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Lana Marks Finally Approved as US ambassador to SA

27 Friday Sep 2019

Posted by Harry Booyens in The US & South Africa

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Donald Trump, Land expropriation without compensation, South Africa, United States Congress

— Lana Marks, whose nomination I addressed on 21 November 2018, around ten months ago, was finally approved as the United States Ambassador to South Africa yesterday, 26 September 2019. I have no idea why this should have taken so long. Perhaps the House of Representatives is too busy trying to assail the US president, and the Senate too busy defending, to actually do any real work. Perhaps Americans should think on these things. If the US Democrats had spent as much time on the USSR as it has spent on attacking President Trump over the past three years, that Communist Empire may well have fallen in the 1970s, so to speak.

This means we now have (1) a USA Ambassador in Pretoria, and (2) a  National Security Advisor in Washington who can both speak Afrikaans. Marks can speak isiXhosa, so she knows darn well that “Bulala amaBhulu” means “Kill the Whites”. She cannot pretend not to. Both have actual experience of South Africa, which is more than can be said for any of their predecessors.

Most of the world thinks that all is perfect in South Africa, because the anguish of non-Black folks is being buried, at least in part by themselves. I know it is not in the character of the folks, but the time has come to “Scream your bloody heads off“. It is time to be in the street in front of the US Embassy in Pretoria with placards and much shouting and screaming. Unfortunately, that is what gets US attention. Just talking sensibly will not work.

This is the moment in which FW de Klerk can do the one thing that might redeem him in the eyes of his own people. He could meet with both these individuals and tell them that the entire New South Africa experiment was a terrible disaster. He can ask for their help in fixing the disgusting mess he precipitated on the lives of those who put their faith in him back in 1990. That is the least he could do before he sheds this mortal coil. He could follow that up by handing his Nobel Prize back to Norwegian King Harald V in the presence of the World Media. If he does not act, he will go to his grave marinated in the undying hatred of his own people and his name will live in infamy. But, I’m not holding my breath.

Non-black South Africans desperately need a leader of character at this time.

— Harry Booyens

US Genocide Prevention in South Africa?

21 Monday Jan 2019

Posted by Harry Booyens in Farm Attacks, Land & Farm Murders, Race Relations, The US & South Africa

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Corruption, Farm Attacks, Land expropriation without compensation, South Africa, United States Congress

US Congress does something Useful

—The United States Congress has passed the Elie Wiesel Genocide Prevention Act. While I tend not to get excited about Acts passed by a body as utterly ineffectual and regularly misled as the US Congress, this Act does pique my interest. The Act is named for Holocaust survivor and 1986 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Elie Wiesel (above). It states that the policy of the United States shall be to– (author’s emphases)

(1) regard the prevention of atrocities as in its national interest;

(2) work with partners and allies, including to build their capacity, and enhance the capacity of the United States, to identify, prevent, and respond to the causes of atrocities, including insecurity, mass displacement, violent conflict, and other conditions that may lead to such atrocities; and

(3) pursue a United States Government-wide strategy to identify, prevent, and respond to the risk of atrocities by–

(A) strengthening the diplomatic, risk analysis and monitoring, strategic planning, early warning, and response capacities of the Government;

(B) improving the use of foreign assistance to respond early, effectively, and urgently in order to address the causes of atrocities;

(C) strengthening diplomatic response and the effective use of foreign assistance to support appropriate transitional justice measures, including criminal accountability, for past atrocities;

(D) supporting and strengthening local civil society, including human rights defenders and others working to help prevent and respond to atrocities;

(E) promoting financial transparency and enhancing anti-corruption initiatives as part of addressing causes of conditions that may lead to atrocities; and

(F) employing a variety of unilateral, bilateral, and multilateral means to prevent and respond to atrocities by–

(i) placing a high priority on timely, preventive diplomatic efforts; and
(ii) exercising leadership in promoting international efforts to prevent atrocities.

The Act requires the President of the United States to provide the Committee on Foreign Affairs (and two other committees) with regular reports regarding current efforts to prevent and respond to atrocities, a global assessment of ongoing atrocities,  countries and regions at risk of atrocities, including a description of specific risk factors, at-risk groups, and likely scenarios in which atrocities would occur.

The Rule of Construction of the Act states that nothing in the Act shall be construed as authorizing the use of military force.

Dear President Trump

Sir, may I suggest you immediately set your Central Intelligence Agency to work on reporting on (1) the massive Institutionalised Corruption in South Africa, (2) the associated State Capture, and the (3) terrible Threat of Genocide to the white people in that country due to the perpetrators of the aforementioned corruption and state capture blaming them and setting upon those 4.5 Million White people the 45 Million Black people of the country. I should also like to point out that the ANC government’s efforts at legalizing the stealing of the property of White people is calculated to induce violence against the White minority. In this respect, see point (E) of the Act above.

— HARRY BOOYENS

From Angola to 9/11

11 Monday Sep 2017

Posted by Harry Booyens in International, The US & South Africa

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Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Donald Trump, Soviet Union, Terrorism, United States Congress

Sixteen years after the defining event of 9/11 we are approaching the point where a  generation of young people born at the time is becoming aware of their place in the world. It is time to look at the history behind the terrible events and make sure the same mistakes are never repeated.  This is particularly true in a time when the United States is facing threats of the nature of Iran, ISIS, and North Korea.

In mid-1975 a C-141 Starlifter jet departed Charleston, South Carolina into a murky international picture. Twenty-six years later four fuel laden airliners emerged from that same picture and killed almost 3,000 innocent Americans. The painful story connecting the events may be read HERE in detail. Americans in particular really should read it.

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Back in 1975, the United States was about to be tested in Angola in faraway Africa, and it would fail that test comprehensively due to decisions made by the 1975 US Congress. President Carter would subsequently be repeatedly tested by the consequences and would equally repeatedly fail. To quote Soviet UN Ambassador Dobrynin,

Having suffered no major international complications from its interference in Angola, Moscow had no scruples about escalating its activities in other countries, first Ethiopia, then Yemen, a number of African and Middle Eastern states, and then, to crown it all, Afghanistan.

And there we have it straight from the horse’s mouth. It all started with Angola in 1975. Along the way, it also ultimately resulted in an advanced Western country like South Africa being today little more than just another classic African Basket Case and Hell Hole.

As a natural product of the Soviet-made and US-neglected upheavals in first Angola, and then the Horn of Africa and Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan took note of Bill Clinton’s perfunctory response to the embassy bombings of 1998. Then came the bombing of the USS Cole on 12 October 2000 in the harbor of Aden, Yemen (See Dobrynin’s List quoted above). Incredibly, it elicited zero response from the United States. With this calibration regarding the will of the United States, Osama bin Laden set in motion his plans for the 9/11 attacks.9-11b

Perhaps the surviving members of the 1975 US Congress can explain their thinking to the rest of us and to the loved ones of those who died. Perhaps President Trump can also take note, because this is a vivid explanation of how failure to act will come back to haunt one’s children.

America is a great nation, whether it wants to be or not. It has the strongest military and strongest economy in the history of the planet Earth. It is the international policeman, whether it wants to be or not. It needs to develop the perspective of a great nation.

To quote an honorable man in trying times on the subject of the US congressional failure in Angola,

A great nation cannot escape its responsibilities. Responsibilities abandoned today will return as more acute crises tomorrow.

Gerald Ford, President of the United States (1975)

He was right;…. painfully right. The abandoned responsibility eventually returned in the form of 9/11. Read the more comprehensive Blog page HERE.

The above series of events may be studied in more detail in the book AmaBhulu, which also provides all of the required references for all facts stated.

— Harry Booyens

Too brilliant to hear a fact

24 Saturday Sep 2016

Posted by Harry Booyens in The US & South Africa

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African National Congress (ANC), Hillary Clinton, Obama, South Africa, United States Congress

I have been hoping and praying that the US State department will at some point start putting pressure on the ANC government of South Africa to (i) cease its threatening and harrassment of white people and to (ii) stamp out corruption. However, under Obama, there is no hope of that.

This brings us to the present looming election in the United States and the hope of  a new US president taking the above actions against the ANC. This assumes that a new president will not be corrupt to start with and will respect the rule of law. I happened to be watching Fox News the other day and caught this little gem by Xavier Becerra, House Representative of the Democratic Party and senior House Hispanic Caucus member. He was defending Hillary Clinton in her bid for the White House and clearly was not going to be bothered by a little thing like logic or fact.

The background is the e-mail security issue around Hillary Clinton, who brazenly broke the law by putting top secret State Department information on her hackable private server. To understand just how extensive the problem was, read THIS well presented blogpost by DC Rutledge, who walks the reader through the announcement made by FBI Chief James Comey. Earlier, the whole world heard Comey say in almost so many words, “She’s guilty as all sin and therefore (!!!?) we are not prosecuting her“.

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Chris Wallace of Fox News raises the e-mail issue with Becerra in THIS CLIP. He points Becerra to Comey’s own statement that clarifies that IT DOES NOT MATTER whether a document is marked “Secret”. If the information on it is secret, then the document is secret, marked or not marked. PERIOD! Actually, no one who has handled classified information in any advanced country has unclarity in this matter. In fact, Wallace plays the clip of Comey explaining this.

Listen to Becerra’s answer. What comes out of Becerra’s mouth was too much for this author.

I’m absolutely incredulous. First of all, Comey announces that, basically, no matter that Clinton is guilty as sin, she will not be prosecuted like everyone else, including Edward Snowden and Chelsey Manning. One has fled to Russia and the other is in jail. Then comes Becerra and negates the rules that Comey himself states clearly, and he does so within seconds of hearing Comey’s words. What an absolutely vivid demonstration that liberal people are deaf to fact, even when stated in words of one syllable by the head of the FBI. Incredible!

All of this tells me that we can forget about any pressure on the criminal infested ANC government of South Africa if Hillary Clinton should win the White House.

It also proves to me that none of these people have any clue what the security interests of their country are. If they do, then they certainly do not care about it.

The 1975 US Congress gave us 9/11

05 Sunday Jun 2016

Posted by Harry Booyens in The US & South Africa

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Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Jimmy Carter, South Africa, Soviet Union, United States Congress

In mid-1975 a jet departed Charleston, SC into an international picture. Twenty-six years later four fuel laden airliners emerged from that same picture and killed 3,000 innocent Americans. This is the painful story connecting the events.

The more complete Blog article is HERE.

Featured_C141_Starlifter

The United States was about to be tested in Angola in faraway Africa, and it would fail that test comprehensively due to decisions made by the 1975 US Congress. President Carter would subsequently be repeatedly tested and would equally repeatedly fail. To quote Soviet UN Ambassador Dobrynin,

Having suffered no major international complications from its interference in Angola, Moscow had no scruples about escalating its activities in other countries, first Ethiopia, then Yemen, a number of African and Middle Eastern states, and then, to crown it all, Afghanistan.

And there we have it straight from the horse’s mouth. It all started with Angola in 1975.

As a natural product of the Soviet-made and US-neglected upheavals in first Angola, and then the Horn of Africa and Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan took note of Bill Clinton’s perfunctory response to the embassy bombings of 1998. Then came the bombing of the USS Cole on 12 October 2000 in the harbor of Aden, Yemen (See Dobrynin’s List quoted above). Incredibly, it elicited zero response from the United States. With this calibration regarding the will of the United States, Osama bin Laden set in motion his plans for the 9/11 attacks.

The failure of resolve on the part of the United States Congress on the matter of Angola in 1975 led directly to the upheaval in Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa, and those upheavals gave us Osama bin Laden, the embassy bombings, the USS Cole, and 9/11. In the process it also ultimately resulted in an advanced Western country like South Africa being today little more than just another classic African Basket Case and Hell Hole.

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And this is how it came to be that a Lockheed C-141 Starlifter cargo jet departed Charleston on 29 July 1975 into an international picture, and how four fuel laden airliners returned out of that very same picture on a beautiful blue sky morning in the East of the United States and killed 3000 innocent Americans (above). Perhaps the surviving members of the 1975 US Congress can explain their thinking to the rest of us and to the loved ones of those who died.

To quote an honorable man and president of the United States on the subject of the US congressional failure in Angola,

A great nation cannot escape its responsibilities. Responsibilities abandoned today will return as more acute crises tomorrow.

 Gerald Ford, President of the United States (1975)

He was right;…. painfully right. Read the more comprehensive Blog page HERE.

The above series of events may be studied in more detail in the book AmaBhulu, which also provides all of the required references for all facts stated.

— Harry Booyens

Donald Trump and the New American Map

03 Tuesday May 2016

Posted by Harry Booyens in The US & South Africa

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Democracy, Obama, South Africa, United States, United States Congress, US Presidential Election

Over the past 40 years the United States has come full circle from the malaise that beset Jimmy Carter to the present situation around Barack Obama, who appears to be trying to emulate South Africa. Frustrated Americans are reacting with their vote. While a concerned world watches, Donald Trump is confusing all the talking heads, turning polls upside down and terrifying Establishment politicians. However, if they would look at the world through different eyes, they would realize he has turned the election from a Left vs Right struggle into a struggle between Opportunity and Entitlement.Featured_Trump40

The international importance of US Internal Politics

I have been a keen student of the United States for some 40 years. The reasons are simple. Firstly, when the United States gets an economic “cold”, the world gets economic “pneumonia”. Secondly, less powerful countries “sail in the wake” of the United States. They may be completely capsized by even slight course changes on the part of the US.

In my own case, I have studied the US political chessboard to determine the consequences for the country of my birth, South Africa. US Foreign Policy effectively destroyed that country while it was not even a bump in the road to Americans. Logically, they do not have to care, until, of course, those consequences come flying through the air in the form of four fuel laden hijacked airliners in a clear blue September sky. But, the events of 9/11 may be traced back to profoundly flawed US Foreign Policy decisions by the Democratic Party dominated Congress in 1975. It may all may be read in the book AmaBhulu. Jerry Ford warned America at the time and Congress did not listen, and South Africa is now in the Sino-Russian-Iranian camp.

Forty years of US Foreign Policy

Over the forty years of my watch, I have seen the United States internationally emasculate itself in the wake of the Vietnam War. As a result, the Communist Revolution expanded tremendously. It led to me being 50 feet above trees on the Angola-Namibia border in an aircraft avoiding Soviet-made surface-to-air missiles. After all, short-sighted Congressional decisions have consequences.

40yearsI have seen grown American men cry in dismay at the state of their country in 1979 under Jimmy Carter. I have seen their pride and hope restored under Ronald Reagan. I have watched Ronald Reagan win the Cold War and bring down the Berlin Wall. I have watched George Bush senior correctly list a Communist dominated organization as a Terrorist Group, only to have those terrorists foisted as a government on decent South Africans on the watch of Bill Clinton. I have seen George Bush Junior go to war in Iraq as part of the Neo-Conservative agenda, and I have seen Barack Obama yet again emasculate the United States on the world stage.

Eagle_ClawThe US has come full circle and is again in the lamentable state it was under Jimmy Carter around the time of the Iran Hostage Crisis and the failed Mission in the Desert to rescue the hostages (photo above). Those Americans who love and build their country feel that both their country and their pride have been trashed, along with their fortunes, their jobs and their children’s futures. They are more angry than I have ever seen them in my life. Only those who steal from the American Dream seem happy. Jimmy Carter has been consigned to the Twilight Zone of American public life since departing office. However, I have actually had Democrats tell me, “Obama is the best thing that ever happened to Carter“. At the same time, I have Republican friends who now detest their party for being utterly ineffectual and for “selling them out”.

The Political State of the Nation

Against this background, let us look at the United States political arena as the Republican and Democratic Party elders do: as the chessboard of Figure 1 below with just two blocks in a one-dimensional row next to each other. Ever since the departure of Ronald Reagan, the country has divided itself between camps on the “Left” and “Right”. In the United States, the term “Left” typically refers to people who are both Socially and Economically liberal, combining thereby Moral issues, Religious issues, Gender Rights, Green Issues and regular Economic Socialism.

1-DimMapEmptyFigure 1 collects some topical US political issues together on this map. This grouping of issues does not necessarily hold in other countries and it certainly polarizes almost every issue in the US. Few other places would list Libertarianism under “The Right”. So, for example, the “Right” is seen as automatically “Hawkish” and the “left” as “Dovish”, yet Democrats  (the nominal custodians of the “Left”) have taken the US into WWI, WWII, and the wars in Korea, Vietnam and Kosovo. Since the Civil War, vastly larger numbers of men have died fighting wars under Democratic presidents than under Republican Commanders-in-Chief. This Left-Right split has rendered political debate in the United States completely useless. Every individual or media group is forced into one of the two blocks and one side is obliged not to believe a word the other says and they belch bile at each other across the divide.

With the advent of President Obama the country was shoved violently and uncomfortably to the “Left”. The first high level reaction reaction came in 2010 in the form of the Tea Party faction of the Republicans on the “Right”. This group is as rigid in their opposition to Tax & Spend  as Obama is in his insistence on expanding social benefits during the worst recession since the Great Depression. Obama_Kenya_Pres_visit

Over the past seven years, President Obama has exacerbated the divide of Figure 1 but has excited Kenyans (above). His non-consultative management style is well-known to people from Africa, such as this present author. It has rendered the US government dysfunctional.  It has obviated Congress and has thereby disenfanchised America. The ordinary man in the street perceives this as a “Useless Congress”. However, Obama has made it so. He now rules over his “kingdom” by decree via so-called Executive Actions, a fancy name for “Ignore the voting public” when the voters gave the Congress to the Republicans.

To this author, the United States of 2016 behaves more like an African “basket case” by the day. One would swear it is trying to turn itself into South Africa, a rapidly failing state Obama admires and which thinking people of all races are trying to escape. It ought not to surprise Americans, though. After all, a member of the Obama Administration is the ghost writer of Nelson Mandela’s “autobiography”. Perhaps Americans should study South Africa to understand the sheer disaster toward which they are at present headed. No wonder those hard-pressed Americans who care about their family, their country and its position in the world are insisting on dramatic change in Washington. And this brings us to the heart of the matter and the title of this piece.

Enter Donald Trump

The remaining US presidential candidates prove remarkably difficult to place on the one-dimensional map(See Figure 2). It produces a litany of inconsistencies around Trump and Sanders.

1-DimMapDemocrats will have folks believe Trump is a “far right” testosteronic rabble rouser. Ted Cruz will have you believe that Trump is a “further left than” Hillary Clinton. The Republican Establishment will have you believe that he is so politically toxic that he is not even legitimately on the map. CNN talking heads will tell us “Sanders is to the Right of Clinton on Gun Control“. I suggest the Political Establishment and its Media are unable to see the very map they are functioning on. The confusion should be a clue to all of them that the one-dimensional map is inadequate to the job.

Trump is clearly confounding all the Party apparatchiks, commentators, and CNN talking heads. However, he is not confounding the client, the ordinary working American on the ground. Those much-tried folks are flocking to Trump’s flag in masses and droves. The last die-hard “Collective Bargaining” Unionists and Millennials with their sense of entitlement are flocking to Bernie Sanders. However, it is near impossible to depict these developments on the simple one-dimensional map.

The American Dream vs the American Myth

Donald Trump’s advent has made it clear that the US Political Arena is now a distinct two-dimensional map. The time has come to restore the natural vertical axis of the map of Figure 1 and to stop lumping together disparate views behind either “Left” or “Right”.  The vertical axis has Capitalism and Opportunity increasing upward and Socialism and Entitlement increasing downward, as in Figure 3, which is an adapted variant of the Nolan Chart. We show a simple mapping of the candidates, and describe it in more detail further below.

2D-map_headsTrump’s presence has in effect redefined the election as a struggle between the top and bottom on this new map, instead of between the American Liberals and Conservatives. I would submit that those Americans positioned in the top half of the map are mostly people with a love of country who either have a job, or have lost a job and who may have a family and a house with a mortgage. Some 3.2 Million of those mortgages are still “under water”. This includes some of my own American Democrat friends. They are generally having a hard time making headway in the current economic climate. However, they accept that one works to get ahead in life and they do not expect handouts. They believe in the American Dream and have pride in America and its position in the world. They feel pained by America’s diminished international status and want it restored.

Where the “Left” miscalculates, is in assuming that women do not feel the plunge in American status worldwide. Married women in particular certainly see what is happening to their children and their country and do not like it one little bit. This position is also more ethnically blind than the talking heads are prepared to concede. This region of the map also includes Millennials who have discovered their latest iPhone does not have an App for “Give me a Job” and are trying do something about it, rather than protest as “backpacks with legs”.

The desire of people above the line is for Opportunity and restoration of the status of their country, independent of what they think of Gender Rights, Abortion, Religion, or Global Warming. They may well tell voters below the line “When last did a poor guy give you a job?” and many see Trump as the living embodiment of Success via Opportunity. They tend to be Patriotic in their views. In summary, they believe in the American Dream.

The folks below the horizontal line believe they will never have a proper stab at the American Dream. Some believe themselves inherently disavantaged in some way or another, possibly on the basis of skin colour or ethnicity. Others among them are Millennials, who consider themselves hard done by. It certainly is true that loan institutions and Universities have got rich off their student loans. These young adults are burdened with staggering debt. One has to have sympathy. Many have dropped out of school and are stuck with the debt without a job. It is worth noting that Millennials have a calibration that consists of the Iraq War, the Mortgage Meltdown and the 2008 election of Obama. They learnt soon after that their immediate futures had been destroyed by Wall Street greed and they now blame rampant Capitalism, having never experienced normal working balanced Capitalism. They never knew the U.S.S.R and never saw the implosion of Communism. They “got their brains” after the Cold War.

The desire of people below the line is for Rights or Entitlement, whether it be citizenship, benefits, handouts, debt relief, or jobs “worthy of their expensive univesity degree“. They believe the American Dream is a Myth of History and prefer to fight or strike for what they can get from the “System”, which they believe rigged against them. Many Millennials in particular tend to be Internationalist, Global and “University Socialist” in their views.

Mapping the Candidates

As shown in Figure 4 below, Trump has placed himself squarely across the top two blocks of this map and has very openly stated his America First principles and his belief in Opportunity. He is also predicting that he can pull clients (voters) from below the horizontal line. When he gets questions of Liberal versus Conservative nature, he tends to fumble them. That is simply because it is not that important to him. He thinks along the vertical axis of the map, seeing people as either wanting opportunity and pride in their country or wanting handouts. I am not sure he could care less whether they are “Bible thumping” Conservatives or “Raving” Liberals. This is why one hears Ted Cruz  calling him “Liberal” and Clinton calling him “Far Right”. One can see his appeal across the top from the tens of thousands of Democratic Party Primary voters who have re-registered as Republicans. And that support is often coming from gritty “Union Democrat” neighbourhoods where jobs have disappeared, rendering unions impotent, if not completely irrelevant.

US_Political_MapClinton, as a Party Establishment creature, is pitching herself further to the Left than she really is, hoping to tack back to the middle in the Fall. Her problem is that she is not really associated with the word “Opportunity”. She certainly spends more time talking about entitlements than about economic actions. She has zero business or job-creation experience, and she is responsible for some of the worst Foreign Policy disasters in US history. She has played a key role in the diminished position of the US on the international stage. Trump is certain to make her life hell over the terrible events at Benghazi. Patriotic Americans are unlikely to forgive her for that fatal debacle and the manipulation of the truth thereafter.

Kasich sits in a limited zone on the horizontal line to the immediate right of the vertical, hoping the front-runners will somehow “crash and burn”. Cruz’s very Conservative agenda confines him to the far right of the top block. He has painted himself completely into a corner on the map.

Bernie Sanders, rather than Hillary Clinton, is the clear counter to Donald Trump. While he has positions across the width of the map, he gets almost no traction with Black voters. Ironically, American Blacks mostly associate with the Establishment Clintons. By contrast, Sanders actually commands the “Trendy Lefty” segment, including Socialist oriented Millennials. Little can be more ironic than a 74-year old devout Cold War Socialist (1) from Vermont of all places and (2) leading a horde of iPhone wielding under-25s. He is the figurehead for “The 99%” and “Occupy Wall Street”.

So what?

The consequence of all this is that Trump has mapped himself onto a much larger portion of the present US Political Arena than most understand. This is why one sees the “Evangelicals” vote for him in masses and why thousands of Democrats above the horizontal line are re-registering as Republicans.

Some Black commentators refer to Trump’s base as “Angry White Men” and gleefully point out that there are not enough of them. So let us look at the numbers. According to the US Census Bureau there are 215 million voters in the US. 26 million of all races are aged between 18 and 24, these being Millennials. Of voters aged above 24 years, 136.5 million are whites, 22.5 million are Blacks, and 18 million are Hispanics.  The bureau reports that the 2012 presidential election saw only 65% of Whites register to vote and only 56.5% actually voted. I expect “Angry White Men” to be back with a vengeance and hell bent on taking back their country. With no Black candidate remaining in the race, the turnout of that group will be significantly lower than the roughly 70% of the Obama years.

The grouping above the line is pointedly not exclusively White. It also includes Blacks, Hispanics and Asians who are actually TRYING to make the American Dream work, as opposed to rioting in the streets in an attempt to win an entitlement. All that stands between Trump and the most powerful office in the world, is his own mouth, and of course, any dirty play by the Establishment of the Republican Party. Should the Party Elders try that, I hereby promise them they will be responsible for the demise of the Republican Party.

I trust Americans will elect a president that will make the leading country of the Free World strong again. I have lost the country of my birth to the kind of forces that lurk in the Obama Administration. I have seen it thereby turned into a hell hole and dangerous laughing stock. I cannot stomach the destruction of Western Civilization one inch further.

My advice to Hillary Clinton? Dissociate yourself from Barack Obama as fast and as far as you can. Ordinary adult American men are mad as hell at what Barack Obama has done with their country, there are awfully many of them, and they talk to their wives.

— Harry Booyens

Donald Trump and South Africa

27 Wednesday Apr 2016

Posted by Harry Booyens in The US & South Africa

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Democracy, Obama, South Africa, United States, United States Congress

TrumpToday Donald Trump presented his first proper foreign policy speech. He was speaking at the invitation of the Center for National Interest. Significantly, his audience included the Russian ambassador. For me, the key is at a specific point in the address:

It all began with a dangerous idea that we could make Western Democracies out of countries that had no experience or interest in becoming a Western Democracy. We tore up what institutions they had and then were surprised at what we unleashed.

Predictably, the Left and his Republican detractors immediately derided the speech and made childish comments about teleprompters or supposed contradictions where there were none. However, if readers have not by now realized that these folks are almost always wrong in the matter of Trump, then realize that he has consistently confounded all their predictions. The reason for that is to be found in the fact that he thinks differently from the way they all do. Their own inability to think strategically or look in the mirror and see the truth has been their undoing at every turn in this election process. Their own infantile reaction to his speech says more about them than about Donald Trump.

If it were not for the fact that I know that I have not supplied him with a copy of the book AmaBhulu, I would swear he has read it. The back cover of the book, formally titled AmaBhulu – The Birth and Death of the Second America, states  quite clearly,

The West has finally realized that “bringing Democracy” to the Middle East and Southwest Asia  is not necessarily in the best interests of Western Civilization. Radical Islam is hijacking its plans and making a mockery of Democracy itself.

In South Africa, an earlier experiment in “Bestowed Democracy” is failing under a burden of abuse. Much taken with its own role in undoing apartheid a full generation earlier, the West prefers to look away. It appears to treat the plight of Western people in that country as a form of penance. In the process, it indulges what is in effect a corrupt One-Party State Kleptocracy run along the Party Congress lines of its original mentor, the defunct Soviet Union.

To me, Trump’s speech was at just the right level to provide strategic clarity. It tells me what kind of response might be expected to various stimuli in the Foreign Policy arena. It will be possible to negotiate with the USA, but be aware they will be out to get maximum benefit– not true under Obama. It will not be possible to attack the USA without an intense and powerful counter strike— not true under Obama. You’ll be able to count on America, but you’ll have to pay for it — not true under Obama; he cannot be trusted. If you are an ally, you can expect to get support, but not a free ride; under Obama allies are deserted, lambasted, and sold out. Russia will not be treated as an enemy but as another place with a stong leader, unless they choose to make themselves an enemy. Trump is a New Yorker. They are loud and they are direct and they are “in your face”. He will not hit first, but if you take a swing at him, he’ll turn on you and he won’t stop until you are pulp.

Unlike the American critics, I believe the Russian ambassador was listening very carefully. Strong leaders can deal with one another. But when one of the countries has a visibly weak leader like Obama, it invites problems. Just ask the lame impala in the herd……and ask the lion stalking it.

But, above all else there towers the statement quoted above that makes it clear that the US under Trump will not go around the world forcing ill-fitting one-man one vote solutions on countries based on some infantile belief that it is a magic cure for all political problems. This simple strategic statement on his part is VASTLY more profound than any listing of specific actions critics appear to desire.

Perhaps the critics can grow up, go look in the mirror, and understand how their country has screwed up on Foreign Policy ever since 1975 when the Democrat dominated US Congress approved the Clark Amendment, forcing the Ford Administration to desert its allies on the field of battle in Angola. The rest of the world took note, as may be read in AmaBhulu. After all, the United States inherited 9-11 as a  consequence.

Who knows, with Trump as president, the United States may very well look at South Africa and realize the truth that one man one vote has unleashed a disaster there as well.

Who toppled the old South African government?

26 Saturday Sep 2015

Posted by Harry Booyens in The US & South Africa

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By 1985 President PW Botha of South Africa had finished his removal of Petty Apartheid, the race-based socially harmful discriminatory laws. Even the so-called Immorality Act controlling relations over the “color-line” had been removed. Moreover, he had approved trade unions for black workers and acknowledged the permanent residence of those black people earlier administrations had considered Black Homeland citizens. Visitors to the country could see black people ride around in Mercedes sedans and exercise their union rights in quite militant fashion. The only significant apartheid laws that remained, were those governing racial registration and voting rights. In brief, the important legislated inequity that remained related to Political Power. If anyone in 2015 wonders why Black people in South Africa are not making huge economic strides today, it is because those strides were made in the 1980s. Ironically, they were made under white rule. But, as many of us learn in life, no good deed goes unpunished.

The African National Congress

These improvements did not help the Black National Socialist ANC party. It had been a loyal Soviet surrogate for years and its top structure had been trained in the Soviet Union and at specific Far Left Universities in the UK. At its core sat a coven of white Communists who did most of the thinking for the organization. The history of this core is described in AmaBhulu. As a  revolutionary organization, the ANC had been an embarrassment to the term. Its irritated Soviet sponsor considered it a “glorified mutual admiration society.” Its earlier leadership core was in jail for life for plotting a revolution and setting off a spate of bombs in the country. These included Rolihlahla “Nelson” Mandela, the founder of its hapless so-called “military wing”, Umkhonto we Sizwe. By mid 1985 the ANC had decided on a way forward as we shall see below.

Tutu and Robinson

And then there entered the arena the two men who actually toppled the government: Desmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop; and Randall Robinson, a social agitator from the USA. Robinson’s penchant for exaggeration would eventually show many years later when he claimed that Hurricane Katrina survivors were reduced to cannibalism. He has also insisted that “restitution” be paid by the US government to all American Blacks. He eventually left the United States and went into voluntary exile on the island of St Kitts. Unfortunately, it would appear none of this extreme view was clear to Americans in 1984/5. Over that period he and Tutu  worked Americans up into a frenzy on the subject of South Africa [#1]. He has more recently returned to live “under white domination” in the United States as “Distinguished Scholar in Residence” at the Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law. It would seem St Kitts was less attractive than the United States.

The reader of this blog is left to consider what statements a younger, less circumspect, Robinson was capable of making regarding South Africa; a place far enough away for Americans NOT to be able to confirm facts for themselves by looking out the nearest window. When combined with the litany of outrageous statements of Desmond Tutu, his rhetoric formed a poisonous brew that played well to Americans of the time, particularly Democrats. Tutu’s comments have now been conveniently erased from US memory by the media. Fortunately, they may still be found in newspaper archives and are described in AmaBhulu, and suitable evidence provided.

The effect of these two men was to drive the US Business sector towards disinvestment from South Africa and politicians toward sanctions against the country. They were hugely successful. The South African government was completely and utterly outclassed in this domain, apparently thinking that fact and truth could triumph against the US Media and a US guilt complex about slavery.

Chase Manhattan

The first real international blow fell in July 1985 when Chase Manhattan Bank refused to roll over South Africa’s short term loans. A Peterson Institute for International Economics report on South Africa over the relevant period states [#2],

—”In the 1980s, the economic “sanction” that had the most impact on South Africa was the withdrawal of short-term capital, beginning with Chase Manhattan’s decision not to roll over its outstanding loans at the end of July 1985.”

With President Reagan in his second term, and up against a Congress in which both the House of Representatives and the Senate were controlled by the Democrats, Tutu and Robinson inflamed the United States against white South Africans to such a degree that even conservative Republicans [#3] were clamoring for comprehensive punitive sanctions against South Africa.  Even Chester Crocker, who was no friend of South Africa, describes the behavior of the United States politicians over this period towards South Africa as “sanctimonious and self-righteous”[#4]. A veto by President Reagan against sanctions was overridden by Congress; the first time in the 20th century that a presidential veto was overturned by Congress in a Foreign Affairs policy matter. It is instructive to recall what President Reagan said on the matter [#5]:

—“South Africa is not a totalitarian society. There is a vigorous opposition press, and every day we see examples of outspoken protest and access to the international media that would never be possible in many parts of Africa or in the Soviet Union, for that matter.”

The ANC’s strategy of Open Terrorism

When PW Botha offered the ANC an olive branch in the form of Mandela’s release for a promise to desist from violence, Mandela rejected this, and the ANC obviously felt they had drawn blood. This was a tragic mistake by PW Botha and it was to have profound consequences.

It is at this exact point that the ANC switched to open terrorism. The sheer scale of the shift in strategy can be seen from the following data:

 The ANC turns to open Terrorism in 1985 – The numbers
  Year Attacks on the Military Attacks on the Police Attacks on Civil Structures Terror attacks on Civilians Comments
1980 0 2 5 0
1981 3 4 20 5
1982 2 3 15 2
1983 0 0 33 7
1984 3 8 11 4
10 Feb 1985:  Mandela refuses to swear off violence if released as part of deal with President PW Botha
1985 7* 8 11 41 * Inc. 4 anti-tank landmines
1986 7 16 7 30* * Inc. 13 anti-tank landmines
1987 6 25 2 32* * Inc. 3 anti-tank landmines
1988 3 23 18 37

ANC attacks of the 1970s were so ineffectual that we simply ignore them.

Durban_bombsThe scale of the ANC bombing in 1985/1986 can be judged from the map above of the various explosions around just Durban. The author’s mother lived in Amanzimtoti at the time and worked in Durban. Both of those locations are shown on the map. In AmaBhulu, the reader gets to live this situation based on her experience. Of the various cases, the most infamous were likely the SANLAM Center bombing in December 1985 and the Magoo’s Bar bombing in May 1986.

To give the reader some concept of the mindset of the ANC, it is instructive to realize that they have in recent years repeatedly tried to get a local road past the center named after the Sanlam Center bomber, Andrew Zondo, eventually succeeding. They have pushed the Magoo’s Bar bomber, Robert McBride, into senior jobs in the National Police Structure. In the SANLAM Center attack women and children were killed, and in the Magoo’s Bar a number of young ladies. Fortunately, McBride can be relied upon to repeatedly embarrass both himself and the ANC.

Imagine appointing Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh as Police Chief. What could possibly go wrong with that?

What Pres. Reagan knew and Congress ignored

The changed strategy of the ANC was apparently too complex for the US Congress to comprehend, but it did not escape the attention of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). A Special Intelligence Report of 1986, now declassified in heavily redacted form, stated [#6] (p.15),

—“Most ANC bombings since late last year have been directed against civilian rather than government targets. A recent ANC statement specifically noted that white farmers and urban white males were considered by the ANC as part of the government’s “security forces” and were valid targets for ANC operations.”

By any civilized human’s standards, this is terrorism pure and simple. The US State Department agreed with this author and the ANC was listed as a terrorist organization. This is also a good point at which to remember that the “military wing” of the ANC had been a creation of Nelson Mandela. He had fought the ANC top brass to create it.

Please do click on that CIA link. It is hugely informative and vividly sketches what the ANC really is. It contains interesting statements, such as “We estimate that perhaps as much as 25% of the ANC’s total membership now belongs to the SACP (South African Communist Party)”. Most particularly (p.9),

—”The ANC’s tactics of revolutionary violence are not consonant with US policies designed to promote non-violent change. Most troubling is the SACP’s strong position in the ANC’s leadership and the ANC’s pro-Soviet, Anti-US posture.”

In what must surely be the understatement of the century, given that Mandela’s leadership role in the SACP was actively edited out of “his” autobiography by his American ghostwriter, Rick Stengel, now an Under Secretary in the Obama Administration, the CIA report states (p.19):

—”Historically, the SACP has preferred to conceal the Communist allegiance of some senior ANC officials…..”

Nothing has changed in any of these statements. The ANC operatives openly yell “Bulala AmaBhulu. Kill the whites!“, the SACP is where it always was, and the posture is still anti-US. What is different is that the Soviet Union is gone and the ANC is sidling up to Communist China. Russia has become  a center of white racism (a report from the Moscow Protestant Chaplaincy via the School of Russian and Asian Studies), and it is now the US Media that conceals who the Communists are or were. Concerned US citizens ought to ask why. Why is their media doing this and who gains from it?

Republicans and Democrats may well think themselves on the right side of history, but the next few years will show them the true consequences of their actions. It is truly perverse that both Republicans and Democrats would today hail President Reagan as one of their greatest leaders ever, but they mysteriously thought him ill-informed and misguided on the subject of South Africa. This is odd indeed, considering he was the one who had all the resources of the intelligence services backing him up. Those US Congressional members who helped overturn their own President’s veto can now stare into a mirror and see themselves more clearly. When they really had to stand and be counted, they made the political coward’s call and set in motion the destruction of South Africa. There were most certainly matters inside the country that contributed, but few things in life have as devastating an effect as public desertion by your kin.

Holding out

Fortunately, PW Botha of South Africa held out until the Soviets had been chased out of nearby Angola. Four-and-a half months after the Soviets rolled out of Afghanistan, he started negotiations with Nelson Mandela. All of which may be read in AmaBhulu. For additional support of this view, we turn again to the Peterson Insitute for Economics [#7]:

—”…the end of the Cold War and the fading of the communist threat removed an important disincentive to negotiations for the Afrikaners.”

In 1985, this author thought PW Botha insane for going up against the whole world, but he was right and I was wrong. In hindsight, South Africa would have erupted in flames if he had caved under that pressure while the Soviets were breathing down our necks. He was a most unlikable man, but he was right. One could say some people play draughts (checkers), but PW played chess. It was with good reason that Nelson Mandela exhibited so much respect at the death of PW Botha, and Tutu—ostensibly the man of God—did not.


References:

#1. Chester Crocker, High Noon in Southern Africa, (1992), p.258
#2.  Case Studies in Sanctions and Terrorism, Case 62-2: UN v. South Africa (1962-1994: Apartheid; Namibia), Case 85-1: US, Commonwealth v. South Africa (1985-91: Apartheid), http://www.iie.com/research/topics/sanctions/southafrica3.cfm
#3. Chester Crocker, High Noon in Southern Africa, (1992), p.253
#4. Chester Crocker, High Noon in Southern Africa, (1992), pp.253-278, See particularly p. 263
#5. Press Meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, (10:30am) September 9, 1985
#6. The African National Congress of South Africa: Organization, Communist Ties and Short-term Prospects, SNIE-73-86; July 1986
#7. Case Studies in Sanctions and Terrorism, Case 62-2: UN v. South Africa (1962-1994: Apartheid; Namibia), Case 85-1: US, Commonwealth v. South Africa (1985-91: Apartheid), http://www.iie.com/research/topics/sanctions/southafrica3.cfm

 

South Africa and the Middle East Crisis

19 Saturday Sep 2015

Posted by Harry Booyens in The US & South Africa

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African National Congress (ANC), Democracy, Idealism, Iraq, Obama, Ottoman Empire, Pottery Barn Rule, Shia, South Africa, Sunni, United States, United States Congress, Xenophobia

On the back cover of AmaBhulu its description states,

“The West has finally realized that “bringing Democracy” to the Middle East and Southwest Asia is not necessarily in the best interests of Western Civilization. Radical Islam is hijacking its plans and making a mockery of Democracy itself. In South Africa, an earlier experiment in Bestowed Democracy is failing under a burden of abuse.”

In Iraq, by 2003, the local Sunni Arab minority had run the country since at least the days of the Ottoman Empire. They were the “go-to” guys and the “can-do” guys. The Ottoman Turks had known this all along and relied on this block of people who constituted about 15-20% of the population. The Shia, who have a completely different religion, were by far the majority of the population and lived in the Southeast. Much of the country is basically desert and therefore of low farming value. Just over 8% of all the land is arable and stretches along the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris.

In South Africa, by 1986, the local White population had run the country since the days of the Dutch and British Empires. They were the “go-to” guys and the “can-do” guys. The Empire Brits had known this all along and relied on this block of people who constituted about 15-20% of the population. The Black people, who have a completely different culture, were by far the majority of the population and lived in a huge horseshoe-shaped swath of subtropical country situated around the colder sub-zero-winter highland. Only 10% of all the land is arable, almost the same as Iraq.

In 2003, based on distorted information and comprehensive ignorance of the realities of that part of the world, President George W. Bush of the United States went to war against Iraq to remove “the Bad Guy” Saddam Hussein and the Sunni from power on the basis of a Moral Crusade in which this action would “Bring Democracy”. In this parochial world view, the Sunni would somehow welcome the loss of all say in their own future and not object to being oppressed by the majority Shia, who have always been their opponents. President Obama withdrew from engagement in Iraq. Somehow, Obama felt that the Pottery Barn Rule, “If you break it, you own it” did not hold.

In brief, the United States went into Iraq with a toxic mix of Moralizing, Ignorance, Supposed Democracy and Bombs. It has given us ISIS and has resulted in an invasion of Europe by millions of desperate refugees. This is what happens when one crosses Ignorance with Moral Crusade, misplaced Democratic Idealism, and War.

In 1986, based on distorted information and comprehensive ignorance of the realities of that part of the world, the United States Congress, over the objections of Ronald Reagan (who knew the truth), went to war—an economic war—against South Africa to remove “the Bad Guy” Whites from power on the basis of a Moral Crusade in which this action would “Bring Democracy”. In this parochial world view, the Whites would illogically welcome the loss of all say in their own future and not object to being oppressed by the majority Blacks, who have always been their opponents. After the hype and cheers of the 1994 election, the US Congress withdrew from engagement in South Africa and the country descended into a rampant disaster. The economy is failing, the credit rating is failing, the infrastructure is failing, the electricity supply is failing, the water supply is failing, the road system is failing, crime is rampant and white farmers are being murdered in droves. Immigrant Black people are torched alive in a fit of mass xenophobia. Somehow Congress feels the Pottery Barn Rule does not hold in this case either.

Typical countryside in the West of South Africa – The Great Karoo

In brief, the United States Congress attacked South Africa with a toxic mix of Moralizing, Ignorance, Supposed Democracy and Economic Bombs. It has resulted in a nightmare. It bears repeating that this is what happens when one crosses Ignorance with Moral Crusade, misplaced Democratic Idealism, and War.

The ANC government in South Africa lets not a day go by without threatening white farmers and white businessmen. Like the Sunni in Iraq, the whites of South Africa find themselves wholly without any ability to influence their own futures, while the ANC inspires black people against whites, much like what we have seen the Iraq government actively discriminate against the 15% Sunni Arabs.

The only difference is that (1) the White South Africans are Christians, (2) South Africa has no oil; and (3) no one is suggesting that the Shia Arabs should take the land of the Sunni so they can own 65% of land merely because they are 65% of the population. It seems all Iraqis at least understand what a desert is, something apparently not so clear to the ANC or the world media. Both keep insisting black people must own 90% of South African land because they are 90% of the population, but the media has never seen the West of South Africa and comprehensively ignores history. Perhaps a few days spent by CNN at Verneukpan in the west of the country would help.

As regards Democracy, it is too precious to waste. It seems desperately obvious to this author that it is silly to expect someone to have respect for another man’s opinion—the basis of Democracy—if he has little respect for that man’s life to start with. That is a reality for the present Arabia and Africa. And that is the problem with injecting Democracy left right and center, as though it is a preventative inoculation for a childhood disease. It would help if American politicians would stop thinking that this method, which is useful in resolving differences among people who agree about the major issues in the first place, is a magic solution to the deeper woes of the world.

If Democracy were the panacea it is held out to be, then the Germans, French and British would have voted on the matter of the Second World War and spared the planet a lot of misery. If the ostensibly civilized and highly developed Western Man cannot make it work when it really counts, why would the much tried and desperate people of Arabia and Africa? In fact, if it were the miracle cure, then Israel and the Palestinians could hold a joint vote in a single country and the United States could open its southern border and vote jointly with the 121 Million Mexicans on the future of North America.

Don’t hold your breath.

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