{"id":3969,"date":"2013-02-22T15:54:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T15:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3969"},"modified":"2013-02-22T15:54:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T15:54:21","slug":"blade-runner-killing-and-the-media-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3969","title":{"rendered":"Blade runner killing and the media blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Ilana Mercer<\/p>\n

After decades of indifference from America\u2019s infotainment industry, imagine my surprise to hear TV anchors like Megyn Kelly of Fox News allude to the killing fields of South Africa.<\/p>\n

South Africa should be in the news every day. It isn\u2019t. Scant few among the West\u2019s Yellow Press care to chronicle the country\u2019s favorite blood sport: murder. The Afrikaners, in particular \u2013 arguably that country\u2019s founding people \u2013 are being killed off at genocidal rates with nary a murmur from the media \u2013 although the same crowd is on the scene to report on Nelson Mandela\u2019s every wheelchair-bound move.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0Genocide Watch<\/a>, South Africa under the African National Congress is now at stage 5 of the 8 stages of genocide. However, were it not for a little-known, heroic Internet journalist (cited in\u00a0\u201cInto the Cannibal\u2019s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa\u201d),<\/a>\u00a0few would know who the victims of this racial onslaught are and\u00a0how they die<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Soon jurist Alan Dershowitz was\u00a0chiming in about<\/a>\u00a0\u201chow dangerous\u201d life in South Africa was. Dershowitz even denigrated the country\u2019s judiciary as \u201ca very politically correct judiciary,\u201d \u201cfilled with people from the ANC and supporters of the ANC\u201d; most certainly \u201cnot one of the finer judiciaries in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

A subject that had been submerged since 1994 \u2013 the ramshackle state of post-apartheid South Africa \u2013 was suddenly being raised, if in veiled terms.<\/p>\n

The reason for the heightened awareness among the criminally comatose is Blade Runner Oscar Pistorius\u2019 run-in with the law. The Olympian amputee killed his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp, in what he contends was a case of mistaken identity. This being South Africa, the crime scene in suburban Pretoria is rumored to have been contaminated by the new and notorious South African Police Services. And the prosecutor has overreached, charging Pistorius, who has no priors, with premeditated murder.<\/p>\n

The high-profile murder is PC and TV perfect for a left-liberal media, in South Africa and beyond, that wish to peddle the myth of \u201ccolorless\u201d crime in South Africa. It is no such thing. In the aggregate, violence in the Rainbow Nation \u2013 more appropriately called the \u201cRambo Nation\u201d \u2013 is unidirectional: black on black and black on white. Violence against women generally flows in the same direction. Considering, moreover, that the country now has one of the world\u2019s highest murder rates and lowest conviction rates, a South Africa thug can safely pursue his vocation without fearing the consequences.<\/p>\n

South African authorities, universities and think tanks no longer provide information about victimization patterns by race of victim and offender. Nevertheless, in the research for\u00a0my book<\/a>, I uncovered data according to which, at 76.6 percent of the population, blacks committed 76.4 percent of \u201cintimate femicides\u201d (defined as \u201cthe killing of a female person by an intimate partner\u201d). And they committed 68.3 percent of \u201cnon-intimate femicides\u201d: \u201cthe killing of a woman by someone other than an intimate partner.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whites have proven woefully inadequate to the task of filling their pro-rata crime quotas (page 38). At less than 9 percent of the population and dwindling, the corresponding numbers for white South Africans were 3.9 and 2.6 percent, respectively.<\/p>\n

Order lIana Mercer\u2019s brilliant polemical work, \u201cInto the Cannibal\u2019s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

With respect to incarceration rates, whites \u201cunderperformed\u201d again. According to the South African Department of Correctional Services, 113,773 criminals had been sentenced as of June 2008, of whom only 2,190 were white. Whites make up only 1.9 percent of the number of sentenced criminals.<\/p>\n

Weighing in with 90,013 sentenced individuals \u2013 approximately 79.1 percent of the total number of criminals sentenced \u2013 blacks more than filled their per-population crime allotment.<\/p>\n

This high-profile celebrity case involves a class of people \u2013 wealthy white South Africans \u2013 whose role in the country\u2019s violent crime is statistically insignificant. Trust a hypocritical media to turn a statistical outlier, an anomaly, into a perfect foil for the continued blackout on the color of crime in South Africa.<\/p>\n

The incontinent gushing over Pistorius has given way to condemnation. Paranoid about security is how the athlete\u2019s \u201cobligingly stupid\u201d journo friends are now labeling him. They had only ever jetted in from low-crime or no-crime countries for an interview.<\/p>\n

More at home among the international glitterati, Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius is no Afrikaner \u201ceveryman,\u201d\u00a0says<\/a>\u00a0activist Dan Roodt, who is such a man. Even so \u2013 and for all his privilege \u2013 Pistorius knows the rapacity and invincibility of the criminal class in his country. Like every other Afrikaner, he knew in his gut what infiltrating gangs would do to a legless Boer. He had seen the mangled\u00a0images.<\/a><\/p>\n

Perhaps Pistorius will speak up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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