Look to South Africa
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In
my view, the most frustrating phenomenon relative to the reign of
President Barack Obama is the unreserved sycophantic dedication held for
him by the media. Indeed, a plethora of actions taken by his
administration should have been enough to have him voted out of office,
impeached, or indicted by now, but he has been shielded by the press and
lionized by the entertainment media.
The intellectual dishonesty and outright duplicity of the press is
not restricted to on-air deceptions regarding Obama, or even domestic
issues. The aggregate compromise of America’s representation globally is
being misrepresented, as are international events.
One of the most tragic and dramatic examples of this is the transformation that has taken place in the Republic of South Africa since the end of minority white governance in 1994. “Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America From Post-Apartheid South Africa”
by author and columnist Ilana Mercer reveals not only how the conceit
of Western liberal elites served to bring down one of the most
prosperous nations in the West, but how the same motivations and methods
are at work in America’s decline.
Mercer was born in South Africa, and her father was a staunch and
active opponent of the policy of apartheid; it is for this reason that
her family was forced to leave in the 1960s. She returned in the 1980s,
and now bears witness to how Marxists and liberal elites worldwide
conspired to destroy this nation under the pretext of Social Justice.
And we thought that when Apartheid ended, so would this kind of behaviour. What kind of grudge could Black cops have against Black taxi drivers?—Online comment on news report of police publicly executing a taxi driver, Daveyton, South Africa, Feb. 28, 2013
When Ilana Mercer and I were growing up thousands of miles apart, of
course the international contention over South Africa’s policy of
apartheid was one of the most potent ongoing media issues. It is true
that the practice was racist by definition, but what most Americans do
not understand is that it came about due to cultural rather than racial
incompatibilities, and events since the advent of black rule bear this
out.
Since the inception of black rule in South Africa, it has become one of the most violent countries in the world, and has even been compared to Iraq and Colombia by journalists. “Cannibal’s Pot” describes a South Africa
that is dysfunctional from top to bottom, a street thug’s paradise, and
a nightmare for law-abiding citizens. Those Afrikaners (whites) who
could not afford to leave or were not inclined to do so have been forced
into gated communities; those who could not afford that have
essentially become “fair game.”
Farmers in rural areas have suffered the worst. Far from organized
law enforcement hubs (which have become pitifully ineffectual anyway),
farmers are at the worst risk for home invasions at the hands of some of
the most brutal and sadistic marauders one can imagine.
Most Americans are also not aware that the African National Congress
(ANC), the organization that opposed South Africa’s government in the
decades before the end of apartheid, and which took power in 1994, is
communistic by nature. As “Cannibal’s Pot” illustrates, many of the
foundational democratic principles that had been written into law when
the nation came about have since been stripped away. One of these is the
concept of personal property, which is now scarcely recognized.
The Amendments to the Criminal Procedures Act demand that, in the course of adjudicating cases of “private defense,” the right to life (the aggressor’s) and the right to property (the non-aggressor’s) be properly balanced.—“Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America From Post-Apartheid South Africa,” page 29.
Sound familiar? This is the same sort of social philosophy that has
crept into jurisprudence in the U.S., and which has made most of its
major cities criminal havens, “gun-free” though they may be.
The reason that the story of South Africa’s fundamental
transformation has essentially been spiked by the American press is
threefold. One is that liberals don’t like to acknowledge (let alone advertise)
that blacks are just as capable of oppression and atrocity as whites.
Black-on-black crime has exploded in South Africa, and the liberal press
eschews discussing this at least as much as they do the discussion of
black-on-black crime in America as a result of liberal-socialist
policies.
Two, is that this is South Africa; in the mind of liberals, the
Afrikaners “have it coming” for decades of oppressing black Africans.
Infantile, but wholly accurate.
Number Three is the most important. This lies in the fact that global
socialist power players fear that if Americans knew the story depicted
in “Cannibal’s Pot,” they might recognize the same methodology being
replicated in their own country. They would realize that the same
liberal elites who sold out Europe, South Africa, and Rhodesia are selling out America, and that these oligarchical collectivists have no regard for justice or even prosperity – just power.
A friend of mine has been traveling and doing business in South Africa
for years. In 2005, he became friendly with a black employee in a
service-related industry. This man was guarded in is discussions of social issues
at first, but became quite open and friendly after a few days. He and
my friend had long conversations, and at one point he told my friend
that he wished apartheid was still in place.
My friend reports that he almost fell off of his chair. “Growing up
in New Jersey,” he related, “I was kind of brainwashed in how horrible
and evil the [white] South Africans were. Here was a black man telling me he wishes it was the way it used to be.”
“How can you say such a thing?” I asked him.
He responded, “Because it was safe…”
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Erik Rush is a New York-born columnist,
author and speaker who writes sociopolitical commentary for numerous
online and print publications. In February of 2007, Erik was the first
to break the story of President (then Senator) Barack Obama’s ties to
militant Chicago preacher Rev. Jeremiah Wright on a national level,
which ignited a media firestorm that smolders to this day. His latest
book, “Negrophilia: From Slave Block to Pedestal ~ America’s Racial Obsession,”
examines the racist policies by which the political left keeps black
Americans in thralldom, white Americans guilt-ridden and yielding, and
maintains the fallacy that America remains an institutionally racist
nation. Links to his work are available at Erikrush.com.
