Letter of the Week: South-Africa: Land of Blood and Tears

Africa, Crime, South-Africa

As an Asian man living in South Africa, all I can say is that we are living in the valley of death under the auspices of the ANC-led (mis)government. Aside from the farmers who are the breadbasket of this country, civilians are also living in fear, most of us not knowing if today is our turn to be senselessly murdered. Rapes, robberies, carjackings, child rapes, most with fatal consequences for the victim–these are an everyday occurrence, so much so that most people have become totally blasé, wondering who’s next. Twenty two of my friends and family have been murdered since 1995. If I had the financial resources, I would leave this valley of death tomorrow, without batting an eyelid. I have nothing to lose here except my life! I cannot call it a country any longer. It is a valley of death flowing with the blood of its citizens. Enough have been murdered in the last decade to fill Yankee stadium twice over. I kid you not!! And idiots such as Bono, Angelina Jolie, and some other blinkered westerners think all is sunshine and roses. The land of milk and honey…NO this is the land of blood and tears!

—Joe

The Genocide In Democratic South Africa

The Ugly Truth About Democratic South Africa

Self-defense: A Universal Right

Updated: Hornbeck: Too Busy Playing Dragon Ball Z and Gears of War

Crime, Morality, Psychology & Pop-Psychology

To all the muddled thinkers out there, who’ve bought into the (decidedly progressive) paradigm, according to which every misdeed is a disorder–think about Shawn’s parents. Quit working overtime to reduce cognitive dissonance and, instead, think rationally:

If my daughter were abducted, and given such freedoms as this boy was given; if she then visited her mom’s website and posted a message thereon, as this boy did, saying, “For how long will you be looking for your daughter?”–I would be furious. A parent in this situation is beside himself with worry — all he or she can think of is, Is my baby alive; is she warm enough. Is she suffering? Parents would be living every day with the fear that their child died in agony.
And this little shit can’t even add to his e-mail: “Your son is alive, don’t sweat … like, whatever. Sorry gotta run; I have a game of Dragon Ball Z and Gears of War on the go with my buddy Tony.”
Use your heads!
I know that my daughter, who still checks in with me even though she’s an adult, would have let me know she was alive. She’d be too scared not to. And she knows better than to try this line on me: “Mom, I was suffering that syndrome that nice lady on TV said I had, and that prevented me from calling.”
Perhaps my kid was brought up to think logically, which is why she’s such a mensch.

Update: Consider: small children during the Holocaust performed amazingly brave acts, such as smuggling food in and out the ghetto for their families. Some were shot on site by the Nazis. Read about the brave children of Afghanistan. The human spirit — that of children too—is irrepressible. Yet here people are suggesting that this lad was incapable of contacting his poor parents for 4 years, not even to let them know he was alive.

In Defense of Bill O'Reilly

Media, The Zeitgeist

“‘Bill O’Reilly is not looking out for the kids,’ wailed a blogger. He ought to lose his job for his ‘base-line idiocy’ and perverse inhumanity, sermonized Keith Olbermann, suddenly sounding a lot like the man he calls ‘Billo.’ ‘I’ve really had it, you know, with people judging,’ came Sean Hannity’s signature inanities. ‘This was an 11 year-old boy, ripped away from his family, and people are suggesting maybe he just enjoyed being away from school.'”

“The contretemps were over O’Reilly’s response to the case of Missouri kidnapping victim Shawn Hornbeck. The boy disappeared in 2002, and — turned up four years later — alive, the alleged captive of a pizza-parlor manager,’ to quote Newsweek. O’Reilly has been clobbered ever since he dared to suggest that, horrors, the kid probably enjoyed his new-found freedom: ‘He didn’t have to go to school. He could run around and do whatever he wanted.'”

“The excerpt is from my new WND column, “In Defense Of Bill O’Reilly.” Fox News is full of statists on steroids. So it doesn’t often happen that the person who penned “He Contorts, I Decide” defends Bill O’Reilly. But on the rare occasion that O’Reilly opposes the therapeutic establishment and upholds individual responsibility —also the cornerstone of liberty —he deserves support. So he got it.

In Defense of Bill O’Reilly

Media, The Zeitgeist

“‘Bill O’Reilly is not looking out for the kids,’ wailed a blogger. He ought to lose his job for his ‘base-line idiocy’ and perverse inhumanity, sermonized Keith Olbermann, suddenly sounding a lot like the man he calls ‘Billo.’ ‘I’ve really had it, you know, with people judging,’ came Sean Hannity’s signature inanities. ‘This was an 11 year-old boy, ripped away from his family, and people are suggesting maybe he just enjoyed being away from school.'”

“The contretemps were over O’Reilly’s response to the case of Missouri kidnapping victim Shawn Hornbeck. The boy disappeared in 2002, and — turned up four years later — alive, the alleged captive of a pizza-parlor manager,’ to quote Newsweek. O’Reilly has been clobbered ever since he dared to suggest that, horrors, the kid probably enjoyed his new-found freedom: ‘He didn’t have to go to school. He could run around and do whatever he wanted.'”

“The excerpt is from my new WND column, “In Defense Of Bill O’Reilly.” Fox News is full of statists on steroids. So it doesn’t often happen that the person who penned “He Contorts, I Decide” defends Bill O’Reilly. But on the rare occasion that O’Reilly opposes the therapeutic establishment and upholds individual responsibility —also the cornerstone of liberty —he deserves support. So he got it.