Fruits of majority rule in South Africa: called in to quell black crime

Until 1994, voting in South Africa was restricted to whites and "honorary whites" (like Japanese), with a limited franchise for "Asians" (= South Asians) and "coloured" (= people of mixed race). If you were black -- sometimes identifiable by the measurement of your lips -- you couldn't vote at all. This was just one aspect of the apartheid (= separate development) system for which South Africa condemned as hopeless neadnderthal racists by liberals and "right-thinking people" around the world.

All that changed on 27 April 1994 when all citizens were allowed to vote, regardless of colour. The result -- a foregone conclusion -- was just what the gliberals and United Nations demanded -- "majority rule". Saint Nelson Mandela became the first black president, and blacks -- the majority in question -- were at last empowered and given their rightful place at the trough. April 27th is now a national holiday -- "Freedom Day".

Those who suggested that the majority were perhaps "not quite ready" to run their country, and that South Africa would "go back to bush, like the countries north of the Limpopo" were dismissed as sore losers, churls, racists, yada yada yada.

In 1994, the murder rate in Cape Town, seat of South Africa's parliament, was on the order of 20 per 100,000 people. Not great, but also not as bad as places like, errr, Chicago. By Y2K it had shot up to 45 per 100,000. In the first six months of this year -- the 25th year of majority rule -- nearly 2000 people were murdered in the Western Cape (Cape Town's province), according to Albert Fritz, a provincial official tasked with ensuring community safety.

Mr Fritz spoke following more than a dozen murders over one weekend in June. "Many of our most vulnerable residents in the province are living in a war zone," he told the meeja. Most of the bloodshed has been in black and coloured areas, particularly a vast area called Cape Flats, where high rates of unemployment and drug abuse have fuelled gang activity.

In a crime made headlines last week, six women between ages 18 and 26 were killed when unknown gunmen entered a home and opened fire. The next day, another five men, aged 18 to 39, were shot dead and one was injured in two separate shooting incidents in Philippi, one of the shanty towns within Cape Flats.

Police Minister Bheki Cele visited Philippi following the "incidents" to announce that the national government will shortly deploy a battalion of soldiers to help police quell a surge in violence in gang-infested parts of Cape Town, a step normally only taken over the Christmas and New Year period when crime spikes in poorer neighbourhoods. This initiative will be known as "Operation PROSPER". Seriously.

Hardly a lasting solution, according to Gareth Newham, of the Pretoria-based Institute for Security Studies, who called it "a short-term, unsustainable response to a crisis." But what would he know? He's a whitey, obviously a racist living (in his mind) in pre-Freedom Day South Africa. Why doesn't he just leave, as so many other "white flees" have done and go to a safe place like, errr, Chicago.

Footnote: In a report this year by the The Citizens Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice, only three of the world's top 50 most dangerous cities not from the Americas 50 were in South Africa, with Cape Town at 11th overall with a homicide rate of 66.36 per 100,000 residents.

VIDEOS: Tucker Carlson: Omar proves US immigration laws dangerous

President Trump supports Tucker Carlson's comments about radical Democrat Congresswoman [Congressperson? Ed.] Ilhan Omar.



So does Walt.

[Hold on, Walt! We have an update! Ed.] Predictably, Ms Omar played the race card, accusing Tucker Carlson of racism, sexism, yada yada yada. Here is Mr Carlson's response.

Is this Islamophobic? Translation please!

Stories of crimes by "refugees", asylum-seekers and other -- mostly Muslim -- migrants appear in the European media every day. Particularly abhorrent are the rapes and murders of white women by Muslims from the shitholes of North Africa and the Middle East. Although I doesn't read Polish, I suspect the message of this poster is that Europeans are sick, sore and tired of having to put up with that kind of thing.

The poster appeared on Blazing Cat Fur today with a link to a story on SputnikNews headed "Gang Rape by Boys Aged 12, 14 Triggers Debate on Lowering Criminality Age in Germany". They report the victim -- an 18-year-old woman -- of a sexual assault by a five-strong gang of boys, aged from 12 to 14, was found nearly unconscious in the bushes in the industrial German city of Mulheim.

Although the SputnikNews story doesn't refer to the race, ethnicity or religion of the perps in either case -- reporting those things, or even the names of the accused, is verboten in the Fatherland -- most readers would jump [not very far. Ed.] to the conclusion that the yoofs were Muslim migrants.

But for now, all we know is that some of the "boys" will escape prosecution entirely, because the minimum age of criminal responsibility is 14 in Germany and several other European countries, and 15 in Scandinavia, where such occurrences are even more common. And yet, they are still still minors -- until the age of 18! -- in the eyes of the United Nations High Commission on Refugees.

The head of the German police union told the meeja, "For years we've been demanding that the age of criminal responsibility be lowered in Germany." The head of the German Association of Judges was quick to invoke political correctness. Hey, they're only kids! And Muslim kids at that! Show a little compassion...

Further reading:
"Iraqi asylum seeker, 22, is jailed for life for raping and murdering girl, 14, with 'exceptional severity' in case that sparked anti-migrant protests across Germany", Daily Mail 10/7/19.
"Mutter: 'Bringt mir meine Tochter nicht zurück'", Bild 10/7/19.

SORRY! Swiss aerial display team flies over yodeling festival by mistake

The following article was scraped off the Deutsche Welle website. We hope they won't mind. We repost it here, exactly as written. Any smart-aleck comments would be superfluous. Ed.

Switzerland's Patrouille Suisse squadron has apologized for making a fly-by over the wrong municipality. Instead of marking the centenary of an aviation pioneer's death, it startled visitors at a yodeling event.

The commander of the Swiss air force's aerobatics team has apologized after a fly-by on Saturday that was meant to have taken place over the birthplace of Swiss aviation pioneer Oskar Bider was held over a nearby municipality instead, Swiss media have reported.

The Patrouille Suisse squadron had been engaged to fly over Langenbruck, where Bider was born in 1891, but instead made its pass over Mümliswil, some 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) away, after the team leader was misled by seeing a tent for a yodeling festival.

The Swiss Defense Ministry was quoted by The Associated Press as saying that the formation had been distracted by an unauthorized helicopter in the area.

According to the Swiss paper Neue Zürcher Zeitung, an army spokesman said the error was not worrying. The newspaper quoted him as saying that the planes, all F-5E Tiger II jets, were more than 40 years old and navigated using "map, felt pen and sight."

The aircraft were not equipped with GPS devices or other modern technology and were no longer used for combat operations, he was quoted as saying.

Oskar Bider, who died in a crash on June 7, 1919, at the age of just 28, is famous, among other things, for having made the first aerial crossing of the Alps in both directions, a feat he accomplished in 1913.

VIDEO: What's wrong with relativism? Brian Holdsworth explains

The dictionary defintion of relativism is: the doctrine that knowledge, truth, and morality exist in relation to culture, society, or historical context, and are not absolute. In other words, there is no absolute right or wrong, no absolute good or evil, and, of course, no religion which possesses the whole and absolute truth about God (who may or may not exist) and our relationship with Him.

In this short video (7 minutes), Brian Holdsworth, the pride of St. Albert AB, takes a closer look at relativism, and why it's totally incompatible with being a Catholic. So also with socialism. You can't be a "Catholic socialist" or a "socialist Catholic", or, for that matter, a "liberal Catholic" or a "conservative Catholic". Can one describe oneself as a "traditional Catholic"? This video certainly got me thinking, so I commend it to you.

Thought for the day from Venerable Fulton J. Sheen

We last visited the cause for the canonization of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, officially opened in 2002, in November of 2013. See "Cause for beatification of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen to proceed", WWW 19/11/16. In June 2012, Pope Benedict XVI officially recognized a decree from the Congregation for the Causes of Saints stating that the prelate had "lived a life of heroic virtues" -- a major step towards beatification -- and was thus to be referred to as "Venerable."

There was then a dispute between the Diocese of Peoria, which was Abp. Sheen's home, and the Archdiocese of New York, where his earthly remains were interred at St Patrick's Cathedral. On June 7th, the final appeal by the Archdiocese of New York was rejected yet again by the New York Court of Appeals. With that definitive ruling, the Archdiocese of New York and the Diocese of Peoria cooperated in making arrangements for the transfer of the body to Peoria, according to Church and civil law.

And so, early in the morning of June 27th, the earthly remains of Archbishop Sheen were returned at last to the Diocese of Peoria and the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception, where he will be interred in a shrine prepared and waiting for him. Most Rev Daniel Jenky, Bishop of Peoria, announced that the cause for beatification had resumed. And on July 5th, Pope Francis approved a miracle that occurred through the intercession of Archbishop Sheen, clearing the way for his beatification.

Alternativ für Deutschland tipped to make big gains in fall elections

On the theory that one good picture of a right-handed salute (see yesterday's post about the Greek elections) deserves another, here's a photo of Björn Höcke, a rising star in the Alternativ für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany) party.

The AfD has been described as a right-wing party. [That's right! Ed.] Herr Höcke is the leader of a faction which is shifting the policies of the party even further to the right, to a position which the German state broadcaster, Deutsche Welle, describes as "hard nationalist". This division was manifest this weekend in an AfD conference in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, an AfD stronghold, which ended abruptly with the resignation of nine of the party's twelve board members.

The resignation left the state party under the control of deputy chairman Thomas Röckemann, a supporter of the Björn Höcke wing. Herr Höcke used his speech at the annual "Kyffhäuser" meeting to deny that immigrants had ever been economically beneficial to Germany. He told supporters that "the policy of open borders practiced for decades, ever since 1955, this irrational migration policy for which the old parties are responsible, has bled us financially, as if we had lost another war."

Elsewhere in the Fatherland, three eastern states -- Brandenburg, Saxony, and Thuringia -- are due to elect new parliaments in the fall. The AfD is currently polling in first or second place in all three states. Should be interesting!

Footnote: The part of the poster partially visible behind Herr Höcke in the photo reads (translated) "Our culture!" Sounds a lot like "Ein volk!", doesn't it.

Further reading: "One-worlders quake with fear as nationalists win elections everywhere", WWW 21/5/19.