U.N. Swinishness

Last week, in solidarity with a Stalinist regime, the United Nations General Assembly ( minus the U.S., Israel and Palau) voted practically unanimously to condemn the U.S. "blockade" of Cuba.

From 1963 to 1991, this same General Assembly voted overwhelmingly FOR a "blockade" against segregationist South Africa. (interestingly, all through the 80's Canada always banged the loudest drums for an embargo against South Africa)

Yet according to anti-apartheid activists (none denounced as "extremists!" or "crackpots" or "hard-liners!" in the MSM, by the way) a grand total of 3,000 political prisoners passed through South Africa's political prisons in roughly 30 years under the Apartheid regime. Usually about 1000 were held.

These were out of a South African population of 40 million. So in its day, the regime responsible for these incarcerations weathered a relentless campaign of vituperation from every political, press and academic pulpit on the face of the earth until economic sanctions by practically every nation on the face of the earth battered, crippled and finally finished it.

According to the Human Rights group, Freedom House, a grand total of 500,000 political prisoners have passed through Stalinist Cuba's various prisons and forced labor camps. At one time in 1961 300,00 Cubans were jailed for political offenses. This is out of a Cuban population in 1960 of 6.4 million. A calculator will easily reveal the grotesque disparity between Castroite repression compared to Apartheid repression. The regime applauded at the U.N. and that the entire world lavishes with trade and tourism (Cuba's) was roughly TWENTY TIMES as repressive as the segregationist one that is universally condemned.

Interestingly, according to UNICEF statistics, infant-mortality rates for South African blacks were much LOWER and life-expectancy rates much HIGHER, during the Apartheid regime than afterwards. We will look for scholars and media types to begin extolling racial segregation as the sure-cure for Africa's health crisis. We will look for any mention of Apartheid in the world's media, academic and political circles to include: "True, South African blacks could not vote — but the segregationist regime achieved great gains in healthcare."

Posted by Humberto at November 2, 2008 02:20 PM

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Posted by: PTG at November 2, 2008 03:29 PM