tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-335733262024-02-08T08:32:16.616+02:00BiblioPolitWilliam Dickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211201729445913360noreply@blogger.comBlogger567125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33573326.post-86704010888993747782022-03-31T09:08:00.000+02:002022-03-31T09:08:29.995+02:00South Africa: Urgent Alert! State Of Disaster To End. Restrictions Persist Indefinitely!<p> An urgent alert has been raised by the <a href="http://www.familypolicyinstitute.com" target="_blank">Family Policy Institute</a>. The alert follows below:</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>ALERT START</b></p><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 8px;"><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></p><div style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;">While tens of thousands of citizens vehemently oppose government plans to make permanent the extraordinary </span><em style="color: black;">“State of Disaster”</em><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">regulations, Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma announced on 29 March 2022 plans to</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://bulkmailer.voxtelecom-mail.com/servlet/link/20231/102649/20489977/300747&source=gmail&ust=1648793175978000&usg=AOvVaw2k340mOwGIcjiZ0cMKfigN" href="http://www.gpwonline.co.za/Documents/Government/46127_29-3_CoOperativeGovernance.pdf" style="color: #2399e8; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">end the current <em>“State of Disaster,”</em></a><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">potentially by 5 April - but extend regulations for 30 days.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><u style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;"><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Please note:</u> The <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://bulkmailer.voxtelecom-mail.com/servlet/link/20231/102649/20489977/300748&source=gmail&ust=1648793175978000&usg=AOvVaw0cwSpD0ytr26eDrM-w6nMs" href="https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/gcis_document/202203/46048gon1882.pdf" style="color: #2399e8; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><em>"Health Act Amendment"</em></a> was published in the Government Gazette on 14 March by the Minister of Health. Deadline for comments (30 days) is therefore 15 April 2022.</div></u><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: left;">The <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://bulkmailer.voxtelecom-mail.com/servlet/link/20231/102649/20489977/300749&source=gmail&ust=1648793175978000&usg=AOvVaw0BCeAoZ5vn2PMXlvGO4Hd5" href="http://www.gpwonline.co.za/Documents/Government/46127_29-3_CoOperativeGovernance.pdf" style="color: #2399e8; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">"<em>Disaster Management Amendment"</em></a> was published in the Government Gazette on 29 March by COGTA Minister, Dlamini-Zuma. Deadline for comments (48 hours) is 1 April 2022.</div></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: left;"> </div></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: left;">Technically, ending the <em>“State of Disaster”</em> while maintaining illogical restrictive Covid-19 regulations for 30 days is <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://bulkmailer.voxtelecom-mail.com/servlet/link/20231/102649/20489977/300750&source=gmail&ust=1648793175978000&usg=AOvVaw1HnrNXSzIFXulhYZ8UVprN" href="https://businesstech.co.za/news/business-opinion/572744/pushback-against-new-lockdown-rules-proposed-for-south-africa/" style="color: #2399e8; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">unlawful.</a> Government invites the public to comment on this new development within 48 hours. The quickest way to comment is by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://bulkmailer.voxtelecom-mail.com/servlet/link/20231/102649/20489977/300751&source=gmail&ust=1648793175978000&usg=AOvVaw3TBAornJZh3ZgL3Vk0CVe5" href="https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=aqa6v7gn0kmnqduOIZu25nC7zJwOTfBGpFf0dYTD1PBUOFRRWU5JVE82T0tBQ0dOR1FUMVJJUjhBOC4u" style="color: #2399e8; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">accessing this form.</a></div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: left;">What Dlamini-Zuma is attempting is to continue weilding exotraordinary (sic) <em>"State of Disaster"</em> powers granted by the 'Disaster Managment (sic) Act' even after the <em>"State of Disaster"</em> ends. </div></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: left;"> </div></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: left;">I opposed all transitional regulations because no <em>“State of Disaster”</em> currently exists in SA. Government must end the <em>“State of Disaster”</em> including all related regulations and protocols.</div></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: left;"> </div></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: left;">No government must be granted permanent authority to control access and oversight of Churches in South Africa. This is a grave and unprecedented threat to religious freedoms. </div></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: left;"> </div></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: left;">Many were confused by Dlamini-Zuma's recent announcement, mistakenly believing she reduced the time for comments on the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://bulkmailer.voxtelecom-mail.com/servlet/link/20231/102649/20489977/300752&source=gmail&ust=1648793175979000&usg=AOvVaw0KazKbeFfrNRs-9NefK0Tk" href="https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/gcis_document/202203/46048gon1882.pdf" style="color: #2399e8; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><em>“Amendment on the National Health Act”</em></a> to 48 hours.</div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: left;">This precipitated a massive run on the sapublicspeaks platform - overwhelming the site. Thankfully, the tech experts are busy resolving the problem and will have it up soon.</div></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: left;"> </div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">If you cannot access the SAPublicSpeaks site, please comment on the </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://bulkmailer.voxtelecom-mail.com/servlet/link/20231/102649/20489977/300753&source=gmail&ust=1648793175979000&usg=AOvVaw3hq41AJKU1MKaE-EIwVO6A" href="https://dearsouthafrica.co.za/health-act-amendment/" style="color: #2399e8; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">dearsouthafrica.co.za/health-<wbr></wbr>act-amendment</a><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> site or email your submission directly to Ms Tsakani Furumele at </span><a href="mailto:tsakani.furumele@health.gov.za" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">tsakani.furumele@health.gov.za</a><wbr></wbr><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> The deadline remains 15 April </span></div><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: left;"> </div></span><p></p></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; margin-bottom: 8px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://bulkmailer.voxtelecom-mail.com/servlet/link/20231/102649/20489977/300754&source=gmail&ust=1648793175979000&usg=AOvVaw2SnY-mHdSTR2utWPjyis0x" href="https://bulkmailer.voxtelecom-mail.com/servlet/link/20231/102649/20489977/300754" style="color: #2399e8; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title=""><img alt="" class="CToWUd" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhCwma0rSdOcEkDwj7nY6JWywBBpEsD9Av1_AXC60U9g8aihUTV19lKqNLEgrZM1pNfW7tYiVZ0F-1WiRkAPQQEhBo2wd5pdoYOnarAFNIMXw-USRyqhwhGdIERN_vipJyZWE3lVKWgEB1vyEQ0-tfibLGh4GEgtKCsi6slQKldtV7sbAkqaJtqJOclzBrwa6UqQQYpsghyJIolxXwStfiQjlawuXDqz2XRL4P-D_hr=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: none; clear: both; display: block; max-width: 100%; outline: none; text-align: center; width: auto;" width="580" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 8px;"><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><div style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;">Veteran journalist, Brian Pottinger investigated government’s fear-driven and illogical Covid-19 campaign and makes several startling observations about the ANC regime's tactics and methodology in his well-researched article <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://bulkmailer.voxtelecom-mail.com/servlet/link/20231/102649/20489977/300755&source=gmail&ust=1648793175979000&usg=AOvVaw16TKA65DBKHybOSgv6bVsN" href="https://www.biznews.com/health/2022/03/28/covid-19-response-brian-pottinger" style="color: #2399e8; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">“SA’s Covid-19 response just got weirder.”</a> </div><div style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"> </div><div style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;">The most alarming revelation is that government quietly <em>“branded SARSCoV2 a ‘Group 3 Hazardous Biological Agent’, which widens the scope of employers to enforce vaccine mandates.”</em> It appears, the ANC regime is advancing big pharma’s vaccine agenda.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"> </div><div style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;">Despite credible studies proving much of the hysteria that accompanied the pandemic by corrupt politicians, “medical experts” and a complicit media were false, the ANC regime is still pushing the now debunked PCR tests, mandatory vaccinations and mask wearing.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"> </div><div style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;">Pottinger writes, <em>“Yet, incredibly and despite this long litany of bad science and worse faith during the SARSCoV2 outbreak, the memo seems not to have reached President Ramaphosa. His authoritarian new regulations now seek to hardwire arbitrary and dictatorial powers into the future life of the country on the back of a comprehensively and maliciously misrepresented viral outbreak. Why?”</em></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"> </div><div style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;">The answer may lie in the ANC regime’s natural inclination to use every opportunity – even a national health crisis – for self-enrichment. Who can forget the ANC looting frenzy triggered by the the (sic) allocation of more than R500 billion to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"> </div><div style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;">Pottinger suggests SA may become a dumping ground for obsolete vaccines, which may explain governments (sic) absurd vaccine push despite growing questions about its efficacy.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: left;">Apparently, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://bulkmailer.voxtelecom-mail.com/servlet/link/20231/102649/20489977/300756&source=gmail&ust=1648793175979000&usg=AOvVaw26ANw3dZKNFuoX3_K0trYR" href="https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/covid-19-100-000-pfizer-doses-to-expire-at-end-of-march-due-to-waning-vaccination-rates-20220304" style="color: #2399e8; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">800,000 Pfizer vaccines will reportedly expire</a> at the end of March 2022.</div></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: left;"> </div></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: left;">The proposed <em>“Amendment to the National Health Act”</em> is the most dangerous development in our democratic history because it grants an irredeemably corrupt and grossly incompetent government extraordinary powers to control and manipulate the public as it sees fit. </div></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: left;"> </div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><em style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">“State of Disaster”</em><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> restrictions must end immediately because no state of disaster currently exists in SA.</span></div><p></p><p style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"> The Dept of Health must update the public regularly with credible Covid-19 developments. However, citizens must be trusted to make their own health decisions.</span></p><p style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><b>ALERT END</b></span></p><p style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><b><br /></b></span></p></div>William Dickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211201729445913360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33573326.post-45759443626220664522020-08-17T08:09:00.003+02:002020-08-17T08:09:47.277+02:00The South African Film & Publication Act regulations are up for public comment until 17 August 2020 (today)<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.fpb.org.za/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="335" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKu4OxalwYuQ54ui_JyW1jEXxbVvkN30x9S8WzfHSfdHyhN_yOMQnHlP6QZnLHTFQhIAkT6b4g-Pi_EHSJ11eh8D7i-fI2N7EZUab6yShh_5uYm5VidbRI9V8HtYLelGN-smUT/s0/FPB_Logo.jpg" /></a></div> <p></p><p>[The following comments were received from the <a href="http://www.christianview.co.za/" target="_blank">ChristianView Network</a>]</p><p><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE FILM & PUBLICATION ACT REGULATIONS ARE UP FOR PUBLIC COMMENT TO 17</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">AUGUST 2020 (today)</span></b></p><p>The Film and Publications Act Regulations, which may affect broadcasting and internet free speech rights. Part of the motivation of the Regulations we support, namely to reduce child pornography, revenge porn and the risk children are exposed to pornography on the internet. Preliminary comment is that the regulations attempt to regulate entire internet in a manner which appears to require anything published on the internet to first be rated by the Film and Publications Board (FPB)(unless it falls under the Advertising Standards Authority or the Press Council) or the company is registered with the FPB to do self-regulation. Either the internet will have to shut down or it won't be enforced most of the time. The broad hate speech definition copied from the Act is in conflict with the Supreme Court of Appeal Constitutional findings on the Qwelane case. We are still studying the regulations and have asked for an extension of time and clarification on its meaning.</p><p><a href="https://www.fpb.org.za/about/legislation/" target="_blank">https://www.fpb.org.za/about/legislation/</a></p><p>Please email the Minister of Communications Ms Stella Tembisa Ndabeni-Abrahams <a href="mailto:ministry@dtps.gov.za" target="_blank">ministry@dtps.gov.za</a> to ask for an extension of time for yourself and/or a general extension.</p><p>To send your comment on the regulations email <a href="mailto:clientsupport@fpb.org.za" target="_blank">clientsupport@fpb.org.za</a>.</p>William Dickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211201729445913360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33573326.post-79960215725713430632019-09-11T08:22:00.000+02:002019-09-11T08:22:47.950+02:00MUGABE’S LEGACY in the LIGHT OF ETERNITY<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I received a newsletter that is "usually" written by Peter Hammond. In this article he writes about Robert Mugabe, former President of Zimbabwe. What do you think about the article? If you would like to respond to the article, you can write to Peter Hammond at <a href="mailto:mission@frontline.org.za">mission@frontline.org.za</a>.<br>
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The call for comments on the revised draft of the <a href="http://forsa.org.za/alert-revised-hate-speech-bill-now-open-for-comment-2/" target="_blank">PREVENTION AND COMBATING OF HATE CRIMES AND HATE SPEECH BILL</a> (“the Bill”) is now open until 15 February 2019 (final date extended from 31 January to 15 February 2019).<br />
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<b>Religious Freedom at Risk </b><br />
Most notably, clause 4(1) of the Bill makes “hate speech” a crime – with potentially dire repercussions from a freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and freedom of conscience point of view. The offence will make any speech (as well as the distribution of such speech) that could be construed to be “harmful” on a wide range of subjective grounds, a criminal act carrying a jail sentence of up to three (3) years.<br />
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<b>Religious Exemption Clause is only Valid For “Pulpits” </b><br />
While we are encouraged by the inclusion of a “religious exemption clause” (in clause 4(2)(d)) in the Bill – as advocated for by FOR SA, and the many religious organisations and groups who previously made submissions on the Bill – concerns regarding criminalisation of free speech remain. Especially as the Deputy Minister of Justice noted that the religious exemption clause would only apply to “pulpits”.<br />
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Even if you have previously made a submission on the Bill (to the Deputy Minister of Justice), please do make a submission again (this time, to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Justice). Written submissions must be received by 15 February 2019, and can be emailed to the Committee Secretary, Mr Vhonani Ramaano (<a href="mailto:vramaano@parliament.gov.za">vramaano@parliament.gov.za</a>).<br />
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Please use the <a href="http://forsa.org.za/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=outofthebox-download&OutoftheBoxpath=%2Fhate%20speech%20bill%2Findividual%20submission%20-%20draft%203.docx&lastpath=%2FHate%20Speech%20Bill&listtoken=f1058449d6b5260d8888ea0ecb04a827&dl=1" target="_blank">TEMPLATE SUBMISSION</a> FORSA have prepared to assist you in commenting / objecting to the provisions of the Bill which will significantly and negatively impact on freedom of (religious) expression. Sunday School teachers, worship leaders, Bible Study groups and social media commentators are all threatened by this bill.<br />
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<b>Redefining Hate Speech</b><br />
The Bill's extremely broad definition of hate speech under section 4 of the Bill includes in its scope any communication which is considered "abusive or insulting" and intended to "bring into contempt or ridicule" a person, or group of persons, on the basis of their gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, etc. This includes email, or social media communications as well as teachings from a pulpit, or in a Bible study. Instead of an objective definition of what constitutes "hate speech" (for example those who sing "Kill the Boer! Kill the Farmer!" or those advocating Islamic Jihad to behead Christians), this bill seeks to focus on subjective definitions of where an individual may feel offended, even if that was not the intention. Yet, blasphemy and pornography are considered free speech! However, free speech is to be criminalised by this bill!<br />
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"He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just, both of them alike are an abomination to the Lord." Proverbs 17:15<br />
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Join us on Facebook and TwitterWilliam Dickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211201729445913360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33573326.post-70976347833454466422018-11-08T11:25:00.000+02:002018-11-08T11:25:32.323+02:00UNDERSTANDING THE PRESENT CRISIS IN SOUTH AFRICA Seminar<br>
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“…who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do…” 1 Chronicles 12:32<br>
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You are invited to a Understanding the Present Crisis in South Africa Seminar on Saturday, 17 November, hosted by Petra Family Church in Randburg, Gauteng. The Seminar is free.<br>
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I received the following from the ChristianView Network newsletter distribution. It is clear, and something that I've been saying all along, that the ANC and all its cronies, serve democracy only as long as it is beneficial to themselves. They will break with protocol to force laws through the process. They have defined hate speech so broad, our opinions may one day land us in jail.<br>
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<a href="http://www.bibliopolit.com/2018/10/south-african-parliamentarians-walk-out.html#more">Read more »</a>William Dickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211201729445913360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33573326.post-73737388055706064482018-04-19T09:37:00.000+02:002018-04-19T09:37:56.496+02:00Proposed 'Hate Speech' Bill Would Destroy Free Speech In South AfricaI received the following newsletter from the ChristianView Network this past Monday (16 April). It is of great importance in view of massive free speech limitations that may be set in South Africa.<br>
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The following is from a newsletter I received today. Please read and send the link to this post to others. We have to be aware of entities that promote death squads in our hospitals and medical facilities. If abortion is a choice, it is a choice to murder innocent lives.<br>
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<a href="http://www.bibliopolit.com/2017/09/new-british-funded-programme-to-promote.html#more">Read more »</a>William Dickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211201729445913360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33573326.post-21033719476211056312016-12-07T15:42:00.000+02:002016-12-07T15:42:01.304+02:00Breaking news: Supreme Court of Appeal says Fabricius was wrong on Euthanasia<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Last year, South Africa's High Court determined that a terminally ill patient may, with the help of a doctor, kill himself (self-murder)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>BREAKING NEWS:</b> Today, 6 December 2016 the Supreme Court of Appeal said that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Judge Fabricius was wrong in his 2015 judgement authorising Robert</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Stransham-Ford to have assisted sucide/euthanasia.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The court confirmed this is really a matter for elected parliament and not </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">judges to decide. The decision was made in haste and did not properly</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> consider South African law, the international context, our social values or </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">the impact on the right to life. The medical information provided to the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">court was flawed and contradicted the real medical records, which were</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> withheld until a court order was issued. The case was manipulated by the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">euthanasia lobby group, its lawyers and the estate, and the medical records </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">indicate Stransham-Ford was actually asking if he could back out of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">euthanasia/assisted suicide.</span><br />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The court judgment used many of the same reasons which we wrote in our </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">article 'Why judge Fabricius was wrong':</span><br />
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<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">* The separation of powers requires that parliament as representatives of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">the country as a whole should decide any changes on the law rather than </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">requiring judges to decide.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">* The applicant died before the ruling was given. Circumstantial evidence </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">seems to indicate this information may have been deliberately withheld from </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">the court.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">* Judge Fabricius ruling was decided in haste (one day) on a matter of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">national importance, an urgency apparently manufactured on an individual </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">case by the lobby group Dignity SA.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">* The applicants attorneys had refused to provide the opposing friend of the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">court legal teams with information they needed to respond.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">* The South African situation is different to the juristictions where </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">euthanasia is legal, which argues against foreign cases being used as </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">precedent. We have different social values, a different socio-economic and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">policing situation.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">* The applicants affidavit was factually and medically doubtful on many </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">points.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">* The organisation Dignity SA was publicly raising funds to pay for the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">court case, but the application insisted it was just on behalf of the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">individual.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">* The hasty Fabricius judgment did not properly consider South African law </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">or international precedent cases.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">* Judge Fabricus was wrong to assume that the common law on murder needed to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">change to accommodate assisted suicide and euthanasia.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">* The court needs to consider whether its decision would undermine the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">foundational value of the right to life or be supportive of it.</span><br />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Further reasons emerged from the judgment, which we were not aware of:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">* The picture of Mr Stransham-Ford's final illness as depicted in the legal </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">affidavits bore little resemblence to reality as found in his medical </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">records.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">* The psychologist who declared the applicant Robert Stransham-Ford to be </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">psychologically fit and his desire to apply for suicide, did not provide </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">reasoning on how the conclusion was reached and previously lived in the same</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">street as him, which raises questions of independence.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">* The applicants doctors medical records indicate he was wavering in his </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">desire for suicide/euthanasia and asked his doctor if he could change his </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">mind and that his real medical situation was very different to that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">described in the affidavits. The estate of Stransham-Ford had refused to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">release these medical records until a court order was issued for them. [Our </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">comment on this is that it is very normal for people to waver in their </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">desire for suicide, but suicide is irreversible, and this is a strong </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">argument against legalising suicide.]</span><br />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The Centre for Applied Legal Studies, at Wits submitted argument to the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">court that euthanasia and assisted suicide were working well overseas. The </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Health Professions Council of the State and the State submitted detailed </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">evidence rebutting these claims and giving evidence of numerous abuses and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">problems overseas. The court provisionally accepted this evidence but after </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">reviewing it, decided that it was too complex and detailed to sift through </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">or decide on. Possibly the same rebutting evidence may be used again in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">future on another case.</span><br />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">One point in the judgement which we at Euthanasia Exposed are not happy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">about is a single sentence in the conclusion that can be interpreted to open </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">the possibility of the court considering another case to legalise</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">euthanasia/assisted suicide - something that logically conflicts with all </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">its other arguments especially that the decision is really an issue for </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">parliament and not judges. If another case comes, then the battle will </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">continue. The euthanasia lobby have no chance success in the government or </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">parliament, having been defeated before. With the body of evidence </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">collected against euthanasia, ready for any future case, their chances of</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">==============================</span><wbr style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></wbr><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">==</span>William Dickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211201729445913360noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33573326.post-22324089659465122882015-07-10T18:46:00.001+02:002015-07-10T18:46:52.625+02:00Journalistic Fraud<table style="width: 100%; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px"><tbody> <tr> <td> <table style="width: 100%" cellspacing="0" border="1"><tbody> <tr> <td><a href="http://superstore.wnd.com/Journalistic-Fraud" target="_blank"><img title="journalistic_fraud" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="journalistic_fraud" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZOzGA4oeEzIChOEiBsDFDxFQqerAPd0_qqKjuhKsFrEjj0aATLSQO-tthduo9aWJ2YDGZKuDQ-k6ZlqBgvNAlj2frCltq2aUcBXOdghN9MomxHa7ynPwAf7c0Gd1JWgIpKjVA/?imgmax=800" width="159" height="240" /></a></td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> <td valign="bottom"> <table style="width: 100%" cellspacing="0" border="1"><tbody> <tr> <td width="89"><strong>Title:</strong></td> <td width="543"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Journalistic-Fraud-Distorts-Longer-Trusted/dp/B000685KVK" target="_blank">JOURNALISTIC FRAUD</a>: How <font face="Times New Roman"><em>The New York Times</em></font></span> Distorts the News and Why It Can No Longer Be Trusted</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="92"><strong>Author:</strong></td> <td width="540">Bob Kohn</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="95"><strong>Publisher:</strong></td> <td width="537">WND BOOKS, Nashville, TN</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="98"><strong>Year:</strong></td> <td width="534">2003</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="101"><strong>ISBN:</strong></td> <td width="532">9-780-78-526104-9</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p>I have recently finished reading Journalistic Fraud (JF), and while I knew that many, if not most, newspapers slant their news to favour a liberal agenda, I did not know that by 2003 it was as bad as Kohn has clearly shown.</p> <p>One commenter on Amazon simply wrote, “Conservative Propaganda.” Of course, our liberal friend did not interact with the content of the book at all. The fact is, Kohn gives so much evidence contrary to this liberal’s chant, that it is really hard to come to any other conclusion, that <em><font face="Times New Roman">The New York Times</font></em></span>, in fact has taken a hard left and in terms of honest news reporting, has become obsolete.</p> <p>The problem, however, is that so many people still trust <em><font face="Times New Roman">The New York Times</span></font></em>, and at the time of writing, articles that were to appear in the paper the next day were “transmitted electronically to over 650 newspapers that subscribe to the New York Times News Service; these articles and features then appear in the pages of local newspapers alongside articles written by reporters for those local papers. The <em><font face="Times New Roman">Times</font></em> itself owns over 15 other regional newspapers, including the <em>Boston Globe</em>, all of which echo the articles and commentary appearing in the <em><font face="Times New Roman">The New York Times</font></em>.” (p34) This means that <em><font face="Times New Roman">The New York Times</font></em> has a clout far bigger than its actual usefulness.</p> <p>Kohn provides a host of examples that show without a doubt, that <em><font face="Times New Roman">The New York Times</font></em> purposefully sets out to paint the Republicans and conservatives as the big bad wolf and Democrats and liberals as the saviours of mankind.</p> <p>IMHO, this book is a must read to those people that are enslaved to the opinions of newspapers.</p> <p>Yet, do not think that television news is any better, because what you see isn’t really what you are getting. Here is an example as explained and portrayed by Francis Schaeffer, how that different angles of the camera can manipulate the “news” that you see.</p> <p align="center"><iframe style="height: 413px; width: 668px" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YIMjgJkxFxs" frameborder="0" width="420" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p> <p>In order to keep track of the media and their slants, you can visit the <a href="http://www.mrc.org/" target="_blank">Media Research Center</a>.</p> William Dickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211201729445913360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33573326.post-57627484116466337552015-05-07T21:45:00.001+02:002015-05-07T21:45:47.008+02:00South African education on the downgrade<p><a href="http://mype.co.za/new/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Minister_of_Basic_Education_Angie_Motshekga.jpg"><img title="Minister_of_Basic_Education_Angie_Motshekga" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Minister_of_Basic_Education_Angie_Motshekga" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-piG8uhmvvWI/VUvA547ugTI/AAAAAAAAEYU/kHyiMeOOzjo/Minister_of_Basic_Education_Angie_Motshekga%25255B4%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="185" align="right" height="244" /></a>With South African education as impossibly poor as it is, it seems that the ANC has found further measures to make it even worse! And with these measures, they will flood the job market with more people with absolutely no skills!</p> <p>With our education as bad as it is, and our matric (Grade 12) pass rate as pitiful as it is, you would be forgiven for thinking that our education “authorities” would think of ways of making education stronger in this country!</p> <p>However, Basic Education Minister, Angie Motshekga, and her band of, dare I say “clowns”, think that it is better to simply <a href="http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/grade-9-school-exit-plan-on-the-cards-1.1855045">let kids that are 15 leave school</a>, thinking that this would address the country’s skills shortages. Leaving school after grade 9 would endow the child with a General Education and Training Certificate (GETC). The next step is for these kids to study at a <span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: rgb(0,0,0); font: 14px/18px arial, helvetica, sans-serif; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">Technical Vocational Education and Training College (TVETC). I probably don’t have to mention this, but I will anyhow. The GETC will only work if the TVETC is compulsory. Without it being compulsory, all that the ANC would be doing is to load our streets with more unemployed and homeless people, and this country has enough of that already!</span></p> <p><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: rgb(0,0,0); font: 14px/18px arial, helvetica, sans-serif; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">The fact that there are educationists that are in favour of the GETC simply boggles the mind. In their <strike>educated</strike> minds, all that is necessary to win the confidence of prospective employers is that these grade 9 kids should write a credible exam! And then what? Employers will fall over their own feet to employ 15/16 year-olds who have written a credible grade 9 exam? That is absolutely foolish! Employers don’t think that our matric (Grade 12) exams are credible, yet these <strike>educated</strike> people think that a grade 9 exam will be credible; an exam that makes kids marketable in the job market?</span></p> <p><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: rgb(0,0,0); font: 14px/18px arial, helvetica, sans-serif; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">We used to have technical colleges years ago, but these were closed down. Then Technicons came onto the scene, that provided diplomas in a more technical direction. Next thing, these technicons were all converted to universities to be more academic and inline with universities. And now they want to go back to TVETCs.</span></p> <p><span style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; color: rgb(0,0,0); font: 14px/18px arial, helvetica, sans-serif; widows: 1; display: inline !important; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">When will these people realize that their policies never amount to anything and that is why every five years or so, a new curriculum must be devised to replace the previous one, and so the downgrade continues!</span></p> William Dickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211201729445913360noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33573326.post-65987340895728135032014-11-05T08:44:00.000+02:002014-11-05T08:44:03.487+02:00Republicans win senate, but this is not the time to gloat<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In an <a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/11/04/rnc-on-takeover-of-the-senate-americans-have-put-their-trust-in-republicans-n1914365" target="_blank">article</a> by the lovely <a href="http://www.katiepavlich.com/" target="_blank">Katie Pavlich</a>, she quotes RNC chairman Reince Priebus as saying that winning the U.S. senate shows that the "American people have put their trust in the Republican Party."<br>
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While on the surface that may seem to be the case, I wonder if it isn't rather a case of the American people being sick of the way Democrats have run the U.S. into the ground! Perhaps, in their minds, anything is better than the Dems right now.<br>
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<a href="http://www.bibliopolit.com/2014/11/republicans-win-senate-but-this-is-not.html#more">Read more »</a>William Dickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211201729445913360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33573326.post-80389604763838104912014-06-16T19:04:00.001+02:002014-06-16T19:04:03.542+02:00Big government and jobs for the youth<table style="text-align: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="1"><tbody> <tr> <td style="vertical-align: top"> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-I60c79oqHrQ/U58jbzuiMfI/AAAAAAAADow/c9IFfXf5b_g/s1600-h/youthjobs%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="youthjobs" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="youthjobs" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-T4TQdb1Y2VI/U58jc4WhRsI/AAAAAAAADo4/Hb6KghrzFt0/youthjobs_thumb%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="466" height="378" /></a></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="vertical-align: top"> <p align="center"><small>Image courtesy <a href="http://africartoons.com/" target="_blank">Africartoons</a></small></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <br /> <p>The University of Cape Town (UCT) <a href="http://www.fin24.com/Entrepreneurs/News/SA-youth-would-rather-work-for-govt-20140611" target="_blank">recently did some research</a> for the latest Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) which showed that 67% of South Africa’s youth believe that the government is the best way to earn a good living. Big brother has really done his job admirably to get the youth of the nation to the point of thinking that their chances are best when employed by the government!</p> <p>The issue with this idea is that government should never be a nation’s primary job supplier. It simply cannot be. It is an entity that produces nothing! Unless, of course, the South African government moves over to a socialistic model, or even worse, communism. That is not very unlikely when it is considered that some of the ministers in government have strong ties to the South African Communist Party (SACP)! When the government becomes the biggest provider of jobs, it will have to raise taxes to be able to provide the salaries for those jobs. Since it produces nothing, raising taxes can only go so far before they will have to move over to a communistic model, meaning that private ownership, private businesses and more will come to an end, and the government will end up owning everything, producing everything and no-one will have the incentive to better themselves.</p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-afNLREGqfns/U58jdw8zEQI/AAAAAAAADpA/6SWe3QXmXNw/s1600-h/jobseeker%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="jobseeker" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="jobseeker" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-TULiE3R11o8/U58jfCc7cNI/AAAAAAAADpI/kYOxhjYDNtc/jobseeker_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="240" align="left" height="240" /></a>Government’s job is to govern, and to ensure that services are supplied that make running homes and businesses most effectively. Government must come up with policies that make it easy for businesses to grow and become job suppliers. When a government’s policies restrict businesses to become primary job suppliers and entrepreneurs to be successful, then it is failing in one of its primary purposes.</p> <p>Big government is not a good idea, since a nanny state is not interested in the welfare of its people, but in how those people could be kept in line.</p> <p>The kicker of the research done by UCT is the fact that 61% of the youth that were surveyed thought that starting your own business means that you have to work too hard to be successful. This already tells me that the youth are clearly in the pockets of this government even at this age. The government has already created a culture of hand-outs, and when a government starts giving something to people, to take it away later becomes almost impossible. Of course, the youth now expect the government hand-out policy to continue when it comes to jobs. Do they even realize that you don’t simply walk into a government office and get handed a well-paying job?</p> <p>With this attitude in the minds of the youth, we have to turn to our education and wonder what they teach the kids in the state high schools. We already know that the quality of <a href="http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/SA-has-worst-maths-science-education-in-world-20140602" target="_blank">South Africa’s maths and science education is so bad</a> that it places last out of 148 countries. That puts us behind countries like Haiti, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, etc. It is seriously not a stretch of the imagination to think that we do not do much better in other areas of our education.</p> <p>With an education of this pathetic level. no wonder our youth think that the government is the best option as a provider of jobs.</p> William Dickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211201729445913360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33573326.post-42200336729927518522014-05-24T14:04:00.001+02:002014-05-24T14:04:06.286+02:00Porndemic: a quick book review<p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-TgzWiHXsN3g/U4CKrhe96lI/AAAAAAAADm8/SpynDZq7DVI/s1600-h/porndemic-9780987016553%25255B7%25255D.png"><img title="porndemic-9780987016553" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="porndemic-9780987016553" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-ypNrXHH_jUI/U4CKs6H2YNI/AAAAAAAADnE/7EtsjwDM7DM/porndemic-9780987016553_thumb%25255B3%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="166" align="left" height="240" /></a>I have just written a review of the book, “<a href="http://www.christianlibertybooks.co.za/item/porndemic">PORNDEMIC: How the Pornography Plague Affects You and What You Can Do About It</a>.”</p> <p>You can find the review <a href="http://www.theo-enthumology.com/2014/05/porndemic-quick-book-review.html" target="_blank">here</a>. I thought that the book and the review is applicable at this blog too!</p> William Dickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211201729445913360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33573326.post-55618998194270086762014-03-21T20:32:00.001+02:002014-03-21T20:32:41.814+02:00Rape: Identity of a nation<p align="center"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-YoP-zgxRybk/UyyFwY5qKhI/AAAAAAAADik/BnquWmfaeyw/s1600-h/rapeidentity%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="rapeidentity" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="rapeidentity" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-wEGH2xea-3M/UyyFxkbBBsI/AAAAAAAADis/JKeSVqejcKg/rapeidentity_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="644" height="95" /></a></p> <p>South Africa, as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics#Rape_statistics_by_country" target="_blank">rape capital of the world</a> once again shows why that is the case.</p> <p>Just recently a <a href="http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/grade-r-girl-in-school-rape-shock-1.1662805#.UyhMrfmSxes" target="_blank">5 year old girl was raped</a> at her school. . . , by three 7 year old boys! I know! You are probably shocked and rightly so! Should we surprised that something like this could happen in this country! No! If you are surprised then you have been living under a rock! Boys of 7 don’t learn to act like this in a vacuum. They learn this from what they see and hear.</p> <p>Our nation truly is in a steep perverted decline and no-one seems to care! It is an environment created by the liberal policies of the <a href="http://www.anc.org.za/" target="_blank">ANC</a> with regard to pornography and the death penalty. Murderers and rapists, if they are ever caught, get to live in our prisons at our expense. We, as the citizens of this country, become victims by proxy of these violent crimes when we have to keep on paying to house these criminals for many years. By 2010, South Africa had 132 rapes per 100,000 people. That put us at 40 rapes above the country second on the list of countries with the most rapes per capita. The U.S.A. were at only 27 rapes per 100,000.</p> <p>It is time South Africa does something about this epidemic of Gomorrhic proportions. We can start by putting a stop to pornography in this country. Scores of rapes have been preceded in the hours before the crime by the viewing of pornography. We can start by educating ourselves, and this we can do by reading a book like <a href="http://www.christianlibertybooks.co.za/item/porndemic" target="_blank">PORNDEMIC: How the Pornography Plague Affects You and What You can Do About It</a>.</p> William Dickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211201729445913360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33573326.post-67313507599506975802014-03-21T19:24:00.001+02:002014-03-21T19:24:24.179+02:00God votes ANC?<div style="width: 375px; float: right"> <table style="border-top: #990000 1px ridge; border-right: #990000 1px ridge; border-bottom: #990000 1px ridge; border-left: #990000 1px ridge"><tbody> <tr> <td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKfhP3nZAy-jY6mgn8Q_TUHaBfRIXorbZkT3i0jGqrmOkTnYZOBNwF6118d675spehd2IWPbqAzEmzyPYdH8_pefsfocCgni9QjjgqwSiNxSGjtXSU8gfBe2Si6TZKIJLTP4Pq/s1600-h/ancrulestilljesus%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="ancrulestilljesus" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="ancrulestilljesus" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-AlTi9HfQPis/Uyx1xLBiL1I/AAAAAAAADiU/jcEhdZMffU4/ancrulestilljesus_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="374" height="218" /></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center"><small>Image courtesy <a style="color: rgb(1,0,0)" href="http://mg.co.za/" target="_blank">Mail<span style="color: rgb(144,0,0)">&</span>Guardian</a></small></td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> Once again, it is the <strike>moron</strike> silly season here in South Africa. Which means that we are in election season. Parties make all kinds of claims concerning their plans to make South Africa a better place to live. Yet, none is as bold and crass as the claims of the <a href="http://www.anc.org.za/" target="_blank">ANC</a>! These <a href="http://thesaurus.com/browse/idiot" target="_blank">people</a> once again claimed that they would rule till Jesus returns. However, they have made that claim a bit more edgy, as when President Jacob “Shower Head” Zuma said as reported by the <a href="http://mg.co.za/article/2014-03-13-satanic-panic-god-votes-anc-the-rest-can-go-to-hell" target="_blank"><font color="#000000"><u>Mail<font color="#900000">&</font>Guardian</u></font></a>, “Even God expects us to rule this country because we are the only organisation which was blessed by pastors when it was formed. This is why we will rule until Jesus comes back." <p>Many empires in the past have proclaimed their eternal existence with great boldness. All of those empires have ceased and are not simply stories in history books. The ANC would do well to learn from history, which they are obviously not very familiar with, and certainly do not know what happens to empires, and kings and despots that claim to be ruling for all eternity.</p> <p>The king of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, viewed himself as this great and wonderful king, and was in awe of his own greatness. </p> <blockquote> <p>“’All this happened to Nebuchadnezzar the king.  (29)  Twelve months later he was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon.  (30)  The king reflected and said, “Is this not Babylon the great, which I myself have built as a royal residence by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”  (31)  While the word was in the king's mouth, a voice came from heaven, saying, “King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is declared: sovereignty has been removed from you,  (32)  and you will be driven away from mankind, and your dwelling place will be with the beasts of the field. You will be given grass to eat like cattle, and seven periods of time will pass over you until you recognize that the Most High is ruler over the realm of mankind and bestows it on whomever He wishes.”  (33)  Immediately the word concerning Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled; and he was driven away from mankind and began eating grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until his hair had grown like eagles' feathers and his nails like birds' claws.’” (Dan 4:28-33 NASB)</p> </blockquote> <p>The complete passage can be read at <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Dan+4&version=NASB" target="_blank">BibleGateway</a>.</p> <p>The difference with the ANC is that they, in their own self created deep deception, actually believe that God is on their side. Little do they know that in God’s sovereignty, and in His providence He is merely using the ANC at this time as a tool to accomplish His purposes, certainly not because God is on their side. Once God has accomplished His purposes in using the ANC, He will discard them like He did with Babylon, the Medo-Persians (King Cyrus) and others through history like them.</p> <p><img style="float: left; margin: 0px 3px 0px 0px; display: inline" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_u79jnbZ41Pg/Sb4wVoES_UI/AAAAAAAABcw/p6xdpq4lVzk/s200/zumadevil%5B4%5D.gif" align="left" />Zuma, as the demon-empowered head of the ANC, has also said that voting for the ANC ensures voters’ entry into heaven. It is obvious that these ANC cadres don’t have a clue as to how one gets into heaven, especially with regards to his invoking the name of Jesus in such a blasphemous way. Entry into heaven has never been, and never will be according to a voters’ roll, and neither is it according to one’s genealogy! Mr. Zuma, entry into heaven is only through belief in the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwilliamdicks.blogspot.com%2F2005%2F10%2Fwhat-is-gospel-what-is-foundation-to.html&h=WAQEAGs8F" target="_blank">gospel of Jesus Christ</a>. The apostle Paul wrote that “by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.” (Eph 2:8-9)</p> <p>Boasting by the ANC will ultimately secure their demise. Unfortunately, the tool of an empire’s demise (in this case an empire of fools) is not always what we had hoped for; but if terminated it must be, its termination will be deadly!</p> <p>Some reasons why God is NOT on their side:</p> <ul> <li>Murder of babies on demand became the law under their government (abortion on demand)</li> <li>Legitimization of perversion as marriage became law under their rule (homosexual marriage)</li> <li>Objectification of women was signed into law by the ANC (legalization of pornography)</li> </ul> <p>There are more reasons, but I believe these are some of the big ones.</p> <p>The ANC knows their constituency, that they are easily duped into believing the deception of the ANC. As a result, many that normally vote ANC, believe the drivel being vomited up by the <strong>A</strong>bortion <strong>N</strong>epotism and <strong>C</strong>orruption party.</p> William Dickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211201729445913360noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33573326.post-5419587093461690342013-12-06T18:11:00.001+02:002013-12-21T17:55:37.972+02:00Nelson Mandela (1918-2013): An Imperfect Hero<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-ZTdbUxOphI0/UqH3J1e4uiI/AAAAAAAADWw/uQp0_-FwDEE/s1600-h/ComicHeroes3.jpg"><img align="right" alt="ComicHeroes" border="0" height="290" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-3pFln5WtFtQ/UqH3K4znd0I/AAAAAAAADW4/KEZ-wgruf5o/ComicHeroes_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 3px 3px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="ComicHeroes" width="214"></a>Normally, when most people think of heroes, they think of Superman, Ironman, Thor, Spider-Man, Captain America, Batman and many more. <em>First</em>, these heroes don’t die. They were conjured up in the minds of people and as long as people are willing to conjure up more stories about these heroes, they will live on. <em>Second</em>, these heroes do not exist. We do not have a Man of Steel flying around with people saying: “Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it is Superman!”<br>
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"In this world, there is right and there is wrong, and that distinction is not difficult to make." (Superman – D.C. Comics)</div>
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"Wars are never won, regardless of who might be the victor. The very act of war is itself a horrible defeat." (Green Lantern – D.C. Comics)</div>
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“What do you think the A stands for? France?” (Captain America – Marvel Comics)</div>
<a href="http://www.bibliopolit.com/2013/12/nelson-mandela-1918-2013-imperfect-hero.html#more">Read more »</a>William Dickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211201729445913360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33573326.post-7032479915634829462013-11-11T16:21:00.001+02:002013-11-11T16:21:18.834+02:00Is the ANC feeling the pinch?<p align="center"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-Ov_P6hsbOPo/UoDn0a63sOI/AAAAAAAADRQ/9OpoZW_DMGw/s1600-h/elections20143.jpg"><img title="elections2014" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="elections2014" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-yZ452XSw4x0/UoDn1rDvfQI/AAAAAAAADRY/_mQ2cXrR1zo/elections2014_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="426" height="433" /></a></p> <p>The next general elections in South Africa is in 2014. As usual, the elections machinery goes into overdrive and the elections trickery gets under way. However, I am not sure if the following is just elections trickery, or whether the <a href="http://www.anc.org.za/" target="_blank">ANC</a> is starting to feel the pinch and pressure of electioneering. Especially now that Julius Malema started his own party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (<a href="http://effighters.org.za/" target="_blank">EFF</a> for short).</p> <p><a href="http://cdn.24.co.za/files/Cms/General/d/2224/1f0ec7a0178849dab3a4fecd2c4b97e3.jpg"><img title="Cyril Ramaphosa (Felix Dlangamandla, Beeld)" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px 3px 0px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Cyril Ramaphosa (Felix Dlangamandla, Beeld)" align="left" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-mgcQuiXDA1Q/UoDn2aLBt3I/AAAAAAAADRg/7g-HJIgSQ8Y/Cyril-Ramaphosa5.jpg?imgmax=800" width="179" height="211" /></a>It is very clear that the ANC no longer has any ideas as to the running of the country, especially when taking into consideration how many poor and unemployed people we have in South Africa. How do we know this? ANC deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa, visited the hometown of EFF leader, Julius Malema. <a href="http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/cyril-warns-of-boer-threat-1.1605050#.UoCYcPmD-8A" target="_blank">How did he counsel a woman</a> who was disappointed with the ANC and did not want to vote? He told her, “If all South Africans don’t vote, we will regress. The Boers [white people] will come back to control us.” South Africa is long past that point, and all this so-called leader of the ANC (<strong>A</strong>bortion <strong>N</strong>epotism and <strong>C</strong>orruption/<strong>C</strong>ondoms) could tell her is to watch out for the white monster! The ANC is policy-less. They have no answers for the problems of this nation. The fact that he told this woman to beware of the “dangerous” whites is because the policies of the ANC have not brought the freedom they promised. It has brought greater unemployment, creating a greater welfare problem, and invited more criminals into the fold.</p> <p><a title="Zweli Mkhize (Picture: Sapa)" href="http://cdn.24.co.za/files/Cms/General/d/2221/27badacdcf2041029e1665ba10dfb4fa.jpg" target="_blank"><img title="Zweli Mkhize (Picture: Sapa)" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Zweli Mkhize (Picture: Sapa)" align="right" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-FkLgA7EEOZ0/UoDn3FbkpBI/AAAAAAAADRo/R9c1wfNediM/Zweli-Mkhize5.jpg?imgmax=800" width="179" height="223" /></a>In an unrelated event, “ANC treasurer general Zweli Mkhize wants companies to fund political parties and has suggested the establishment of a trust fund, the Sowetan reported on Monday.” This was reported in a news article at <a href="http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Politics/ANC-Businesses-must-fund-political-parties-20131111" target="_blank">News24</a>. If it wasn’t so sad that the ANC now thinks that businesses should pay them for democracy in this country, it would be quite laughable. Don’t think for a moment that the ANC is doing this for the good of democracy in this country. They have this <a href="http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/anc-to-rule-until-jesus-comes-back-1.398843#.UoDSLPmD-8A" target="_blank">demented idea</a> that they would reign in this country until Jesus comes. Further, with a current, almost two-thirds majority vote, they sometimes actually believe they will never be dethroned. Hence my belief that this <em>democracy trust fund</em>, is simply a ruse to get companies to bank-roll the ANC. Further, Mkhize believes that the fund should be “administered by the office of the Speaker of the National Assembly, which would allocate the funds in line with proportional representation of parties.” Of course, the fact that the speaker is just another ANC crony should not alarm us, should it? OF COURSE IT SHOULD! The fact is that large companies such as Anglo American have followed this idea of proportionate funding for many years. All that this does is to perpetuate the current situation. The parties that roll in the money, such as the ANC, will always come out on top since their budgets allow for so much more marketing of their brand. Small parties, with real answers for this country such as the <a href="http://www.acdp.org.za/" target="_blank">ACDP</a>, can’t get anywhere since they do not have the funds to market themselves and to make sure that people know what they stand for.</p> <p>What Mkhize is proposing, is to perpetuate crony capitalism in South Africa. That is a capitalism that benefits the ANC and the businesses that support it. Herman Mashaba, chairman of the <a href="http://www.freemarketfoundation.com/" target="_blank">Free Market Foundation</a>, is against this type of capitalism. </p> <p>Mashaba</p> <blockquote> <p>“has been an outspoken and uncompromising champion of the free market in the new South Africa. His great strength is that he is beholden to no political party or politician. He believes the opposite is true of too many business leaders in South Africa.</p> <p>“This is their great weakness, and the whole country is suffering because of it.</p> <p>“They keep quiet because they are terrified of losing their political connections, fearing that if they lose them, they will lose government business, he says.</p> <p>“In effect, this means that crony capitalism rules -and crony capitalism is a devastating threat to democracy in South Africa, he believes.” (<a href="http://www.bdlive.co.za/business/2013/11/10/crusader-herman-mashaba-takes-on-the-crony-capitalists" target="_blank">Business Day Live</a>)</p> </blockquote> <p>He said that</p> <blockquote> <p>“Draconian labour legislation has destroyed entrepreneurship in this country.”</p> </blockquote> <p>In the end, I believe that the ANC is suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder. On the one hand they need to scare people into voting for them, and on the other hand they believe that they are the party of the Almighty. Or maybe it describes <a href="http://www.mifellowship.org/sites/default/files/styles/Fact%20Sheets/UnderstandingSchizophrenia_001.pdf" target="_blank">schizophrenia</a>?</p> <p>On the one hand the ANC claims to uphold democracy, but on the other hand they want to force businesses to pay for that democracy. Weird!</p> William Dickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211201729445913360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33573326.post-7877193847288452732013-10-12T13:40:00.001+02:002013-10-12T13:40:04.111+02:00Teen sex in South Africa apparently has no consequences<table style="text-align: left; width: 270px; margin-right: 3px" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2" align="left" border="1"><tbody> <tr align="center"> <td style="vertical-align: top"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-7Q4DUWOorCU/Ulk1DbqiJBI/AAAAAAAADGE/_6iusa0pDz8/s1600-h/teensholdinghands%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="teensholdinghands" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="teensholdinghands" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-KmjGHGOfv58/Ulk1EfuWTxI/AAAAAAAADGM/uecLxeIUO2M/teensholdinghands_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="270" height="403"></a></td> </tr> <tr align="center"> <td style="vertical-align: top"><small><em>Image courtesy of stockimages at </em><a href="http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/"><em>FreeDigitalPhotos.net</em></a></small></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p>On 3 October 2013, the South African Constitutional Court (similar to the American Supreme Court), proclaimed sections 15 and 16 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, relating to sexual offences, to be unconstitutional. The unanimous judgement was written by Judge Sisi Khampepe. According to the judgement, these two sections “<em>infringed on the rights of adolescents between 12 and 16 to dignity and privacy, and further violated the best interest principle contained in section 28(2) of the constitution.</em>” (<a href="http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/teen-sex-no-longer-a-crime-concourt-1.1586892#.UljnrlCD86v" target="_blank">IOL</a>)</p> <p>According to the Constitutional Court’s (ConCourt) <a href="http://www.constitutionalcourt.org.za/site/Teddy.htm" target="_blank">judgement summary</a>, the court used expert evidence to conclude that “<em>the impugned provisions criminalise what constitutes developmentally normative conduct for adolescents, and adversely affect the very children the Act seeks to protect.</em>”</p> <p>Further, “<em>[t]he provisions were declared invalid only to the extent that they criminalise consensual sexual conduct between adolescents [defined as 12- to 16-year olds]: the criminal prohibitions against non-consensual sexual conduct with children of any age, and against sexual activity between adults and older children on the one hand, and adolescents on the other hand, remain in place.</em>”</p> <p>In this judgement, the ConCourt is reticent to criminalize “<em>what constitutes developmentally normative conduct for adolescents.</em>” Really? So, the measuring rod for behaviour amongst our children is what constitutes as “<em>developmentally normative conduct for adolescents?</em>” What other conduct related to developmental conduct will next be decriminalized? Your guess is as good as mine, and it sends shivers down my spine when I just think of the possibilities. </p> <p>Violence among teenagers is a growing problem in South Africa. More and more teenagers think that the best way to solve differences is through <a href="http://bit.ly/TeenViolence" target="_blank">physical violence</a>. Just this week a group of teenagers from one school used a taxi to get to another school to exact vengeance on pupils of that school for bullying a friend of theirs at the school. A couple of weeks ago a pupil attacked and seriously wounded a teacher. This type of violence among teenagers has become normative developmental conduct in our nation. Will this be decriminalized?</p> <a href="http://www.bibliopolit.com/2013/10/teen-sex-in-south-africa-apparently-has.html#more">Read more »</a>William Dickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211201729445913360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33573326.post-77802389994448253762013-08-01T19:15:00.001+02:002013-08-01T19:15:46.746+02:00A letter of objection to a casino at Menlyn Maine<p>I was alerted this week by a friend concerning a casino that may be built at Menlyn Maine, opposite the Menlyn Park Shopping Centre in the east of Pretoria. Sun International, the gambling mega corporation started by Sol Kerzner many years ago, has applied for gambling rights in order for them to build a casino at Menlyn Maine.</p> <p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw5I8XnS5bYwrl4IEsH_3WttjrloQsR7KxZnB2d2zZmZ0FeHu9L9VjPx2EdWD4wGGynMPHkDHIZn4CBH1VXBHg45OgSHI_9dYzOEjmE8FTKEqnJjRHkIq9zSXx0ddRDw5tquT9/s1600-h/menlynmaine%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="menlynmaine" border="0" alt="menlynmaine" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-gwPG2MIWAzM/UfqXwKjiVwI/AAAAAAAADAM/Dgy38w1MPRE/menlynmaine_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="510" height="476" /></a></p> <p>I felt it necessary to write an objection to the relevant person at the Gauteng Gambling Board (Bheki Nkosi – <a href="mailto:bhekin@ggb.org.za">bhekin@ggb.org.za</a>). My letter of objection follows:</p> <table style="margin-left: 40px" border="1" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" width="594"><tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="588"> <div style="text-transform: none; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font: small 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; white-space: normal; color: rgb(34,34,34); word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class="gmail_default">To whom it may concern:</div> <div style="text-transform: none; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font: small 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; white-space: normal; color: rgb(34,34,34); word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class="gmail_default"> </div> <div style="text-transform: none; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font: small 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; white-space: normal; color: rgb(34,34,34); word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class="gmail_default">I was made aware of an application for a casino at Menlyn Maine, across from the Menlyn Park Shopping mall. I would like to object to such a venture for several reasons:</div> <div style="text-transform: none; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font: small 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; white-space: normal; color: rgb(34,34,34); word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class="gmail_default"> </div> <div style="text-transform: none; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font: small 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; white-space: normal; color: rgb(34,34,34); word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class="gmail_default">1. There are 2 schools in the immediate vicinity of Menlyn Maine: Glen High and the Hatfield Christian School. For obvious reasons it is not a good idea.</div> <div style="text-transform: none; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font: small 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; white-space: normal; color: rgb(34,34,34); word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class="gmail_default">2. Gambling does not uplift people, but makes them poorer. The lure of quick money makes people go to extremes and end up squandering their money, making gambling corporations rich at the expense of the people.</div> <div style="text-transform: none; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font: small 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; white-space: normal; color: rgb(34,34,34); word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class="gmail_default">3. Apart from being a costly enterprise for the individual, it further ruins marriages, the building block of society. The number one cause of divorces is money, and gambling brings severe monetary strain to marriages.</div> <div style="text-transform: none; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font: small 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; white-space: normal; color: rgb(34,34,34); word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class="gmail_default">4. Gambling can lead to bankruptcy, where people can lose their homes and more.</div> <div style="text-transform: none; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font: small 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; white-space: normal; color: rgb(34,34,34); word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class="gmail_default">5. Statistics have also shown that crime rises in metropolitan areas after casinos have made their inroads into those areas.</div> <div style="text-transform: none; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font: small 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; white-space: normal; color: rgb(34,34,34); word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class="gmail_default">6. When people start losing all they have because of their gambling addictions, they themselves tend to turn to crime to make money or turn to loan sharks for their money, putting their lives at risk.</div> <div style="text-transform: none; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font: small 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; white-space: normal; color: rgb(34,34,34); word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class="gmail_default">7. Those that do gamble the most to alleviate their hopeless situations are the poor and the elderly.</div> <div style="text-transform: none; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font: small 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; white-space: normal; color: rgb(34,34,34); word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class="gmail_default">8. Gambling is an immoral venture by definition, since it feeds on the hopelessness of the poor, promising them great rewards while gambling houses know for a fact that the gamblers are not the money makers but the casinos themselves. Thus, casinos pull the old bait and switch, luring the defenseless with images of great riches, and once they are trapped, they are sucked dry by a vicious entity who does not care about the lives it has ruined.</div> <div style="text-transform: none; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font: small 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; white-space: normal; color: rgb(34,34,34); word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class="gmail_default"> </div> <div style="text-transform: none; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font: small 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; white-space: normal; color: rgb(34,34,34); word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class="gmail_default">Regards,</div> <div style="text-transform: none; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font: small 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; white-space: normal; color: rgb(34,34,34); word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class="gmail_default">William Dicks</div> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p>If you feel like objecting to this casino, please make use of this opportunity to write to the <a href="http://www.ggb.org.za/" target="_blank">Gauteng Gambling Board</a>.</p> William Dickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211201729445913360noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33573326.post-17737114947658870752013-07-06T11:40:00.001+02:002013-07-06T11:40:36.374+02:00A low flat tax is not something to laugh at<p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCCNaSAistHEIaM3BCzNqK66TkZAJfXZ88zcb0Id_H06uuA74CafFtvcGgza7qx8C5elgV6QGTyQCY4eEP7h8SckjjIxFtgdyPgxRkp5AWXv956vo_OFDPwZKg-NmWBAsbWGut/s1600-h/governmentnowealth%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="governmentnowealth" border="0" alt="governmentnowealth" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLo8NIxbB8hAaNLM9VjbeHqiGF8FZXmd7EL3tOv3PCQBGqpcH2DQuDZhmtj_iIqnJyr2uDrPCk8LMdpfd10XOermPA1ojxijWaDE5k5gV1pN3vUAxJIYYA6xQwicbfPLJd9MXU/?imgmax=800" width="627" height="66" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHc1J7-OI-uWDJylrD7GElaRXMOa5PwHeM-dMFC9QFgDr9AqCDvr_zqxQ3DHUpMyPRAJAhpHp3kj2lbsHUkEE3v8uhxpwmz1tnlu_4-Quj-RMAMcw2zlCrQ97gfrHt0qEY1JhF/s1600-h/Flat_Tax%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 3px 3px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="Flat_Tax" border="0" alt="Flat_Tax" align="right" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-B6fKAHxCBGQ/UdfmEqbIOcI/AAAAAAAAC-Q/1zRxxovVkgc/Flat_Tax_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="185" /></a>Some believe that in order to get enough money to service the country, taxes should be raised. However, that is a sure-fire way to  bring the economy to a halt, since investments will come to a grinding halt and the people will either do their utmost to keep most of their money to themselves, or go look for greener grass elsewhere.</p> <p>Others believe that government should should stimulate or boost the economy through fiscal or monetary policy. Jasson Urbach writes:</p> <blockquote> <p>“The simple reason government spending fails to end recessions is because every rand the government “injects” into the economy must first be taxed or borrowed out of it. Government merely redistributes money from the productive to the non-productive sectors of the economy. No new income and, therefore, no new demand for goods and services is created.</p> <p>It is not government but private firms that generate wealth and are the engines of economic growth. Government cannot create new purchasing power out of thin air. The mistaken view that fiscal stimulus can pull economies out of recession persists because the jobs created through government ‘make-work’ programmes are clearly visible. What we cannot see are the jobs that would have been created elsewhere in the economy with that same money had it not been taxed or borrowed by government.”</p> </blockquote> <p>He further writes about the limitations of government monetary policy. “At best,” he writes,</p> <blockquote> <p>“it is simply a lever that can be adjusted to influence growth in the short-run. Consider what happens when the Reserve Bank cuts interest rates beyond what would have occurred if interest rates were freely determined by the interactions between the demand and supply of credit. When interest rates are cut too far, the capital allocation in the economy is skewed because capital is allocated to marginal activities. For example, if real interest rates are negative or zero, it would be unwise to hold cash balances because the investment will not earn a return. In this case investors would look for alternative places to invest. In low interest rate environments, these alternatives might be marginal activities that normally would not attract investment. When interest rates are forced to rise because of increasing inflation, marginal investments are exposed and the economy is likely to relapse into another period of recession.”</p> </blockquote> <p>He can continue reading Urbach’s article entitled <em><a href="http://www.freemarketfoundation.com/issues/feature-article-a-low-flat-tax-will-lead-to-investment-growth-and-jobs" target="_blank">A low flat tax will lead to investment, growth and job</a></em>.</p> William Dickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211201729445913360noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33573326.post-28299124908098805322013-07-02T20:45:00.001+02:002013-07-02T20:45:04.612+02:00America on its way to an Orwellian end?<p>The way that America is going at this moment makes me think of the great demise of the Roman Empire. When it though it was invincible, Rome came crashing down. The same seems to be happening in America.</p> <p>The big difference between Rome and America is that Rome was pillaged from without and America is being pillaged from within. And, the pillaging is done by the political class, the leaders of the nation. It points to an Orwellian demise.</p> <p>John W. Whitehead of <a href="https://www.rutherford.org/" target="_blank">The Rutherford Institute</a>, has some interesting things to say about the state of the U.S.A.</p> <p align="center"><iframe height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/MIuLcrc4b2Y?rel=0" frameborder="0" width="640" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p> William Dickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211201729445913360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33573326.post-1288745378333274572013-03-27T21:11:00.001+02:002013-03-27T21:11:42.609+02:00New South African Electoral Amendment Bill<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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South African politics have always been party politics, and not really whether those in parliament actually deserved to be there, or were accountable to anyone but the party they belonged to.<br>
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In simple terms, the South African system is a proportional system. That means that each party gets to allocate a proportional number of members of parliament (MPs) according to the percentage of votes it garnered in an election. If there are 162 positions for MPs, and party A got 23% of the vote and party B got 53%, then party A will get to put forward 37 of its members to be MPs and party B 86. This way, the voters will never know whether these MPs are really capable of doing the job, or whether they have a sense of accountability.<br>
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