Silent Genocide of White Farmers in South Africa

It is strange that Hansie would use Midnight Oil's "Put down that weapon" to illustrate the Silent Genocide of White Farmers in South Africa. This group was instrumental (pun unintended) in the anti-apartheid movement to 'free' South Africa from First World status to the Third World cesspit of violence and horror it has become.

Proponents peddling ideals of world peace often forget (ignore?) the reality that the real world, the world where most of us exist, not some imagined mental utopia, is a cold dark place and until every leader, every human on earth shares the same principles of love and tolerance for others, "putting down weapons" is not an option. I prefer to work towards world peace too but behind the safety of a gun. As Reagan would say, trust but verify.

Sarah Maid of Albion, a UK blogger has been dutifully chronicling the genocide of white farmers. As at May 14, 2009, an obscene total of 3048 white farmers had been brutally murdered since 1994, a un-newsworthy event for the world's mainstream media because it involves whites being murdered whereas childish pranks by students pretending to piss in food and serving it to blacks (some smiling by the way, none coerced, none injured) elicited weeks of outrage and protests. It is thanks to people like Sarah and others that the horror unfolding in South Africa will not go quietly into that good night.

From Hansie0Slim

A song about peace, life, death and an emergency. Although the original intention with this song was to promote world peace, the message remains applicable. WARNING: This video is not for sensitive viewers.

Primarashni Gower describes her experience:

As I lay face down next to my husband, David, with our hands and feet tied up, I thanked him for six years of marriage and three children. My knees felt like jelly and I had the urge to lose my dinner. Despite pleading with Thabang [real name] not to harm my family, I feared he would still shoot my three-year-old son, who was sleeping on the bed, and my mother and my five-year-old twins, whom I could see... Click "Sure we believe you, Mr President" to read on - Mail and Guardian 2007

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Words, words, words... but "a picture is worth a thousand words".

This is an appeal to the world to put pressure on the ANC government to act decisively and put an end, not only to these farm murders, but also to the totally unacceptable level of violent crime in South Africa. The increase of urban residential attacks, following the same modus operandi as the farm attacks, is particularly worrying. But in typical ostrich politics style (e.g. AIDS policy) the government refuses to admit that the problem exists.

Some have claimed there is a political motive behind the attacks, based on the violent torture of victims, and the fact that in many cases nothing had been stolen. Although probably not orchestrated by government, their lack of decisive action to protect our people, address the root causes of crime, as well as their unwillingness even to admit that there is a problem, means they cannot escape responsibility.