the turning of South Africa into five different nations, each with its own government rulers, and its own legal system. A person from one state required a passport to enter a different state. The South African government required a migrant population to work the mines, and thus the pass system was born: that is a passport to enter the different countries which had formerly been South Africa. The world powers and the United Nations refused to accept this dividing of South Africa into five states, and many in international law claim that these states were never formed at all. This division is what apartheid was. Only members of the White Republic of South Africa could hold certain jobs in the white South African Republic, migrants from the other South Africas could only serve in certain jobs in their own countries.

This division into nations based on race, has been widely condemned across the world.

On 16 June 1976, African National Congress activists cajoled and intimidated schoolchildren into a march against learning in Afrikaans. According to eyewitness reports there was certainly a degree of intimidation into marching. Those who did march approached the police, there was violence and throwing of stones. In this new South Africa the police would have used tear gas and rubber bullets. But the police did not have these. Reports from the day suggest that the police lost their nerve: they opened fire on the children who were cajoled and intimidated into marching against them. In the new South Africa a similar incident occurred at Marikana, where protesters who had killed 10 people in the week before: charged the police line, where tear gas and rubber bullets had no effect. In this recent event at Marikana, 34 people lost their lives. On 16 June 1976 however those who lost their lives were children: cajoled and intimidated into marching against the police by the African National Congress. The tragedy of the deaths was not lost on the African National Congress who utilised this to arm opposition against apartheid with this powerful propaganda of the killing of children. The actions of the police were unjustifiable, but their actions were not something which it can be said the ANC did not expect would occur. When studying law at the University of the Witwatersrand, I came across the strange information in my syllabus for African Customary law that the African National Congress activists in the townships intimidated women into having babies to grow the revolution against the whites. There was much intimidation throughout the townships. Anyone suspected of being a white sympathiser would risk being necklaced. This entailed a tyre being put around a person’s neck. Petrol would be poured upon the person. The person would be burnt alive. This is how the African National Congress made South Africa ungovernable in the townships, through the murder of black South Africans who they accused of being white sympathisers. According to the syllabus at the University of the Witwatersrand, in the rural areas the African National Congress utilised the fear of witchcraft. In the early days of South Africa the chiefs were formed to persecute witches, and deny them land, and if necessary to kill witches. Unlike in North Africa were power gathered around witchcraft, in early South Africa power gathered around witch hunters. During the apartheid era the African National Congress activists were told to make the country ungovernable. In the rural areas, in Limpopo and Mpumalanga and the North West province: the African National Congress began witchhunts. They would use divination to find out which woman was a witch. The witch would be burnt to death. While most of the casualties of the African National Congress war against apartheid were black South Africans killed by African National Congress activists, the militant wing of African National Congress which Nelson Mandela led in its early days, would turn to bombings against white civilian targets such a train stations and shopping centres.

In South Africa’s criminal law there are many cases of ANC linked mobs or individuals committing atrocious acts against innocent people. The attempt of the government to combat this ungovernable situation where black people murdered black people purely to make the government unable to cope: resulted in many laws being formed in South Africa. This is perhaps why when I got to law school the history I had been taught of South Africa in school, I discovered to be pure propaganda and false hood. The University of Witwatersrand taught a very different history of South Africa.

Nelson Mandela would be arrested and tried in relatively early days of anti-apartheid movement. I always find it strange that his lawyer became so famous and so acclaimed for intentionally losing a case. I would have tried to find some loophole. Instead the argument was that the court had no right to try Nelson Mandela. No wonder Nelson Mandela smiled after being convicted, that was exactly his intention. If Nelson Mandela had intended to be acquitted, his argument would have been one on technicality. Nelson Mandela himself was trained in law. Neither he nor his lawyer attempted to find loopholes which could have got him off.

Nelson Mandela thus went to jail and spent 27 years in jail. There are plenty of people who spent 27 years in jail who are not lauded for this. Likewise with Jesus Christ there were plenty of people who were crucified who were not lauded for being crucified. Nelson Mandela spending 27 years in jail is only an act of greatness if he did not deserve to go to jail in the first place. It is this perseverance for which Nelson Mandela has his fame. An ordinary criminal will persevere in jail however. It is Nelson Mandela’s loyalty to his cause however that is lauded by the world. Whether he persevered or not he would spend 27 years in jail.

Towards the end of apartheid African National Congress was becoming increasingly militant. A civil war was seen as almost certain. The movie Endgame details pre-negotiations organised by the mining industry in a hope of saving South Africa. As a result of these negotiations, something very unusual began to happen. Without consulting Parliament or anyone in his own political party, President FW De Klerk suddenly announced that Nelson Mandela would be released from jail. There is a reason why both FW De Klerk and Nelson Mandela gained the Nobel Peace Prize. It was not the creation of a new South Africa. South Africa had existed all along. It was negotiating to prevent a civil war which it seemed all but certain. This is why Nelson Mandela was great. Despite spending 27 years in jail, Nelson Mandela had enough of a good head on him: to avert a civil war and to aim at peace. Nelson Mandela could not have done this alone however, FW De Klerk is equally important in this regard.

In the year 1995 president Nelson Mandela attended the Rugby World Cup. Rugby remains a white sport in South Africa just as local soccer remains a black sport to this day. Nelson Mandela attended a white sporting event. Nelson Mandela penned beautiful speeches or at least spoke them: speeches about forgiveness and diversity and the unity of a nation which was one. These speeches caused the South African people to unite. It is because of the charisma of Nelson Mandela that South Africans became one nation through the Rugby World Cup victory according to multiple accounts on the matter. His speeches throughout the period in question were very charismatic and worked in uniting different race groups to a national ANC agenda.

In creating a new constitution however Nelson Mandela was less forgiving. The constitution itself was aimed at limiting the rights of white South Africans. To this day companies brag of being all black, of refusing to whites, any form of employment. If a white company were to do that in contrast they would be taken to court. Nelson Mandela also created a constitution in which the African National Congress specifically wanted to ensure that pornography would always be legal (On pornography the major case is, the child pornography case of: De Reuck v Director of Public Prosecutions (Witwatersrand Local Division) and Others (CCT5/03) [2003] ZACC 19; 2004 (1) SA 406 (CC); 2003 (12) BCLR 1333 (CC) (15 October 2003) http://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZACC/2003/19.html). The constitutional court affirmed this: they permitted laws preventing child pornography viewing to stand as the government had followed the correct procedures which would allow any constitutional rights to be circumvented in the right scenario. The constitution was also specifically drafted with the intent of making homosexual marital like unions something which law would enforce, according to the case Fourie and Another v Minister of Home Affairs and Another (232/2003) [2004] ZASCA 132; [2005] 1 All SA 273 (SCA) (30 November 2004), gay 'marriage' is demanded by the Constitution. Nelson Mandela also ensured a constitution which would legalise homosexuality, but also result in deep persecution of Christians who did not accept homosexual marriage, a persecution which is ongoing. The drafters intended to create a right to abortion it would seem. A new court was created to judge the constitution, a court which would be stocked full of liberals and ANC loyalists: the Supreme Court of Appeal could not be trusted to be loyal to the African National Congress agenda for the constitution and so a ‘constitutional court’ was created to ensure that the ANC vision of the constitution was maintained. And so in 1996 the African National Congress created a massive expansion of abortion from a rare grudgingly done and frowned upon action: to one of the most liberal abortion systems in the world, through the termination of pregnancy act, which also extensively limited the rights of conscientious objectors in certain circumstances and of those who believed abortion to be immoral and something to protest against. The majority of pregnancies in South Africa, at least about 57% inclusive of backstreet abortions: end in intentional induced abortion. A statistic available online lists abortions at 50% in 2007. The most recent poll available on the matter found that 90% of South Africans consider abortion always immoral. On abortion see: Christian Lawyers Association of SA and Others v Minister of Health and Others 1998(4) SA 1113 (T).

By 1997, the African National Congress realised something which the nationalist party had realised years ago. As presided over by president Nelson Mandela: the African National Congress created a policy paper that from now on the party would not promote a rainbow nation, but an Africanist worldview, which they hoped would gain them votes. You might have read of how the African National Congress every single election states that South Africans must vote for them because all that white South Africans want to do is bring back apartheid in their perspective. This is because of a policy paper the African National Congress created under the leadership of Nelson Mandela. Where there was risk of civil war the African National Congress pushed the idea of a rainbow nation which Nelson Mandela is most associated with. Nelson Mandela, and the African National Congress under his leadership also cancelled this rainbow nation policy.

The African National Congress would introduce black economic empowerment, punishing businesses for hiring white South Africans and punishing businesses which were owned by white South Africans. If an orphanage was in a majority white area it would risk being shut down as the government would punish companies who donated to charities which looked after white South Africans and charities which looked after white and black South Africans. Charities which didn’t look after a certain quota of black South Africans and turn away white South Africans to fill for this quota have to this day risked losing all corporate funding due to tax punishments from the government. This is the BEE policy. This is not a policy which Nelson Mandela has opposed. In fact Nelson Mandela was certain to include justification for it in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996.

In his later years Nelson Mandela joined a group of statesman called the Elders. Amongst other things this non-governmental organisation promotes far left policies and abortion. Nelson Mandela has also consistently campaigned for the African National Congress. He is known for putting the party first. Nelson Mandela has also been known for his close links to dictators such as Castro and Robert Mugabe. His descendants have been known for allegations involving tender improprieties, and for seemingly having charges dropped against them in court where prosecutors had previously claimed there was a case. Some of his descendants also have a reality show where they go about shopping.

Nelson Mandela did not create a utopia in South Africa. According to Agence France-Presse he leaves South Africa disillusioned and unequal (On this see: AFP "Mandela quitte une Afrique du Sud désenchantée et inégalitaire" Par Claudine RENAUD at 6 December 2013 http://fr.news.yahoo.com/mandela-quitte-afrique-sud-d%C3%A9senchant%C3%A9e-in%C3%A9galitaire-223926214.html ). So what did Nelson Mandela do which was so great? Nelson Mandela was a demagogue. His charisma was uniting. South Africa ended apartheid and South Africa created peace. The man that the United States of America listed as a terrorist many years after he became national President of the Republic of South Africa: played a large role in uniting South Africa. This is the Nelson Mandela who should be remembered: a very human man, a man who engaged in some questionable activities in his lifetime, but a man who in his actions helped unite the nation and to prevent a civil war. For that I am grateful to Nelson Mandela and FW De Klerk. However it is important to remember Nelson Mandela the man, and not Nelson Mandela the media created myth, who bears little resemblance to the real Nelson Mandela. It was the fact that Nelson Mandela was an ordinary South African, which so inspires the entire world, by what he did through perseverance!

Note from editor: much of the information in this article is from sources such as books, law cases, back copies of American and other newspapers and so forth. These are not always readily available to the average member of the public, but are also propietary. Should you struggle to find information sources online, please feel free to contact us, but do search firstly. One example of us responding to such a request is the placing of a link to a 2007 article relating to abortion within this article, which is why we are writing this editor's note. Most of the information herein should be available online, although we purposely chose to rely on more accurate non-online sources. What information is not available online should be easily found in a well stacked public library. The author of this piece writes from memory of studying the matters in law school, and the syllabus relating to Constitutional Law and Customary law, and Criminal law at the University of the Witwatersrand, which included little known information such as evidencing the ANC policy document, and other valuable documentary evidence which is rare enough to be available largely only to tertiary students who require the information. The history of witchcraft in South Africa likewise is based on historic research in an offline format. The early missionary accounts, and several offline accounts by experts, are particularly valuable as such, although obviously the missionary accounts have a Christian format to their language. The African National Congress witch trials are extensively recorded in historic material looking back at that precarious time. However, there are less complete online accounts of this fascinating subject, which no doubt should be available to the average reader. Any information you struggle to check or verify if you are that type, please contact us for.

Original title: 'The Man and the Media Myth: There are two Nelson Mandela’s who yesterday evening passed away.' changed to 'The Man and the Media Myth: There are two Nelson Mandela’s who passed away. ' for republication on the 15 December in light of Mandela's burial. The first sentence is accordingly changed.

Thursday, 5 December 2013

'You're Just a Female Vagina' Justin Bieber says to woman customs officer at airport... begging the question of his knowledge of English or lack thereof



Justin Bieber allegedly said to a female customs officer at Brisbane Airport that she was: 'Just a Female Vagina'.

Is calling someone female, an insult? Does Justin Bieber know men with vaginas? Did he pass grade school? The alleged comment follows his belief that there was a Sixteen Chapel, when asked of 'Sistine Chapel' in Vatican... due to his seemingly religious tattoos... he clearly didn't know what the Sistine Chapel was.

The incident, involving a grievous insult to a woman occurred after a member of the Bieber entourage was sniffed up by sniffer dog(s), the canine(s) found dagga on the crew member in the Bieber brigade. Whether the crew member was arrested for the cannabis/Marijuana/Dagga is not mentioned by the Sun. What is mentioned is that Justin Bieber was threatened with arrest for insulting the customs officer, cautioned for refusing to remove hat and sunglasses, and was generally a 19 year old overgrown brat... by the sun newspaper wording of the incident...

Vaginas are female, so adding the word female is wholly unnecessary and it is not good etiquette to compare women to a female sex organ...





'JUSTIN Bieber was threatened with arrest when airport sniffer dogs found cannabis on one of his crew.
The pop brat, 19, allegedly insulted a woman customs officer at Brisbane Airport, telling her: "You're just a female vagina."
He was also given a verbal warning for refusing to remove his hat and sunglasses.
Police were alerted to the drugs as luggage from the plane was checked.'
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/5305996/biebers-entourage-in-airport-drugs-bust.html?CMP=SOC-Sun-Twitter-11_20_2013-191-0-0-0

Tuesday, 3 December 2013

Audio: What The Roads Agency mean to say: Rich? White? Avoid the riff raff... Buy a SANRAL ETag... #ANC #Gauteng #sanral #Satire





"And while the riff raff may not buy their etag, we know you will..." - Quote from the audio.


And for a serious report on all this:

Audio: Etolls Take a Toll on Gauteng Motorists... could hurt Africa's powerhouse economy.



The freeways are no longer free. This was the realisation of many a Gauteng Province commuter upon awakening this morning. As a result a vast majority avoided the highways for byways and alternative routes. At peak hour traffic flowed unusually freely on tolled highways, reported the SABC. In contrast, I went out at midday or so, and Beyers Naude, whch usually flows freely at that period, was flooded with congested traffic. Everyone was attempting to avoid the double taxation of the etolled roads. I considered buying an etag, some I know have. 7 days notice then debt collectors, threats of court cases, who coud blame the compliant citizen? Either way, Etolls resemble very much the tax in britain, on daylight admitting windows, which became known by the slang: daylight robbery.

No doubt the economy may be hurt by lost time, due to traffic. Those who can afford the exhorbitant rate on the other side, have a private route to work with next to no traffic.

For more of an account, of this little publicised until a few years ago project, listen to my podcast on AudioBoo above.

Or see the satirical advert SACNS has created to show the injustice of SANRAl etag:

Wednesday, 27 November 2013

Cheat on your wife and ‘also use a condom’ says the leader of South Africa’s parliamentary opposition party. #Adultery #cheating

Cheat on your wife and ‘also use a condom’ says the leader of South Africa’s parliamentary opposition party. #Adultery #cheating

We summarised our article in an audio podcast of about 3 minutes, the article continues below our podcast:



She is leader of the Democratic Alliance in the Parliament of South Africa. She is the Democratic Alliance Member of Parliament for North Durban. She calls herself a’ baker’, ‘mover’, ‘shaker’ and a ‘hopeless romantic’ on her Twitter profile. Perhaps she is not that much of a romantic though.

One of the constituents of Lindiwe Mazibuko asked what was the Democratic Alliance policy on having women on the side of a relationship with another woman. To quote what was asked of Lindiwe Mazibuko: what the Democratic Alliance’s policy on ‘side chicks’ was. According to Lindiwe Mazibuko their policy is that women are not birds, clearly a reference to the use of the word chicks, and to use a condom in addition to that.

So did the Democratic Alliance answer the question, as to whether or not they support cheating on women? Did they take a stand against women abuse and cheating during the 16 days against women abuse? No. They just advised that while a man cheated on his girlfriend or wife, that he utilise a condom. A strange policy indeed, one which was not only answered by the leader of the Democratic Alliance in Parliament but retweeted by the Democratic Alliance to all of their followers on twitter.




Some time ago we reported on comments by Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille that HIV AIDS was driven by intergenerational sex.



South Africa has one of the highest HIV AIDS infection epidemics in the world. Uganda largely combated the HIV infection rate when nowhere else in Africa were able to. They did this by combating a culture of polygamy. South Africa’s white population has a very low HIV AIDS rate. Possibly about 2% of white South Africans have HIV AIDS. In some black communities where polygamy is rampant: at least 37% of women have HIV AIDS. Polygamist and homosexual communities have very high rates of promiscuity, and are the main centres of HIV AIDS spread in South Africa and the world. Research by Edward C Greene, when he headed a Harvard programme on HIV AIDS: found that the promotion of condoms use in Africa actually correlated with increases in the spread of HIV AIDS. Polygamy and a culture of cheating are the reason why the black population of the Republic of South Africa have one of the highest HIV AIDS rates of infection in the world. For a party that wants to win the black vote, Helen Zille’s Democratic Alliance are remarkably unconcerned with the health conditions which their advice would afflict the black population of South Africa with. Empirical research repeatedly links societal acceptance of polygamy to higher rates of cheating, and endemic STD spread. The relatively low presence of HIV in the white population of South Africa is because polygamy is frowned upon in white society. Homosexual white South Africans however have a very high rate of HIV, correlating with the rate of HIV among homosexuals in other countries. The rate of HIV among black South Africans, correlates to the HIV rate in other polygamist societies, although the rate of spread of HIV is higher than in most places, including other polygamist societies.

The Democratic Alliance has taken a major political risk. They state that anyone who opposes black economic empowerment, or believes that discrimination against white South Africans via black economic empowerment is not good for all South Africans: have no place in the party. They have aggressively promoted black economic empowerment, and have been accused of promoting people in their party merely because of the colour of their skin.



Much of the Democratic Alliance’s most important positions are not filled by career politicians with deep understanding of governance, but by black young women, with more experience in marketing than in any real position of governance, or background in law. We have also covered the fact that the Democratic Alliance seems to promote homosexual people in their party far beyond what would be representative of the homosexual population of the country: so much for desiring a political party which is representative of the population? The Democratic Alliance periodically puts their resources towards gay pride efforts, saying that love knows no gender: perhaps not what their homosexual constituents think given their sexual partner preferences.



Their marketing push has emerged with some agendas, the Democratic Alliance names their recruitment campaigns after the war strategy of the Nazi campaign during World War II. That is to say that they call it the Blue Blitz. The word blitz might be popular in some marketing circles, but its origin is in the effectiveness of the genocidal forces of Adolf Hitler during the Holocaust in which up to 11 million people lost their lives.

Helen Zille’s Democratic Alliance is in stark contrast to its apartheid era predecessor. My grandfather, Michael Emmet Barry: ran under their banner in Welkom, with pamphlets stating that racial discrimination was destroying the South African economy. With many South Africans believing that the Democratic Alliance would bring back apartheid, something it was formed by in large to oppose: the Democratic Alliance has attempted to change perceptions by cracking down on South Africa’s white population by press releases, statements, resource use, internal appointments within the political party, and in the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa. Nothing says you’re for one population group like cracking down on another in a racist rampage? Nothing says you aren’t really for that population group, like giving out advice which is deadly to that group.

Related:

Western Cape Premier Helen Zille: 'Inter-generational sex is wrong and drives AIDS.'
http://sacns.scripturelink.net/2013/02/wc-premier-helen-ziile-inter.html

The DA is a party for elitist whites. Not for the majority of South Africa – Helen Zille
http://sacns.scripturelink.net/2012/11/the-da-is-party-for-elitist-whites-not.html

ANC decries xenophobic attacks, while DA instead decries lack of 'Gender Reassignment' procedures? ...
http://sacns.scripturelink.net/2013/05/anc-decries-xenophobic-attacks-while-da.html

Love knows no Gender' : Helen Zille's Democratic Alliance claims at 'Gay Pride March'
http://sacns.scripturelink.net/2013/05/love-knows-no-gender-helen-zilles.html

South Africa: DA's SA Christian voters lose say?
http://sacns.scripturelink.net/2009/03/south-africa-sas-christian-voters-lose.html

Democratic Alliance mock Jacob Zuma for being Christian and claim he has no right to hold faith in the public realm.

http://sacns.scripturelink.net/2013/11/democratic-alliance-mock-jacob-zuma-for.html

Tuesday, 12 November 2013

ANC threatens 'Black Tax' for law firms?

I strongly believe that all South Africans are capable of real greatness. I strongly believe that black and white South Africans have great inner potential. Both can achieve the height of their profession with the right environment and preparatory steps. The problem with the current ANC perspective, is that rather than focussing on improving the education and cultural understanding of those who were disadvantaged by Apartheid, or whose parents might have been: the ANC treats a job, or a share in a company, or spot in education, much like an extension of government welfare programs. Employment should be the exchange of real use for real use: not an extension of government policy and politics. Unfortunately, a job seems to be not a service but a right and possession to the ANC, perhaps this is what scares many global businesses away from doing business in South Africa. They find suddenly that they are unwillingly part of the welfare state, they are not there to gain, but to give: the weary companies quickly bolt as fast as they can elsewhere. This ANC practice makes no business sense: forcing companies to act to their disadvantage when our neighbours allow conditions efficacious to economic growth.

Whether or not someone can do a job they are given by force and heavy taxes on those who don't give them it, this occurs. Those who govern industry are appointed by skin colour and not because they will govern the nation's industries best. Rather than improve on literacy and education and make black graduates as well prepared for the workplace as many white graduates, the approach has been to let them pass when they shouldn't be allowed to pass. Failing a course and redoing that course is a gift; it means you are actually competent to work in such a field and to work to make money in it. White and other graduates who failed a course and re-did it, are advantaged by this.

 In ADR we were taught that big businesses increasingly are turning to white advocates in private courts to resolve disputes. Why? The curriculum informed us that this is because businesses are losing trust in the courts: because the grand design of skin colour appointments has been viewed as making a trial a gamble: will the judge hearing a case decide it correctly, or has he merely been appointed for his skin colour without adequate knowledge of law?

There are many deeply competent black professionals, unfortunately BEE makes people who have a lot to lose prefer to go with someone who has been put through a harder test. Special forces personnel are only allowed in after they take rigorous punishment. That high quality standard for entry is why they are cherished. The logic goes that a white professional must be very good to get a job despite government disincentives to hiring them. A child who inherits a family business while never running it, might likewise not actually have the skills required.

The government is once again shooting itself in the foot:

'"In 2011, the majority of LLB graduates were African [at] 1784, 355 were coloured, 404 were Indian and 1268 white," Jeffery said in a speech prepared for delivery at a general meeting of the Law Society of the Northern Provinces, at Sun City, on Saturday.
'The majority of graduates were also female, at 1954, compared to 1622 males, he said. '"However, what is more startling is the fact that, despite the majority of LLB graduates being African, it is still the white graduates who are getting articles. '"The Law Society of SA's figures show that the Law Society of the Northern Provinces has just over 12 000 practising attorneys. Of those the overwhelming majority of 8207 are white, with 3165 African." 'The LSNP serves Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and North West. ''Disheartening picture' 'Jeffery said that in all the provinces, 1104 articles of clerkship were registered 2012. Of these, 587 candidate attorneys were white, 412 were African, 89 were Indian and 16 were coloured. '"If one looks at the profiles of our law firms, it paints a rather disheartening picture," he said. '"For example, if one looks at some of the firms who constitute the so-called 'big five' of our firms, there is cause for concern about the lack of representivity, especially on the level of directors or partners. '"My office found that in one of the 'big five' firms there are 123 partners, of whom 93 are white and only 30 are black. Of the 30 black practitioners, only 17 are African."'Jeffery asked why, if it was possible for smaller law firms to have majority black ownership, it not possible for the bigger firms.'
(SAPA 'SA law firms still pale and male' Mail and Guardian at 10 NOV 2013 12:50)

Note, he does not look at the marks the graduates achieved. The statistics are clearly not based on efficacy but merely a focus on skin colour. Pigmentation. Ethnicity. Race.

What is the real difference? Usually marks, usually ability. Law firms are not racist, they like money too much to be.

Articles go to graduates with high marks who impress in interviews. As a law student who just recently passed my final exams, I have been shocked in the past by the standard of work a black or non-white student can hand in and still pass when a white student writes perfect English and cites correct authority, but fails: the same seems to go for matric This is no favour to the black student involved in it, nor is it a favour that plagiarism is passed over: in fact it means they cannot learn and grow to become better as a legal practitioner. Failing is an important part of passing, where necessary. 

Foundations of Law, Latin and so much have been scrapped because students have come from a schooling system, ill prepared to function in higher tertiary education. These people are accepted not because they can handle tertiary education which they must pay for and take out loans for, but due to quotas. Often they drop out in the first year. For LLB, every year: half the students drop out. 

Rather than have basic English and accounting taught, literature and film are studied. Many black South Africans are not first language English, but this is not remedied: putting them at a deep disadvantage in attempting to fulfil a job based almost entirely on language and comprehension, communicative art. Law is all about language, and independent thought, but largely it has been reduced to something like a trade, where exact repetition is required for marking rubrics rather than creative intelligence. Often lecturers are hired to fulfil quotas rather than for their abilities, and often students are admitted for skin colour not ability to handle varsity level work. This false equality hurts the recipients of it, who otherwise could have received real equality: top notch education, and training to make them equal to what the government wants them to be treated as.

If white students still excel, it is because they were taught to do so in their schools prior university, and because they try much harder to gain a job: due to the insurmountable obstacles government attempts to lay in their way. A job is not then a possession, but a service, to which they are not entitled to, but earn. That is particularly a pertinently, very, extremely different mind-set: a realism which forces striving.

Many large businesses now turn to arbitration with white advocates and the rules of court to settle disputes. Why? Transformation. The same curse the ANC continues to spell upon all black South Africans whether they deserve to be associated with it or not. No one wants to lose 1 00 Million Rands, because the judge appointed was appointed out of a government design, and not because he is competent. No, instead: if a black judge is appointed, it should be a black judge who knows the law. Let us not pretend that it is not possible to have black judges at the same calibre as white judges. Let us also not pretend that those judges who are incompetent in every meaningful way should have been appointed. Instead, let us realise that judges must be appointed for ability and not for skin colour.

BEE de facto says a company must hire someone even if they are not as competent for the job. Doing so practically risks loss of revenues for a company. Big firms must give away large parts of ownership to black people merely for skin colour or be fined. Demanding charity to someone: making a job their possession rather than: their service in exchange for fair or proper remuneration: terribly makes such job a government tax on a company, as does redistribution via BEE and BBBEE. This is government forcing business to act a way to fulfil government mandates. Do people like tax collectors? Do they want someone to do a job in: the nightmare scenario: where they possibly were pushed through school and varsity, and into a firm due to their skin colour: due to government designs that are false equality? If BEE did not exist, a black employee might be viewed as superior: they got there, they made it. With BEE, a question mark is forced over black professionals: are they there because of government using companies as a means of welfare, or are they the person who knows their job best or adequately?
People by in large statistically don't hire black attorneys or black advocates because they are perceived as incompetent. This includes the ruling party. Why are they perceived as incompetent? Because the government demands they are given jobs whether they are competent or not. A black professional might be very competent, but anyone hiring one has the realisation that they might have got there through competence or they might have got there because of a grand design of government: a forced hand-out to someone who cannot do the job they are assigned.

I believe in real equality: don't treat unequal as equal. Don't equate a graduate who will make a firm millions or billions with one who will cause it trouble time and again. These are not equals: because one is efficacious while certainly and without doubt the other is not. I am not saying one is white and the other is black: no: an incompetent white person is as much a disaster as an incompetent person from any race. Even then there are levels of incompetence: but a person from any race can be deeply incompetent.

So how can real equality be achieved?

1.     Ditch BEE for a start: it creates an impression that whites have to work for their job while blacks have it handed to them. It creates the impression that a job is a right not a privilege for a black, and a privilege not a right for a white. Like the Phoenicians, white South Africans work their hardest despite being discriminated against, and strive: they know they have to fight for anything or they will be destroyed. Entitlement however makes people less likely to try hard, they are more likely to demand a job than earn it. And those who try less hard give others who try a bad name.
2.     Allow salaries to be more determined by work put in, than by union demands. BMW is the tip of the iceberg, ANC policy is destroying South Africa's chances.
3.     Introduce proper English language and grammar courses as mandatory. The reasoning goes without saying: law is about language. So, is business.
4.     Introduce Latin courses. Much of law is in Latin, or based thereto.
5.     Make Afrikaans mandatory: much of law is in Afrikaans.
6.     Introduce logic courses. Law is principle, but often students are taught ideology. This hurts them in the field. Ditch Marxist, socialist rhetoric for principle.
7.     Make ethics courses a mandatory part of law. Not just the sort of courses which might teach what a lawyer can get away with: proper courses on why ethics are important, on why being morally upstanding is important.
8.     Introduce mandatory courses on financial management and sound budget processes.
9.     Introduce basic mathematical and English learning.
10. Stop pushing people through the system because of their skin colour. Giving someone a certificate does not give them an opportunity. Fail those who should fail: they would benefit from redoing a course and actually knowing the work.

I strongly believe that a black attorney can be just as good as a white attorney. Either the government believes all whites are racist, or that blacks need a hand-out, charity, welfare to succeed. Either way, the real way to achieve good work for black South Africans is to prepare them to be good at the work they elect to do. Can we stop having this stupidity, that is BEE: that destroys the economy and the reputation of blacks in law and elsewhere?

 Can we instead focus on the good of all South Africans by improving on our people as other nations do: be it education, good policing, and an environment for all-round improvement. Without the right environment, and preparatory work, who, if any, can succeed? We need to create equality, which in some spaces exists. We need to create real opportunities by adequate, world class preparatory work.


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