Message from SA

30 July 08

These sobering comments from a friend and student who is a recent immigrant to the USA from SA:

"I love my adopted Country, more than you can possibly imagine, butI am astonished that some of my Countrymen want to ban the Pledge of Allegiance!What are these people thinking?

Looking back at the (ongoing) downward slide of South Africa, it is impossible for me to not notice the similarity. Proud South African war veterans, like me, of all races, who paid with our blood for our national survival, were suddenly made out to be 'politically incorrect.' Yes, they used that very term!

Communism was cunningly marketed by international political forces as the ' democratic answer' to South Africa's 'problems,' much as it is in American today. Except here, you call it 'Liberalism!'

Our imperfect Republic was then precipitously replaced with a sinister, Communist 'thug-ocracy,' to the roaring applause of the World Community! The African National Congress (ANC), a vicious, brutal Communist/terrorist organization, was touted as the new 'savior' of South Africa. Nelson Mandela, a sleazy, murdering thug of the same ilk as Yasser Arafat, was hastily sanitized, then converted to 'The New Messiah.' He was never popular among the historically literate, but was wildly popular among the shallow and self-centered, who, as you say, predictably submerge themselves in euphoric fantasy, instead of facing unhappy facts!

Today, South Africa, indeed the bulk of the African Continent, under various thug-o-cratic 'governments,' is dying, enslaved in rotting, violence-ridden squalor, filth, and starvation! The flag was changed. The National Anthem was changed. Personal loyalty, indeed unrestrained devotion, to whatever sleazy thug is currently in power is now considered 'patriotic.' Conversely, devotion to the ideals of freedom and liberty are considered archaic and' politically incorrect.'

Now, look at America today! Our Flag, National Anthem, and Pledge of Allegiance are all being denigrated as 'racist,' not just by fringy nuts, but by ' mainstream,' liberal gasbags, lusting for power, who are routinely handed a microphone by the leftist media and are allowed to talk without pause and are never interrupted, much less challenged! Political leaders here are walking down the same road that the naive and 'fantasy-inclined' followed in South Africa.

And, Liberals in this Country, like Communists in SA, desperately want to eliminate the private ownership of guns. It is the centerpiece of their mantra. They don't want 'gun-control' in order to protect us from criminals (their patently fraudulent cover-story). They want 'gun-control' in order to protect themselves from us! Notice, they only want to eliminate our guns,never their own!

I spent the past few days at a firearms-industry conference on the East Coast. Not one participant there, other then me, was even carrying a concealed pistol nor blade! In our haste to be 'liked' by the political Left (who hate our guts and always will), we will lose both our dignity and our personal freedom.

In this world, civilizations come and go! As an individual, or a nation, when you don't really want to survive, you're not going to. Ask the Romans!"

Comment: "The worm that destroys is the temptation to continuously seek approval from your critics."

"One of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms... the right of the citizen to bear arms is a safeguard against tyranny, which now (1960) appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible."

Hubert Humphrey

/John