I had to point out that it was odd that I had never noticed that, and that taking one's personal firearms into and out of South Africa has never been a problem - at least, up til now. It is now out and selling, and you will be able to see it at the SHOT Show. We will keep pushing, however, and let you know how things develop. We did not report, however, on its stopping effect because we did not have that information. We checked further and discovered that the subject, while seriously wounded, was not taken out of the fight.
Clearly propaganda is more potent than truth.
Take this matter of Guernica, for example. Pablo Picasso, one of the more significant propagandists of the left, made a very successful point in claiming that the town of Guernica had been flattened from the air by the German Condor Legion in the Spanish Civil War - this being an atrocity since the town had no strategic value. This point was accepted by the world press, and is now considered a fact, even for inclusion in encyclopedias. For those who have access to the official records it is clear that the Condor Legion had been grounded for two weeks prior to the occupation of the city by the Nationalist forces. Most conclusive, however, was the fact that there were no bomb craters in the streets.