I know I took of the latter part of last week of in returning links to folks who helped spread the word of the Pro Troop Rally, but everyone was focusing on Thanksgiving and I was having a hard time finding something to link to.
Not today. I stopped by 'Just Some Poor Schmuck' and found his post about a horror emerging in South Africa as reported in The Spectator. Per usual, you aren't hearing any of the 'Human Rights' organizations crying about it.
South African farmers and their families are being slaughtered. The murders are accompanied by torture and rape. The sadism of the attacks suggests either dark perversion or systematic terror. Dr Gregory Stanton of Genocide Watch has even suggested that the killing could be classified as genocide.
There are two opposing theories. At one extreme, these attacks are seen as being directed as part of the �Second Revolution�. The First Revolution was the takeover of South Africa by a black government. The Second Revolution, using terror, is the establishment of a radical black communist society and the expulsion of whites. Driving the white farmers off their land is part of this process. At the other extreme, the attacks are seen as being purely criminal and without political guidance or motives. The white farming lobby is inclined to believe the former; it points to Peter Mokaba, a prominent young ANC politician, who chanted, �Kill the Boer! Kill the farmer!� to cheering black crowds. The ANC government says that it believes the latter.
To explain the sadism, violence and the rape in the farm attacks, you need to understand only two things: the attacks are happening in an extremely violent country with very high unemployment, and the attackers are poor, ill-educated, fatherless, jobless, rootless young men � who happen to be black. South Africa�s murder rate is 58 per 100,000, perhaps the world�s highest. (The rate for England and Wales is 1.3.).
Please take caution before reading the whole thing. There are descriptions of very violent crimes that should not be read by the sqeamish.
Posted by AnalogKid at December 01, 2003 12:57 AM | TrackBackLike an South African Lord of the Flies, Jeezus this is sick.
Posted by: Mark (puggs) on December 1, 2003 01:37 AM