Mbeki Puts On Thinking Cap To Wrestle With Crime

South-Africa

“My apologies; I’ve misled readers about my native South Africa. I called it the most violent place on earth outside a war zone. I was wrong. BBC World recently and reluctantly disclosed that South Africa jostles with Iraq and Columbia for the title of most violent country in the world, war zones included. …President Thabo Mbeki ignored the BBC’s otherwise incontinent exhilaration about everything else South-African, choosing instead to frame as racism the network’s newfound realism vis-Ã -vis crime. Mbeki wields this ad hominem like an assegai. He is, however, much less adept at logic.”

More on Mbeki’s response to the reality of crime in South Africa in my latest WND column, “Mbeki Puts on Thinking Cap to Wrestle With Crime.”

“Africa” Archive is here.

Breaking News For Boobus Americanus

America, Hollywood

Now to some Bald Basics: To sport the hairless do, one has to have a well-shaped skull, something Britney Spears most certainly lacks. A bad jaw line, double chin, and no cheekbones to speak of —these do not complement the sheared look. Baldies like Sinead O’Connor and Natalie Portman of the “Vendetta” fame have little to recommend them… except really well-shaped crania. This here is one very ugly head. The frontal view accentuates Britney’s shapeless mug even better. The stomach is pretty out there too. When she turns 30, this girl will look 50.

A Corrupt Politician Resigns—But Not in the US

Hollywood, Politics

The AP has reported that the Bahamas’ “Immigration Minister Shane Gibson resigned Sunday night in a flap over his relationship with Anna Nicole Smith.
Photos recently appeared in a Bahamas newspaper showing Gibson in bed with the former Playboy Playmate and embracing her. Both were fully clothed, but the pictures stoked a controversy because Gibson had fast-tracked Smith’s application for permanent residency on the island chain.
‘I want to apologize to all persons who may in any way have been offended by anything that I have said, done, or perceived to have said or done,’ Gibson said on state television.”

And the busy bodies partaking in the Anna Nicole Smith shout fest on Faux News have not stopped castigating the law in the Bahamas. They’ve also had plenty to say about the ability of the Indian reservation to investigate the death that occurred on their territory. (Yes, cable cockroaches have already “sans evidence and in contradiction to the coroner’s findings” raised the specter of a murder.) What American chauvinism! And what blindness given the reality of American justice.

There are many good books detailing the endemic horrors of our legal system: The Tyranny of Good Intentions, Constitutional Chaos–these are some of the best. The case of District Attorney Michael Nifong of the Duke “rape” case fame is not a fluke. Oh, Nifong has yet to resign or to be nudged in that direction.

Safran On South Africa

South-Africa

John Safran interviewed me about the extermination of the Boers of South Africa. He is the witty host of a program called “Sunday Night Safran,” on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. I don’t know of any one else in Western media covering this atrocity. So far, 5 percent of the farming community has been slaughtered in a manner that would make Shaka and Dingane proud. John Writes:

Hi Ilana.

Hope you are well.

We interviewed Gregory H. Stanton of Genocide Watch yesterday. We had heaps of feedback after your appearance. Some were skeptical of your figures (2,000 out of 40,000 Boer farmers murdered) because they couldn’t be corroborated by three seconds of googling. Gregory backed up your figures, spelt out how he sourced them, and explained that the sadistic nature of the killings (as oppose to murder as incidental to robbery) makes them troubling to scholars of genocide.

If you’re interested in hearing him, the show will be live-streamed and podcasted as per last time.

All the best,
John

You can listen to Gregory H. Stanton here. The pod thing should was posted on Sunday, February 18.