FWD: Soweto riots anniversary
Ted Mayett (KOX)
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Today (16th) is the 22nd anniversary of the Soweto riots in
South Africa. Perhaps scientology wishes to
take credit for the end of apartheid??
16 June 1998 marks the 22nd anniversary of the "Soweto
Riots" in South Africa. When thousands of black students
protested the government's imposition of Afrikaans as the
official language, white police responded with violence
and brutality that eventually resulted in 176 deaths and
1139 injuries.
10 years ago, Rena Weinberg (current President of ABLE
International) reported in IMPACT magazine (issue 16)
on the wonderful things "tech" had accomplished in South
Africa (editorial comments interspersed):
"On June 16th 1976, riots erupted in the black
townships in South Africa. Violence, unrest and
enturbulation affected the whole country, majorly in
black areas and the worst area was Soweto near
Johannesburg which houses 3 million people. Every year,
on June 16, the people who are sowing suppression and
revolution get the majority of the township populations
to commemorate the anniversary of the 1976 riots. Every
year, since 1976, there have been major riots and
unbridled violence during June."
It should come as no surprise that the black areas were
"majorly" affected by apartheid and as a result,
"enturbulated". It should also not be surprising to anyone,
except perhaps a Scientologist, that the townships wished
to commemorate the deaths of their children (13-year-old
Hector Petersen was the first victim of the police action
in 1976).
The implication here is that the oppressed black majority's
protests against the evil that was apartheid makes them
"suppressive". As we all know, this means they can be
"sued, tricked, lied to or destroyed", right in keeping
with the white-minority government's policies. How
convenient.
"With the help of a second Association grant we were
able to implement a campaign that completely
destimulated the Soweto Riots Anniversary scene. There
were literally no incidents of violence and very little
enturbulation in the country over that period of time."
The "Soweto Riots Anniversary scene" --sounding more akin
to the latest privileged-youth fad than the bloody fight for
freedom-- is an appallingly condescending turn of a phrase.
Scientology communication skills at their best.
"This was done by the distribution of a quarter of a
million 'The Way To Happiness' booklets, a quarter of
a million fliers introducing the Happiness Club and a
half a million information fliers picturing LRH with
his Zulu name (URONI), to a third of the homes in the
area. (LRH was made an honorary member of the Zulu
tribe by their Chief -- he has been assigned the Zulu
name meaning 'Great Teacher')."
To laugh or to cry? It is patently absurd to think that
blanketing the countryside with insipid "Way to Happiness"
maxims could avert riots. Yet, Ms. Weinberg appears as
delusionally serious in making this preposterous assertion
as her readers undoubtedly are in accepting it.
"Thus the Association grant really prevented major
civil unrest and introduced LRH and his technology to
more than one million people. The response from the
promotion was excellent. Tens of thousands of people
are interested in joining the Happiness Club and
membership fees have started coming in."
Scientology success: $$$
Contrast:
http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/mandela/64-90/anvil.html
"UNITE! MOBILISE! FIGHT ON!
BETWEEN THE ANVIL OF UNITED MASS ACTION
AND THE HAMMER OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE
WE SHALL CRUSH APARTHEID!"
This message was Mandela's call after the Soweto
uprising of 1976. It was published by the ANC on
10 June 1980, with an introduction by O R Tambo,
President of the ANC at the time.
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Ted Mayett OT 1.1
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