Just imagine. The Thatcher Government is in power, The Miners are striking and police open fire killing 34 of them. BBC would be in meltdown.
In South Africa, with the blessed ANC in power, the Miners are striking and police open fire killing 34 of them. Then, in a surreal move, the ANC government charges the Miners with making the police kill them. BBC explains this is “an apartheid era” law. Ah, I see. Blame on the Apartheid, blame it on the boogie but DON’T blame on the murderous ANC.
Did the BBC mentioned that the police that killed these striking miners were hidously black?
Spot on. The BBC also characterised the miners’ demand for a ‘huge pay rise’. Strange. I don’t recall ever hearing the BBC calling the demands of UK unions ‘huge’.
As mentioned on ‘Open Thread’ today, R.W. JOHNSON is
a very interesting commentator on the politics of South Africa.
His book, ‘South Africa’s Brave New World’ (2009) is reviewed here:
“South Africa’s Brave New World “by RW Johnson
http://newhumanist.org.uk/2059/south-africas-brave-new-world-by-rw-johnson
In the last sentence of the above review, the reviewer refers to a
life-threatening infection which the author, ‘Bill’ Johnson, suffered
in 2009.
Here is ‘Bill’ Johnson’s own account of that (2009):
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n15/rw-johnson/diary
A reprise:
“After Marikana”
by R.W. Johnson (19 Aug, 2012)
http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2012/08/19/hsfbilliafrica-com/after-marikana/
Typical lefty hypocrisy… In this country, if the police even so much as break wind in the general direction of protesters the bleeding heart, hand wringing liberals wet their beds!
George Orwell summed it all up so well in his little book Animal Farm.
“2 legs good (white capitalist) 4 legs bad (black communist/socialist)”
“4 legs good (black/communist/socialist) 2 legs bad (white capitalist)”
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others – as the BBC demonstrates to us every day.
What is the difference between a racist power hungry government of white South Africans and a racist power hungry government of Black South Africans?”
The poor – black or white suffer under both regimes, but the BBC only want to report on one side’s misdemeanours. Mmm wonder why?
“What is the difference between a racist power hungry government of white South Africans and a racist power hungry government of Black South Africans?”
The answer lies in Zimbabwe. Once a thriving growing country which had the best education, healthcare and growth in Africa despite international sanctions.
South Africa might take a bit longer because it has more wealth but the result will be the same and a lot more than 20 000 people are going to die in the tribal struggle for power when the unity of the ANC is shattered.
I know it’s an obvious comment, but as we are comparing the apartheid era, forget about British police – just imagine this happening under white rule in S. Africa: the BBC would have helped in organising a violent picket outside the South African Embassy, and would have attacked British Policemen for trying to keep both the protesters and their targets safe.
Yes – exactly…and where’s Peter Hain!!!!!
Oh…here he is…
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/welsh-politics/welsh-politics-news/2012/08/21/peter-hain-anc-must-rediscover-moral-compass-after-mine-massacre-91466-31662736/
…getting a kicking in the comments.
The article implies that Hain was South African. He was born in Kenya and his parents immigrated to South Africa a year after he was born.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hain
His parents (? became naturalised South Africans) embarked on anti-government campaigns.
From the above entry;
At 15, Hain spoke at the funeral of John Frederick Harris, a fellow anti-apartheid activist who was hanged for bombing a railway station, injuring 23 people and killing an elderly woman.
So from this one assumes that he glorifies acts of terrorism. I can see no difference in the act carried out by Harris and those perpetrated by the 7/7 bombers.
Is the differential merely the target for the leftoids?
When did the BBC post this ‘news’?
The Guardian was at 14.55 BST today.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/02/south-africa-drops-miners-murder-charges
Eventually, a (politically relieved?) update from BBC-NUJ:
“Marikana mine strike: South Africa to drop murder charges”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19457502
The answer is:
2/9/2012 @ 17.12.57
Also updated at 18.12
Let`s hope that Thatcher gets brought before the Hague eh?…now that PW Botha has slipped the surly bonds of earth.
Wonder now about Desmond Tutus canonisation amongst the LeftiLibs…their kind of bish seems intent on trying to get that bust of Tony Blair rendered useless with his call for a “War Crime ” case against the Great Helmsman of the New Century.
Yes indeed…Sharpeville?…a massacre…Orgreave?…a martyrs battle that turned the hinge of history?…but this “somewhat injudicious, but well-intentioned response to the calls to reduce our carbon footprint”…well if it`s OK by Tambos boy: then lessons will be learned in due course….cue tumbleweed blowing across the screen, but using earth-hugging solar powered turbine blades.
End of debate-now…geddit?
Who actually gives a stuff what Desmond Tutu says?
Another piece of political ventriloquism by BBC editorial staff. “This is what I would like to say, now go find me someone “newsworthy” saying it so we can repeat it, as news.”
That’s spot on, LC, and an excellent distillation.
In the EU, because of the inverted socialist racist laws, an ethnic minority can say anything about a white man but not vice versa. Civil war within a hundred years is a certainty; make the most of Britain as it used to be my friends… because it will never be back!
I’m afraid this is what happens when Peter Hain isn’t there to keep things in order . . . .
But surely there’s a cricket pitch somewhere that needs digging up?
Come on, Hain! What are you waiting for?
South Africa is very special for the modern liberal. So special that it in many ways helps define their world view.
How can such a view be allowed to be challenged by reality?
For the same reasons no liberal MSM commentator( unless I have missed it) has touched upon the raising of SA to stage 6( not at all good) by Genocide Watch. Not only is the liberal indifferent to the fate of the white farmers but prefers to ignore such inconvenient facts less their heads explode.
Anyway the whites had it coming didn’t they just. Which just about sums up the modern liberal world view.
Also home to the Durban Conference, the 21st centuries equivelant of the Munich rallies.
Ah…the Durban Conference…
Why do you call these Globalists ‘liberals’? They do not deserve the name they choose for themselves.
Just imagine the BBC’s response if Israeli police had shot thirty four Arab / Palestinian strikers. It would have dominated the headlines for weeks (and rightly so actually). That the shootings in South Africa have had such low key publicity totally lacking in outrage is inverted racism – the BBC’s embedded ‘liberal’ viewpoint (not mine) is, what can you expect of backward people?
Corinium, absolutely spot on. The left are natural racists, so they try to over-compensate by making allowances for those races they can’t help thinking inferior.
Pat Condell’s description “White Middle Class Left Wing Pricks” keeps coming up again and again.
Er is wel context. De ‘miners’ hadden daarvoor al aardig wat mensen aan stukken gehakt, en had een ‘tovenaar’ ze wijsgemaakt dat ze onkwetsbaar waren voor kogels.
In die context als een meute met machete gewapende dwazen op je af rennen om jou ook aan stukken te hakken dan schiet je ook wel.
Sorry, wrong language
There is, however context. The ‘miners’ had previously dismembered quite a few people to and had a ‘sorcerer’ make them believe that they were invulnerable to bullets.
In that context, when a mob armed with machetes run at you to chop you up you’d shoot too.
Tutu to the Hague for war crimes PDQ. Anti-semetic squeeky voiced little t*at.