From: varvel@plains.NoDak.edu (Andrew Varvel)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: Re: Great Victory in Angola! Savimbi loses elections.
Date: 11 Oct 92 01:37:48 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

In article <1992Oct8.222125.22950@newshost.unh.edu> llk@kepler.unh.edu 
(Local Genius) writes:

>In article <21059@plains.NoDak.edu> varvel@plains.NoDak.edu (Andrew Varvel) 
writes:

>>I see.  So Savimbi is a traitor and should be shot.  And all of those

>No, you don't see it...all the current leaders in most of the African
>countries, except for a set of countries of negligible measure, should be
>tried, along with all their ministers and other party officials where
>applicable; their pay masters, etc, should all be put on trial...

>Oh, and while we are at this, all those who benefitted from this corrupt
>dudes should pay for having assoociated with them...

Fine and dandy.  But what good would it do?  Furthermore, who should try
them?  And who gets their property?  YOU? 

The current leaders of Africa may all deserve to be shot, but that doesn't
mean they should be shot.  What would be likely to happen is merely a change 
of personnel without any change in the efficiency of the government.  

If there were some reparations, who would get them?  I have my own ideas:
either some corrupt "revolutionary" beaurocrat or those usurious
international bankers.  

It is a sad day for Africa when people exitedly whoop for joy when one or
another side wins in Angola.  Savimbi sold out to anti-communist fanatics in
the United States and South Africa.  But the MPLA wasn't much better.  It
sold out to Cuba, the USSR, and that "loveable" multinational oil company,
Chevron.  Any real peace will have to mean mutual acceptance by both sides
of each other.

BTW, it could be argued that it was the United States Government that sold
out to Mobutu and Savimbi rather than the other way around!

>Now see if you would like to be in this "new africa"...

Well, Local Genius, do you have any improvement over this?

>>I would hope that an Africa I ever see would have sunshine, families, and
>>wisdom.  The world has had enough of rotting flesh and vulture-picked bones.

Sunshine:  Well, there are some areas of Africa that have had drought.  For
those areas I hope they get rain.

Families:  It would be nice if Africans could get a decent wage for
supporting their families.  As it is, I've heard that present conditions
have put a strain on families in Africa.

Wisdom:  Wouldn't it be nice if the more of the characters running our world
(including Africa) weren't total fools?  But I suppose that is too much to
ask.

BTW, Local Genius, what would YOU do if you were the President of your home
country?  Would you be any different from the current regime?

Since "I don't see it", could you, oh enlightened one, tell the audience
precisely what good it would do to have the current tyrants of Africa shot?

>>But cheer up, things can ALWAYS be worse.

>>--Andrew Varvel--
>>The North Dakota Institute for the Study of Africans who study Violence

>--
>lk(with the man in the yellow hat)

--Andrew Varvel--
Karl Marx was too bourgoisie in his analysis

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