WHEN THE CANARY DOESN’T SING….
By David Vance On August 17th, 2012It’s 1985.
The Conservative Government and Miners are in heated conflict. Then, at one event, Police open fire and 34 miners are shot to death. The outcry is global, the UN calls an emergency session and Thatcher is demonised as a brutal killer. The Government falls as the International Community unites in utter condemnation of the mass killing.
That’s right, it never happened. But THIS did…
South African President Jacob Zuma has announced an inquiry into violence at a mine in the north-east of the country, calling the deaths there “tragic”. Thirty-four people were killed when police opened fire on striking platinum miners on Thursday. At least 78 people were injured in the confrontation. Mr Zuma said he was “saddened and dismayed” at the “shocking” events and offered sincere condolences to all families who had lost loved ones.
Where is the outcry? Where is the fury? Is it possible that there is a double standard when it comes to the Rainbow Nation, even when it is dripping in blood? Zuma’s administration is getting away with murder, literally. But it strikes me that such is the “sensitivity” concerning this utterly corrupt regime that such massacres such as that above can be almost whitewashed, lest we wonder if what has followed apartheid is really that much better. Don’t get me wrong, I was glad that Apartheid was ended. But what has been put in place subsequently seems brutal, cruel, and as we can see, murderous. Yet the UN remains MUTE, the MSM pliantly accepts Zuma’s spinning, and the dead get buried. This is one coalmine NO canary will sing in.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19297403
“South African press commentators have voiced outrage at the fatal clashes at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine near the South African capital, Pretoria. More than 30 people died when police opened fire on a crowd of several thousand striking miners.
While a majority of commentators express sadness and condemn the violence, some readers support the actions of the South African Police Service (SAPS). Several newspapers pin the blame for the violence on rival unions. “
And outside of this wonderful nirvana…..at the UN, the EU…
…….. s-i-l-e-n-c-e. Of the wolves.
There’s an unusually graphic video around showing that it was a massacre.
Yep, that it happened in Nelson Mandelaland is precisely why so many choose to look the other way. If Israeli forces had been caught out in the same way machine gunning ranks of Palestinians, the BBC would have on a permanent loop.
I’m surprised that Russia and China have not yet voiced their support for Zuma and his murdering police force.
and from Amnesty International
http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/news-item/south-africa-judge-must-oversee-probe-into-mine-protest-deaths
Why the concern from the right about this massacre. A concern that was not much in evidence during the apartheid years.
The principles of this case reveal the same politically correct thinking as those shown in this case…
http://www.atangledweb.org/?p=34236
Mr. Nazir Afzal as the Chief Crown Prosecutor for the CPS North-West is morally free to do what the British establishment is afraid to do: namely pursue and implement the law regardless of who is breaking it.
Because Mr Afzal is of the “Asian Community” he can prosecute his own people..
Just so in South Africa the British establishment weighed down by its Empire and Colonial past, is reluctant to criticise a black government because they are black..
A sensitivity totally absent when the white minority government (which built South Africa) did bad things, and were quite rightly castigated for them. The Brits were keen to show their new PC culturally sensitive credentials.
Now that we see a more blatantly corrupt regime in power, and criticism comes there none from the British government.
And anyway many black South Africans will argue that a white south African can never be a real African, because their roots and attitudes are European, not African..
You don’t have to base your comparisons on imaginary British massacres. If the South Africans behave like the British after Bloody Sunday you’ll get a whitewash now and a proper enquiry in about 30 years time.
Touche Henry
H94
Yes, there is zero chance that Zuma’s “inquiry” will lead to anyone being prosecuted, probably because the SA government will have been deeply involved in the shoot to kill order to the police.
I’m sure that Russia and China will weigh in soon. Zuma is their pal and the wires will have been buzzing between them.
From the bits and pieces i’ve been reading the Police were attacked by a machete armed mob?
The moral is don’t go out armed with a machete and attack the Police.
If it had of been 34 Police Officers who were killed the wall of silence from the world would have been even more deafening?
Those who break the law will suffer the consequences of their action.
Any word from Sinn fein yet?
Those who break the law will suffer the consequences of their action.
Except for the police of course. But I guess you are quite content with that.
It is hardly the same as the former regime gunning down the unarmed. It seems a true fiasco however with rival mining factions.
You don’t have to base your comparisons on imaginary British massacres. If the South Africans behave like the British after Bloody Sunday you’ll get a whitewash now and a proper enquiry in about 30 years time.”
Henry94,
Your fixation with Bloody Sunday and the British is worrying. Of course we British have done some bad things – I am not sure that taking the blame for that event is one of them- but as a small, innovative and influential nation on the world stage we have been around long enough to have done some baaaad things.
Even so, there are still plenty of people who want to come here and become British, so we can’t be that bad, can we?
“Even so, there are still plenty of people who want to come here and become British, so we can’t be that bad, can we?”
Considering the shitpot places the majority of them come from, that’s not exactly glowing praise.
EnterB,
I have often made the point that in spite of the liberal midset which affirms that all cultures are of equal value, the flow of human traffic seems to contradict that rosy ideal.
I haven’t met anyone who wanted to emigrate to somewhere other than another western nation or nation with a strong western influence. I’m not saying there aren’t,
but to paraphrase the old poem,
“If such there breathe, go! mark them well….”