Same thing happened in Rhodesia right after Mugabe took over and renamed the country to something no self-respecting American or English kid would ever be able to spell - now it's known as Zimbabwe. They started killing off the white farmers, taking their farms, and giving them to blacks as "redistribution" and "reparations". The problem was, the blacks wanted the farms so they could consider themselves "wealthy land owners", but they just didn't want to work them productively. As a result, farm production fell off precipitously, and the economy crashed. Inflation went crazy ( kinda like it's about to do in the US), and no one had enough money to buy anything, no matter how rich they had been before the crash. I have a Zimbabwe 50 cent piece here that was minted in 1980, the first year they minted money under the new government. At one time, the value of the metal in the coin was 50 billion times the face value of it, their money had devalued so much due to the rampant inflation. I think their money crashed worse than the Weimar Republic in Germany before WWII.
What's going on in South Africa is a fine example of how people refuse to learn from history, or the mistakes of others. South Africa's first mistake was ever letting that murderous bastard Mandela out of prison, and their second mistake was giving up the fight against the ANC communists, and their third mistake was ever letting Mandela hold an elected office of any kind - he was not fit to be a dog catcher, much less a president!
Now the damage is already done, and all they needed to do to prevent it would have been to look at Rhodesia, and realize that if SA did the same things, they would follow the same path and therefore suffer the same fate. It's simple history and human nature, it's not rocket surgery!
Pretoria's stupid-assed "Truth and Reconciliation Commissions" did neither - they've covered up the Truth, and not reconciled a goddamned thing. BUT - they are getting pretty popular among the Marxist crowds in America. I watched one unfold in Greensboro, NC a few years ago, regarding the Morningside Homes "massacre", that did pretty much the same thing - concealed the Truth, and reconciled nary a damned thing.
Now "Zimbabwe", formerly Rhodesia back when it was civilized, is begging farmers to return and try to kick-start the economy. So far, I think all the sane farmers are saying "are ya outta ya fookin' minds? We ain't fergot what ya did ter us las' time! Why would we volunteer for that again?" See, those farmers seem to be able to learn from history.
South Africa didn't, and they will follow in the footsteps of Zimbabwe, since they are acting the same. In the same vein, the U.S. is acting more and more like Soviet Russia - how do you suppose that'll work out for us if we let it happen?
One only need crack open a history book if he or she ain't old enough to remember it in person.
Still, I wish I had one of the old South African R4 or R5 rifles - they were copies of Israeli Galils, in 5.56x45 NATO, but scaled up to fit grown men!
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What's going on in South Africa is a fine example of how people refuse to learn from history, or the mistakes of others. South Africa's first mistake was ever letting that murderous bastard Mandela out of prison, and their second mistake was giving up the fight against the ANC communists, and their third mistake was ever letting Mandela hold an elected office of any kind - he was not fit to be a dog catcher, much less a president!
Now the damage is already done, and all they needed to do to prevent it would have been to look at Rhodesia, and realize that if SA did the same things, they would follow the same path and therefore suffer the same fate. It's simple history and human nature, it's not rocket surgery!
Pretoria's stupid-assed "Truth and Reconciliation Commissions" did neither - they've covered up the Truth, and not reconciled a goddamned thing. BUT - they are getting pretty popular among the Marxist crowds in America. I watched one unfold in Greensboro, NC a few years ago, regarding the Morningside Homes "massacre", that did pretty much the same thing - concealed the Truth, and reconciled nary a damned thing.
Now "Zimbabwe", formerly Rhodesia back when it was civilized, is begging farmers to return and try to kick-start the economy. So far, I think all the sane farmers are saying "are ya outta ya fookin' minds? We ain't fergot what ya did ter us las' time! Why would we volunteer for that again?" See, those farmers seem to be able to learn from history.
South Africa didn't, and they will follow in the footsteps of Zimbabwe, since they are acting the same. In the same vein, the U.S. is acting more and more like Soviet Russia - how do you suppose that'll work out for us if we let it happen?
One only need crack open a history book if he or she ain't old enough to remember it in person.
Still, I wish I had one of the old South African R4 or R5 rifles - they were copies of Israeli Galils, in 5.56x45 NATO, but scaled up to fit grown men!
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