Now THIS is where they need to be, other than at the White House….I’m just saying. ~Mellie
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10/22/2011 @ 4:38PM |6,058 views
Protesters Occupy GE CEO Jeff Immelt’s Connecticut Front Lawn
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Occupy Wall Street protesters took a field trip from Zuccotti Park on Saturday morning, all the way to the wealthy suburban enclave of New Canaan, Conn., where they took their anger at income and tax disparity to GE CEO Jeff Immelt’s front lawn.
“In the land of the free they tax me but not G.E.!” read the invitation to take an hour bus ride to Immelt’s family home to join the protest, organized by liberal political party Connecticut Working Families. “General Electric made billions last year; they paid no taxes, outsourced thousands of jobs, and got over $3 billion in tax refunds! Join us on a free bus trip to G.E’s CEO’s front lawn to see how our friends in the 1% live.”
A crowd of about 100 protesters from Connecticut Working Families, Occupy Wall Street and local offshoot Occupy New Haven spent the afternoon standing outside Immelt’s 6-bedroom, 10-bathroom, $5.25 million home. Photos from local news site New Canaan Patch show a police officer guarding Immelt’s gates while protesters hold placards reading “Mr. Immelt, Meet the 99%” and “Jobs Not Bailouts”.
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Funny thing though… Mr. Immelt supports the Occupy Wall Street Movement
GE’s Immelt empathizes with Occupy Wall Street
By Annalyn Censky @CNNMoneyOctober 17, 2011
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — General Electric’s CEO Jeff Immelt said Monday he empathizes with the grievances of the Occupy Wall Street protesters.
“Unemployment is 9.1% and underemployment is much higher than that, particularly among young people that don’t have a college degree,” he said. “It is natural to assume people are angry, and so I think we have to be empathetic and understand that people are not feeling great.”
Speaking at a ThomsonReuters event in New York, Immelt went on to discuss the gap between CEO pay and average wages, one of the main sources of discontent among the Occupy Wall Street activists.
“I think the discrepancy is certainly one of the problems today in terms of why people feel the system is unfair,” he said. “So let’s be honest about that. It is part of the problem.”
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Oh what an implosive web we weave..!!
A FILIBUSTER MUST BE HELD TO EXPOSE HIDDEN TRUTHS ABOUT OBAMA
Did the second Muslim husband of Obama’s mother adopt him, making him a citizen of Indonesia? Was Obama’s grandmother lying when she said she attended his birth in Mombasa, Kenya? Why is nothing done about the Obama/Holder team denying protection for whites wishing to vote in 2008? This was a brazen violation of civil rights laws. It is an invitation for a thoroughly corrupted 2012 election in which more dead people, illegal immigrants, multiple votes by the same individuals as prevailed in 20008 to be repeated en masse. Why would this not result in mob rule? The filibuster must demand that the $2 million spent by Obama to hide all pertinent facts about his life be hidden from the American public be brought into daylight.
The focus of the Wall Street Protesters needs to be directed to supporting this filibuster because it is the anti-white, anti-capitalist, anti-free market actions of Obama that have killed the jobs they need now and give them little hope for a decent future. Obama’s appointed Czars, his extremist EPA that puts business in a straight jacket and Janet Napolitano who believes that Americans are extremist if they Dislike Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez and other communist dictators and Know the words to “God Bless America” by heart. This is Obama’s communist head of the Office of Homeland Security, who encourages floods of illegal immigrants to vastly expand the ranks of the Democrat Party. She, along with Eric Holder must be thrown out. There must be no violence, but on a given day – how about November 11, Veterans Day – all church bells should ring, all car horns should sound the alarm and all work should stop at noon! FLOOD CONGRESS WITH COPIES I have no source of funding. Please do what you can to get out the word or go to my web site to contribute, if you wish. VISIT: end-irs.org Thank you. Jack J. Morris
That’s private property. Have them arrested. What a bunch of losers
The protesters are hitting the right target picketing the CEO of General Electric, which is really the cog in the General Elite Warfare/Welfare Systems supplying the fascist police state. But I remain disappointed that the socialist element dominates the “Occupy—–” protest coverage, playing into Obama’s hands and forgetting it is the billionaires of Wall Street getting rich bankrolling socialism. It is such as GE that profits from the socialist collective by selling Uncle Sam war supplies at our expense to control and kill people! Except for Ron Paul, all the GOP candidates for the presidency will continue the same evil corporatist agenda for the global empire, looking to enslave or exterminate all people. END THE FED!
BRAVO! GE is a big example of our economic woes. GE used NAFTA to export 1,000s of high paying jobs. How will GE sell a product to millions of unemployed Americans?
Then move GE back to America and help us all- jobs and you pay your fair share of Taxes like we do!
So wheres the picture of someone defecating on his front gate or the crowd chanting in his yard terrrorizing his family? Cant be getting to scarey on one of the annointed ones personal friends now, can we? SEIU not invited this time?
The protests should be at Harry Reids house as he is the one blocking everything .
OK, NOW THE “USEFUL IDIOTS” ARE TARGETING THE RIGHT PEOPLE! O AND HIS CORRUPT THUGS! PLEASE MOVE ON OVER TO THE WHITE HOUSE AND LET O KNOW WHAT YOU’RE THINKING THERE, MOB!
Well Jeffery, show us your big heart and take a cut in pay, and give it to the 99%,
Or. Just open up your home to some of us, to share your unused bedrooms
Immelt’s a anti-American FOOL, just like his buddy Barack Hussein !
“So let’s be honest about that. It is part of the problem.” Really??? So Bud, what are ya gonna do about it, did ya put in for that good ol pay DEcrease??? Are ya keeping the company in the USA? Are ya filing to pay the fair amount of taxes? Or is it just more BS and you handing olshyter another ck under the table? I think it is the latter …
This is/was the only thing I’ve agreed with these idiots about!
I don’t care how many are against OWS demonstrators, the fact remains that there are people there who are American citizens and have EVERY right to peaceably demonstrate and make their grievances known. Whether we agree with them or not…..it is their right!
We also know that the communist party and the Unions have infiltrated them…..that’s a given…..that’s how the government works…..create disorder and co-oped groups to give the government reason to use brute force against the people. That’s how tyranny works. But the hypocrasy can only last so long and eventually even the dumb Leftists will come to realize that they are being manipulated.
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton dare to stand making speeches about the injustices perpetrated against the people of Libya and Egypt……pointing out their right to demonstrate and make their grievances known without being beaten and killed, but look at what is happening in America to our people. How hypocrital can these two get!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGRXCgMdz9A
This is the very first I have seen or heard that has any criticism of Immelt or the Obama administration. Isn’t it just great that Obama supported nerds are finaly getting it right.
Immelt better hire an exterminator to get rid of all the fleas and ticks!
WHY SHOULD GE PAY TAXES, THEY ARE IN BED WITH OBAMA, LIKE ALL THE REST OF THE
SPECIAL INTERESTS CONTROLLING WASHINGTON. OMG—OBAMA MUST GO ! OR WE ALL WILL LOSE. DUMP THE GREEDY UNIONS TOO, THEY ARE DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY.
just another liberal doped on money, nothing is more important even if “it” kills “him”.
This is the true hypocricy of this movement…these people want everyone else to take care of them….of course there are some who have lost their jobs and they are angry and to point out GE’s CEO who is akin to Obama’s jobs czar, I would have to say that this is the first time these protestors got the right villian. They need to move from Wall Street to 1600 Pennsylvania in Washington, DC, because that is the guy that threw out 8 billion dollars into the streets for the banks, unions and auto industries as repayment for election. Sooner or later, the smart ones in this bunch of degenerates living in filty, having sex orgies, stomping the flag and whinning, will ge the message and join the real grass roots organization that will make the changes need in 2012….the tea parties. We are just watching and waiting …. but, we will rise in a vengence at the needed time to remove the Demorats, RINOS and especially Obama in 2012.
To the OWS crowd , Nothing is free, everything has a price. Are you really willing to pay that price? Because those of us who know what that price is , are not. History repeats itself, That price is recorded in history. If you would read world history , you would understand what is happening. It has happened before in Germany!
Now that’s a positive start. Next they should visit Obama’s Czars. Especially the one that didn’t pay his income taxes.
Don’t any of these people know that Wall St was B.O’s biggest donor. And thet he gave them their money back with stimulus money?
You notice that none of the flea baggers are marching or demonstrating in front of George Soros’ house. Like the old saying goes, “Never bite the hand that feeds you”.
Where are all of their permits to squat on public property? They all should have been put in a field to camp out. Meanwhile the left has been yapping at the Tea Party and trying to equate them with patriots. Give me a break! No Tea Party person goes to a private citizen’s home to stalk. No Tea Party person stomps on our great nation’s flag. No TP person has sex in the street or poops on the police cars. No TP does a drug deal when demonstrating or is running from the police in another state.
34 czars who are ruining our country.
EXPOSED: THE HISTORY OF REPUBLICAN RACISM!
Finally (for now), familiarize yourself, and your children, with this factual history line:
October 13, 1858
During Lincoln-Douglas debates, U.S. Senator Stephen Douglas (D-IL) states: “I do not regard the Negro as my equal, and positively deny that he is my brother, or any kin to me whatever”; Douglas became Democratic Party’s 1860 presidential nominee
April 16, 1862
Republican President Lincoln signs bill abolishing slavery in District of Columbia; in Congress, 99% of Republicans vote yes, 83% of Democrats vote no
July 17, 1862
Over unanimous Democrat opposition, Republican Congress passes Confiscation Act stating that slaves of the Confederacy “shall be forever free”
January 31, 1865
13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. House with unanimous Republican support, intense Democrat opposition
April 8, 1865
13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. Senate with 100% Republican support, 63% Democrat opposition
November 22, 1865
Republicans denounce Democrat legislature of Mississippi for enacting “black codes,” which institutionalized racial discrimination
February 5, 1866
U.S. Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (R-PA) introduces legislation, successfully opposed by Democrat President Andrew Johnson, to implement “40 acres and a mule” relief by distributing land to former slaves
April 9, 1866
Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Johnson’s veto; Civil Rights Act of 1866, conferring rights of citizenship on African-Americans, becomes law
May 10, 1866
U.S. House passes Republicans’ 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the laws to all citizens; 100% of Democrats vote no
June 8, 1866
U.S. Senate passes Republicans’ 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the law to all citizens; 94% of Republicans vote yes and 100% of Democrats vote no
January 8, 1867
Republicans override Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of law granting voting rights to African-Americans in D.C.
July 19, 1867
Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of legislation protecting voting rights of African-Americans
March 30, 1868
Republicans begin impeachment trial of Democrat President Andrew Johnson, who declared: “This is a country for white men, and by God, as long as I am President, it shall be a government of white men”
September 12, 1868
Civil rights activist Tunis Campbell and 24 other African-Americans in Georgia Senate, each one a Republican, expelled by Democrat majority; would later be reinstated by Republican Congress
October 7, 1868
Republicans denounce Democratic Party’s national campaign theme: “This is a white man’s country: Let white men rule”
October 22, 1868
While campaigning for re-election, Republican U.S. Rep. James Hinds (R-AR) is assassinated by Democrat terrorists who organized as the Ku Klux Klan
December 10, 1869
Republican Gov. John Campbell of Wyoming Territory signs FIRST-in-nation law granting women right to vote and to hold public office
February 3, 1870
After passing House with 98% Republican support and 97% Democrat opposition, Republicans’ 15th Amendment is ratified, granting vote to all Americans regardless of race
May 31, 1870
President U.S. Grant signs Republicans’ Enforcement Act, providing stiff penalties for depriving any American’s civil rights
June 22, 1870
Republican Congress creates U.S. Department of Justice, to safeguard the civil rights of African-Americans against Democrats in the South
September 6, 1870
Women vote in Wyoming, in FIRST election after women’s suffrage signed into law by Republican Gov. John Campbell
February 28, 1871
Republican Congress passes Enforcement Act providing federal protection for African-American voters
April 20, 1871
Republican Congress enacts the Ku Klux Klan Act, outlawing Democratic Party-affiliated terrorist groups which oppressed African-Americans
October 10, 1871
Following warnings by Philadelphia Democrats against black voting, African-American Republican civil rights activist Octavius Catto murdered by Democratic Party operative; his military funeral was attended by thousands
October 18, 1871
After violence against Republicans in South Carolina, President Ulysses Grant deploys U.S. troops to combat Democrat terrorists who formed the Ku Klux Klan
November 18, 1872
Susan B. Anthony arrested for voting, after boasting to Elizabeth Cady Stanton that she voted for “the Republican ticket, straight”
January 17, 1874
Armed Democrats seize Texas state government, ending Republican efforts to racially integrate government
September 14, 1874
Democrat white supremacists seize Louisiana statehouse in attempt to overthrow racially-integrated administration of Republican Governor William Kellogg; 27 killed
March 1, 1875
Civil Rights Act of 1875, guaranteeing access to public accommodations without regard to race, signed by Republican President U.S. Grant; passed with 92% Republican support over 100% Democrat opposition
January 10, 1878
U.S. Senator Aaron Sargent (R-CA) introduces Susan B. Anthony amendment for women’s suffrage; Democrat-controlled Senate defeated it 4 times before election of Republican House and Senate guaranteed its approval in 1919. Republicans foil Democratic efforts to keep women in the kitchen, where they belong
February 8, 1894
Democrat Congress and Democrat President Grover Cleveland join to repeal Republicans’ Enforcement Act, which had enabled African-Americans to vote
January 15, 1901
Republican Booker T. Washington protests Alabama Democratic Party’s refusal to permit voting by African-Americans
May 29, 1902
Virginia Democrats implement new state constitution, condemned by Republicans as illegal, reducing African-American voter registration by 86%
February 12, 1909
On 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, African-American Republicans and women’s suffragists Ida Wells and Mary Terrell co-found the NAACP
May 21, 1919
Republican House passes constitutional amendment granting women the vote with 85% of Republicans in favor, but only 54% of Democrats; in Senate, 80% of Republicans would vote yes, but almost half of Democrats no
August 18, 1920
Republican-authored 19th Amendment, giving women the vote, becomes part of Constitution; 26 of the 36 states to ratify had Republican-controlled legislatures
January 26, 1922
House passes bill authored by U.S. Rep. Leonidas Dyer (R-MO) making lynching a federal crime; Senate Democrats block it with filibuster
June 2, 1924
Republican President Calvin Coolidge signs bill passed by Republican Congress granting U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans
October 3, 1924
Republicans denounce three-time Democrat presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan for defending the Ku Klux Klan at 1924 Democratic National Convention
June 12, 1929
First Lady Lou Hoover invites wife of U.S. Rep. Oscar De Priest (R-IL), an African-American, to tea at the White House, sparking protests by Democrats across the country
August 17, 1937
Republicans organize opposition to former Ku Klux Klansman and Democrat U.S. Senator Hugo Black, appointed to U.S. Supreme Court by FDR; his Klan background was hidden until after confirmation
June 24, 1940
Republican Party platform calls for integration of the armed forces; for the balance of his terms in office, FDR refuses to order it
August 8, 1945
Republicans condemn Harry Truman’s surprise use of the atomic bomb in Japan. The whining and criticism goes on for years. It begins two days after the Hiroshima bombing, when former Republican President Herbert Hoover writes to a friend that “The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.”
September 30, 1953
Earl Warren, California’s three-term Republican Governor and 1948 Republican vice presidential nominee, nominated to be Chief Justice; wrote landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education
November 25, 1955
Eisenhower administration bans racial segregation of interstate bus travel
March 12, 1956
Ninety-seven Democrats in Congress condemn Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, and pledge to continue segregation
June 5, 1956
Republican federal judge Frank Johnson rules in favor of Rosa Parks in decision striking down “blacks in the back of the bus” law
November 6, 1956
African-American civil rights leaders Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy vote for Republican Dwight Eisenhower for President
September 9, 1957
President Dwight Eisenhower signs Republican Party’s 1957 Civil Rights Act
September 24, 1957
Sparking criticism from Democrats such as Senators John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, Republican President Dwight Eisenhower deploys the 82nd Airborne Division to Little Rock, AR to force Democrat Governor Orval Faubus to integrate public schools
May 6, 1960
Republican President Dwight Eisenhower signs Republicans’ Civil Rights Act of 1960, overcoming 125-hour, around-the-clock filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats
May 2, 1963
Republicans condemn Democrat sheriff of Birmingham, AL for arresting over 2,000 African-American schoolchildren marching for their civil rights
September 29, 1963
Gov. George Wallace (D-AL) defies order by U.S. District Judge Frank Johnson, appointed by President Dwight Eisenhower, to integrate Tuskegee High School
June 9, 1964
Republicans condemn 14-hour filibuster against 1964 Civil Rights Act led by U.S. Senator and former Ku Klux Klansman Robert Byrd (D-WV), who served in the Senate until his death in 2010. At Byrd’s funeral, former Democrat President Bill Clinton said, “He once had a fleeting association with the Ku Klux Klan, what does that mean? I’ll tell you what it means. He was a country boy from the hills and hollows from West Virginia. He was trying to get elected. And maybe he did something he shouldn’t have done come and he spent the rest of his life making it up. And that’s what a good person does. There are no perfect people. There are certainly no perfect politicians.”
June 10, 1964
Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) criticizes Democrat filibuster against 1964 Civil Rights Act, calls on Democrats to stop opposing racial equality. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was introduced and approved by a staggering majority of Republicans in the Senate. The Act was opposed by most southern Democrat senators, several of whom were proud segregationists—one of them being Al Gore Sr. Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson relied on Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen, the Republican leader from Illinois, to get the Act passed.
August 4, 1965
Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) overcomes Democrat attempts to block 1965 Voting Rights Act; 94% of Senate Republicans vote for landmark civil right legislation, while 27% of Democrats oppose. Voting Rights Act of 1965, abolishing literacy tests and other measures devised by Democrats to prevent African-Americans from voting, signed into law; higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats vote in favor
February 19, 1976
Republican President Gerald Ford formally rescinds Democrat President Franklin Roosevelt’s notorious Executive Order authorizing internment of over 120,000 Japanese-Americans during WWII
September 15, 1981
Republican President Ronald Reagan establishes the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, to increase African-American participation in federal education programs
June 29, 1982
Republican President Ronald Reagan signs 25-year extension of 1965 Voting Rights Act
August 10, 1988
Republican President Ronald Reagan signs Civil Liberties Act of 1988, compensating Japanese-Americans for deprivation of civil rights and property during World War II internment ordered by FDR
November 21, 1991
Republican President George H. W. Bush signs Civil Rights Act of 1991 to strengthen federal civil rights legislation
August 20, 1996
Bill authored by U.S. Rep. Susan Molinari (R-NY) to prohibit racial discrimination in adoptions, part of Republicans’ Contract With America, becomes law
And while we are at it….here are a few more lost ‘liberties’ which are crossing the ATLANTIC…
******** I have been granted permission to publish the personal letter of an editor of The Afrikaner Journal, as I believe we all need an education of ‘what is occurring presently’ in a major nation of the world where acts of genocide occur on a daily basis in a country teetering into civil war. Examine this letter closely and remember the underlying ‘seeds of Occupation at Wall St./Liberty St.’ are a transfiguration of both nations, South Africa’s and the United States’ devastating budget deficits, each caused by giant government-bloated welfare states. The $1.3 trillion (ending September 30th) U.S. budget deficit for 2011, and South Africa’s official rate of unemployment at 24.5% and rising to 57% unemployment among white and black township youth dictates lower tax revenues in the forecast leading to twin downward-spiraling economies. The rate of fall will be devastating for both nations’ current presidents and their Congresses.
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Some background to raise your awareness of South Africa’s rising national implosion: Fiscally South Africa’s GDP is expected to grow by 3.4% in 2011, although its rate of inflation is 5.5%, both figures are better than the United States. However its leader, President Jacob Zuma, must fund 14,000,000 child support welfare families with aid while only 5.9 million South Africans (12% of the population) paid income tax in 2010, whereas 130 million Americans filed individual income tax returns, or just over 50% of US filing-citizens. Even with our 9.1% unemployment rate average throughout the Obama administration, and Obama’s false 2009 promise of GDP growth of 5% a year to 2016 projection, the United States and not South Africa is at-risk to slide into a double-dip recession. China and India are awash with the resources sold by South Africa, and their investors are happy “to give their blessings to a planned bigger (welfare growing) bloated and potentially ineffective state in South Africa while reaping huge profits they obtain there,” reports Stephen Grootes, a political reporter, Guardian UK. The miracle of profits and growth today in SA is really largely India and China driven.
South Africa’s new growth plan (NGP) heralded by Minister Ebrahim Patel aims to create 5 million jobs by 2020 to try to reduce unemployment to 15%. Expanded public work programs have failed employing millions of unemployed for less than 50 days a year, but it appears the ‘road to ruin’ by nationalization of some major industries can be avoided by “the South African ANC government fully embracing its WELFARE RESPONSIBILITIES” which appear to be growing exponentially and diversely in order to pacify ‘the dangerous and distended welfare state”. In other words the great Chinese mining and other business interests are telling Zuma to pacify the 60% below-poverty line poor in that nation with aid while they and Zuma reap huge profits each year from the mines. The NGP inserts agriculture, mining (titanium, magnesium and silicon), tourism, and industry will largely create these jobs (mining in SA accounts for 8% of the GDP alone and 500,000 jobs presently), while Zuma personally will lead a massive infrastructure program which limits “COSATU”, the trade union confederation, and big business (executive cap) bonuses, both of which have served him steadfastly in his alliance government. However China and India are investing in spite of a major human rights culture problem underlying everything else in South Africa today. Like Solyndra Corp., private major foreign investors seemed to have been given ‘guarantees on their investments’ safety’ in the businesses they’ve created and expanded in SA by the Zuma government, and that condition of satiety raises rebellious cries in the shanty-shack settlements of the 60% poor who have an opposition leader, Julius Malema the demagogue, hearing their angst and who defines their opposition to the existing ANC Zuma-government.
In 2009 South Africa overtook Brazil as the country with the widest gap between rich and poor. Malema clearly wants to depose the Zuma leadership in order to close the gap by leading millions of young in his radical Youth League to “nationalize the mining industries and confiscate the property without compensation from white citizens to hand over to black citizens.” Over 4,000 murders of South African Dutch Afrikaners farmers have been reported as hundreds of thousands of whites have been forced into ‘Wendy-townships’ or poor white communities since the 1994 reverse-apartheid revolution conducted by followers of Steve Biko and Nelson Mandela. Other outspoken ‘black cloud voices’ dismantle the rainbow nation dream of Mandela like activist Andile Mngxitama who attacked his government after the World Cup soccer match “for turning South Africa into a brothel where white people come and have fun”. He goes on to say: “Who called this continent Africa? Who is this person?…What unites us is as oppressed people who are enslaved. Only we were enslaved (till 1994), that is the only thing that unites black people anywhere in the world….Colored, Indians here, and many blacks don’t want to be black here…why would you want to be the ‘thing’ that is oppressed when whiteness is closer to godliness?” he said to David Smith, Guardian correspondent, in Sophiatown (September 15, 2011).
But now that question is muted by another stronger and more headless one. Mngxitama said that South Africa of the Mandelas is ‘done,’ a past thing, and is gone. “We can decide who we are. We are not trapped to being an African. Africa is something that happened a long, long time ago. It’s a very basic question: what does it mean to be free?” And he and Malema are leading a radical body that wants to sever ties and abandon all confidence with old South Africa at the permanent loss and decapitation of the white Afrikaners whose voice has been silenced for two decades. There is a chilling movement to disarm and remove all the Afrikaners from 5-6-7 generations of veldt-farming land possession. A UN report in 2011 said some foreign countries (not India and China) have reduced their investment by 70% from 2009 in SA for fear of this ‘suspended revolution’ overhanging that nation’s future.
Malema was slapped with a minor fine and court reprimand on October 12th, 2011, for singing a ‘hate song’ publically at a youth rally that urged his people to “kill a Boer, a white South Afrikaner,” last spring. Malema appeared ‘unrepentant’ before the ANC disciplinary hearing on charges of bringing the party into disrepute and sowing divisions within its structures.
Malema calls himself an “economic freedom-fighter” and is under investigation and will stand before more hearings conducted by Zuma’s government branches of revenue services (i.e. for bribes and kickbacks in the $millions), the office of the public protector (i.e. for conducting a Youth League team to consolidate an opposition party to force a ‘regime change’ in the neighboring nation of Botswana) and other crimes being investigated by the government’s internal elite crimes unit called the Hawks.
Malema’s followers saw Zuma and the ANC courts disband their KwaZulu-Natal executive committee recently which was accused by the court of “sewing tribalism” under its chairman Mthan-deni Dlungwane. But Zuma stands helpless to contain the huge growing mob rallies Malema can orchestrate nearly everywhere with a snap of his fingers. The diehard followers of Julius Malema “don’t care about the court rulings and they know not much will change in the African National Congress, and it makes no difference to those intent on disciplining him” said Prince Mashele, executive director of the Centre for Politics and Research to Reuters News. “He is a thorn in their (Zuma and the ANC) flesh and the fear in the ANC is that Malema will be exonerated” on a distinct path to the Presidency of the ANC which is his one goal.
As the Guardian-UK wire service reported 12 September one-month prior to the court ruling on the Boer Song: “Malema cannot be ignored. The vehemence and volume of his rhetoric could be influential.” The moderation of Zuma’s government appears finished; the radicalism and the reputation of the Youth League’s to win elections proves its organization is thriving and enhancing Malema’s control. (His influence inside the ANC as a member of the parliament encompasses at least half of the parliamentarians presently)
http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2011/09/13/malema-guilty-of-hate-...
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Longing For ‘Our’ Own State
Published: 2011/09/20 – w/ permission from The Africakaner Journal
By Dan Roodt
(This answers to A. Matshiqi in Business Day 20 September 2011 is an archive copy of the original that can be found here: Business Day)
“Aubrey Matshiqi (Which path will we choose to peace and prosperity? September 16- BUSINESS DAY -SOUTH AFRICA ) is just so wrong when he writes that “whether we like it or not, we have a common destiny”.
Try and tell that to the million or so whites who have already fled the crime, mayhem, corruption and now “Kill a Boer” songs sung by the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League.
More fundamentally, however, SA is incapable of accommodating ethnic and racial diversity. Apart from the long-dead Boer republics, our state is a product of the British Empire and has retained its pretensions to a unifying and universal imperialism. Sooner or later, SA must go the way of all recent empires, such as the Soviet Union or Yugoslavia, and fall apart.
Incidentally, Soviet nationalities policy was far more enlightened and in keeping with modern thinking than the ANC and South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s) primitive one-nation concept. Already in the 1950s the SACP rejected the recommendations of the Soviet Academy of Sciences which would have ensured a federal structure for our country.
Certainly the mood among Afrikaners has turned decidedly separatist. Afrikaners would desperately like to secede, to escape the ethnic, racial and cultural domination of the ANC alliance, so aptly personified by Julius Malema’s abusive anti-Afrikaner statements and threats of radical land reform.
The only argument is about where a future Afrikaner state should be.
Many Afrikaners would accept even a piece of the Karoo desert if real independence and sovereignty could accompany it.
It is also ironic that Mr Matshiqi should lament a “cultural genocide perpetrated by colonialism and apartheid” when blacks themselves explicitly rejected their own languages as media for education and literary expression.
Also, the damage inflicted on Afrikaans through the ANC’s colonialist Anglicization policy is far greater than anything that had ever occurred under Lord Milner or nineteenth-century British rule.
As a result of its inordinate level of development on a poor continent, SA under the ANC has become the first African-colonialist state, lording it over its ethnic minorities with an imperiousness to which few European powers, if any, ever arrogated themselves. The cliché of “reconciliation” is long past its sell-by date. Under ANC hegemony, reconciliation means accepting its demented version of our history and prostrating oneself before its outpourings of ethnic hatred in some bizarre choreographed version of the Stockholm syndrome.
Stalin spoke about the “internal émigrés” who refused to accept him unequivocally.
Although the first Roodt came to this country in the early 1700s, I certainly do not have a sense of belonging to this SA and would gladly travel under a refugee passport, until such time as an Afrikaner state could materialize.”
Dan Roodt,
Johannesburg
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The link attached below is an excellent review of another article by SA Political Analyst Aubrey Matshiqi published 7/28/11 in BUSINESS DAY. It is specifically titled: “Julius Malema,” the ANC Youth League leader-parliamentarian, who is involved in a long-running disciplinary hearings and who leads factions of the Congress in a “a battle for power” and for control of the African National Congress (ANC) against its current ANC President Jacob Zuma. This battle “is on many fronts: cultural, racial, economic, political, personal…” according to Matshiqi, and it overrides mere disciplinary issues about Malema’s conduct or dubiously-gotten finances, so much so that it might even eventually destroy the ANC itself, which Matshiqi believes is increasingly probable. That would create a chaos of unimaginable proportion for all people of many races in South Africa. Matshiqi reaches the *conclusion that a ‘scenario’ may be played out to save the ANC from factional self-destruction which may help Malema survive the crisis he created in the end (*seen in a video-interview held last summer with Brad Dubbelman).
Malema, who I wrote about last month for PSC, (“Two Leftist Hearts: Julius Malema and Barack Obama Meet” (9/4/11) leads the repression of the white South Afrikaneers by his Youth League. Matshiqi sums up the various factions caught in the middle between ANC President Zuma and Malema’s personal jealousies and corruptions in this ominous prediction: “In short the subjective interest has become one of the greatest enemies of truth and public interest in our damaged country.”
That could be said exactly of our two Congressional U.S. parties, each one slithering in every corner of the halls of both Houses trying to destroy each other at the expense of the suffocating middle class. It’s our survival too! Read more about South Africa’s coming fall.
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http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=149372