Teazers Owner Murdered

Teazers owner Lolly Jackson was shot and killed in Kempton Park, east of Johannesburg, on Monday, Ekurhuleni police said.

The gunman allegedly fled in Jackson's car and police were searching for him, Sergeant Tsholofele Madumo told reporters.

Gauteng police spokesperson Eugene Opperman confirmed that a man was shot several times in a house in Edleen, Kempton Park, but did not give details about the man's identity.

He said the alleged gunman phoned the police before fleeing in his victim's car. Opperman said that the shooting occurred on Monday afternoon. - Sapa

Obamunism

Interesting, from David Horowitz. Hat Tip: American Power

"The real division in the modern world is between totalitarians and libertarians, and pivot of this division is the inherent conflict between liberty and equality"

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Jonah Goldberg has written an important article in Commentary on what he calls the “neo-socialism” of the Obama administration. I like this label. It is both accurate and more palatable than the term “neo-communism” which I have applied to the hard left. But given the twenty-year political partnership between a neo-Communist like Billy Ayers and Obama, and Obama’s coterie of Communist Party mentors and allies, it is at bottom a distinction without a difference.

Neo-socialists are fellow travelers of neo-Communists and vice-versa. The real division in the modern world is between totalitarians and libertarians, and pivot of this division is the inherent conflict between liberty and equality. Since people are born unequal (in talent, capability, brain power and physical beauty and prowess) and since they develop unequally through circumstance, the only way to make them equal is to take away everyone’s liberty. And of course this will not make them equal because those who get to decide who is made equal and at what pace constitute a new and oppressing ruling class.

This truth is the focus of Federalist Paper #10 and is enshrined in the Constitution which is why every leftist is at war with it and is dedicated to rewriting it. So-called progressives are the 21st Century’s true reactionaries who have failed to learn the lessons of the most horrific social experiment ever inflicted on the human race which murdered 100 million people and destroyed the lives of billions. The term “neo-socialism” attaches them to that awful legacy and serves as a warning to present and future generations of the price that will be paid to achieve “social justice” and also of the fact that the pursuit “social justice” is an evil fantasy which can never be realized.

I have two quibbles with Jonah’s excellent piece. First, it was Rousseau (in The Social Contract) not Babeuf who identified private property as the root of all evil. Second, “social justice” is not a milder socialist impulse — it is in fact a code for communism in the hardest sense. Hayek wrote a brilliant book called The Mirage of Social Justice which argued that 1) there is no such entity as “society” which distributes wealth. Hence the call for social justice is simply a mask — a fake rationale — for distributing wealth politically and thus arrogating to one political faction totalitarian control of everyone else.

The Rainbow Nation: Dead and Buried?

Or was it in the toilet from the start?

I could not resist posting the latest offering from David Bullard. He is absolutely brilliant and as usual, has his detractors foaming at the mouth. Do yourself a favour and click on the original to read the comments.

It is clear from these comments, and many others such as you will find on many MSM sites such as Times online, that nobody, but nobody with any IQ at all in SA, (bar a few ostriches and the stupid, lumpen masses) are remotely happy with what is going on down there. People are waking up. Moderates, liberals you name it.

There is a negative hum of expectation, an undercurrent of fear and a gut feel that things have gone spectacularly wrong. It is a gut feel that I personally started to experience about four or five years ago. It’s ill defined, but it is taking shape. I think Zuma's illegitimate rise to power, and hot on the heels of that, Julius Malema's entrance onto the stage, have brought that sharply into focus.

Let's all just admit it: We have been numbed by an illusion and have been buying time with our hope cheaply. What a trade-off! The kickback is going to sting like hell, and we are starting to know that.

Think about it; SA is only 40 days away from hosting the premier event of the world; the soccer world cup. That is what we should be talking about, anticipating and rejoicing! Instead it is this obsession with the failed state of ZA; the realisation that we have been slumbering for too long, and a sinking feeling that there is no way back up the slippery slope, that consumes us. What has gone wrong! David Bullard suggest the answer..


David Bullard on where it all began to go wrong for South Africa.

I celebrated a cold and wet freedom day in front of a log fire with no electricity and a pile of uncollected refuse in front of my house. But as those dreary white lefties never tire of pointing out, I should be grateful. There are many people in this country that don't even have electricity, who live in shacks without the luxury of a log fire (or even a wine cellar) and are perpetually surrounded by uncollected refuse. And this is supposed to make me feel better? Well, it doesn't.

Sixteen years ago, on a sunny day, I joined the snaking queue to cast my vote in the first democratic election in this country. Unfortunately the KISS party didn't get in but I was still happy that the people's choice, the ANC, were now the new government. Obviously there would have to be some changes made and what had only been available to the privileged white part of the population under apartheid would now be available to the entire population. That would obviously cost money but you get a warm feeling knowing that your taxes are going towards bettering the lives of those less fortunate.

The best thing about the new South Africa though was that it would be non racial. People would be appointed to positions based on their talents and skin colour or religion wouldn't be a factor. Of all the burdens lifted from our collective shoulders, that had to be the best reason to celebrate the 1994 election. Obviously there would be a few minor adjustments to repair the damage of the past but, by and large, South Africa was a shining example to the rest of world....the rainbow nation.

Standing in that election queue in 1994 and watching President Mandela's inauguration a few weeks later I confess to having a warm feeling about this country. With hindsight, the same sort of warm feeling you get when you invest in something like Masterbond at 3% higher than your neighbour is getting.

The first real smell of rotting fish came with the announcement that we needed to buy a large quantity of expensive weapons. There had been earlier minor scares such as the late Peter Mokaba (spiritual guide to Kiddie Amin) who had come up with the brilliant idea of taxing departing foreign tourists to make them pay for the fact that the tourist industry was 95% white owned. But it was the now notorious arms deal that really gave an early indication that things were starting to go badly wrong within the party dedicated to bringing a better life to all South Africans.

Surely a greater priority would have been to build more power stations. That's hardly with the benefit of hindsight either. If you aim to provide 45 million people with electricity as opposed to providing 10 million you need at least four and a half times your current capacity (no pun intended). But the ANC either didn't understand that or thought the acquisition of weapons was a greater priority. So Alec Erwin was told to placate the stroppy whiteys and explain that so many jobs would be created locally if we bought weapons from the Brits, the Swedes and the French that it would be unpatriotic and probably even racist not to do the deal.

Nobody wants to be thought unpatriotic or racist so we just shut up and waited for all those jobs to be created as collateral for our weapon buying spree. We're still waiting. To use a favourite phrase of mine....we were royally rogered. And it wasn't just the tax paying South Africans who were rogered....it was the people who had voted ANC and believed that Alec was bringing them jobs they wouldn't have otherwise had.

After the success of the arms deal things got steadily worse. I should perhaps explain my use of the word "success" here. I refer, of course, to the government's success in covering up this grubby little episode, of getting rid of the whistle blowers within the party and of concealing all evidence of who received what as "commission". I doubt there has ever been a clean arms deal but ours apparently is exemplary. Except for the fact that we now have lots of expensive equipment that nobody knows how to use and that we are under economic attack in this country and not military attack.

It would be delusional for any South African to pretend that our corruption in this country is anything other than on an epic scale. Tax money that should have improved the lives of millions of South Africans these past 16 years has either been frittered away on nonsense like the arms deal and the FIFA World Cup (what are we going to do with all those expensive stadiums?) or disappeared into the bank accounts of the party faithful, often disguised as legitimate "tender" deals .

Sadly, there are no indications that anything will change which means only one thing. We are destined to go the same way as Zimbabwe. And Kiddie Amin could even be calling the shots (pun intended). So forgive me if I don't fall for all the Talk Radio Pollyanna schmaltz and celebrate Freedom day with you. I've got other things on my mind....such as survival.

Airport blogging: Cape Town

Cape Town airport is transformed, and what a piece of work. They've done a brilliant job of making the place world class in time for WC2010.



However, I've discovered I'm a big raaaaaaacist after all. Despite frequent loudspeaker warnings, one chap kindly left his luggage opposite me unattended for a good fifteen minutes. As he was a bit Arab-looking I got a bit nervous, but the luggage at no time exploded. Luckily for me.



Well. A bit of racial profiling never hurt anyone...

CoSAS: Close "Racist" Afrikaans Schools

So, Blacks are the "indigenous people of this country", hey? That's news to me.

from Ozzie Saffa:

Cosas Gauteng wants Afrikaans schools shut

These clowns are demanding that Afrikaans schools be closed down because they are "racist and non-indigenous". Hey, Cosas - when your black youth can match the academic achievement of the hard-working white, Afrikaaner youth then you can come and make demands. Your people are an embarrassment to Africa - even though you've been given every leg-up you still want what the whites have - because, despite all the odds and obstacles you put in their way, they still continue to achieve. Why don't you stick to doing what you're good at - burning down schools and libraries and protesting? I can guarantee you, that if the white Afrikaans kids didn't have classrooms and had to learn under trees, they'd still kick your butt!

The Congress of SA Students (Cosas) on Friday called for the closure of Afrikaans medium schools.


Cosas condemns any racial tendencies that seeks to close doors of learning for the black African students, who are indigenous people of this country and Africa at large by having foreign, unoriginal Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in some racist schools, more especially in the West Rand region under racist Afrikaners management," a statement from Gauteng provincial secretary Oagile Louw said.


"We therefore call... for the immediate closure of such schools."

The call was reminiscent of events that led up to the June 16 1976 clashes between pupils and police in Soweto. These, and the subsequent shootings of a number of schoolchildren, came during a march in protest against Afrikaans being used as a language of instruction at schools.

Quality education

Cosas also threatened to drive "disruptive" SA Democratic Teachers' Union (Sadtu) members off school premises saying they are not committed to offering quality education.

Cosas urged Sadtu leadership to "stop forming part of the furniture in their fancy offices" and to call their members to order.

Cosas sent good wishes to students preparing for the mid-year exams, saying they must stay away from fast food to maintain a healthy state of mind, use study groups and - even during the Soccer World Cup - must gather together in the spirit of the Cosas motto: "Each one Teach one."

Cosas also sent a message of support to ANC Youth League president Julius Malema, during his "difficult and trying times".

Malema's diary on Monday included a reported disciplinary hearing and an Equality Court complaint related to some of his public comments.

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