Police in Kwazulu-Natal province have warned first year students to take extra precautions during their registrations. They are warned not to make any payments on a street or in vehicles. It is alleged that criminals are promising students entrance to universities and requesting the students to pay fees to them. They allegedly take the students to their vehicles where the payments are done. The suspects will issue students with replica registration forms and a student number belonging to someone else making the deal look legitimate. The student is then sent home and told to come back with the balance of the money for the chosen courses.
On Wednesday, 15 January 2014 Berea police received information about this scam in the area and they initiated an investigation. A 26-year-old man was arrested and was found in possession of fraudulent documents used to carry out this scam. The suspect was charged with fraud and was detained in the Berea police cells. We believe that more suspects will be arrested for operating this scam. The suspect is due to appear in the Durban Magistrate’s Court soon. Police have appealed to any other person who has fallen victim to this scam to report the incident to their local police station. – SA Police media service
Barack Hussein Obama at war and George W. Bush at war: How does the 44th president of the United States differ from the 43rd?
If nothing else, former Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has settled that question. Bush sent troops to fight futile battles without flinching; Obama did the same with some reservation.
Hardly a peacemaker, Obama questioned the mission in Afghanistan and was skeptical of the military brass’s motivation in securing for itself—to the detriment of the grunts on the ground—a long-term commitment to the theatre of war in that country.
Like Obama, 82 percent of Americans oppose the war the president is being panned for having embraced publicly, but agonized over privately. On Afghanistan, Obama is more aligned with the American people—and the truth—than the former defense secretary and his Republican champions.
This I say with reluctance. I awarded Barack Obama brownie points thrice in his tenure: for doing not a thing about the 2011–2012 protests in Iran, for ceasing the criminalization of cancer and AIDS patients for their medicinal use of illegal substances, and for breaking with Bush and his neocons in refusing to step on the Russian Bear’s claws. Obama scrapped the missile-defense shield in Russia’s backyard.
Yet this revelation in Gates’ “Duty,” a book that hangs on one hook, has Republicans gurgling with pleasure. Limitless is the GOP’s zest and zeal for ignoring the negative right of the American people to be free of the Sisyphean (and Jacobean) struggle to save the world.
If anything, it sounds as though Gates might have had misgivings of his own about the missions in which his “soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines” were dying for nothing.
A bereft Gates tells of “evening sessions” during which he’d write condolence letters “to the families of service members killed in action.” There “probably wasn’t a single evening in nearly 4 1/2 years when I didn’t — when I didn’t weep,” he confessed. Gates relates how focused he became “on the strain on our troops and on their families.” After all, “they’d been at war for 10 years.” “My highest priority,” he averred in an interview with NPR, was “trying to avoid new conflict … in terms of recommending against intervention in Libya,” and expressing “concerns about going to war in Syria, much less in Iran.”
It just seemed to me that some of the areas where we were looking at potential conflict were more in the category of wars of choice. And it was those that I was trying to protect the troops from.
Having fought for the survival of his people—and never to democratize or “save” another—Ariel Sharon was far less of a study in contradictions than poor Mr. Gates. The former Israeli prime minister died on Jan. 11, after languishing in a vegetative state for 8 years.
Seared in my mind as a child growing up in Israel is a 1973 image of the late Ariel Sharon. He is on the western bank of the Suez Canal in Egypt, head bandaged because of an injury sustained in combat. What is he doing? Winning. Sharon was beating back an enemy that came close to vanquishing Israel.
Ariel Sharon led his men into battle and won the 1973 Yom Kippur War in which the Israeli government and the intelligence failed miserably. He himself had said that “his greatest military success came during that war, during which he surrounded Egypt’s Third Army and, defying orders, led 200 tanks and 5,000 men over the Suez Canal, a turning point.”
Had Sharon himself not performed military miracles, who knows if Israelis, myself included, would have survived? How many Americans can point to a leader who had actually saved their lives, rather than send other men to die in foreign lands, and then propagandize his countrymen about having fought for their freedoms?
As a Special-Forces commander, Sharon was on the front—and in front of his men—performing daring assaults that saved Israel in both the 1967 and 1973 wars.
Pugnacious and tenacious, “Arik” Sharon was nothing if not controversial. Hated though he was abroad, Sharon was, nevertheless, a soldier in the style of “Stonewall” Jackson, not Dubya the Deserter, to whom he and the Likudniks were often compared.
Agree or disagree with the methods and politics of this titanic personality—it is unarguable that Sharon’s overriding concern was with the survival and security of the Jewish state: he saw himself as bearing a “historic responsibility” for “the fate of the Jewish people.” By contrast, Bush’s Wilsonian, global missionary movement to rid the world of “evildoers” related not even tangentially to the future and safety of the American people.
Unlike George Bush the internationalist, “Arik” Sharon was a fierce nationalist, who put his country and its people first.
As with so many of our military men—cast adrift by the policies of Rome-on-the-Potomac—Mr. Gates would be less of a mess had he, too, been able to lead his men into wars of necessity, instead of charging headlong into unjust “wars of choice.”
The South African Police Service (SAPS) now wants to refer the Renate Barnard affirmative action case to the Constitutional Court. Yesterday, court papers were served on Solidarity which is representing Barnard. Solidarity will oppose the SAPS’s application for leave to appeal.
‘Solidarity is shocked by the SAPS’s decision to defend its unlawful race practices all the way to the Constitutional Court,’ Dirk Hermann, Solidarity’s Executive Officer said in a statement. According to Hermann, the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein passed an excellent judgment that balances the rights of all. ‘We get the impression that the SAPS believes that affirmative action annuls the constitutional rights to equality and dignity of white employees like Barnard. Should that be the case, then affirmative action would have a higher authority than the Constitution itself. This would imply that South Africa is an affirmative action state and not a constitutional state. We are of the opinion that an appeal to the Constitutional Court is inappropriate. The SAPS should abide by the Supreme Court of Appeal’s judgment.’
Hermann says the greatest injustice brought about by this is the time it is taking to get justice for Barnard. ‘She has been fighting for justice for the past 8 years, and a constitutional court application will simply delay this process even more. She exudes passion to serve the South African public, and surely something is patently wrong if the colour of her skin is the only stumbling block preventing her to live out her calling.’
Hermann added that although Solidarity believes that, for Barnard’s sake, it is inappropriate to refer this matter to the Constitutional Court, it will be advantageous for South Africa to obtain legal certainty about these burning issues in the highest court.
In November, the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein ruled in favour of Solidarity and Barnard. The SAPS was ordered to pay the costs associated with the litigation in the Labour, Labour Appeal Courts as well as in the Supreme Court of Appeal, as well as Barnard’s backdated remuneration.
Barnard’s affirmative action struggle began as far back as 2005. Twice, she had applied for the same position. In both instances she was found to be the best candidate and the interviewing panel recommended her appointment. The position was, however, left vacant. The position was advertised a third time, but was scrapped after she had again applied for it.
The SAPS stats confirm that towards the end of 2014, we will have had 650,000 homicides since 1994.
Here are the facts:
SAPS reports show 392,886 (56.65 per day) murders in last the 19 years. During the 2012/2013 year they reported 16,259 (44.54 per day).
SAPS reports show 221,273 (31.91 per day) cases of culpable homicide in the 18 years up to 2011/2012. During the 2011/2012 year they reported 11,788 (32.26 per day).
Our homicide rate per capita is 11.5 times higher than the gun crazy USA, and we are ranked top 5 in the world under the most homicidal countries.
In the SAPS crime report for 2012/2103, there was NO mention of culpable homicide (the killing of another human being) under “serious crimes”, “contact crimes” or anywhere in the entire report.
Taking an estimate of the 2012/2013 cases of culpable homicide (12,300) and a forecast for the combined murders and culpable homicides in 2013/2014 (28,000), we will pass 650,000 homicides by late this year, 90 per day since 1994.
Culpable homicide
Why remove 12,300 unlawful deaths from the crime statistics, surely this is a serious crime and should be reported directly below murder? (Previously culpable homicide was reported in the bottom half of the report under “negligent and ill treatment of children”)
Why is our murder rate reported excluding culpable homicide and compared to international homicide rates that include culpable homicide?
In our country you can be executed in your home during a robbery (eg Father Louis Blondel) and it will be recorded as culpable homicide which means your death will not even make it only the crime stats. If this was America it would be recorded as “non-negligent homicide” which together with “murder” is the reported murder rate over there. Apples with apples?
The matric pass rate is reported excluding all the students who drop out. Similarly, South Africans being murdered are excluded from the crime stats and the murder rate. It’s not difficult to draw conclusions from this…
On 11 January 2014, the Durban Flying Squad, Durban Tactical Response Team and Public Order Police made a breakthrough when they arrested five suspects for car hijackings that occurred in various Durban suburbs. The suspects were arrested for crimes committed in Merebank, Wentworth, Westville and Verulam. The five men were arrested in Umlazi and four vehicles were recovered in the Umlazi Township.
On 7 January 2014 at about 21:30, a 35-year-old female was threatened with a firearm and a knife while entering her house in Merebank and hijacked of her Toyota Conquest. A 25-year-old woman was hijacked of her VW Polo at knifepoint in Merewent on 10 January 2014 and another 25-year-old was threatened with high calibre firearms and robbed of her Renault Clio and handbag. The men have also been accused of stealing a Toyota Avanza in Verulam on 11 January 2014. Police seized a 9mm firearm with its serial number filed off from one of the suspects as well as toy gun that they allegedly used in the hijackings. Five suspects aged between 19 and 22 will be charged for three counts of hijacking, possession of unlicensed firearm and theft of motor vehicle. They will appear in Durban Magistrates Court soon. We are still looking for one other member of the gang who is from Umlazi and we believe that these men will be linked to other hijacking cases in the Durban area.
The KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant General Mmamonnye Ngobeni commended police for the breakthrough. “The arrest of these criminals is a massive achievement for police and we believe it will contribute to our efforts in reducing the incidents of hijacking in Durban and surrounding areas,” she said. – SAPS news service
On Thursday, 9 January 2014 members of the Durban Flying Squad Narcotics Task Team brought down another two drug dealers in the Durban area. The two were arrested in two separate busts in different suburbs and police seized rock cocaine, ecstasy and dagga from both men to the street value of more than R46 500-00. They are expected to appear in court soon.
At 13:15 the members were patrolling at Seaview area in Bellair when they followed up information about drugs in the area. The members proceeded to Bridge road where they searched a house and found rock cocaine and 600 ecstasy tablets to the street value of more than R44 000. The suspect (37) was immediately arrested and detained for possession of drugs.
After officers from the Narcotics Task Team had completed their duties at Montclair they proceeded to Westcliff area in Chatsworth. At 16:30 they searched another house at Domino street, Westcliff and recovered 512 grams of dagga. The suspect(44) was also arrested and detained on charges of possession of drugs. The value of the drugs seized is estimated at R2 500-00.
The Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant General Mmamonnye Ngobeni congratulated the Narcotics Task Team for the arrest of these notorious drug dealers. “I am pleased that the Flying Squad Narcotics Task Team has once again proved that reports in certain media that we are not serious about dealing with drug peddlers was rash and unfounded. We have the most committed individuals that are in the forefront of the fight against drugs and their results have been consistent over the years. In the absence of any interventions by other role-players, police still remain committed to fighting this battle” she said. – SA Police Media Service
The BBC reports that “a man who ate another man’s flesh in the Central African Republic has told the broadcaster that he was seeking ‘revenge’ for the murder of family members”.
The man, who calls himself “Mad Dog”, was in a Christian mob who attacked a Muslim in the capital Bangui.
He said he had been “angry” because Muslims killed his pregnant wife, his-sister-in law and her baby.
At least 1,000 people have been killed since violence broke out in the Christian-majority country in December.
Tens of thousands have also been forced to flee their homes in the sectarian conflict.
‘Magic’ powers
“Mad Dog” told the BBC’s Paul Wood he had seen his victim sitting on a minibus and decided to follow him.
More and more people joined him until he was at the head of a mob of some 20 youths, he said.
They forced the bus driver to stop and dragged the Muslim man out on the street, where he was beaten and stabbed before being set on fire.
Footage of the incident shows “Mad Dog” eating the man’s leg.
According to eyewitnesses, no-one tried to intervene.
Some people in the Central African Republic wear amulets containing the flesh of men they have killed because they believe it makes them invincible. – extract from bbc.co.uk
“Us against al-Qaida”: This has been—still is—the narrowly conceived narrative among neoconservatives. As the politically provincial neoconservative foreign-policy paradigm has it, those were the forces that played out in the Benghazi affair, in which the American mission was left undefended, resulting in the slaughter of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans (who, given the pecking order in the Empire, generally go unnamed).
Hillary Clinton, the woman who cracked the whip at Foggy Bottom at the time, had clearly resolved to run the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya, as one would an open community center. This was meant to signal that her war on Libya had been a success, when in fact Hillary’s adventure there had as much “host-nation support” as George Bush’s faith-based forays into Iraq and Afghanistan.
Indeed, “a central figure in the attack,” reports David D. Kirkpatrick of the New York Times, “was an eccentric, malcontent militia leader, Ahmed Abu Khattala.” Once persecuted and imprisoned by Gadhafi, Abu Khattala is a Libyan Islamist from the el-Leithi region, who considers “the United States not far behind Col. Gadhafi on his list of infidel enemies.”
Understandably, Fox-News neocons have been fuming over “A Deadly Mix in Benghazi,” Kirkpatrick’s exposé in the Times. In their focused blindness, Republicans believe religiously that, to quote Kirkpatrick, “Mr. Stevens died in a carefully planned assault by al-Qaida to mark the anniversary of its strike on the United States 11 years before.” Accordingly, the Obama administration has been “covering up evidence of al-Qaida’s role to avoid undermining the president’s claim that the group has been decimated, in part because of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.”
Uncovered by The Times’ investigation, however, was a very different reality in Benghazi—”murkier than either of those story lines suggests. Benghazi,” contends Kirkpatrick, “was not infiltrated by Al Qaeda, but nonetheless contained grave local threats to American interests. The attack does not appear to have been meticulously planned, but neither was it spontaneous or without warning signs.”
In particular are neoconservatives fulminating over the findings that “turned up no evidence that al-Qaida or other international terrorist groups had any role in the assault,” and that “the attack was led, instead, by fighters who had benefited directly from NATO’s extensive air power and logistics support during the uprising against Col. Gadhafi.”
How can that be? Easily: The history of Libya is festooned with similar ransacking and burning of consulates by angry local mobs. Alas, in the ignorance it cultivates about the past, America is Cicero’s perpetual child. By the definition of the great Roman statesman, “Not to know what happened before one was born is to be always a child.”
Based on the annals of U.S. intervention in the region, it is fair to say that, to the extent the American-made video lampooning Islam triggered the hatred harbored by the invaded Libyans for the invading Americans—to that extent it is true that the YouTube clip, more so than the mythical al Qaida, was a catalyst for the attack on our embassy in Benghazi.
Still, the NYT has hardly been unsparingly honest. Rather, the Gray Eminence is as dishonest and politically provincial as the opposing faction.
Discounted in the Kirkpatrick essay is that al Qaida has devolved into many decentralized operations that mirror the aspirations of the indigenous population to be free of meddling Westerners—unless of course said militia and tribesmen (the Ansar al-Shariah, for example) can get us to bankroll their Baksheesh economy.
Predictably, the double-crossing neoconservative and neoliberal entities cross-pollinate each other.
So wrong was the Times on Iraq that the reporter who piped lies straight from the Bush White House to her Times readers was recruited to Fox News: She is Judith “Chalabi” Miller. (Ahmed Chalabi was the Iraqi exile who agitated for American intervention in Iraq. In the ramp-up to war, Chalabi fed Ms. Miller, the New York Times’ birdbrain now perched at Fox News, with the pro-invasion “intelligence” she then presented to the public.)
The facts in the Benghazi affair have likewise been unwoven and retied into two contradictory narratives to suit the respective sides.
Think of lab rats racing through a maze, as you watch the sub-intelligent, dual-panel “dialogue” conducted on the teli. Hosts Stephanie Cutter (left-wing, social-democratic rat) and S. E. Cupp (right-wing, social-democratic rat): Each rat runs with a designated, neatly bifurcated (Republican or Democratic) political orthodoxy. Each is a “maze-bright” rat, and not the possessor and giver of any truth.
“Left” and “right” are bamboozling you on Benghazi.
The highest court in France has reinstated a ban on a show by controversial comic Dieudonne M’bala M’bala, just before it was due to open.
Interior Minister Manuel Valls appealed to the Council of State to intervene minutes after a judge in the city of Nantes overturned the ban.
The comic has seven convictions for anti-Semitic hate speech.
He has already arrived at the theatre in Nantes, where more than 5,000 people were due to see the show.
Police have deployed outside the venue as a precaution. The verdict was greeted with boos and chants of Dieudonne’s name by those who had gathered to see the show.
On his Facebook page, Dieudonne appealed to those gathered outside Nantes’ Zenith theatre to return peacefully to their homes, saying he had been denied permission to address them.
He said that on Friday he would post a new video on his YouTube channel.
The judge in Nantes had earlier said he did not regard the show, entitled The Wall, as having “an attack on human dignity as its main object”.
But the Council of State upheld the ban on Thursday’s performance, the first on a scheduled tour, despite a challenge by the comic’s lawyers saying his freedom of expression had been breached.
The council cited the risk to public order in its reinstatement of the ban.
The president of the World Jewish Congress, Ronald Lauder, had called on France to “confront this preacher of hate head on”.
The government can be satisfied that a man they regard as a dangerous anti-Semite has been kept from the public arena, the BBC’s Hugh Schofield reports from Paris.
Dieudonne’s supporters will say it is just more evidence of how he and his ideas are silenced by the system, he adds.
‘Peddlers of hate’
French media who have sent reporters to previous performances of the The Wall say it contained a string of derogatory references to Jews.
Speaking on Thursday from Brittany, Mr Valls said that “peddlers of hate stop at nothing and show boundless creativity”.
“Faced with this creativity of hate, should we do nothing? Certainly not. The status quo is not a solution,” he said.
The French government made a concerted effort to stop the tour after Dieudonne was recorded making remarks about Jewish journalist Patrick Cohen.
“When I hear him talking, I say to myself: Patrick Cohen, hmm… the gas chambers… what a shame,” Dieudonne was recorded as saying. – extract from bbc.co.uk
I must admit that I did not expect Georgina Guedes to do it. But then, maybe I underestimated the impact my column had on her. For her subsequent reaction speaks volumes about her desperate attempt to silence me… and all other Red October supporters once and for all.
Unfortunately it is, even in our day and age, still very easy to silence someone. All you have to do is pull the Holocaust card. This card still trumps all others. It is the Royal Flush of the moral poker of our Zeitgeist. Whoever pulls this card is guaranteed to win the game… solely by way of implicitly accusing his/her opponent of complicity (by association) in the horrors of Auschwitz.
And this is exactly what Georgina did in her critique of my column. Her play was narrative crudity at its best. She simply focused in on the Jewish genes of Nadine Gordimer. Something which I never even mentioned, simply because it was neither relevant in/to the context of my argument, nor does her, Gordimer`s, ethnicity/race interest me in the least. I specifically stated that Gordimer represents the interests of the British upper-class in Mandelatopia. Yet it provided Georgina with the golden opportunity to use the Holocaust card.
Why? Well, the Holocaust card still has the ability to blind all and sundry to the horrors that occurred before and after Auschwitz. It is the ultimate card played by Anglo-Saxon liberals when the Hillbilly-card and the race card have zero effect anymore. It is their way of telling the rest of humanity to simply shut up, for only they know best… what is best, for all.
And it is the moral weapon of choice of the British upper-class when it comes to deflecting all criticism from its unsavory role in history during the oh so glorious days of the British Empire — an epoch which saw the Brits invade nine out of every ten countries on the planet.
It suffices to say that the conquered did not appreciate their de facto enslavement by the Crown. Yet many Brits still yearn for those “glorious” days of old… when they, according to their moral rationale, “civilized” the world. Now obviously there were some positive aspects to British colonization, but woe beholds all non-Brits who use the exact same moral rationale to point to positive aspects of other forms of domination, like Apartheid, for example. For if you do so, the Brits automatically pull the Holocaust card.
Even more hypocritical is the fact that Cecil John Rhodes, one of the champions of the British Empire, was even more morally depraved than Hitler himself. According to Rhodes;
“I contend that we British are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race. Just fancy those parts that are at present inhabited by the most despicable specimens of human beings what an alteration there would be if they were brought under Anglo-Saxon influence.”
“… despicable specimens of human beings… ?” Did he mean Africans, or the French, or the Chinese, or the Boers? Whatever his depravity; one thing is for sure, Hitler, as we know, at least liked white people. Rhodes on the other hand, hated all those who were not British… including all other whites on the planet. Yet his name and fame live on as if he were a benign being at heart, a hero. We have a Rhodes University in Mandelatopia, and innumerable statues and street names honouring him. A Rhodes scholarship is one of the most prestigious in the country.
Now just imagine a Hitler University, or a Hitler Scholarship. Just imagine if, for example, the half-wit pseudo-intellectual hobby gay-porn writer Eusebius McKaiser had instead received a Hitler Scholarship to study philosophy at Oxford. Maybe then the British visa/customs authorities would have taken a closer look at McKaiser`s past, especially given that little girl’s skeleton in his closet. But then, the victor writes morality, and little lackeys like McKaiser tag along merrily.
Be that as it may; Guedes’s attempt to silence me and, by association, all Red October supporters, back-fired beautifully. For not only has support for this peaceful movement grown exponentially, but the true face of anti-Semitism in Mandelatopia has revealed itself at one of the very tertiary institutions founded by the ever-so-innocent British upper-class, Wits University.
During a recent performance by an Israeli artist at Wits University, members of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) sang the Dubula iJuda (Shoot the Jew) song. Ha-ha… it used to be Shoot the Boer but now the wheel has turned — thanks to the ever-patronizing attitude of the British elite towards the locals of South Africa — the blacks, Coloureds and the Boer.
I wonder why Guedes did not pull the Holocaust card on these people, for they richly deserve it. But no; only the Boers are all aspiring Auschwitz camp guards, eternally. Little does the little MSM half-wit know that the Boers were the first to provide military assistance to the Jews fighting to ground their Heimat after their millennia-long Diaspora… which included their 350-year long expulsion from Britain.
But then; who cares that the Boer never harmed the Jew in South Africa? Who cares that the Boer was the best friend of the state of Israel? Who cares that the Jew became the richest group in South Africa during Apartheid? Who cares that the former Israeli Foreign Minister recently advised all Jews in Mandelatopia to flee to Israel? Who cares that England was the first European nation to require Jews to wear a marking badge? And who cares that the British upper-class physically banned Jews from Britain for a period seven times longer than the entire duration of Apartheid?
Nobody cares. Just blame the Boer. Just blame Dr Dan Roodt, Steve Hofmeyer, Sunette Bridges and all the Red October supporters. Just use the full might of Her Majesty’s MSM newspapers in Mandelatopia to hound them like an oh so sporting fox-hunt back on the sacred soil of the country upon which “God`s sun would never set”. Just keep on slaughtering those elderly Boer farmers like animals… they are all Hitler’s spawn anyway, period!
Who cares about the truth? Nobody in the Mandelatopian MSM, it would seem. Especially not those black journalists now working for Her Majesty.
All is just fine and dandy in the Queen’s backyard. Mandela`s inner-circle blacks have all been co-opted — as has the Afrikaner elite. The “dumb Dutchman” farmer Boers are still feeding the Great Unwashed… who have to slave away in Her Majesty`s gold, diamond and platinum mines in order to eke out a living in a world which Her money-mongers forced them into with Her hut and dog tax, in those glorious old days of the oh so benign British Empire.
Thank goodness the Natives are still not too restless, after even more than a century of bondage. No annus horribilis like in Zimbabwe… goodness me, have some more tea. Simply use MSM minions to silence the likes of Boer Albert Brenner and Bikoist Zolisa Socrates Soji. It’s all too easy…
Who cares that South Africa is a failed state in the making? The Queen’s cup still runneth over. Nothing to see here; just move along, as if nothing is awry — whilst blaming those “Jew-hating” Red October supporters. Just keep that stiff MSM moral upper lip. It is all so easy to keep the foot of the Queen on the neck of these people — Boer and Black. What military metal did a century ago, Anglo-Saxon morality is doing now. And if Her subjects dare rebel against their bondage, just say they are in league with Lucifer/Hitler.
For as long as the Holocaust card still trumps all others, all Good & Evil — past, present and future — remains the sole moral property of the Monarch of England.
Alleged flier found on the scene threatening violence against blacks, from the pro-black site “Race Lies”
Fliers with racial slurs have been found scattered throughout the city of Lancaster for the past few weeks, reports KABC. Now the search is on for the person who made them. They include hateful and threatening messages aimed at minorities.
A racist flier, too graphic to show, is circulating in Lancaster. It uses a racial slur and makes serious threats. L.A. County sheriff’s detectives say the flier started showing up in various Lancaster neighborhoods about two weeks ago.
“At this point we are investigating it as a hate incident,” said sheriff’s deputy Miguel Ruiz. “Fliers have been posted throughout the city specifically targeting African-Americans with derogatory terms and racial slurs.”
Some of the threats include warning people of color that if they show up around certain addresses in Lancaster they will be shot.
“We’ve investigated those specific locations. One of them specifically is a vacant home, so there is no one there at that residence. So don’t feel incited that those specific addresses are the people involved with these fliers,” said Ruiz.
“In these days, in this city, it’s atrocious and has the city concerned,” said Darren Parker, Antelope Valley Human Relations Commission.
Detectives say the flier could have initially been put out as part of some neighborhood dispute before it spread throughout Lancaster. They hope to close in on a suspect soon.
Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris says the city and sheriff’s department will not tolerate racist, hate-filled threats of any kind.
“What people have to understand: The moment you elevate it to a hate crime we put more resources into that than if it’s a murder, and right now we have more deputies working on this than we do some unsolved murders,” said Parris.
After a shooting killing at least one man, the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Taxi Violence Task Team Unit is appealing to all passengers who were in a taxi that was attacked at Ntuzuma to come forward so that statements will be taken from them regarding the incident. Witnesses can contact the investigating officers, Major Welile Ximba at 082 463 3002 or Warrant Officer Madoda Bhengu at 072 213 3802. Investigating offices can also be contacted at their offices at Durban South Old Area office at Isipingo.
On 6 November 2013 at approximately 05:00 a taxi driver was loading passengers at Nhlungwana bus stop, Ntuzuma just outside Durban when unknown two men came and allegedly opened fire towards the taxi. One passenger, Vincent Gumede (44) was shot and killed instantly. A second passenger was also wounded during the attack and was rushed to Poly Clinic for treatment. The alleged attackers fled the scene after the shooting. A case of murder and attempted murder was opened at Ntuzuma police station for further investigation. The motive of the attack is suspected to be taxi related conflict in the area. No arrest has been made yet.
Empangeni police assisted by Empangeni K9 Unit reacted to a house robbery complaint at Odondolo area near Empangeni in the early hours of this morning. The members were given the description of two vehicles used by the suspects as getaway vehicles. A white VW Golf fitting the same description given to the members was spotted in the area with two suspects. The two suspects were immediately arrested and charged with house robbery. A second vehicle, a white Corsa bakkie was later seen at Esikhawini area with one occupant. He was also arrested and charged with house robbery. All arrested suspects aged between 16 and 27 years will appear in the Empangeni Magistrates’ Court soon.
In the early hours of this morning, 7 January 2014 at approximately 4:00 the victim was at home at Odondolo area near Empangeni when he was approached by three armed man. They allegedly threatened him with firearms and took goods such as TVs, cellphones, clothing and shoes to the value of more than R30 000. The suspects fled the scene in their two getaway vehicles. A case of house robbery was opened at Empangeni police station and the description of the alleged getaway vehicles was circulated to the members on patrols in the area.
KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner, Lieutenant General Mmamonnye Ngobeni commended the swift reaction by the members that led to the arrest of these alleged criminals and the recovery of vehicles used during the commission of an offence. The recovered vehicles will be investigated to establish if they were not used in any other house robberies in and around the area. The arrested suspects will be profiled as well to establish if they are not wanted for other crimes in the province. “We are committed to eradicating criminal activities in the province of KwaZulu-Natal and confident that the impact of these arrests will result in the reduction of the serious and violent crimes during and beyond the festive season,” she said. – SAPS news service
A district court in the US has ruled German companies could not be held responsible for the atrocities committed by the former apartheid regime in South Africa. The decision came after years of legal disputes.
German carmaker Daimler and defense group Rheinmetall could not be linked to any atrocities committed by the apartheid government in South Africa , a judge ruled in the US.
New York District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin made it clear the two German companies could not be sued for compensation under a US law known as the Alien Tort Statute. This allows non-US citizens to bring cases before a court in the United States if they see a violation of international law.
Predominantly South African plaintiffs, victims of racial segregation and violence in the country, maintained that Daimler, Rheinmetall and other firms had supported the apartheid regime through their close business ties with the South African government in the 1970s and 1980s, including the sale of cars and munitions.
Questions remain
A spokesman for the two German companies hailed the ruling, welcoming the legal clarity that had finally been established after years of fierce recriminations.
“We hope that this decision will finally bring to an end more than ten years of legal dispute,” Daimler said in a statement.
But the US judge did not immediately dismiss similar claims made against US companies Ford Motor and IBM, who were not immediately available for comment. – Deutsche Welle
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