Lou Pritchett's Open Letter to President Obama

Thanks to Alanorei for posting this link in the comments section earlier, I like it a lot and decided to give Mr Pritchett's astute comments more prominence.

AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA

by Lou Pritchett

Dear President Obama:

You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.

You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.

You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.

You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.

You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.

You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don't understand it at its core.

You scare me because you lack humility and 'class', always blaming others.

You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.

You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the 'blame America' crowd and deliver this message abroad.

You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.

You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one.

You scare me because you prefer 'wind mills' to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.

You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.

You scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion' tactics against certain banks and corporations.

You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.

You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.

You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient.

You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.

You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaughs, Hannitys, O'Relllys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.

You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.

Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.

Lou Pritchett

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About the author: Lou Pritchett, is a well-known public speaker who retired after a successful 36-year career as the VP World Sales for Proctor and Gamble.

Another "Change they can believe in"

Hawaiian paper filing system

The "change" in question, is yet another change of story by Obama and his supporters, previous stories having been shredded more rapidly than an Enron balance sheet in 2001.

It seems that the latest explanation going around for the fact that President Barry has not been able to produce a copy of his birth certificate is that the state of Hawaii discarded all paper records eight years ago, when they moved over to an electronic record keeping system.

This explanation is mentioned here by Right wing US Commentator Lou Dobbs at the beginning of a rather entertaining debate on the subject between Dobbs, Congressman Ted Poe, who is seeking to introduce legislation requiring Presidential election candidates to prove their Constitutional eligibly, and Roland Martin, an Obama supporting columnist, talk show host and author of "Speak Brother - A Black Man's View of America" who clearly believes that to win an argument one needs to shout louder than your opponent.

If what is being claimed is true, it would appear that Hawaii is claiming that it did not retain scanned or even microfilmed copies of the original documents, or official records of such fundamental information as hospital of birth, the occupations of a child's parents or the names of the attending doctor and midwife etc, who were present at (and witnessed) the birth. Information which would have appeared on any birth certificate issued to the parents of an American born child in the 1960's but missing from the "Certificate of Live Birth" produced by bodies friendly to Obama (albeit not by Obama himself, who has produced no paperwork whatsoever, other than cheques made payable to his lawyers).

Ignoring how devastating the loss of of such records would prove to future historians and genealogists, or indeed to those seeking the truth, it is not impossible to believe that a state would arbitrarily decide to shred such a vast historical archive, when so many electronic means of preserving it exist. However, the trouble is that, like so much in this Pantomime, the credibility of each new and improved story is undermined by the details of the one which came before it.

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If readers cast their mind back to October 2008 they may recall the above news release issued by the Hawaiian Governor's office on behalf of the alarmingly named Dr. Chiyome Fukino the Director of Health for the state of Hawaii.

In the statement Dr. Chiyome Fukino confirms that she and the registrar of vital statistics, Alvin Onaka, had personally verified that the health department holds Obama’s original birth certificate. (Dr. Fukino continues that no state official, including Republican Gov. Linda Lingle, ever instructed that Obama’s certificate be handled differently fgrom any others.)

In a separate statement it was argued that state law bars release of a certified birth certificate to anyone who does not have a tangible interest. - Which, of course, ignores the fact that Barry has a tangible interest in his own certificate, and, as president could demand its publication at any stage, if it exists, that way we would not have to rely on a document stating that another document exists, together with some scans of some 1961, birth announcements in which the print announcing little Barry's arrival is just a tad clearer than anything else on the page. (when people start producing "supporting evidence" whilst withholding the main evidence, you know they are hiding something)

However, putting that aside, if the latest story is to be believed, it would seem that in her statement, the good Hawaiian doctor was claiming to have personally verified a document which Hawaii had destroyed seven and a half years previously.

"Oh what a tangled web", as they say.

This issue is but one of many which go to the heart of the credibility of the man holding to most powerful job on the planet, yet who's background has been subjected to such limited scrutiny. Even if, as the latest excuse suggests, the original birth certificate was shredded in 2001 (coincidentally at the same time that the Enron shredders were doing over-time) that does not explain why the American president, who makes such an issue of his commitment to openness is so reluctant to be open about his own history.

Among the key documents and information which Obama continues to shield from the public are the following:

Obama released just one brief document detailing his personal health. McCain, on the other hand, released what he said was his complete medical file, totaling more than 1,500 pages.

Obama refused to offer his official papers as a state legislator in Illinois. Nor did he produce correspondence, such as his schedules of appointments or letters from lobbyists, from his days in the Illinois state Senate.

Obama did not release his client list as an attorney or his billing records. He maintained that he performed only a few hours of legal work for a nonprofit organization with ties to Tony Rezko, the Chicago businessman convicted of fraud in June 2008 but did not release billing records that would prove this assertion.

Obama ignored requests for his records from Occidental College, where he studied for two years before transferring to Columbia University.

Obama’s campaign refused to give Columbia, where he earned an undergraduate degree in political science, permission to release his transcripts. Former President George W. Bush and presidential contenders Al Gore and John Kerry all released their college transcripts.

Obama did not agree to the release of his application to the Illinois State Bar, which would have cleared up intermittent allegations that his application may have been inaccurate.

Obama did not release records from his time at Harvard Law School.

Release of his educational records, would of course bring to an end the rumour that he initially applied to study as a "foreign student", but yet again, Obama chooses not to disprove that rumour either. The reason can only be down to arrogance, or there is something he does not want us to know.

Many leaders before Obama have either promised change or have brought "change" to their countries, amongst them Hitler, Mau Zedong, Pol Pot and, of course Robert Muggabe., very little of which was the change which their besotted supporters were expecting. It seems that whatever changes Obama has planned for America, and I fear that they are significant, the ever changing excuses and cover stories are already coming thick and fast

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Update:

From the "Comments" section:

Seattle said...

It's as simple as asking why did "the One" block ALL of his records on his first day at office. Because if Hawaii "discarded" the original birth certificate, then all of the schools, colleges and universities he attended should have copies, am I right? It's so OBVIOUS what's happening here, it boggles the mind...

79 Year old South African Farmer shot dead by "Robbers"

I have updated the total number of white South African farmers who have been violently killed since the end of Apartheid to 3,064, following the murder of 79 year old farmer Bob Round who was was gunned down as he fought off three "robbers" who had broken into his property in the Shere Agricultural Holdings on Thursday July 23rd.

Mr Round's killing is the latest in a string of attacks on Pretoria homeowners which have left five seriously injured over the past the 12 days.

I will update this story with a news link as soon as I have one

The BBC hide the truth about alleged "honour" attack

Until recently, "honour killings", the murder by their own families or communities of Muslim women, or occasionally young Muslim men, who are considered to have brought dishonour in their family, their community or their religion, were unheard of in the West. However, as with so many of the darker sides of Alien cultures, these barbaric acts are a phenomenon with which we in Europe are becoming progressively more familiar, as the relentless invasion of our homeland continues.

According to StopHonourKillings.com, it is estimated that approximately twelve "honour" related murders take place in Britain each year. That estimate is probably on the cautious side, and certainly, with the ever growing East Asian and Middle Eastern communities in the country the level of honour related violence is increasing at an alarming rate.

In a horrific case, earlier this month, a young East Asian man, who was apparently born in Denmark, was viciously attacked in the Street in East London, allegedly because he had formed a friendship with a married Muslim woman. During the course of the attack the unfortunate victim was stabbed, hit with a brick and had sulphuric acid poured down his throat. He is currently in hospital, in a critical condition,. He has apparently lost most of his tongue, and it is feared he has been blinded in at least one eye.

The story is reported here in the Daily Mail, and also here in the Guardian.

Two East Asian males have been charged with attempted murder, and a further 16 year old "youth" has been arrested. That arrest is reported today by the BBC, but oh dear, how differently they present it.

No mention is made in the BBC report of the alleged motive for the crime, the ethnicity of those arrested is left unmentioned, and, so as to completely mislead the reader, the victim is merely referred to as "Danish". That they would call accurate and unbiased reporting?

Okay, you might say, the allegations remain unproven, it is a legitimate editorial decision to choose not to report them. However, even so, why the deliberate attempt to mislead the reader about the victim's race?

As we saw just last week, with the media's total failure to reveal the facts about the ongoing race riots in France, the once highly respected BBC, continues to hide the truth about its beloved but failed multicultural experiment from a still largely trusting public.

A picture you will not see in the Western press

Read the the facts behind this picture here

The Standards of a Multi-Culture

Affirmative Beauty

Miss England 2009 Rachel Christie

Given the lamentable lack of competitions where acres of pinched, pumped and painted male flesh is on public display, I seldom take much interest in beauty contests. As a result I had not particularly noticed that the 2009 “Miss England” contest was taking place, and was blissfully unaware of who the various contestants were.

Therefore, on first hearing that Rachel Christie (pictures above), the niece of the sometime disgraced, other time redeemed and always moody "black British" Olympic athlete Lindford Christie, had been voted the first ever black Miss England, I, like I am sure many others, took this to be further evidence of how brainwashed the British public have become by multiculturalism and political correctness.

Not only it seemed had the public chosen a black woman to represent the historically white nation of England, but the strictures of political correctness and inclusiveness, had meant that it was no longer a necessity for those selected as beauty queens to be in possession of any particular claim to personal beauty.

However, on further examination, it turns out that things are not quite as they first seemed. Apparently Ms. Christie was not selected as the result of a popular vote as was initially claimed. A popular vote did take place, however, that had very little impact on the eventual outcome. This became quite obvious when it transpired that, of the 10,000 odd votes cast by the public, Rachel Christie won a grand total of nine votes, placing her in 49th place in a field of 54.

It turns out that the public vote only guaranteed a single candidate a place in the final line up, it had no influence on the choice of winner or runners up. That decision was made by a panel of “professional” judges, who clearly applied different criteria to their decision as to what constitutes beauty.

It is by no means unusual that the final decision in such a contest is made by a professional panel, however, it is seldom that there is such a marked difference between the public and professional view. To move from 49th place to first place so swiftly would be a spectacular sprint, even in her uncle's heyday.

One competition organiser explained this, by pointing out that there are various factors which have to be taken into account when judging beauty, which was why this could not be left to a public vote. In effect, it appears that Ms. Christie would have been unfairly disadvantaged had she been judged on the basis of conventionally accepted standards of beauty, as a result different criterion were applied, from which she benefited significantly.

As in so many things, it appears that even when judging female beauty, those with the power have different standards (and different agendas?) than the rest of us.

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A Bequest to the Nation

Mustaf Jama

Speaking of dusky beauties, let me introduce you to this charming little chap. Mustaf Jama was convicted yesterday for his part in the murder of Police woman Sharon Beshenivsky and the wounding of a second female officer who had both attended an incident were Jama and some other immigrant gangsters were in the process of committing a robbery.

Whilst on the run Jama had escaped to his native Somalia, but was returned following the alleged payment of “bribes” to various warlords in that lawless state.

At an earlier trial Jama's brother Yusuf and Asian gang boss Muzzaker Shah were convicted of the shootings, but the same Jury were unable reach a decision on Mustaf, thus putting the state to the expense of a further trial.

Of course the cost will not end there, all three convicted foreigners have been sentenced to a minimum of 35 years in prison. As it is estimated that each prisoner in British prisons costs us as tax payers a minimum of £40,000 a year, we will be footing a bill for well in excess of £4 million, even before inflation kicks in. We can add a further £1million + if or when the fourth Asian gang member, who is still currently on the run, is apprehended.

A gang consisting of Asians and Somalis seems a strange combination, as Africans and Asians tend to hate each other with a passion. However, they seem to be the two groups who we are currently welcoming into Britain at a greater rate than almost anyone else, which is somewhat troubling, given that a recent claim by a government minister that Pakistan and Somalia present a greater threat to UK security even than Afghanistan, where we are currently sacrificing brave young soldiers at a horrifying rate.

If this is true, it seems very odd that our leaders seem so intent on encouraging so many of those two countries' nationals to come in to our homeland. Whatever the truth, their priorities are clearly not the same as ours.

So odd indeed that one can not help but question the motives behind their actions. Whatever the truth, their priorities are clearly not the same as ours.

Not yet a crime

I received this message today, and decided I would be one of the 5% who would pass it on

Not yet a crime

By John Ross

Michael Richards better known as Kramer from TV's Seinfeld does make a good point. This was his defence speech in court after making racial comments in his comedy act. He makes some very interesting points. Someone finally said it but how many are actually paying attention to this?

* There are African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Arab Americans, etc. There are no European Americans. Just Americans.

* You pass me on the street and sneer in my direction. You call me 'White boy,' 'Cracker,' 'Honkey,' 'Whitey,' 'Caveman' and that's OK. But when I call you, Nigger, Kike, Towel head, Sand-nigger, Camel Jockey, Beaner, Gook, or Chink, you call me a racist.

* You say that whites commit a lot of violence against you so why are the ghettos the most dangerous places to live?

* You have the United Negro College Fund. You have Martin Luther King Day. You have Black History Month. You have Cesar Chavez Day. If we had White History Month, we'd be racists.

* You have Yom Hashoah. You have Ma'uled Al-Nabi.

* You have the NAACP. You have BET. If we had WET (White Entertainment Television), we'd be racists. If we had a White Pride Day, you would call us racists.

* If we had any organization for only whites to 'advance' OUR lives, we'd be racists.

* You have a Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a Black Chamber of Commerce and then we just have the plain Chamber of Commerce. Wonder who pays for that?

* A White woman could not be in the Miss Black American pageant but any colour can be in the Miss America pageant.

* If we had a college fund that only gave white students scholarships, you know we'd be racists.

* There are over 60 openly proclaimed Black Colleges in the US . Yet if there were 'White colleges' that would be racist.

* In the Million Man March, you believed that you were marching for your race and rights. If we marched for our race and rights, you would call us racists.

* You are proud to be black, brown, yellow and orange, and you're not afraid to announce it. But when we announce our white pride, you call us racists.

* You rob us, carjack us and shoot at us. But when a white police officer shoots a black gang member or beats up a black drug dealer running from the law and posing a threat to society, you call him a racist.

* I am proud but you call me a racist. Why is it that only whites can be racists??

There is nothing improper about this post. Let's see which of you are proud enough to send it on. I sadly don't think many will. That's why we have LOST most of OUR RIGHTS. We won't stand up for ourselves!

BE PROUD TO BE WHITE! It does NOT mean you hate anyone else.

It's not a crime YET but getting very close!

It is estimated that ONLY 5% of those reading this post will pass it on. Why?

Judge dismisses soldier's suit "because he no longer has to go"

A federal judge this morning dismissed the suit filed here by a U.S. Army reservist who says he shouldn't have to go to Afghanistan because he believes Barack Obama was never eligible to be president.

Judge Clay Land sided with the defense, which claimed in its response to Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook's suit, filed July 8 with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, that Cook's suit is moot in that he already has been told he doesn't have to go to Afghanistan, so the relief he is seeking has been granted.

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In Britain the expression is "what a cop out!"

If anyone wanted proof that there are questions over Obama's eligibility this comes very close, even the Army isn't confident enough to test it. Clearly any soldier who doesn't want to go to Afghanistan now knows what to do!

Related: Despite the above, it would appear that the Pentagon have taken revenge against Major Cook for daring to question Obama's eligibility. What nasty, small minded people there are in power these days.

A once free press in love

In connection with the previous post, I though readers might find the following quote from Bernard Goldberg in his new book, A Slobbering Love Affair, documenting the US media's passionate love affair with their new President of interest:

"Never in my memory were so many journalists so intent on effecting change as they were during the campaign of 2008. Sure, mainstream journalists always root for the Democrat. But this time it was different. This time journalists were not satisfied merely being partisan witnesses to history. This time they wanted to be real players and help determine the outcome. This time they were on a mission, a noble, historic mission, as far as they were concerned. In fact, I could not remember a time when so many supposedly objective reporters had acted so blatantly as full-fledged advocates for one side - and without even a hint of embarrassment.

... Make no mistake: this is not the same old liberal bias we have witnessed for years. In 2008, the mainstream media crossed a line. As a result, their credibility is in tatters. Hardly anyone trusts them anymore. This is not good for them, of course. But it may be even worse for us."

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Hat Tip: Birthers

Seems they didn't get the memo!

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The Western media may be unanimously stifling all mention of questions about President Obama's true place of birth, and sticking firmly to the line that he was born in Hawaii. (albeit , the official line as to which hospital chanhes from time to time) However, the Obama team are having less success in controlling the African Media, which has been recently drifting off script.

For instance this article in last week's Ghana Graphic contains the following statement, which would certainly constitute blasphemy were it to appear in the US press.

For Ghana, Obama's visit will be a celebration of another milestone in African history as it hosts the first-ever African-American President on this presidential visit to the continent of his birth.

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I guess it is difficult to blame the Africans, who are obviously less concerned with constitutional technicalities than they are with celebrating their home boy's success.

Back in America and in further developments on the same theme, some of you may have read about Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook, a US Army reserve major, who is refusing orders to go to Afghanistan on the grounds that President Barrack Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States and is therefore ineligible to serve as commander-in-chief of U.S Armed Forces. Major Cook contends that, were he to obey Obama's order and fight in the war, he would be in breach of International law.

In a report published by NewsNetDaily yesterday it is claimed that, rather than fighting Major Cook's claim, the US army have withdrawn the order sending him to Afghanistan. If their report is correct, and their track record on this issue is good, this is a very interesting development.

If this continues, we may finally reach the point where Barry's birth certificate becomes almost s much of an embarrassment as his baseball skills .......... well I did say "almost" as embarrassing!

The killing continues

15/07/2009: A Pretoria businessman was gunned down during a robbery at his smallholding moments after his wife and a worker had left to make a delivery.

The murder of Nick Roets, 56, who was shot dead in his Raslouw home after he was overpowered by an unknown number of assailants at lunchtime on Tuesday, comes months after the collapse of a community watch system in the area.

Since the collapse, say neighbours, violent crime in the area has skyrocketed, with no apparent end in sight.

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More "youths" in action

From the BNP site: The controlled media has continued with its deception over the effects of immigration by covering up the reality behind the latest riots in France. Rather than name the culprits as Third World colonisers from Muslim North Africa, they’ve described the perpetrators as “youths.”

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One day in Britain

The following are just a few of the news stories which appeared in the British papers over the last twenty four hours.

Joseph Lappin 16, stabbed through the heart

Ten people have today been arrested as part of the ongoing investigation into the murder of 16 year old army cadet Joseph Lapin, who was stabbed to death in Liverpool last October, after he and a friend were chased through the street by a mob of up to 15 "youths". (The ethnicity of the suspects has not been disclosed, however, British readers will be accustomed to the use of the code word "youths")

Convicted gang killers Femi Forde and and Richard Osborne

Yet another "Gang Killing" . Despite the fact that these killings are almost invariably involve blacks killing other blacks, or sometimes blacks killing white who were in the wrong place, at the wrong time, the media still tries to pretend that "gang violence" exists in all communities (yeah, just like female genital mutilation and Muti killing). The two charming individuals above decided to do away with Wayne Freckleton a rival, also black, gang member, and will now be costing the tax payer thousands of pounds a year for the next thirty years.

David Cauchi-Lechmere died of stab wounds

"Teenagers" Lewis Wilson, 18, Losimba Yfeko, 18, and a 17-year-old have been charged with the murder of Mr Cauchi-Lechmere at an east London party. (in this instance the use of the other common code word "teenagers" was rather undermined by the publication of two of the suspects' names)

Harold Stafford attacked his victim with a golf club

Stafford, a 54 year old psychiatric nurse from Bedford was today convicted of attacking a fellow golf player with a golf club, in an act of so called "golf rage". In his defence Stafford claimed that his battered victim Barry Barnes had "shouted a racist remark at him" but they always make THAT claim don't they?

The usual, you know the story

The trial continues of Ricardo Morrison, who is accused of murdering aspiring model Amy Leigh Barnes. This is another example of the same old story, white girl meets black boy, black boy (allegedly) kills white girl, society continues to pretend inter-racial sex is cool. I have to confess that I can feel more empathy with the defendant's mother, an ex-police woman, who stands next to her son in the dock, accused of seeking to protect him, than I do for the victim. Given that this was not Amy's first forage into diversity, tragic and regrettable as her death certainly was, it is hard to argue that she did not know what she was doing, and was not, to some degree ,the mistress of her own destiny.

Kenneth Erskine, the Stockwell Strangler

Twenty one years after his conviction, serial killer Erskine was today re-designated a serial manslaughterer, on account of the fact that he was allegedly suffering from a mental abnormality when he strangled seven pensioners between the ages of 67 and 94 over a period of a few months in Stockwell, South London. I am sure that makes the victim's families feel considerably better.

Bradfordistan West Yorkshire

Four people have been arrested on suspicion of murder after the suspected poisoning of a Bradford woman. Sana Abbasi, 22, of Pollard Park, died on Friday at Bradford Royal Infirmary where she had been treated for several weeks for an unexplained illness. An Honour poisoning perhaps?

Drug dealer Balasubrahaniam

Drug dealer Kandeepan Balasubrahaniam, 22, from Acton, west London was jailed for at least years following the stabbing death of mixed race teenager Craig Marshall, with whom he was arguing over payment for a drug transaction.

And thus passed another day in multicultural Britain.

(Spot the missing word) - Criminal gangs costing Britain £40 billion a year

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A report on the BBC Website today reveals that "criminal gangs" are costing Britain £40 billion a year. The report does not say who these "criminal gangs" are, but goes on to state that many have connections with "failed states, such as Somalia". (I took a screen shot in case that line disappears)

Is it just me, or does it seem unlikely to you that indigenous gangs of white villains would have connections to Somalia, Afghanistan or any other of the world's failed states?

What the article is deliberately not saying is that "Gangs of criminal immigrants are costing the UK £40 billion a year".

Given that, before this report was released, estimates of the cost of immigration ranged from £12 to £17 billion, this would appear to be taking the figure closer to £60 billion.

I defy anyone to demonstrate a benefit to that.

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Update: The third to last paragraph has been corrected to read £40 billion, rather than "£40 million" - which is probably what they cost Portsmouth or Exeter in a year alone !!
Sarah

The latest South African farm Murder

Today's News24 reports the killing of 64 year old Piet Van den Berg at his farm in Cullinan near Pretoria. Piet was killed in front of his 60 year old wife Madeleine, who the attackers then locked in a cupboard before preceding to set fire to the couple's house.

Mercifully Madeleine Van den Berg managed to escape and alert neighbours, but she was left a traumatised widow.

In accordance with the official line in relation to these genocidal killings, the latest killing has again been attributed to "crime" and the attackers are being referred to as "robbers", and it is true that, in this instance property appears to have been taken. However, readers may wish to consider how many "robbers" kill and old man, and then lock his elderly wife in a cupboard before setting fire to the house, clearly with the intention that she would burn alive?

Piet Van den Berg's death brings the total killings of white farmers since the end of Apartheid, that I am aware of, to 3,062.

A battle at Wikipedia

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WorldNetDaily have a rather amusing article about a battle of facts at the Wikipedia online Encyclopedia over the truth about of Barry Obama's place of birth. I recommend it to anyone who feels in need of being cheered up, it will certainly make you laugh.

Click here to read Wikipedia says Obama born in Kenya

Lessons in slavery

WASHINGTON -- President Obama says slavery is a terrible part of the United States' history and should be taught in a way that connects that past cruelty to current events, such as the genocide in Darfur. During an interview with CNN while traveling in Ghana, Obama compared the legacy of slavery to the history of the Holocaust. He said both are horrible historical points that cannot be ignored and that their lessons must not be forgotten.

All very well and good, but will they teach the truth about slavery? For instance will they mention that world wide there were estimated to be 27 million people living in slavery in 2001, that is more than twice the 12 million slaves involved in the entire North Atlantic Slave trade?

Will they mention all the references to slavery in the Old testament, the Torah and the Koran, all written more than a thousand years before America was discovered, and whilst most Northern Europeans lived in tribes and did not own slaves. Will they let slip the fact that the entire ancient world including Egypt and Mesopotamia etc were built on slavery. Will they mention the Pyramids, the Sphinx, the ancient Aztec temples?

Will they teach our children that Saudi Arabia didn't abolish slavery until 1962 almost 100 years after the civil war or that Ethiopia, an African country which was never a colony didn't end slavery until 1935, at which time there were estimated to be between three hundred thousand and 2 million slaves serving a population of between eight and sixteen million.

Coming back up to date, will they reveal the fact that Niger in west Africa did not end the practice of slavery until 2004 (just five years ago)

Will they draw attention to the leading role which Europe played in ending the slave trade and the role the British Navy played in enforcing Abolition?

I somehow doubt these are the facts which Obama and his dishonest ilk plan to teach to American children, in the same way that they are not the truths which are being taught today in British schools.

Truths about the slave trade

The Mangapwani slave caves in Zanzibar which were used by Arab slavers for many centuries

Given that a couple of recent posts have initiated some debate about the slave trade and the extent to which Europe and America were actually involved in it, readers may wish to revisit the first part of a two part essay I wrote in March last year on the myths surrounding so called "White Guilt".

The Myths Behind White Guilt

Part 1 - the slave trade

One of the many weapons which our opponents use against us, and also against others of European ancestry, is often termed historical white guilt. Those who hate us point accusingly to our Empire, and to our involvement in the transatlantic slave trade with the implication that we, particularly the British and European Americans, are uniquely guilty of crimes against other races. They believe that, by making us feel guilty about our past, we will be less inclined to object to what is done to us on behalf of our alleged victims.

However, as in so many areas, the truth does not suit their agenda, so, as ever, they resort to their favoured tactic, and lie with the ease and practiced familiarity of an ageing harlot unzipping her client's pants.

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