Yes, she was a wastrel and an adultress, but her husband, to whom she was married at age fifteen by her Austrian Empress mother to cement relations between Austria and France, was both impotent and fat.   Somewhat telling of her character, when she followed her husband to the guillotine during the French Revolution, her last words were an apology to the executioner, when she accidently stepped on his foot.

     I bring this up merely to employ that infamous phrase with regard to the starving people of Africa, particularly South Africa.   Not because I am insensitive, but because I wish to highlight the folly of the welfare mentality.

     On August 9, Brian Williams, the MSNBC anchor now slated to replace Tom Brokaw as NBC's network news anchor, penned an article entitled, "The Struggle to Survive in Malawi," referring to a small country near the southern tip of the African continent. Williams attributed the rampant starvation in Malawi today to "years of bad harvest, erratic weather, and the devastation of AIDS."   He notes that these conditions are becomimg typical throughout Africa.

     But, as is so typical of the controlled media today, Mr. Williams neglected to note that this famine has been self-inflicted.   In particular, he didn't say a word about how the vast farms of South Africa, which fed Africans until recently, now lie fallow.   The reason for his failure to mention this situation is the fact that it is the black Africans who at fault.

     White South African farmers, so productive that they had been supporting far more than the population of their own country, have been removed from their farms, if not killed outright, due to the racist policies of the black South African government.

     "Kill the Boer, kill the farmer," a phrase first uttered by African National Congress (ANC) member of Parliament Peter Mokaba, is the mantra now shouted aloft by crowds of blacks at all manner of public meetings and demonstrations. The South African Human Rights Commission maintains that this slogan is not hate speech, but merely a manifestation of the "constitutional rights to free speech."

     More than 1,300 South African farmers & farm workers and their families have now been nurdered by roving bands of young African blacks, while authorities have literally stood by and watched, in what is nothing more than "ethnic cleansing," a euphemism for genocide.

     The remaining white South Africaners are unable to leave their country because other countries, notably including the United States of America, erect impassible immigration barriers to whites, while allowing a flood on nonwhites across their borders.

     You don't hear about the carnage in South Africa because it is politically incorrect to note the murder of whites by blacks anywhere in the world today.   South African President Thabo Mbeki calls the execution of farm owners and workers, "the final stage of the revolution."   Final because, presumably, they are now running out of white people to slaughter.

     In the article referenced above, Brian Williams states that "donations keep these people alive.   The U.S.A. is the single largest doror, but there is only enough food to feed 500,000 people, just one sixth of what they need."   Touching, indeed, but not nearly the whole story, as we see by bringing in the South African connection.

     And, of course, those TV commercials depicting the fly-ridden, emaciated black children of Africa fail to note that these kids would be well fed if the white South African farmers had been left alone.

     Let them eat cake.

     I know that those kids didn't kill the farmers and slaughter the livestock and cut up the farms to squat on and eat the seed corn in the sheds and so on, but there is a limit to those for whom I will feel responsible.   Just now, we have malnourished children in America, for example.

     African blacks, both those in the government and those in the death squads are responsible.   They have killed their golden-egg-laying goose and have nobody to blame but themselves for today's lack of food.

     Let them eat cake.

  '   Of course, we in America who were so instrumental in driving whites out of political power in South Africa must shoulder some responsibility, too.   However, American Liberal Leftists, formerly so adamant about boycotting companies doing business with South Africa, are now weeping and wailing over the starving children of Malawi, yet continue to support the position of the black South African government and the South African Human Rights Commission on the execution of white farmers and their families, including many of their children.   Leftwing Liberals in the U.S.A., while expressing grief over the starvation of black children in Malawi, certainly show no concern about the murder of white children in South Africa.

     Now we are expected to feed Africa, though that continent possesses the most verdant soil in the world--soil which, if cultivated properly, could serve as breadbasket to the rest of the human race.

     Just as we have created a welfare class in America, which will persist so long as we continue the handouts, and which is an undeniable magnet to hordes of illegal immi- grants, now we are expected to extend that mentality to other countries, as well.   It isn't working here.   It won't work there.

     They wanted total self-determination.   Now they want all whites killed or driven from their countries while we open our borders to them.   Let them eat cake.

     "I didn't say it would be easy.   I just said it would be the truth." - Morpheus

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