Bud Talkinghorn: South Africa -&- the Supremes

Cry the Beloved Country--South Africa at the crossroads

One hardly knows where to begin when chronicling the woes of this country. Blessed with the highest standard of living in Africa when apartheid collapsed, it is relentlessly marching to folly. South Africa has diamonds, gold and a superb wine-making climate. Finally, the country's infrastructure is the envy of other African nations. However, it also has the greatest rape rate in the world, while millions are infected with AIDS. It has President Mbeki, who scoffed at the HIV infection as the cause of AIDS. For years he held to the belief that the cause was "poverty". He supports his cretinous thug neighbour, Robert Mugabe, who has single-handedly created a famine with his anti-white policies and total corruption. Then to round off his record, Mbeki has backed his top ANC buddies' chicanery. The latest is Jacob Zuma, who was on trial for raping some young woman. Zuma has been heralded as the successor to Mbeki. The trial is a classic case of "he said...consensual sex...she said flat-out rape". It seems that she knows something about rape, as she claims that it had happened to her before in the ANC camps.

Zuma is nothing if not inventive in his reasoning for why a woman less than half his age would seduce him. Feminist liberal apologists for this regime take note: She showed a fraction of skin above the knee, and he was duty-bound to have intercourse with her because he could tell she was aroused. Mbeki has allowed the trial to be turned into a circus, with Zuma supporters harassing the witnesses and the prosecution team. According to the defense, there is evidence of a pathology of false rape accusations. However, the woman's lawyers pointed out that a rape is committed (often of children) every 26 seconds in South Africa. Only a small fraction of these are ever successfully prosecuted. Violence against women in general is prevalent.

The ripple effect of this trial is that sordid truths have emerged. Rape of young girls was a familiar occurence in the secret ANC camps, as testified to by numerous anti-apartheid and ANC activists. Secondly, unbelievably, Zuma is the head of the National AIDS Council. Yet, he testifed in open court that he thought the girl was HIV-positive. He said that, "He had unprotected sex with her, because he thought he had little risk of infection." That moronic mentality is what has led to the catastrophic AIDS epidemic in the first place. It is tantamount to a politician in charge of narcotics suppression saying, "Well, I only do crystal meth on the weekends, so I wouldn't become addicted." This is the level of rationalization that has destroyed so much of Africa.

The whites--like them or not--built up all the impressive economic infastructure and they are still the backbone of a progressive political ideology. They are leaving in droves, partly because they are being passed over for blacks, or the crime situation has reached horrendous proportions. They jokingly refer to the rampant car-jackings as "affirmative driving". Thousands of white farmers have been murdered (often after being tortured) and the rest fear that fate or being forcibly evicted like their Zimbabwean compatriots. The white urbanites are trapped because nobody want to buy businesses at fair market value. To sell their homes, they highlight the security devices like "safe rooms", razor wire fences and guard posts. Because of violent home invasions many have turned their homes into mini-fortresses. Millions that would have been invested in South Africa are being sent to foreign banks -- the first step for whites' future escape.

Among the rapidly decaying quality of life, the government corruption / inefficiency and the AIDS epidemic there is little hope for this former jewel of Africa. Maybe it is time for the liberal media scribes to admit this. Don't repeat your apologia for the Castro era's excesses.

The latest? On Tuesday Zuma was acquitted. He immediately said he will pursue the presidency. However, he has another trial coming up for bribery and influence peddling. If he survives that one too and gets elected as president, you can stick a fork in the "Beloved Country"--cuz it's done.

© Bud Talkinghorn



The "God-like Supremes"

Conservative MP Maurice Vellacott has been pilloried by the liberal media and the leftist political parties. His crime is that he dared suggest that the Supreme Court has given itself unlimited powers to "write-in" laws. Of course, he is simply articulating what vast numbers of large and small "C" folk have believed. How we are to believe that a court, appointed mostly by the Liberal PM's, is unbiased is beyond us. Various studies show that not only do the Justices themselves have leftist prejudices, so do the underlings who work up their cases. Then there is the question of who is qualified to be an intervenor in their march to judgement. Those positions are mostly stacked in favour of those with a left-wing agenda. NAC got to be an intevenor in a case about women's rights, while the REAL women organization was disallowed status. To remove a Supreme there must be a majority at the Commons and Senate levels. Since the majority of Senators were appointed by Liberal PMs, that idea will never see daylight. Allowed to hang in until age 75, the liberal make-up of Canda's Supreme Court would take numerous Conservative victories to change.

The day that a group, who have the power that the Supremes have, cannot be criticized is the day that democracy is in serious peril. Conversely, the judgements of the Supreme Court should be closely scrutinized. That they can mandate that natives be given a two-tier (lighter) sentence for crimes committed is outrageous. The Supremes decided that their "disadvantages" should be considered in sentences. The fact that the majority of native criminals' victims are themselves natives didn't logically resonate with the judges. On the other hand, the right of Canadian citizens to be free from criminal immigrants has never been dealt with by them. Known fraudulent refugees / immigrants are allowed to stay on for decades, fighting their cases through appeal after appeal--usually, with taxpayers' dollars. Isn't personal security one of The Charter's key rights -- one of the reasons we receive refugees?

Chief Justice Beverley McLachin may not "have God-like" powers, but she has the responsibility to fully explain to the Canadian people how she and her buds make culture-changing decisions. Lord Acton's admonition stands: "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." The price of great power should be great scrutiny.

© Bud Talkinghorn