tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44853155581448368632024-02-20T00:17:37.648-01:00Tell it as it isThis is my view of things happening around the world and South Africatell it as it ishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10944931479098265439noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485315558144836863.post-30409891282389766172020-12-10T04:10:00.000-01:002020-12-10T04:10:23.323-01:00ENGLISH MADE EASY REPORTED SPEECH<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KlEh01uZqE0" frameborder="0"></iframe>tell it as it ishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10944931479098265439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485315558144836863.post-82293968653087450502020-02-27T08:13:00.000-01:002020-02-27T08:15:55.888-01:00What does the Bible say about Homosexuality<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Biblical Truth about Homosexuality</h2>
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Pro-homosexual statements and actions are occurring more and more in our world. It shouldn't be surprising to see a Christian response to the contrary. Of course, some "Christians" aren't exactly shining examples of tact and grace, though such a tone should always be our aim. The New Testament urges Christ’s followers to share the truth in love (<a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/bible.php?ver=niv&q=ephesians+4:15" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">Eph. 4:15</a>). And the Holy Spirit enables us to explain what we believe with gentleness and respect (<a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.biblestudytools.com/esv/1-peter/3-15.html" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">1Peter 3:15</a>).</div>
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But it's usually the inarticulate, angry-faced ranter who gets the spotlight in our 'round-the-clock news world. Those kinds of "Christians" don't speak for me and they certainly don't represent Christ. True Christians graciously express what Christians have believed about marriage and sexuality for 2000 years. Do we really deserve the scarlet letter B ("bigot") now just for believing that the <a href="https://www.biblestudytools.com/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: blue; font-weight: 600;">Bible</a> teaches what's best for families and for society? The Christian view of marriage does have a pretty good track record for promoting thriving civilizations, after all.</div>
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Like any father, I wonder what kind of world my children are going to inherit when they're adults. I have two sons (12, 5) and a daughter (2). Where the world is headed isn't a huge worry that weighs me down, though, because I know the world belongs to God. Ultimately, He's in control. In His mercy, he allows sinful people to do whatever they do, even as He gives them an opportunity to turn to Him.</div>
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As a father, I'm called to help my children know God through an accurate understanding of His Word, the Bible. Unfortunately, <a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.sbts.edu/god-and-the-gay-christian/" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">some professing Christians are trying to argue these days <em fr-original-style="" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">from the Bible</em> that homosexuality is an acceptable form of human relationship</a>. They teach that same-sex "marriage" is just as holy and commendable as heterosexual marriage. This concerns me more than secular arguments because such an approach attempts to hijack the Bible and change the truth (which, by any sane definition, never changes).</div>
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Christians certainly need to pray, be humble, kind, and serve the less fortunate. But Christians also need to know the Bible and accurately explain it to others. Those of us who are U.S. citizens have been blessed with the freedom (for now) to speak and exert influence in the public marketplace of ideas, and we do that without fear. Hopefully, much of this article will impact the general reader, but my main purpose is to explain what true Christians believe and what the Bible actually teaches about homosexuality.<iframe data-google-container-id="4" data-load-complete="true" frameborder="0" height="250" id="google_ads_iframe_/6177/christianity.com/christian-life/political-and-social-issues_1" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="google_ads_iframe_/6177/christianity.com/christian-life/political-and-social-issues_1" sandbox="allow-forms allow-pointer-lock allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation" scrolling="no" style="border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: center; vertical-align: bottom;" title="3rd party ad content" width="300"></iframe></div>
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There is only one arbiter over the Christian faith: the risen Lord Jesus Christ. He has clearly spoken through His <a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.aomin.org/aoblog/index.php/2010/01/05/inspiration-inerrancy-preservation" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">inerrant </a>Word. While people's personal feelings do have their place, they are less important than what Scripture says. <span fr-original-class="null" fr-original-style="" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This article attempts to convey the view held by proven Bible teachers worldwide. It is the view of people who not only <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.christianity.com/blogs/alex-crain/who-gets-to-say-what-the-bible-says.html" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">meet the requirements of being a Bible interpreter</a> but who, along with me, care about the eternal souls of people. </span></div>
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What Does the Bible Teach About Sexual Relations?</h2>
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The historic Christian view according to accurate biblical interpretation is that sex outside of the sacred bonds of male-female marriage is wrong. One practical reason the Bible forbids it is because of how powerful sex is. God created sex to be a strong adhesive, bonding two fragile souls together. This is why feelings of "heartbreak" often happen when people who've engaged in sexual intercourse then go their separate ways. In God's good design, sex is reserved for a man and a woman who have entered into a legally binding marriage covenant. This kind of life-long commitment forms the basis for a garden-like relationship in which true intimacy can grow into a loving family. Multiply that same model many times over and a healthy society blossoms and thrives.</div>
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You may not agree with this view of human sexuality, but it's what the Bible teaches. If the point of this conversation is to foster better understanding, let's agree to accurately represent each other. To be a Christian, then, is to be a reasonable person who promotes wholeness, joy, and genuine love. We aren't judgmental prudes who are dead-set against anyone enjoying life. We are for human flourishing. We aren't bigots or homophobes. Such name-calling is weak, counterproductive, and it ultimately distracts from a fair consideration of the issue.</div>
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As fellow human beings, we ought to uphold and defend each other's right to freedom of speech, including humane disagreement. All people are created equal, but the same cannot be said for all ideas. Some ideas are better than others. Professing Christians who engage in hateful rants do a very poor job of representing Christ and they do not speak for millions of ordinary Christians who unfortunately often get lumped in with the lunatic fringe of Christendom. Faithful Bible-believers shouldn't be labeled ‘haters' or be <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.crosswalk.com/blogs/christian-trends/if-firing-atlanta-s-fire-chief-isn-t-a-religious-liberty-case-then-nothing-is.html" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">treated like Jim Crow</a> for simply being true to <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.christianity.com/churchhistory/11636187/" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">the same historic Christian faith</a> that led to the <em fr-original-style="" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">abolition </em>of slavery, for example (contrary to the one-sided claims of men like <a fr-original-style="" href="http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/12/is-the-black-church-guilty-of-spiritual-hypocrisy-in-same-sex-marriage-debate/" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">James Cone</a>). </div>
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In recent years, it has become unpopular to question the LGBT claim, "God made me this way." Such a question is being defined as "hate" by some. (And we're not supposed to recognize this accusation of being a "hater" as a fallacious stratagem that undermines fair and productive dialogue.) However, there are <a fr-original-style="" href="http://blogs.christianpost.com/confident-christian/why-the-born-that-way-argument-fails-13406/" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">good grounds to question such a claim</a>, and I do so without malice. </div>
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But in light of this widely used tactic, I offer the following disclaimer to the reader:</div>
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If you are hide-bound by the dubious assumption that certain people are irrecoverably and genetically destined to act out same-sex impulses, and you habitually label as a 'hater' anyone who dares to question the belief that LGBT behavior is unavoidably mandated by one's DNA, let me be kind and save you some time.<br />
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There is a truthful explanation for why people engage in LGBT behavior, but you probably won't like it. You could continue reading this article, but it may do little good. On the other hand, there are probably more than a few readers who are genuinely interested in understanding why Christians so strongly oppose (or ought to oppose) the homosexual agenda.</div>
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If this openness to understanding describes you in the slightest, then read to the end and please add to the discussion with your comments. (Non-readers, please withhold your comments<em fr-original-style="" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">.</em> Freedom of speech means that you're free to write on your own blog or website. This article is an invitation for fair-minded readers to take part in a productive conversation.)</div>
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What Does the Bible Say About Homosexuality?</h2>
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Notwithstanding the abysmal image projected by the aforementioned professing Christians, homosexuality is not some kind of "special sin" that God can never forgive. All sins separate people from God. Christ died to free people from sin. To be a Christian is to be a forgiven person. And, yes, even as a Christian, I have to admit that I am still tempted to sin and I still commit sin. But the fact that I acknowledge my need for ongoing confession and spiritual growth does not logically lead to the place where an entire advocacy group must be formed on my behalf to convince the world that being say, short-tempered, is okay. It isn't being judgmental to simply repeat what the Bible says is Christian activity and what isn't. Sin is defined by God in His Word. We are meant to read God's Word and understand it.</div>
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Furthermore, no Christian should ever want to identify personally with a sin for which Christ died. The hyphenated coupling of the word "Christian" with activities for which Jesus Christ died is a recent phenomenon that has no justification in either Scripture or church history. Understood this way, the term "Gay-Christian" makes about as much sense as "Murderer-Christian," or "Adulterer-Christian." Sin is not a label. It's what we've been freed from.</div>
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If it helps take the church, religious edge off the word sin, what the Bible calls "sin" can simply be thought of in common sense terms as <em fr-original-style="" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">destructive behavior that promises fulfillment but doesn't actually lead to fulfillment.</em> Sin is the lack of conformity to God's holy requirements in the Bible. It begins with a false view of God, which then breeds disregard for God and, ultimately, gives birth to attitudes and actions contrary to God's moral will (<a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/bible.php?ver=niv&q=1+thessalonians+4:3" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;">1 Thessalonians 4:3</a>). But sin also has a destructive effect upon the sinner. Sin leads to a hollow, unfulfilled human soul.</div>
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To anyone who prefers to live by his or her own rules, Christianity, particularly the Christian view of sex, is highly offensive, to begin with. It makes a discussion like this tense already. So, when people act or speak in a graceless, mean-spirited way it only makes matters worse. What we're after is a healthy exchange of ideas. And that is what happens when both sides agree to follow the truth, no matter where it leads. We're all aware of the benefit derived from a caring physician who gives a truthful diagnosis. Let's keep that image in mind as we look together at this issue. </div>
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Some diagnoses come as a shock, but the faithful, historic interpretation of the Bible calls homosexuality a sinful, self-destructive act. Yes, I realize this contradicts <a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/johnshore/2012/04/the-best-case-for-the-bible-not-condemning-homosexuality/" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">the sin-enabling view popularly offered under the guise of "compassion</a>." But such a view is wrong and not to be trusted.</div>
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The New Testament plainly lists homosexuality right alongside lying (<a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/bible.php?ver=niv&q=1+timothy+1:10" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;">1 Timothy 1:10</a>), robbing, being greedy, swindling (<a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/bible.php?ver=niv&q=1+corinthians+6:9" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;">1 Corinthians 6:9</a>), gossiping and committing murder (<a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/bible.php?ver=niv&q=romans+1:25" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;">Romans 1:25</a>). Such broad lists like these are meant to convey one thing: we <em fr-original-style="" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><u fr-original-style="" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">all </u></em>have a sin issue. It's bad news for everyone. But it's not just bad news that affects individuals. Sin impacts society as a whole. "Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people," says <a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/bible.php?ver=niv&q=proverbs+14:34" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">Proverbs 14:34</a>. In other words, any society that condones destructive, sinful behavior (as Scripture defines sin) is a society that will weaken and decline.</div>
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The bad news for those who engage in homosexuality does not go away simply by the spurious claim that somehow the Church has "misunderstood" these texts for centuries, only to be corrected by later revisionist scholars in recent decades. These New Testament Scriptures prohibiting any sexual sin outside the sacred bonds of male-female marriage are clear. Jesus said that Scripture stands permanently. It cannot be broken (<a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/bible.php?ver=niv&q=john+10:35" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">John 10:35b</a>). God's Word, the Bible, is the binding authority over all people in all time periods, whether or not people acknowledge Scripture's authority in the here and now or not. (Everyone will one day according to <a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/bible.php?ver=niv&q=philippians+2%3a10-11" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">Philippians 2:10-11</a>, et. al.). </div>
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For readers who are for the first time seeing Bible verses that condemn homosexuality, they aren't quoted to be inflammatory. Rather, they are cited to make clear <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.christianity.com/blogs/jwhite/11654108/" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">what Scripture actually says</a>. Biblical standards of right and wrong have stood the test of time. You can ignore them at your own peril, but changing them isn't a valid option. </div>
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When Did It Become Christian to Endorse Sin?</h2>
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Feelings of same-sex attraction are often unwelcome and spontaneous for those who are tempted to engage in homosexuality. It is not sinful to be tempted. It's sinful to yield. This truth about temptation applies to everyone, regardless of the sin. Those saying that homosexuality should be affirmed in the name of Christian love contradict the Bible. </div>
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When President Obama "made history" in 2011 by endorsing same-sex couples, he cited supposedly "Christian" reasons for doing so. Obviously, it is not a Christian virtue to hate people who sin. Christians are not against people who practice homosexuality (just as Christians are not anti-liars; we simply affirm that lying is wrong). Likewise, Christians are not against the people who become ensnared by homosexuality. But Christians do oppose sin (<a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/bible.php?ver=niv&q=psalm+119%3a118%3bpsalm+119%3a163" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">Psalm 119:118, 163</a>), and we must kindly disagree with the president's misguided view. </div>
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People who use the Bible to argue that accepting homosexuality is how we are to 'love our neighbor' wrongly omit the first half of what Jesus said in that context. Jesus actually said, "The great and first commandment is 'You shall love <u fr-original-style="" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">the Lord your God</u> with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind'" (<a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/bible.php?ver=niv&q=matthew+22%3a34-40" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">Matthew 22:34-40</a>). In other words, love for one's neighbor is bounded by one's primary allegiance to God. How can one claim to love God, yet despise what His Word says about homosexuality and disregard His design for marriage?</div>
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Who Gets to Say What the Bible Says?</h2>
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Those who use the Bible to persuade others actually put themselves in a dangerous place. They presume to speak for God as one of His spokespeople. (And, yes, I include myself here.) According to <a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/bible.php?ver=niv&q=james+3:1" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;">James 3:1</a>, such people are considered "teachers." Teachers are subject to strict judgment both for their character and for how well they handle Scripture. Unfortunately, biblical literacy is at an all-time low, even in churches today. The naïve give equal weight to every opinion on or about the Bible and are apparently unable to discern the many illegitimate would-be teachers who are out there sowing confusion. </div>
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An authoritative teacher of the Bible possesses certain observable character qualities clearly spelled out in Scripture. Titus and 1Timothy tell us they are to be...</div>
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“…above reproach, the husband of one wife… He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.” <a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/bible.php?ver=niv&q=titus+1%3a5-9" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;">Titus 1:5-9 </a></div>
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“…above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach” (<a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/bible.php?ver=niv&q=1-timothy+3%3a1-5" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;">1 Timothy 3:1-5</a>).</div>
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Interestingly, one of the telling characteristics of a true teacher is his commitment to monogamous male-female marriage. If someone wants to argue for same-sex marriage on secular grounds, that is one thing. But to argue for same-sex marriage on biblical grounds and in the name of Christianity is not only absurd, but the one who does so — whether clergyman, farmer, judge, or president — puts himself personally under God's condemnation as a false teacher.</div>
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Remember, what God forbids He forbids from a loving heart. He sent His Son Jesus to die for our sins (<a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/bible.php?ver=niv&q=john+3:16" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;">John 3:16</a>, <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.biblestudytools.com/esv/2-corinthians/5-21.html" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;">2Cor. 5:21</a>). He seeks to rescue us and bless us. In the Bible, God exclusively blesses male-female marriage (<a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/bible.php?ver=niv&q=mark+10:6" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;">Mark 10:6</a>, <a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/bible.php?ver=niv&q=hebrews+13:4" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;">Hebrews 13:4</a>, <a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/bible.php?ver=niv&q=1-timothy+1%3a9-10" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;">1 Timothy 1:9-10</a>). He condemns all sexual activity outside of that sacred relationship. When you engage in sexual activity outside of male-female marriage, it not only brings God’s judgment upon you but also brings about emotional harm (and sometimes physical harm or disease), regardless of whether it's consensual, and regardless of whether the harm or the offense toward God is ever realized or acknowledged.</div>
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God is all for sex in the context of a loving, male-female marriage. He designed it. The joy and companionship found in Christian marriage will never be rivaled by any alternative. (For more on this, see Timothy Keller’s <a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9THu0PZwwk" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;">11/14/11 address at Google NYC</a>, or read his book, <a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2011/novemberweb-only/tim-keller-meaning-of-marriage.html" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;">The Meaning of Marriage</a>.) Sex is a powerful, wonderful expression of love that also demonstrates His creative genius. God isn't against sex. Christians aren't prejudiced against prudes. God is against the wrongful use of sex because He has our best interests at heart. It is the curse of sin that warps our minds and leads us to re-define happiness according to our own desires. We want happiness as we choose to define it. But God isn't a willing recruit for anyone's personal agenda. Instead, He wants to rescue us from ourselves.</div>
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The Core Issue of Sexuality: What's Your View of God?</h2>
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At the core of the topic of human sexuality, as with all topics, is either a sound understanding of God or a flawed understanding of God. People may say that morality can't be legislated, but that simply isn't true. Indeed, some view of God (conscious or not) undergirds every political decision and law that gets passed. This is not always apparent but is especially visible with issues surrounding the LGBT agenda. Unavoidably, someone's view of morality is codified into human law, and the other views of morality are marginalized.</div>
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Rightly understood, the Christian view of sex is just as offensive to any unmarried teens and singles who are involved in premarital (heterosexual) sex as it is to a transvestite marching in a parade. God condemns all sexual expression outside of male-female marriage. So, the issue isn't just about homosexuality. The rainbow flag that flies on government buildings simply provided the flashpoint for the broader discussion about marriage and sexuality. (Obviously, a brief article like this will not cover the issue exhaustively. This article and the hyperlinks embedded throughout are meant to provide a starting point for those seeking understanding.)</div>
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<span fr-original-style="" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Shouldn't Christians Be Trying to Pass Laws Against Eating Shellfish Too? (No.)</span></div>
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Something should probably be said here about how the Old Testament fits together with the New Testament. Frequently, you'll see people struggling to make sense of the laws about not eating shellfish and not mixing different kinds of cloth when they also see a law against homosexuality in the same context (see <a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/bible.php?ver=niv&q=leviticus+18:22" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">Leviticus 18:22</a> and the surrounding passages). They seem to think that they can discount the prohibition against homosexuality since the other laws have been nullified (see <a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/bible.php?ver=niv&q=acts+10%3a9-15" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">Acts 10:9-15</a>). This has been called by some, "<a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.crosswalk.com/blogs/christian-trends/homosexuality-and-the-leviticus-game.html" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">playing the Leviticus game</a>." Such Scripture twisting is all too common. The Bible actually is quite clear and consistent, despite those who misinterpret it (<a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.biblestudytools.com/esv/2-peter/3-16.html" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">2 Peter 3:16</a>).</div>
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One basic guideline for good Bible interpretation is that whenever an Old Testament moral principle is re-stated in the New Testament, it makes the moral principle binding today. The passages quoted above from Matthew, Mark, 1 Timothy, 1 Corinthians, Romans, and Hebrews are all in the New Testament. They are excellent examples of this basic principle.</div>
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Perhaps, because biblical literacy is so abysmally low, people don’t seem to realize that after the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ when the New Testament church age was ushered in, God abolished all of Israel’s dietary restrictions, ceremonial laws, and priesthood (cf. <a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/bible.php?ver=niv&q=acts+10:15" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;">Acts 10:15</a>, <a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/bible.php?ver=niv&q=colossians+2%3a8-23" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">Colossians 2:8-23</a>). (In other words, Christianity is the fulfillment of Judaism, but that's <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.christianity.com/god/jesus-christ/the-basics/what-is-christianity-alex-crain.html?p=0" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">another article</a>.) The New Testament upholds the prohibition of homosexuality, though the death penalty no longer applies to those who engage in homosexual acts. (Such strict punishment was only meant for the context of the theocracy of ancient Israel.)</div>
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By the way, establishing a theocracy is not the Christian goal or ideal. Coercive human government (whether Christian or otherwise) is undesirable in the Christian view. An informed biblical worldview actually supports pluralism, democracy, and freedom. Christians do not aim to establish a theocratic government. But neither should Christians allow the <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.christianity.com/christian-life/political-and-social-issues/making-room-for-atheism-11557448.html" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">coercive secularization</a> of the government. Anyone claiming that Christian opposition to same-sex “marriage” somehow equates to theocracy is setting up a straw man.</div>
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Many people falsely believe that the Bible is just a human book. They claim that it's been changed and cannot be trusted.<span fr-original-style="" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">1 </span>But such arguments have been <a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aomin.org%2Faoblog%2Findex.php%2F2010%2F01%2F05%2Finspiration-inerrancy-preservation%2F&h=tAQFxyw4z" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">answered </a>time and again both <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.christianity.com/bible/apologetics/top-10-defenses-youth-can-give-for-their-beliefs.html" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">briefly</a> and at length. For those who honestly want to know God and understand the Bible, the widely accepted text <a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianbook.com/read-bible-for-all-its-worth/gordon-fee/9780310246046/pd/46043?event=cf" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">How to Read the Bible for All It's Worth</a> by Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart is a good resource. Two short articles that may also be useful are "<a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.biblestudytools.com/bible-study/tips/11631126.html" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">Choosing a Bible Translation</a>" and "<a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.christianity.com/bible/use-a-coherent-method-of-bible-study-11663013.html?p=0" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">Use a Coherent Method of Bible Study</a>."</div>
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Federal Reserve leadership and Barack Obama have turned truth upside down. Saying so may result in being wrongly accused of "hate speech" by the modern-day thought police. But the truth is, to refrain from speaking out about moral decay is actually hateful, fearful non-speech. Each of us will face God in judgment. <a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/bible.php?ver=niv&q=hebrews+10:31" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;">Hebrews 10:31 </a>says, "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God." And <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.biblestudytools.com/esv/2-corinthians/5-11.html" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">2 Corinthians 5:11</a> says, "Knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade [others]" (to do what?) …to "repent and turn to God, performing deeds in keeping with their repentance" (<a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/bible.php?ver=niv&q=acts+26:20" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;">Acts 26:20</a>).</div>
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<span fr-original-style="" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">But as you read all of these things, here are a few points to keep in mind about genuine Christians:</span></div>
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<li fr-original-style="" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Christians aren't out to judge others as if we're somehow better in and of ourselves. We simply embrace God's unchanging standard of morality and dare to differ with those who would assault it, change it, or ignore it. Human beings are frail, fallen, and limited in knowledge. Rather than trust our own wisdom, we ought to seek truth from a time-tested source. The Bible can be trusted. It's the anvil of truth that has worn out the critic's hammer throughout the ages.</li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Christians admit that they're sinners and point to Christ as the solution for broken people who, like us, have gone against God's healthy design for their lives. We're no better than anyone. The solution is not to ignore God's moral standard though. Nor is it ultimately helpful to try to change it by misinterpreting the Bible.</li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Christian hope for homosexuals is not heterosexuality, but holiness. We're not trying to make gays straight but take them straight to Jesus, just as we would anyone ensnared by sin. Once they trust Him, He gives them His perfect righteousness, frees them from sin, and changes them from the inside out (<u fr-original-style="" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/bible.php?ver=niv&q=titus+2%3a11-14" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">Titus 2:11-14</a></u>).<br fr-original-style="" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /> </li>
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What about Tolerance?</h2>
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As for tolerance, well, genuine Christians are <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.christianity.com/christian-life/political-and-social-issues/making-room-for-atheism-11557448.html" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">all for living at peace</a> with those they disagree with. Many today confuse the word tolerance with "acceptance" or "affirmation." People jump to conclude that anyone who refuses to legitimize homosexuality and/or endorse same-sex marriage is automatically a "hater." But that's not the case. </div>
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The historic meaning of tolerance is that we should live peacefully and respectfully together, though we disagree even in outspoken ways. One person aptly wrote: "Not tolerating someone for his narrow-mindedness is perhaps the epitome of intolerance." (The Atlantic, "<a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/04/being-gay-at-jerry-falwells-university/274578/" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">Being Gay at Jerry Falwell's University</a>.")</div>
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Christians are called to something more than mere tolerance. We are called to express the truth of the Bible clearly. We are to do so with love, having as our aim the rescue and restoration of sinners. That's what it means to love one's neighbor. An article like this may not speak to everyone effectively. And, certainly, no Christian is perfect. Still, we aim for biblical <a fr-original-style="" href="http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevindeyoung/2012/05/30/the-church-and-homosexuality-ten-commitments/" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">principles to guide us</a> when discussing sensitive subjects with others who differ. </div>
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One motivation that compels Christians to engage with people is that the truths of Christianity are public and universal, not private and parochial. The historical record of Christ's life, death, and resurrection exists because it's true, not because it's a propped up <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.christianity.com/god/jesus-christ/did-jesus-think-he-was-god.html" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">religious myth</a>. This fact has to bear on every life, acknowledged or not. Christians don't view their neighbors as mere flesh and blood, but eternal souls who will one day stand to be judged by their Creator.</div>
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As for so-called "homophobia," <a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/04/being-gay-at-jerry-falwells-university/274578/" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">Christians don't fear homosexuals</a>, but fear for them, just as we would for anyone in bondage to sin of any type. We know what awaits (<a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/bible.php?ver=niv&q=revelations+21:8" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;">Revelation 21:8</a>) all those who will not turn from their sin and turn to Christ.</div>
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Jesus frees sinners who turn to Him in faith: His sinless life, His substitutionary death on the cross, and His rising from the dead emancipate anyone who no longer wants to be enslaved by sin. In Christ, there is no more fear of judgment or punishment for the sins we've committed (<a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/bible.php?ver=niv&q=john+3%3a16%3bjohn+3%3a36" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">John 3:16, 3:36</a>). </div>
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That's why Christianity positively declares that knowing Jesus Christ is the greatest thing in the universe. We are rightly related to the God who made us, and that not of ourselves, it is the gift of God's grace. We want everyone to know this joy. It can't be found in anything else on earth, only in Christ alone. </div>
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The Christian worldview not only makes sense of life, it includes the good news that God will restore all that sin has broken. In other words, the world we all want is coming — complete peace, justice, and human flourishing in the presence of God. You can be part of it, but not on your own terms. Christ forgives those who admit to being sinners and who call out to Him for rescue from sin's control. By trusting Christ, you can be transformed into a person who lives in a way that pleases God. If you have the impression that Christianity is a negative, judgmental religion, I'm sorry but you've gotten the wrong idea.</div>
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Bible-believing Christians are concerned for fellow human beings who struggle with homosexual desires. We seek their good. We affirm the dignity of fellow human beings who also bear the image of God. We all need the light of truth shined into our darkness. Jesus said, "I have come as Light into the world so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness" (<a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/bible.php?ver=niv&q=john+12:46" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;">John 12:46</a>). He said this knowing that people "love darkness rather than light" (<a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/bible.php?ver=niv&q=john+3:19" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;">John 3:19</a>).</div>
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But instead of meeting God someday in condemnation, you can meet Him now in blessing. Wrong desires can be changed so that you begin to love the things He loves. Although I have been personally guilty of numerous sins, I am forgiven because Christ died and rose again for sinners like me. Jesus Christ gives a clean slate and new desires (<a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/bible.php?ver=niv&q=titus+2%3a11-14" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">Titus 2:11-14</a>). The same offer of forgiveness and transformation extends to everyone reading this with a heart to understand.</div>
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Admittedly, in the U.S., a number of our founders were Christians in name only. Some were merely deists. Still, the historic Christian faith was the worldview that provided the moral underpinnings of this country, and that worldview has weighty implications for matters of public life. One implication of the Christian outlook is that the improvisational morality of our times is, quite simply, a farce. A shifting moral foundation upholds nations about, as well as the Sahara, upholds skyscrapers. It goes without saying that condoning homosexuality represents a seismic shift in the moral landscape of the United States.</div>
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The implications of the rainbow agenda go far deeper than most people surmise by taking a superficial view of it. (See the article, "<a fr-original-style="" href="http://salvomag.com/blog/2013/03/five-gay-marriage-myths/" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">Five Gay Marriage Myths</a>.") Dr. Albert Mohler astutely observed that people must wake up and come to grips with what is at stake:</div>
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"Marriage is first and foremost a public institution. It has always been so. Throughout history, societies have granted special recognition and privileges to marriage because it is the central organizing institution of human culture. Marriage regulates relationships, sexuality, human reproduction, lineage, kinship, and family structure. But marriage has also performed another crucial function — it has regulated morality. Redefining marriage is never simply about marriage. It leads to the redefinition of reproduction and parenthood, produces a legal revolution with vast consequences, replaces an old social order with something completely new, and forces the adoption of a new morality. This last point is especially important. Marriage teaches morality by its very centrality to the culture. With a new concept of marriage comes a new morality, enforced by incredible social pressure and, eventually, <a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.religiontoday.com/articles/christian-fined-refusing-photograph-same-sex-wedding.html" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">legal threats</a>.<span fr-original-style="" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/the-challenge-of-same-sex-unions/" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">2</a> </span></div>
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But What About Civil Rights for Gays?</h2>
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Martin Luther King, Jr. is a man greatly admired, and deservedly so. It's been well-established that historic Christianity was the moral authority behind not only the abolition of slavery but also the triumph of the Civil Rights movement. To the dismay of many, however, it has become common to hear LGBT advocates claim that they are "today's oppressed people group," as if people with same-sex attraction are the heirs of the Civil Rights movement. The moms and dads I know in the African American community, as well as <a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.religiontoday.com/news/black-pastors-to-obama-rethink-same-sex-marriage.html" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">many</a> of its courageous and outspoken <a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.urbanfaith.com/2012/05/tony-evans-gay-marriage-is-not-a-civil-rights-issue.html/" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">leaders</a>, are deeply offended at the LGBT movement for hijacking the Civil Rights legacy and using it to impose their agenda. </div>
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The Bible clearly affirms the dignity and worth of all people, regardless of skin color. But the Bible condemns homosexuality because it is a rebellion against the created order of male-female marriage (<a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/bible.php?ver=niv&q=romans+1%3a18-32" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">Romans 1:18-32</a>). The Civil Rights movement was a welcome corrective to a pernicious evil — one that many professing Christians today are unfortunately still blind to, namely racism. Christianity is clearly opposed to racism but does not uphold the gay pride movement in the least. As one African-American writer put it, "<a fr-original-style="" href="http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/2012/07/19/gay-is-not-the-new-black/" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">gay is not the new black</a>."</div>
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Again, we are all sinners. We all have temptations that we struggle with. Some people struggle with homosexual desire. Others struggle with different sins. Honesty and humility about this is the pathway to peace. Coercing people to celebrate a lie will only prolong the cultural conflict and make matters worse.</div>
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Tampering with the definition of marriage is like tampering with the atomic structure of hydrogen. The abomination of homosexuality will never be on equal footing with God's created order of male-female marriage. People of conscience will continue to firmly believe so. Some may call same-sex relationships "marriage" but such unions will never be acceptable under the Christian definition of marriage. Nor can they rival the joy and fulfillment found there. </div>
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Most people (not just conservative Christians) reject the notion of same-sex marriage when allowed to think about the matter in the privacy of a voting booth. Polls will probably always report a different story, as evidenced by <a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/gallup-slight-majority-say-homosexuality-morally-acceptable-74989/" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">Gallup</a> recently. As hard as it is for some people to accept, millions of Americans just don't believe in so-called "marriage equality" and for good reason. </div>
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Genuine concern compels us to rescue people from drowning, not open the floodgates and drench the city. Apparently, the government leaders thought that opening the floodgates was the right idea. They made a rash move to shape society with their bully pulpit. So, how does one respond to a bully? Well, I'm just a dad. And like most American dads, I don't have a clue how to remove myself from the Federal Reserve System. I realize there is a big political power behind the LGBT movement. I’m probably supposed to be a good little passive sheep and silently go along with the program. After all, I don’t have a tall building or a presidential office from which to issue history-making public statements. I edit a website. I teach the Bible and lead music at a local church. I don’t know where this article will go, but I write it because my life has been forever changed for the better by Christ as I came to know Him in the <a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.credomag.com/2011/11/04/the-reformations-recovery-of-the-gospel/" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">historic</a> Christian gospel. I write because people are misrepresenting Christianity to justify wrongheaded ideas about human freedom. I write because people don’t seem to fathom the danger of twisting Scripture and defying God.</div>
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For me, the growing moral decay all around serves as a daily reminder of <a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/bible.php?ver=niv&q=matthew+28:20" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;">Matthew 28:20</a>—that Jesus Christ is with His true followers even unto the end. Worse changes may be blowing in the wind for America's children and grandchildren. But there will come a day of reckoning. The <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.christianity.com/blogs/trevin-wax/jesus-is-on-the-wrong-side-of-history.html" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">long view of human history</a> is that the grand story doesn't end with prideful sinners pulling their Creator down from His all-powerful throne (<a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/bible.php?ver=niv&q=psalms+2" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">Psalm 2</a>).</div>
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A piece like this might not avoid the typical rebuttals like "'Love the sinner, hate the sin' is just a mask for bigotry," "Hate is not a family value," or "Common sense is the first casualty of ignorance," etc. People have the freedom to state such nonsequiturs if they want. I defend their right to say as they please. I'm most interested in reaching those who have the heart to understand and who want to discuss what is genuinely in people's best interest. Those looking for a shouting match can count me out.</div>
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Christians don't hate LGBT people. In their confusion, LGBT proponents distort the God-ordained beauty of human sexuality and cannot rest until everyone applauds their behavior. How incredibly sad! Why must it be skewed as "hate" to disagree with, yet have sympathy for such tragic people? Flawed views of God cause them to think that He’s either non-existent or He's up in the heavens waving His rainbow banner of approval right along with them. Weighty chains bind their souls to empty promises of fulfillment that do not ultimately deliver. Only the short-sighted Christian cannot bring himself to pity or show kindness to a fellow human being caught in such deadly lies (<a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/bible.php?ver=niv&q=2-timothy+2%3a24-26" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">2Tim. 2:24-26</a>). </div>
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Christians: Focus More on the Gospel, Less on Politics</h2>
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When biblical truth resonates and takes root, people escape sin's entrapment and begin living in true freedom as God defines it in Scripture. As a by-product, there can be a reversal of the moral decline in society. That said, saving society is not the Christian's primary calling. Telling people the gospel of salvation is. </div>
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Rather than over-emphasize political action, Christians need to major on compassionately proclaiming the gospel. The failed "Moral Majority" experiment of the 1970s-80s showed us that shrill debates and top-down legislation of Christian virtues don't lead to lasting change in the hearts of people.</div>
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This is not to say that it's unimportant for Christians to participate in the political process. We should be good citizens, not merely “values voters.” As citizens, we can and should call for biblical morality to be reflected in our laws. As mentioned above, someone's version of morality is going to be codified into law. Bible-believing Christians should be involved in their local communities as both good citizens and faithful proclaimers of the good news of salvation in Christ. In the end, the Holy Spirit uses no other means besides <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.christianity.com/christian%20foundations/the%20essentials/11616655/" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">the gospel</a> to "turn the switch on" in people's hearts and illumine the truth, beauty, and love of Christ. As we proclaim Him, we leave the work of changing other people's hearts in His hands.</div>
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So, enough with the angry blog posts, snarky comments, and viral video rants. We're not at war with people, but with spiritual forces of evil who are holding captive precious souls (<a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/bible.php?ver=niv&q=ephesians+6:12" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">Eph. 6:12</a>, <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.biblestudytools.com/esv/2-timothy/2-26.html" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">2 Tim. 2:26</a>). God reigns in our hearts, so let us be gracious in our demeanor. In other words, <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.christianity.com/theology/salvation/the-gospel-is-offensive-but-you-don-t-have-to-be.html" style="background: 0px 0px no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1976d2; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: auto;" target="_blank">the gospel is offensive, but we don't have to be</a>. Calling Christians to be people of both truth and grace is not a call to be soft on the Bible, or to alter the gospel so that it's more palatable to the masses. The gospel pointedly confronts blindness in those who are deluded that they can see. That's an offense we will never avoid.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As a state of confusion flow like dry ice over my soul, I realise that questions become more and answerless. I suppose I can say that I am considering <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_flat_Earth_societies">conspiracy theories. </a>This is however not true or at least so I hope. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My quest for truth is hampered by double standard followed by my world to evaluate evidence. I refer here to the value of theory to the fact. The legal system that refuses theory whereas the scientific association can judge based on theory. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now if this is true we have a problem not only a moral but factual theoretical blanket. Some of these theories that we based our entire belief <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ91AxUqHck">systems</a> on will be dismissed as hearsay and therefore inadmissible evidence in the judiciary system.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I do get it, you cannot convict someone without irrevocable facts based on admissible evidence. These facts are and should be tested under several conditions and the result should be the same. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Based on this I fail to understand that anyone can accept a fact because it is based on theory. Perhaps the dictionaries and I define theory wrong. Perhaps the real meaning of theory should be scientific fact.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now I do not intend to question the men and women with the books on their shelves and the thick glasses on their noses. I do not find it viable to argue or scream conspiracy as my knowledge in the field of questioning might be as insignificant as the speck of my footprints in the theoretical Universe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I know you will answer the majority of my questions with the theory of relativity so I will attempt to ask them within a framework where you can.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Relative to my ability or thought patterns the question might and will be more significant to me than to a theoretically minded well-read scientist, so please keep this in mind when you answer me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I believe that the theory of relativity will theoretically allow me to come to different conclusions as I do not have the ability to apply unproven theory to my small mind. I have to base my understanding on my physical experience and historical knowledge enforced upon me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I beg of you not to attempt the tower of Babel or the confusion of terminological language upon my ignorant ear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In this article, I will confine myself in one scenario.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I stumbled upon this recording of President Barack Obama giving the good news that NASA is developing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Marble">technology</a> to take men past earth outer ring. The Van Allen belt I believe. Well according to my limited knowledge Obama’s presidency was well after 1969, and men walked on the moon in 1969. The moon is according to the theory of the Universe further than the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O5dPsu66Kw">Van Allen belt</a> and far outside the outer space of earth. As promised I am not screaming conspiracy I believed every word Obama said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I start searching and found the reply from NASA to exactly that question, they claimed that they have <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjt7HpC6w3o">lost the technology</a> to go to the moon. Let say they did give all the data to an incompetent secretary who filed all those data (7 tons I believe) into file 13.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Will it be unreasonable of me to ask why don’t they phone the still living members who worked on the project. Or is there a possibility that the phones do not work in the NASA sphere. You see if I base my beliefs totally on the theory that is a possibility I can prove it in my words. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am now praying every night that they must protect the technology of the wheel. I cannot imagine living without it. Imagine the disaster when you rock up at the tire place and they inform you that they cannot help you because that technology does not exist any longer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You all scream that is impossible and you know I agree with you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What exactly did I proof now, did I proof a flat earth or that everybody lied about the moon landing. I am not even sure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Men and women in the white coats please answer my quest, show me the facts that prove the theory, show me the truth that leads me through my dark mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Prove to me that I am only a speck of dust and what I just wrote does not really exist. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Perhaps we are stuck in a time loop and might it be the 1<sup>st</sup> of April.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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President Jacob Zuma conducted a cringeworthy TV interview that reveals his total lack of understanding of the challenges facing the SA economy. </h2>
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There are few interviews with heads of state that have been as embarrassing for a country as the one President Jacob Zuma did this week.</div>
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The Chinese television station CCTV interviewed a visibly nervous Zuma this week as part of the channel’s coverage of this week’s G20 summit held in the Chinese city of Hangzhou.</div>
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It was not Zuma’s finest hour – or 18 minutes and 36 seconds – to say the least. In fact, it was as cringeworthy as it gets and underlines his lack of understanding of the challenges facing the South African economy. If it wasn’t such a massive embarrassment for South Africa, it would have been funny.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.2px;">The interview was conducted by veteran journalist </span><a href="http://english.cntv.cn/2016/09/07/VIDEPSIw06LJvQcZzfj2BpQl160907.shtml" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e3001b; line-height: 18.2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Tian Wei of the World Insight</a><span style="line-height: 18.2px;"> programme. She has been referred to as the Chinese version of CNN’s Richard Quest and has interviewed many word leaders. World Insight is one of CCTV’s premier international news shows and provides global political and economic insights from a Chinese perspective.</span></div>
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The interview may also explain why finance minister Pravin Gordhan was the point man at the WEF meeting in Davos this year and why <a href="http://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/economy/zuma-criticised-for-davos-panel-no-show/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e3001b; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Zuma also controversially missed a panel discussion</a> about Africa’s economic challenges during this event.</div>
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Zuma is also renowned for avoiding the South African media, but this time he could not hide.</div>
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But don’t take my word for it, watch for yourself….</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Tian Wei:</span> During this year’s G20 summit [the] Chinese president has made very clear at the very beginning that Africa will be one of the focal points, but it also depends on the other 19 economies of the G20 whether that will be the case and whether there will be concrete results.</em></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Zuma: </span>Of course President Xi Jinping made that point very clear, loud and clear, and nobody opposed that proposal. So everybody accepted that proposal, partly because they know the position of Africa, where Africa comes from. They also know the challenges of Africa and therefore it is accepted that there is a specific approach that is given to Africa.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Zuma:</span> Well, Africa … firstly Africa has a particular history. Africa, I think of all the regions of the world was the only one which was totally colonised and stayed therefore for long time without Africa doing its own things, when the countries from Europe were actually suppressing them for many years. I think it was only in the decade of the sixties [1960s] that they began to get their independence. So whilst other countries moving, they were in a sense ‘trapped’ in the colonial situation and they had(?) to get a phase where they were fighting for their liberation. But also the colonialists had come to occupy and dominate their resources so to speak, so whatever Africa is trying to do now is coming up from a very heavy kind of suppression and therefore Africa is lagging behind.</div>
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But Africa is saying it’s a region that is emerging, that is now for the first time trying to come together so that they have a collective kind of an approach as a region and therefore it sees its future – and of course South Africa is one of the big economies in the in the continent, it is a member of a G20 and South Africa does not represent itself only, it represents the continent and therefore it speaks on behalf of the continent whilst is it is speaking also on his own behalf.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Tian Wei:</span> Infrastructure projects usually take a lot of cash. I understand there has been an establishment of the BRICS New Development Bank; it has been running for one year. Even the South African has now become (?) head of that organisation and also the AIIB which has just started with their first …global board meeting. What do you think Mr President, will these two entities provide … your country with more alternatives, even the African continent?</em></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Zuma: </span>The continent had taken a very deliberate decision to establish infrastructure that is going to connect the entire continent and heads of states are actually leading that kind of – there’s a committee that is leading that kind of -infrastructure to ensure that infrastructure is there. But also, the question of funding will always be a challenge, so the emergence of the BRICS bank has been one of the most important kind of happening in our society, because BRICS bank is different from other big banks that would have stringent conditions, what it [should] do … and therefore Africa and South Africa, all of us, are looking at the BRICS bank as the bank that is going to make things easier and the BRICS itself has that understanding that Africa … that’s why whilst the headquarters of the bank are here in China in Shanghai but a regional BRICS bank is going to be in Africa, in South Africa.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Tian Wei:</span> It’s an African centre of the BRICS banks. But what is [likely?] to be the role of this African centre?</em></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Zuma: </span>… one of main roles will be to find to fund the infrastructure in Africa, that is what it is going to do. Already they are projects that have been submitted to the bank here that now need to be looked at so that they can continue. So the emergence of the BRICS bank has been a step forward for us</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Tian Wei:</span> President Zuma industrialisation of the African countries have been quite a debate over the past few years. But how, how to do industrialisation? It has its positive connotations, sometimes negative connotations. So what do you think is the approach that African countries, including yours, should adopt in order to have industrialisation?</em></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Zuma:</span> Well there are many things that we need to do. The question of industrialisation in our own continent has one side only, does not have a negative side.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Zuma:</span> Why, because we’ve never been industrialised in the past. Industrialisation waves that have come and gone, Africa was not touched. In other countries industrialised, for the first time we are industrialising. Because colonialists were not there to industrialise Africa. But in South Africa you have a different kind of situation wherein there was industrialisation, but not by the indigenous people, the majority, by those who came to settle. Now what we are saying is that the black people themselves must create the industry. So for the first time we are creating middle-class; we are creating people who are going to own businesses for the first time. So it can’t have a negative side; positive side all the time. We are going to create jobs; we are for example training our people, skilling them for the purposes of industrialisation with us. So that’s what we are looking at. Part of what President Xii Ping was saying, [is] to focus on the continent is actually to support among others, industrialisation itself.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Tian Wei:</span> Talking about industrialisation, people look at China – whether it’s a China model or not, that’s for debate. But certainly the China experience, what does that mean to you Mr president and also other African nations?</em></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Zuma: </span>What is critical with China is that the openness, much as they say so, but they are doing business as business, but guided by the Chinese characteristics. But what is important is that that in itself is a lesson to other people. How have the Chinese succeeded? It is because they have discipline in the job they do – that’s what people have got to adopt. I’ve said it to many people: you can wish to be Chinese, you’ll never be because you’ve got to have what guides them as an ideological approach, so to speak. But that’s [not to] say you cannot do it.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Zuma:</span> Well, South Africa is a democratic country – it is just 20 years. The experience is very clear: any former national liberation movement in 20 years, there are challenges politically that challenge the political party. What becomes important: how is that party responding to those challenges. That is important. I don’t think the ANC is different from other formal political parties. What is important [is] that the party must understand what is happening and it must say what do we do to deal with this.</div>
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For example, 20 years in South Africa: it means democracy has matured and people generally, are beginning to make the choices having thought in the one form the other and it means … for an example for the first time in South Africa, we have just gone through the local government elections, wherein people have made their choices and we’ve had three metros at the big [??] that they were tying for the first time. And then there’s been an introduction of a new element of coalitions, because there is no one party that could rule without talking to smaller parties. so that’s a new element that is coming, that even small parties can now determine which direction a metro goes, or a municipality goes. That is a new kind of politics.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Tian Wei:</span> What does that mean for the used-to-be major party?</em></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Zuma: </span>ANC used to be a major party, it means we have reached a point where democracy is now taking another kind of turn. The ANC then has to say, how do we handle this situation as a big party in the question of coalitions. We must now begin to plan and factor in the issue of coalitions when we go for elections – that’s what it is all about. And this is a maturing of democracy and that’s what it is.</div>
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If you look at old democracies they don’t have too many parties because they’ve been there for a while, and parties have been sort of shrinking into either two or three. So it is a process of the democratic process that we are now 20 years and therefore the politics, if you talk about winning elections, are beginning to introduce a coalition factor, which has not been a factor before.</div>
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So we are the organisation of Mandela. We are using the lessons from Mandela to run the organisation, to run the country. So we think of Mandela as our leader who gave to us the lessons within the ANC framework and we stick to them and we will follow what Mandela did and following that will never go wrong.</div>
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We need to agree, because right now if we say the economy is sluggish, it means investors are hesitant to invest. They’re sort of holding their money and we are saying, let them be encouraged to do so. As a government in South Africa we have in fact done a lot of job creation, trying(?) to invest, trying to encourage the private sector. Now if for an example you are saying ‘let us grow the economy’ and then you invest or you protect your investment – we are using the term ‘protectionist’ – but the workers who are working they want higher wages, there is no sensitivity where we should all come together to say ‘since the economy is under challenge what is it that we can sacrifice, all of us, in order to ensure that we can grow the economy’.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Zuma:</span> That is one of the difficulties. Perhaps our economy… one of the areas would be energy. The energy has a history as well – because everything in our own country has its own history, because it was not worked on to take care of the entire population, because of our history. So we are almost like starting from new, but what we have been doing a lot of kind of progress from that point of view. And therefore to us it is important, because energy is important for the economy to grow. And we are working hard to ensure … we are for an example having a programme of mixed energy so that we do all types of energy, so that we can in a sense increase the volume of energy, so that that can help to generate the kind of economy that must go there.</div>
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Of course, the price of energy – depending what we are talking about … for an example, other countries in Africa they were affected with regard to the going down of fuel, of oil rather, in other countries … that base themselves on the oil and that caused a problem. We get more affected because we are a mining country: the commodities coming from the mine also were no longer being attractive out there. So that in itself affected the kind of economy and these are the matters that we have got to say, how do we handle this situation as we go forward.</div>
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Right now South Africa is the member of the G20. It’s not raising its own matters only; it raises the matters of the continent – that’s part of the role it is playing. When BRICS came for the first time to meet in South Africa, South Africa asked the leaders of the continent – particularly those who have specific responsibilities – to meet with BRICS, to raise the issues with BRICS, and it was a very useful kind of meeting. That act has introduced in BRICS leaders what is now called ‘the outreach’, that when BRICS meets, leaders in the region would also come … that’s how South Africa sees its role, and it is acting on this role.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">". <i>Who owns the mines in South Africa?</i></span><i><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">. Who owns ABSA, <b>FNB</b>, Nedbank and Standard Bank?</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">. Who owns the land?</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">. Who owns Pick ‘n Pay, Shoprite Checkers, Pep Stores, Edgars, Markhams and all the stores that we buy from every day?</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">. Who owns the media?</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">. Who owns the furniture shops, the car dealers, the cement factories and the brick making companies?</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">. Who owns Chicken Licken, Nando’s and KFC?</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">. Who owns the shopping malls?"</span></i>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I</span>n an <a href="http://blackopinion.co.za/2016/09/05/blf-calls-hands-off-zuma-demands-economic-liberation-now/"><span style="background-color: white; color: red;">article published</span></a> by the NGO, Black First Land First
(BLF) they contradicts themselves so badly that the black population really
have cause to investigate their actions. How can an NGO tell their people to
stand up against white capital, tell them in the same article that the white
owned banks must fall, giving these same readers a list of banks that is
supported by black people but are white owned? In this list they include banks
like First National Bank, calling that these white capital must fall, but at
the end of the same article they encourage people to assist their cause by
donating money to their very own First National bank account. They called that
these banks must be nationalised, so why don’t they use the post office, which
are nationalised to keep their account?</div>
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This is once again prove that these money chasing groups,
does not care about the very cause that they stand for, I mean in this same
article they support Zuma to stay, they support the man that steal the treasury
and nationalised companies blind, they call for a boycott by using the very
same institution to receive money for them, the very same institution that they
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<span style="font-size: large;">A</span>s the winds of <a href="http://williebeetge.blogspot.co.za/2016/08/the-fall-of-great-nation.html">change blow</a> over the bare fields and cities of South Africa the poverty levels and discrimination levels rise like a baby tornado through the streets and fields Leaving debris and suffering of the population, while the government buy new cars and build Nkandla’s for all the cadres of the ANC. During the last election the twirl of the wind lifted the skirt of the ANC exposing the private parts dripping with corruption and greed to the public, but with a well-practiced sweep Matashe sweep the skirt down blaming the wind on the election procedures, while convincing the ANC members that the dripping private parts that was expose were merely an illusion from the “apartheid” era. With his glasses slipping down over his nose and his beady eyes peering at the paper on the podium, he denies that President Jacob Zuma had anything to do with the poor performance at the voting poles while stumbling over a few big words.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">T</span>he winds are now blowing over the lonely unoccupied building of a once proud farmhouse; the silence is the only whiteness to the gruesome <a href="http://williebeetge.blogspot.co.za/2015/11/graphic-photos-of-farm-murders-in-south.html">murders</a> of the occupants, the only whiteness to the politically driven hate crimes against the white farm populations. It is the only whiteness to the crops that will never feed the Nation again, like the power of a truck without a driver lie the fields of the farm without a farmer. This all while the government keep screaming from wooden soapboxes that they do not hate the white farmer, before they conclude the meeting singing “bring me my machine gun”, “kill the Boer kill the farmer”, and yet we are sitting in our newly jobless cocoons, praising the ANC for the peaceful transformation, a transformation with a blood trail that stains the fields of all the provinces, a blood trail with white and black blood in the name of peace. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">L</span>ike a breeze before the storm the wind of change are sweeping through the corridors of parliament, blowing dust into the eyes of the speaker, dust that blind her from recognising the members, blinding her from controlling the outcome. Winds that blow, the President from the podium, mingling the figures on his paper, making it unpronounceable, winds that came through the sails of communism, through the freedom of captivity, through the freedom of restrictions and control, and that all in the name of equality.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">T</span>he winds of change blow through networks of social media, preventing a sparrow to land on a tree, preventing the monkey business to be heard, while a perpetrator of the ANC call for the killing and raping of white people through the channels of Facebook, the sparrow become an enemy of the state, while the killer caller become a suspended hero, and that all in the name of camouflaging the movement of destruction of government, the movement in the name of liberty. Like the poverty-stricken white informal settlement dwellers we welcome the winds, we welcome the winds of captivity in the name of freedom.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i>When will we realize that the breeze of change is not blowing to bring the rain, but to bring the storm that will swallow everything? <o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>Who will recognise the storm and close the doors and windows to keep their houses clean?<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/willie.beetge.90">Willie Beetge</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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tell it as it ishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10944931479098265439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485315558144836863.post-68556713756228000432016-08-30T19:15:00.000-01:002016-08-30T19:15:04.372-01:00Hair in school’s racial soup<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">The quality of good leaders are to encourage others to do better, to do more and to achieve more, not to do less, to make noise and to destroy all.</span></i></blockquote>
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Skin colour, hair extensions become a mob driven minor two
step on the fields of Pretoria Girls High school, after a minor under the
influence of racial discrimination took hands with the Minister of Education in
a bid to prove that hair rules at the school are based on skin colour like the
countries equity rules on BBBEE. </div>
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The drive to resist rules and regulations become the outcry
for freedom and might pave the way for the long walk to captivity, the long
walk to undermine regulations, to undermine minorities and to establish a stronghold
for the rights of students. In future it might become illegal to educate if the
colour of your skin and bounce in your hair are not within the rules of Nkandla
the home of the Chinese ambassador to South Africa, Jacob Zuma. The outcry
against the very rules that ensure greatness in schools, universities and the
communities, driven by ridiculous teenagers, teenagers that echo the voices of
their parents in their struggle to overcome their fear of the white minority in
South Africa.</div>
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Ridiculous become the norm and stupidity become the aim,
even Max Du Preez start looking normal, after his idiotic statement that the DA
is the voice of the white South Africans, in his bid to have a national anthem
that his musical ear can harmonise with. Max can learn from the “mob” driven
Pretoria girl how to harmonise music while pushing her chest out to security
personal, wrapping the same words like a cd in a dusty old radio. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The Minister of Education pledged to look into the matter,
to investigate the dress code rules in all model C schools, while the children
sexual protection act is totally ignored with video predators filming a minor pushing
her chest out protesting and then splash it all over social media, and that
without any written permission from the guardian, who at that moment was the
school. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The sexual body language of a teenager has captured the
media including social media, which make me wonder what is brewing and need to
be covered by a reverse Penny Sparrow scenario.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My argument is, if the rules of the school needs
investigation let it be done, but without the sensational assistance of the
media, run the investigation without the exploitation of minors all over the media;
fix the wrongs without the twitter miles for self-made celebrities with tears
in their eyes, and a minister with nice political correct words.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="background-color: white;">The quality of good leaders are to encourage others to do
better, to do more and to achieve more, not to do less, to make noise and to
destroy all.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Willie Beetge<o:p></o:p></div>
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tell it as it ishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10944931479098265439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485315558144836863.post-5976454702561069982016-08-28T08:24:00.000-01:002016-09-01T14:06:37.052-01:00The plan to destroy a nation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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28 August 2016<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i><span style="color: blue;">Under the smoke screen of BBBEE they have lead the road to capturing the capital of a country, to blindfold the masses with promises of Black empowerment, while all the empowerment went to the comrades of destruction, the comrades who were in exile during apartheid, withholding it from the people that had to endure the laws of apartheid. </span></i></blockquote>
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South Africa the home of cultural and language diversity, a
country with enough resources and basic abilities are currently swallowed whole
by political greed and a drive to divorce the economic structure from
capitalism, a drive to destroy the very cultural power of individual groups by
sucking them into a new world order system, a system of large government and
Nationalisation of entities and property with the promise that this will diminish
the inequalities of the past, that it will elevate the poverty stricken
population to equal grounds of prosperity. The masses is hanging onto this
promise, a promise of unionised job opportunities, a promise of equal rights
and a promise that capital will be moved from the rich to empower the poor. To
achieve the point of economic destruction, the point where nationalisation can
be implemented it is necessary to cripple the economy, to cripple the stand
fast cultural strength of the individual and of the groups representing them,
to drive a wedge of conflict between the citizens of the country. It will be
necessary to desensitise the population to wrong and right, to accept the unacceptable
as the way to assist others. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Slowly they have bring corruption murder and economic fall
into action, so slow that the man in the street and the ignorant do not smell
the destruction rat, so that the crippled economy and the possible genocide in
a country became so normal, that we accept it under the name of “the new South
Africa. What better way to do this than to brainwash the population with a
President that cannot pronounce the number of his supporters, a president with
no qualifications, a president that the population can blame for the weak
performance of the Rand. <o:p></o:p></div>
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How far have we been desensitised?<o:p></o:p></div>
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The apartheid
government brought the Rand down to 4 Rand to the USD, a point of absolute disaster
a point where they had to negotiate and abolish their believes to save the
country, at the moment we are in ecstasy when the Rand strengthen to ten rand
to the USD, we have lost sight of the economic fall of the weakness of our
Rand, we have lost the sensitivity of growth and exchange it for the freedom of
captivity. We have change our vision on growth to a vision of survival, and
then we blame the ANC under the capable hands of Jacob Zuma for the economic instability,
the instability needed to destroy capitalism in the country, we have lost
vision of the fact that the ANC and the communist party (SACP) are partners,
partners to nationalise all the assets in the country. When Jacob Zuma visit
the communist China we see it as trade relations, we even start believing in
the communist system, a system of so called equality, a system of hope.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If we start looking in detail at the system, we realise that
the ANC under Jacob Zuma have entered their most successful era since the end
of apartheid, they have managed to <a href="http://williebeetge.blogspot.co.za/2016/08/da-might-stumble-over-most-brilliant.html">change the opposition parties into a fullyassisted entity to destroy the economy, they have changed their strongest</a>opposition party into the ANC of twenty years ago, giving them the opportunity
to swing further left, they have removed our attention from the economic
destruction and focussed it on the corruption of Jacob Zuma, they managed to
take control of all the large news agencies and of the social networks. Whenever
Jacob and his comrades blame apartheid, or even Jan van Riebeeck for their
shortcomings, social media are totally captured with opinions while they the
ANC can drive forward without any repercussions of media exposure.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Under the smoke screen of BBBEE they have lead the road to
capturing the capital of a country, to blindfold the masses with promises of
Black empowerment, while all the empowerment went to the comrades of
destruction, the comrades who were in exile during apartheid, withholding it
from the people that had to endure the laws of apartheid. </blockquote>
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This smokescreen
rolled over the eyes of not only the poverty stricken black South African but
also the minority groups who feel that they need to assist to eradicate the
injustices of the past. Blindfolded we empowered the cadres, blindfolded we
followed the masked journalist like Max Du Preez telling us to assist the fall
of our economy, to assist the implementation of the most captive and murderous
system in the world, communism, and blindfolded we follow. </blockquote>
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While we are all in ecstasy about the local election results,
the ANC continue with the destruction, their agenda to get total control under
Jacob Zuma, their aims to capture the economy of the country. While the
newspapers are filled with DA victories and the attack on Pravin, the ANC and
their allies, including the EFF, are plotting to destroy the major opposition
parties in the country, while the opposition and population smile for their
last freedom photos in arrogance. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The question will remain, how much will the vote in 2019
mean if the economy is in the hands of an ANC EFF coalition? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Willie Beetge<o:p></o:p></div>
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tell it as it ishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10944931479098265439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485315558144836863.post-1809598108016738692016-08-27T13:11:00.002-01:002016-08-29T06:44:46.791-01:00DA might stumble over the most brilliant trap in history.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The sudden calmness of the radical EFF should have ring loud bells in their ears; the sudden appointment of major candidate by the ANC against the wish of the voters should have been red flags and millions of questions. All communist driven political parties are well known for their ability to allow the opposition to under estimate them, and so I think the DA did.
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After a successful campaign build on defeating the ANC at
all cost, with certain lies that the DA turned into unobtainable promises, and
the EFF skilfully <a href="http://williebeetge.blogspot.co.za/2016/08/malema-outplay-maimane.html">sidestepped </a>coalitions with the DA, they the DA will have to
watch their step as they stumble between the obstacles that they have created.
Promises was made to the electorate to, for instance remove E-tolls when they
get into power in Johannesburg and Tshwane, while they were well aware that the
local municipality does not have the authority to do so, they were well aware
or at least should have been aware that the E-tolls are governed by national
government and not local government. Many unsuspected voters voted for change,
change promised by those who were well aware that they have no power to change
it, many of the working class stand tirelessly waiting to cast their vote, a
vote against corruption and e-tolls, and many will be disgruntled by the fact
that neither the corruption nor the e-tolls might be removed. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The DA was well aware that the fight against corruption is a
fight against powerful individuals and their current jobs, a fight against
COSATO and all his allies. The time has now arrived to eradicate the corruption
and stop the E-Tolls, to prove that their election campaign was not based on a
Cape Town model only, but on a South African reality. The EFF has seen through
the smoke screen of the DA, they have seen through the peephole of a possible
collapse of the main opposition and skilfully aligned themselves in a neutral,
but powerful negotiation position, a position that will allow them to pick the
crumps of the main table and change these crumps into bread for their political
future. The EFF has set the trap, and are now patiently waiting for the main
opposition to stumble, before they will change their vote against them (DA) to
make the Metros ungovernable. It seems as if Julius did not set his targets on
the municipal election but rather on the 2019 national elections, an election
where he will need to prove that the main opposition is no longer the people
who know how to govern.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I cannot see how the DA will be able to govern successfully
while they are held hostage by the EFF and COSATO, I cannot see how they will
remain able to clean these Metros up while they need to please unions who will
strike and destroy the operations in any Metro, if one of their corrupt brother
are removed from any position of power. With one of the most comprehensive
traps ever set and one the most powerful combinations executing the operation
of the trap, the DA will be held responsible for any lie that they have
promised, for any misrepresentation that they have uttered in arrogance. Through the history from main opposition of
the old National party through the Zille era to the now Maimane era proved that
their analytical skills and ability to predict movements from communist driven
parties like the ANC and SACP were always lacking. The analytical skill failure
was never due to a lack of intelligent information, but the untouchable arrogance
with which they perceive the facts and blindly scattered for crisis management
solutions. The ANC and the EFF are well aware of these problems within the
ranks of the DA, they are well aware that the main opposition will only realize
that they have trapped them after the so called “fat lady” started to sing. </div>
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<span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">The
sudden calmness of the radical EFF should have ring loud bells in their ears;
the sudden appointment of major candidate by the ANC against the wish of the voters should
have been red flags and millions of questions. All communist driven political
parties are well known for their ability to allow the opposition to under estimate
them, and so I think the DA did. </span></span></blockquote>
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The question that probably dances on every reader lips at
this stage will be; <a href="http://williebeetge.blogspot.co.za/2016/08/the-fall-of-great-nation.html">why will the ANC allow</a> the lost in votes and power to get
the opposition to under estimate their abilities? I will attempt to answer it as
follow. During the twenty odd years that the ANC been in power in South Africa
they never managed to overcome the two third majority, enabling them to change
the free country to a captive country,
the DA and the opposition parties managed to constrain them from this ultimate
goals. If they can expose the DA and break their stronghold on perfect
governance the picture might change dramatically, with the help of the current
EFF and self-claimed supporters of the ANC the final assault on opposition
parties can be delivered. We must keep in mind that the EFF would have played
ball with the ANC if they were to remove Jacob Zuma, Jacob Zuma that managed to
destabilize the country and its economy far better than any of his predecessors,
the President that came the closest to collapse the capitalist system in South
Africa. The same Jacob Zuma that allowed the DA to run an election campaign
against him and the ANC and not for what they stand or believe in, who proved
that he can play the role of destroyer while the population blamed it on his intelligence
and not his ability to overturn the capitalist system. With his closely knitted friendship of
communist China and first hand advice on destroying capitalism, with a
parliament of freedom fighters and the previously known “rooi gevaar” all on
his side, South Africa might have the red dot of the assassins on his chest, we
might be lined up for the final assault against capitalism and freedom.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We all hope that these predictions is unfounded, that the
ANC and their communist allies are suffering from intellectual failure, that
the ANC are only holding onto Zuma because they need more unlawful contracts.
We need to hope that they are not playing a master chess game against us, but
rather that they really fell into the trap of arrogance.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Willie Beetge<o:p></o:p></div>
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tell it as it ishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10944931479098265439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485315558144836863.post-58832656523415835652016-08-27T06:34:00.002-01:002016-08-27T06:34:53.327-01:00The misconception of governments<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i><b>After all these questions it seems that government remains above the law, the laws that they passed to control their employers.</b></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Large so called democratic governments and political parties
have the misconception that they are the <a href="http://williebeetge.blogspot.co.za/2016/08/da-deceive-sa-voters-or-not.html">masters</a> and the electorate and
taxpayers are their subjects, subjects that must endure and accept any decision
from the elected and paid government, in exchange for their only democratic
right, their vote. Ironically in the same country the labour laws define the
employer, as the person who pay the salaries by employing employees to fulfill certain functions, it also define the employee as the person receiving
compensation for work done. According to this definition the elected democratic
government become the employee and the voters and taxpayers the employer, the
newly government should then have an employment contract from the citizen
stating their duties and mandates to fulfill the labour requirements of the same
country. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The first question that start peeping through the loopholes
of governance and the same laws that the governments implemented, should then
be, is the labour laws legal and if so why are so many excluded from these
laws? Secondly, can the citizens then follow the labour law prescriptions by
calling the contract to end, if the employee does not perform their duties, and
does the government (employee) have the right to appeal it before an
organization like the CCMA? Surely the employer have the right and the duty to
ensure the survival of their companies in this case their countries, and surely
the contract of employment give the employer then the right to break the
contract with prescribed compensation. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The next question must then be about the mandate that voters
give the political parties to represent them; does this mandate include the
right to appoint any <a href="http://mg.co.za/article/2016-08-25-the-presidents-daring-power-play-here-comes-the-zuma-vs-gordhan-showdown">person</a> in the party to lead us? Is it legal to ask voters
to vote for promises instead of manifesto? Does a political party then have the
right to ask voters to only vote for them to diminish another party, and if so,
do I then have the right as an employer to employ someone for the sole purpose
of pushing another employer out, without any repercussions of the labour law? <o:p></o:p></div>
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The question does government have the right to own property
and taxable companies as an employee with a five year mandate? Taxable
companies that pay their own salaries, tax that make them a partner in the
employee employer relationship? These questions cannot be readily answered, it
might contravene the very laws that government implemented to govern their
employers. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The election campaign of any political party, competing to
be employed can be seen as an interview, an interview to persuade the employers
to vote for their employment, does this mean that any false information and or
promises laid before the employer can be seen as fraudulent and lead to immediate
dismissal as stipulated in the labour act? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Obviously a country cannot be run within the labour laws set
out by the government if it applied to them, so how do they expect the
companies who contribute to the micro and macro economy to run according to
these laws? The very same companies who create employment and tax revenue to
pay the salaries of the lawmakers, lawmakers that restrict the ability in the
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<i><b>After all these questions it seems that government remains
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Are liberals evil or just ignorant</h3>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">T</span>he targets of communism and the role of the liberal to achieve it, remain one of the open questions of the century. </div>
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Vladimir Lenin said “People that promote communism are not all communists, but useful liberals”. </div>
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To investigate the role of liberals and the targets of communism we need to go back to the time of Karl Marx, investigating what happen to communism after the death of Marx, and the birth of the Vabian socialist movement that started thereafter. The major difference between the two were their approach on spreading communism, Karl Marx use the radical militant approach, where military force was of essence, while the Vabian movement concentrated on an internal method forcing world government to fall from within.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The genius methods that they used are described in the book <b><i>“The Naked Communist, by W Clean Skousin, published in 1958” </i></b>let’s first look at a few of the aims and targets of communism out of this book. I have selected a few targets to show the current direction.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Target 28</b>: <i>Eliminate prayers in schools, by sensitising the difference between churches and government<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b>Target 17</b>: <i>Get control of the schools, using them as transmission belts to promote communism, by getting control of teacher associations</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Target 18</b>: <i>Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them censorship and a violation of the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b>Target 25:</b> <i>break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography in books, magazines and motion pictures</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Target 20 and 21</b>: <i>infiltrate the press, gain control of key positions in radio, television and motion pictures<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b>Target 27:</b> <i>Infiltrate churches, replacing “revealed religion” with “social religion”. Discredit the Bible.</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Communism preaches that they will take from the rich to give to the poor, the ability of equality for all, they preach freedom, but are this freedom really free? This question must be asked against the background of large communist governments enslaving their population to serve the state, against the background where citizens of communist countries are threaten with imprisonment and even execution if they refuse the enslavement. We need to ask the questions of the paper perfect system against the background where more than 135milj people had to die for the ideology, where if you include the legalization of the abortion drive this figure are well into the 500milj. </div>
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They hang the carrot of equality and enrichment in-front of the poverty stricken people of a country, preaching that their circumstances are caused by the supremacy of the rich. In theory these promises and fault diagnoses of the current system make sense to the people, opening the soapbox politicians to increase their own power in exchange for the economy of the country.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To come back to the original question, are the liberal thinking politicians evil, or just ignorant? This question can only be answered by more questions.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Are they perhaps blinded by the promise of equality and a better life for all, without blinking an eye towards the big picture?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Are they driven by the hunger for power, power at all cost, even at the cost of their voters?<o:p></o:p></div>
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If these two questions are answered, the question of evil or ignorant might just be cleared up for us.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Your comments on this article will be appreciated, and considered while my investigation into the cause of social collapse and deterioration of our value systems continue.<o:p></o:p></div>
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EFF not sellouts, insists Malema</h1>
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Parliament – Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema on Tuesday insisted he was not a sellout, saying their collaboration with the Democratic Alliance (DA) was done solely to keep the ruling party out of power in the country’s key metros.</div>
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“Now people say to us why do you vote for white people when you say you are fighting white monopoly capital? Hey, the country is collapsing. I cannot keep on saying we are fighting white monopoly capital because after defeating white monopoly capital there will not be a country to inherit,” Malema said during an urgent debate on the recent local government elections which saw the African National Congress (ANC) unseated from power in the key metros of Tshwane, Johannesburg and Nelson Mandela Bay.</div>
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“You [ANC] would have collapsed this country, so this is an emergency. We had to pause and rescue this country first and continue to fight against white supremacy and against white monopoly capital so that when we defeat white monopoly capital, then we will find a country called South Africa,” Malema said.</div>
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During the first meeting of the new Johannesburg council on Monday, which saw opposition parties defeat the ANC to take control of the metro, EFF supporters protested their party’s position, claiming their party were sellouts.</div>
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Eralier at the debate DA leader Mmusi Maimane warned the ANC that the arrogance of its leaders had led to the party’s poor showing at the polls in the country’s metros.</div>
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Maimane said he had some sober advice for the ruling party. “To my ANC colleagues on this side of the house, the lesson of this election is very clear – never take voters for granted,” he said.</div>
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“The voters are watching us and they will throw us out of office if we disrespect them.”</div>
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Maimane took a swipe at President Jacob Zuma, who during campaigning prior to the August local government polls, claimed that the ANC would rule until Jesus came.</div>
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“And so I say to my DA colleagues in the 33 governments we now lead: ‘Let us never arrogantly claim that we have a divine right to rule, or that we will govern until Jesus comes back. Let us govern with grace and humility. Let us listen to the people who put us into power’.”</div>
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The opposition party leader said the recent polls showed the country was at a “tipping point”, bringing with it the realignment of politics.</div>
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“The age of the arrogant dominant party is over. A new dawn of vibrant, multi-party politics is upon us.”</div>
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sou jy dan sy beeste aan die boer verkoop, geldjie in jou sak insteek<o:p></o:p></div>
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terwyl jy oor die geldjie in jou sakkie streel<o:p></o:p></div>
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Zuma Zoeloe-kind waar het jou mamma jou ge-vind<o:p></o:p></div>
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hoe sou jy dan na koning bees kon kyk<o:p></o:p></div>
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terwyl jy net jou goue sakkie wou ver-ryk<o:p></o:p></div>
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hoe lank sou dit wees<o:p></o:p></div>
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voor die koning jou kon lees<o:p></o:p></div>
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voor die impi sou kon sien<o:p></o:p></div>
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dat jy slegs jou eie sakkie dien<o:p></o:p></div>
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Zuma Zoeloe kind waar het jou mamma jou gevind<o:p></o:p></div>
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hoe lank sou die goud in jou sakkie le<o:p></o:p></div>
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voor die koning dit terug wou he<o:p></o:p></div>
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hoeveel bees sou jy moes steel<o:p></o:p></div>
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om Nkandla in te deel<o:p></o:p></div>
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voor die impi jou sou vang<o:p></o:p></div>
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en jou teen die rotse oor die see laat hang<o:p></o:p></div>
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Zuma Zoeloe kind waar het jou mamma jou gevind<o:p></o:p></div>
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sou jy in Dingaan se tyd ook moes vlug<o:p></o:p></div>
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en oor jou skouer skree dit was Jan se klug<o:p></o:p></div>
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verbanneling, van jou eie land<o:p></o:p></div>
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hier in die Zoeloe kant<o:p></o:p></div>
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sou vele vrou jou hart moes streel<o:p></o:p></div>
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terwyl jy ‘n nuwe nasie teel<o:p></o:p></div>
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Zuma Zoeloe kind waar het jou mamma jou gevind<o:p></o:p></div>
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tell it as it ishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10944931479098265439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485315558144836863.post-56185967213404643412016-08-21T03:21:00.003-01:002016-08-21T03:30:34.619-01:00Malema outplay Maimane<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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EFF chief Malema <a href="http://williebeetge.blogspot.co.za/2016/08/left-at-altar-by-devil-you-didnt-know.html">leaves DA leader Mmusi Maimane</a> looking flat-footed. It’s a bit like watching two swordsmen, one with a rapier, the other with a cricket bat. The latter might strike an incapacitating blow, but only if he doesn’t bleed out first.</h2>
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After weeks of <a href="http://williebeetge.blogspot.co.za/2016/08/left-at-altar-by-devil-you-didnt-know.html">arm wrestling, </a>marathon negotiations and vaulting ambition, the first round of SA’s local government Olympics draws to a close. Now comes the really tough part, complete with mudslinging and backstabbing, as sworn foes try to nudge one another aside, jostling to retain a toehold on the winner’s podium.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.2px;">In all of this horse trading, EFF leader Julius Malema has again shown his tactical genius. The EFF won’t enter into any formal coalition but it will not, at least initially, vote against the DA in the minority-government metros, thus depriving the ANC of control. So Malema screws the ANC for not dumping President Jacob Zuma, as it had demanded, while “not getting into bed with the better devil” of the DA.</span></div>
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Malema keeps his hands ideologically clean but on the levers of power. He runs rings around his opponents and plays the media like a fiddle. This week’s EFF briefing on its coalition plans was held in the dusty veld overlooking the shanties of Alex.</div>
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The equivalent DA press conference was in a Sandton hotel. Or as more than one journalist promptly described it, a “swish”, “swanky” hotel, drawing an obliging contrast of the salt of the earth EFF versus the effete, out-of-touch DA.</div>
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Malema leaves DA leader Mmusi Maimane looking flat-footed. It’s a bit like watching two swordsmen, one with a rapier, the other with a cricket bat. The latter might strike an incapacitating blow, but only if he doesn’t bleed out first.</div>
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A largely uncritical public swallows this showmanship whole, exactly as it is served up by a largely gullible media that treats Malema less as a politician to be interrogated than as a celebrity to be promoted. It’s a problem, also, because neither the ANC, nor the DA, appears to comprehend the ruthlessness of Malema, as well as his indifference to the political niceties that they subscribe to.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Business Day’s</em> Natasha Marrian describes how Maimane “waffled” in answer to a question about DA willingness to remove Die Stem from the national anthem, one of Malema’s non-negotiable demands for coalition. Malema earlier told journalists Maimane had agreed and confided to him that “having Die Stem … was like having Jewish people singing Nazi songs”. Maimane, says Marrian, “issued a thin denial”.</div>
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“It was an awkward moment.” Maimane and his supporters are understandably delighted at the DA’s potentially game-changing successes. But the ease at which the EFF has bested them in the post-electoral negotiations should be a matter of concern.</div>
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And there is still the ANC’s reaction to come. When it emerges from licking its wounds it will be to deploy every mechanism that a powerful government has at its fingertips – national budgets, the public service, the power of legislation and demarcation – to reclaim control.</div>
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tell it as it ishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10944931479098265439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485315558144836863.post-52763736965020416312016-08-20T15:18:00.000-01:002016-08-20T15:31:56.414-01:00Left at the altar by the devil you didn’t know.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">When you propose to the devil you do not know, it's sometimes
a blessing if he leave you at the altar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">D</span>uring coalition talks the stage was set for the unusual
marriage proposal between the DA and the controversial EFF, one week before the
final announcement of “till 5 years do you part”, the first racial controversy
was announced on social media, in an effort to distract the gobsmacked DA
voters from the final rape of their honest vote to remove the ANC from power.
Suddenly the first racial incident as that of Penny Sparrow, hit internet,
again an Estate Agent, but this time recorded on video insulting a black police
officer. The video and discussions took of well, but crash landed far too soon
for the announcement, this video was immediately replaced with the news, that
the illusive Penny Sparrow will now appear in court, with lawyers defending
herself in a criminal case forthcoming from the “monkey” escapades of a
previous statement. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">P</span>reviously the Sparrow monkey initiation distracted South
Africa by hi-jacking the entire media including social media, while the land
reform act was discussed in parliament, where the value of property was left in
the incapable hands of Municipalities, municipalities to corrupt to manage
their own affairs received the right to expropriate land, for the development of
the community. This act gave the very right of property away into the hands of
the same people who steal the money allocated for development, an open ended
act that does not exclude any type of property. The Sparrow debacle kept South
Africa in the dark, while the population split in halve, black South Africans
offended by Sparrow calling them monkeys, and White South Africans offended by
been called racist whenever they partake in any debate surrounding the Sparrow
comment on Facebook. Gareth Cliff was removed from idols because he dared to
raise and opinion. The government and large political parties found the way to
hi-jack the population while introducing laws against the community, against
the freedom of speech and against the freedom of the free market system in the
Republic. They found a way to introduce a communist system without a peep from
the public.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">T</span>he same trend started immediately when the DA proposed
marriage to the EFF, who believe in nationalization of mines and expropriation
of white owned land without compensation. The broader base of the DA vote was
from the very people that the EFF wanted to destroy, the white South Africans,
the land owners who believed that the DA will take the rains from the corrupt
ANC, they believed in a vote for change a vote for a better South Africa. It is
peculiar how the newly born racial storm disappeared like mist in the sun after
Julius Malema, leader of the EFF, announced that they will leave the DA at the altar,
when he announced that coalitions will not happen between the EFF and the DA or
with the ANC. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Left with on your one knee on the carpet and a wedding ring
in your right hand has never been such a blessing for South Africa, a blessing
for the mislead voters and for the citizens of Tshwane and Johannesburg.</span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Willie Beetge<o:p></o:p></div>
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tell it as it ishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10944931479098265439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485315558144836863.post-19706330498314061182016-08-18T09:00:00.002-01:002016-08-18T09:00:19.932-01:00Freedom Front Plus coalition statement<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Coalitions need to find common ground - Pieter Mulder</h3>
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Pieter Mulder | </div>
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17 August 2016</div>
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FF Plus says there is a recognition SA is in a crisis, and opposition parties have to cooperate for common good</div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Coalition agreement between the FF Plus and other parties in the interest of the people of South Africa</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The coalitions between the FF Plus and other parties to form local governments and therefore force the ANC from governing positions, is a historical event to the advantage of all people in South Africa, Dr. Pieter Mulder, leader of the FF Plus says.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">During the signing of the agreements, Dr. Mulder said the domination of the ANC on the political field to date has to a large extent defeated the positive role that coalitions between opposition parties could have played </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">He said the FF Plus’ predictions that coalitions would play a big role after the 2016 local government elections have materialised and for the first time in this country’s dispensation, coalitions will play a large role as a system of checks and balances to ensure better government.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“The FF Plus told its voters that we would be part of a coalition, and we would carry the values and principles of the party into the coalition because it is one of the positive options which our electoral system offers and which can now for the first time be properly utilised.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“We are entering a new political phase which is characterised by a wide-ranging group pf political parties that will cooperate on a local level to govern. The agreement between parties reads, amongst others that the objective of the coalitions is to bring honest, open, accountable and workable government to the people of South Africa.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“It is now also clear that all parties involved in this are important, the large ones and the smaller ones. This brings a clear and loud message to the public that they can vote for the party of their choice, and that their vote will not be wasted, but will be used to make South Africa a better place.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> “If parties are going to try swallowing each other up, or silence each other, this agreement will not work. We all realise this. We also realise that South Africa is in a crisis and that all the relevant parties will have to act responsibly and cooperate the best they can.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“The emphasis should not be placed on differences, but rather where there is common ground. If this is done, governments will succeed, and the country can reach its full potential. The FF Plus will give its full cooperation in this,” Dr. Mulder said.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
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<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Statement issued by Dr. Pieter Mulder, FF Plus Leader, 17 August 2016</i></div>
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tell it as it ishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10944931479098265439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485315558144836863.post-6822939394190283582016-08-16T07:58:00.000-01:002016-08-16T07:58:25.767-01:00Flavoured “mielie pap” for Jacob Zuma<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="color: #00b0f0; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Now with an Nkandla
with no chickens, a depleted budget and a debt of millions for the upgrades , Uncle Jacob might find himself to be the next ambassador of Westville
Prison, or will his bought leaders be happy with flavoured “mielie pap” to keep
him as president of their own Banana Republic.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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President Jacob Zuma once again made history by leading the
once powerful African National Congress to their worst election performance in
the history of the organisation, that after the ANC lost control of at least
three major Metros after the local Government election on the 3<sup>rd</sup> of
August. The ANC did not manage to win any of their strongholds with a large
enough majority to govern without coalition arrangements with other parties, as
voters show their disgust in the leadership under the corrupt Jacob Zuma. Voters
rallied after opposition parties to remove the president from his pedestal. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If</span> the ANC support keep falling like it did in this local election, President
Jacob Zuma will be able to pronounce the number of supporters of the ANC within
a few years, he will be able to count his support without leaving the comfort
of his home, now under the leadership of the IFP.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In a surprised move the ANC</span> did not blame their poor results
on the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck in the Cape, or the “apartheid” government
of more than 20 years ago, they lay the blame on the electoral procedures, on
the shoulders of the proportional voting system, that assist smaller parties in
forming coalition governments, representing their minority voters, a system
that can benefit the “now” ruling party in the future when they are reduced to
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<span style="font-size: large;">The second surprise </span>was the announcement of Gwede
Matashe, secretary general, of the ANC, where he announced that the ANC take
full responsibility for the poor results, an absolute first sign of accountability
from the ANC in their 20 odd years of governance, unfortunately the brilliance
stopped right there as he continued by saying that president Jacob Zuma was not
responsible for the decline in popularity. During this speech of Matashe the
economy and world opinion of South Africa and the king of Nkandla must have
rocketed and collapsed within a few seconds, as he accepted responsibility and
denied responsibility within the same paragraph of his speech, this error will
probably be blamed on “apartheid” and the lack of education that the cadres had
during their luxury life’s in exile, while their black voters was under the
rule of “apartheid”.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I </span>cannot help myself, to wonder what "hold" does Jacob Zuma
have on the ANC leadership, what secrets have been hidden under the hat of
cadres like Gwede Matashe and the well paid following of the ANC leadership.
Wonder if they discussed the one billion Rand that they spend on food parcels
and frozen chicken to buy voters just before the election, the astonishment of
the meeting that voters ate their chicken and food parcels without voting for
them. Perhaps they are investigating the flavour of the chicken and wondered if
a bag of chicken flavoured “mielie pap” (Maize porridge) would not have been a
better deal.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now with an Nkandla with no chickens,
a depleted budget and a debt of millions for the upgrades of Nkandla, Uncle
Jacob might find himself to be the next ambassador of Westville Prison, or will
his bought leaders be happy with flavoured “mielie pap” to keep him as
president of their own Banana Republic.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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tell it as it ishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10944931479098265439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485315558144836863.post-76030518808464865092016-08-15T17:05:00.003-01:002016-08-15T17:05:42.641-01:00Will eff coalition have effect on local government?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Will eff coalition have effect on local government?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Julius Malema and his freedom fighters emerge as the biggest winners in the
local elections.</h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">T</span>he South African voters and the Democratic Alliance (DA)
managed to assist the newly found freedom fighters to become the biggest
winners in the local elections, as they became the “kingmakers” in all the
major Metros in South Africa. With poor voter education on how the proportional
voter system, and the coalitions in South Africa work, voters mislead by the
second largest political party, the DA, stream to voting stations under the
impression that a vote for the DA will be a vote against the ANC, a vote for
change. The voters was not aware that the backdoor was left open for the
radical EFF, who believe in nationalisation of mines and land removal from
whites without compensation, to become the only viable partners to govern the
major Metros. The majority white support for the DA to eliminate the ANC was
not aware that their vote for the DA was a vote for the very same party who
want to destroy them. The Economic Freedom Fighters of Julius Malema, the very
same Malema who like to sing “kill the Boer”. (Boer the slang for white
Afrikaners and farmer). The same song that we believe has led to multiple farm
murders, mutilations, and rape of the white “boere” (farmers) in South Africa.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">W</span>ith the excuse that this is not a national election but
only local, the DA continued with discussions with the EFF, they keep telling
the astonished voters that this is about service delivery and not national
laws, keep reminding the voters that it is to ensure the fall of the ANC and
the corruption associated with the ruling party. Although all these statements
are true, it remains our duty and responsibility to ask questions, questions
about the integrity and the mandate that voters gave the DA to govern, the
mandate for change. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">D</span>id the voters give a mandate to the DA to form coalitions
with the EFF?</b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">W</span>hat powers will the EFF have in the local metros and what
influence will it have on the voters within these Metros?</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">W</span>ill it strengthen the EFF in the next national election,
and will the DA have the right to form a national coalition with the EFF?</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">P</span>ersonally I do not believe that the white voters gave the
DA a mandate to form a coalition with the EFF, I do not believe that the DA has
the right to enter into this coalition or even coalition talks with the EFF.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">O</span>n the second question, we need to look at the influence
that the EFF will have within these large Metros, the newly found control that
they will have on contracts within these areas, the control that they will have
on distribution of funds and budgets, the control that they will have on tax
distributions within these Metros. With a clear communist agenda and the drive
to get more votes in the National election will they insist on breaking the
current infra structure down to equalise the poverty stricken areas with the
business hub within these Metros? Will they insist on squatter camps within the
business hub of these Metros, destroying the capitalist systems within these
areas?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">T</span>hen the most obvious question: <o:p></o:p></div>
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Will the DA stand up against these Freedom Fighters and risk
to lose their Black vote in the next elections?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">O</span>ne thing is clear; there are more questions than answers,
more areas of concern than areas of certainty. </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>he DA did keep one promise and
that is change, if it will be a change that their voters wanted or not need to
be answered.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Willie Beetge<o:p></o:p></div>
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tell it as it ishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10944931479098265439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485315558144836863.post-16446073936806629802016-08-13T07:39:00.002-01:002016-08-13T07:40:32.946-01:00Diversity coalitions and the FF+<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>My view on the Freedom Front Plus</b></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">D</span>iversity of ethical groups, languages, races and aspiration
of each group has been the artist canvas of the political painting of the
future of South Africa, the painting where each group want to be recognised,
uplifted and protected within a constitution of equal rights, where each
ethical group want to remain unique under a prosperous economy with the right
of basic human co-existence. The need for proper understandable education, self-determination,
the right to job opportunities, basic fundamental representation in the
political arena became of utmost importance to the people of South Africa. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">T</span>he Freedom Front Plus embraces the diversity and make-up of
our nation, and the need to lead and represent these people into a future of
coalition governance. A political organisation that stand against racism and
any form of discrimination, an organisation who believe that we cannot change
the past, but surely the future. It is of no value to <a href="http://www.bdlive.co.za/opinion/columnists/2015/07/01/zuma-and-apartheid-the-excuse-with-a-thousand-faces">dwell </a>on the injustices
of the past, it is of no value to rectify injustices from the past with new
injustices into the future. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">T</span>he basic right of representation cannot be adhere to by one
large political party, but rather a coalition of smaller parties who can
forward the mandate of their voters into the political arena, who can forward
and represent the ethical values, languages and diversity of the voters in the
country. Large political parties cannot represent the minority of their voter
base, as that will be in conflict with the mandate that their voters gave them,
it will violate the basic right to have your vote represented. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">T</span>he foundation of growth cannot be set in an environment of <a href="http://www.enca.com/south-africa/da-officially-backs-bee">discrimination</a>,
like BBBEE, affirmative action, land reform and race based quota systems, it
cannot be founded in any form of race, ethical or language based discrimination.
The <a href="http://www.vfplus.org.za/who-is-the-vf-plus">Freedom Front Plus</a> is therefore the only party that voted against these discriminative
practices in parliament, the only party that embrace the diversity and make-up
of our population, the only party that do not use their voters as a bargaining
chip in exchange for power, power that does not benefit their voters. The
Freedom Front Plus believes that voters must vote what they believe, vote for
their own determination, they believe that this will force coalitions with
larger parties and force the representation of all in South Africa.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>he questions
that we need to answer;</b></div>
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Can we
afford not to follow this type of system in South Africa? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Can we
afford to fall into a newly found discriminative large political party system
again, who will have no option than to discriminate against their minorities
voters?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://www.vfplus.org.za/who-is-the-vf-plus">http://www.vfplus.org.za/who-is-the-vf-plus</a>
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tell it as it ishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10944931479098265439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485315558144836863.post-9218573258963187632016-08-11T09:49:00.001-01:002016-08-11T09:49:51.666-01:00Will the EFF have enough lentils in their soup to buy the DA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Will the EFF have enough lentils in their soup to buy the DA</h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">C</span>oalition talks became the talk of the moment, after neither
the ANC nor the DA managed to secure an outright majority in some of the major
Metro districts in South Africa. Suddenly the smaller parties became of utmost
importance, became the kingmakers, that after the DA send messages out to all
voters before the elections that a vote for small parties are a waste of your
vote. This untrue message forced voters believing in the smaller parties to
rather not vote, than to stand in long queues to cast a wasted vote. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">T</span>his
action contributed to a situation where the DA are now sitting with coalition
talks with parties like the EFF, a radical left wing party who believe that
mines must be nationalised and property must be removed from white owners
without compensation. Voters who supported the DA are now sitting with a real
problem, where they gave their vote and full mandate to a party that will use
it to their own benefit instead of the benefit of the voter. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">D</span>id the greed to win blinded the DA or did they plan to
eliminate the small parties and have coalitions with the enemy? This question
became real during the election when they used their muscle and financial
ability to destroy smaller parties, instead of fighting radical parties like
the EFF, they convinced their voter to vote blindly, not for what they (DA)
stand, but against the ANC. The campaign seems to have worked, as they secured
major growth in the currently hang Metro’s of Tshwane, Johannesburg and Nelson
Mandela Bay, but are their coalition plans carrying the mandate of the voters,
or did they just used them to get to this position? This question will remain
hanging, with the hope that some major event will steal the lime light of
breaking news, when they announce coalitions signed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">T</span>he real question that will stay on my lips will be, will
the EFF dish up enough lentils in their soup to hijack the DA into a coalition?
and then, will the DA exchange their voters mandate for this pot of lentil
soup?<o:p></o:p></div>
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tell it as it ishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10944931479098265439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485315558144836863.post-92054419591811146872016-08-07T00:43:00.000-01:002016-08-07T01:01:19.124-01:00DA DECEIVE SA VOTERS or not?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>DA wins, but what about their minority voters?</b></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A</span> few weeks ago I warned minority group voters, that a
coalition between the EFF and the DA will be on the cards in the major Metro’s,
at this point before the municipal elections the DA candidates around South
Africa denied and promised their voters that the DA will never do a thing like
this, some of them even promised their voters that the DA do not support BBBEE,
affirmative action and land reform, that after they <a href="http://www.enca.com/south-africa/da-officially-backs-bee">voted</a> for all three in
parliament. In a sms. The DA lied to voters telling them not to support small parties,
as they are the only party that can remove the ANC from power, and like sheep
the uneducated voters queued in front of voting stations voting for a party who
never during their campaign use their manifesto or constitution in any of their
campaign speeches. </h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;">T</span>hey voted for a party and for candidates that did not even
know what was in their constitution and election manifestos. They voted for a
party who, like the ANC, will tell you anything to get your vote and the worst
of all is the voters, like the ANC voters, accepted these untrue promises
without any questions. The DA tactics were to convince voters to not to vote
for a party, but to vote against the ANC, vote for change, but they neglect to
tell them what will change, they neglect to tell you that, that promised land
is only for the top “brass”, they neglect to tell you that they are changing
the den into a slaughter house.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">L</span>ike sheep these voters ignore the warning of the smaller
parties, and follow their masters to this slaughter house, follow their masters
because they told them that the slaughter house was the only place where they
can stay. Voters never ask their masters questions like, master why are the
small parties so small? They never came to the conclusion that they are so
small because we don’t vote for them. Well voters a coalition between the DA
and the EFF will definitely make the ANC a right wing party in South Africa, as
the EFF will not give their seats away, their price will be high, and the DA
will exchange their voters for a pot of lentil soup. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">B</span>etween the voters
and the stay away voters, you have managed to keep the small parties small,
while the masters fed their new found wolf, their new found ally while you the
voter and stay away voter was sleeping. The master will now tell you that they
have no other option than to sell your vote, that they had no option than to
exchange your vote for power, for self-empowerment, self-empowerment that is so
much needed in South Africa that is so much needed for the hard working leaders
of the DA.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">T</span>he Democratic alliance will become the Deceiving Alliance, after
all who need democracy if you can deceive the voters so easy, if you can
convince your voters to vote for change, change into the unknown, change into
the red overalls of the devil you do not know.</div>
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Prostitution explode in Toti under DA rule<o:p></o:p></div>
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Driving through the streets of Amanzimtoti has never been
this dangerous, with streets filled with prostitutes, drug peddlers and illegal
car guards, roaming the streets at all times of the day and night. </div>
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The alarming
fact is that the majority of these activities are happening in ward 97, and
that these vagrants have access to municipality owned buildings, where they wash
clothes and linen on Sunday morning and afternoons. The mere fact that metro
facilities are available brings serious questions if not allegation to the table.
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Questions like: Does the councillor in these areas know
about the activities? If not the next more serious question are unavoidable:
What do councillors do between elections? According to the people in
Amanzimtoti the councillors do not respond between elections to any of these or
other matters of the tax-payers in ward 97. There are even allegations that the
DA council tell people in Beach Road that they are racist if they complain
about the vagrants ruling the streets on weekends and December holidays. <o:p></o:p></div>
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During investigation I found that the prostitution and
vagrant problems increased dramatically over the past 5 years, ironically this
period fall within the period of service of the current councillor of ward 97. I
am aware that the allegations are circumstantial and might even be a result of
hear-say, but it should at least warrant an investigation into the action or no
actions of elected councillors.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It seems to be common practice in South Africa for
councillors to ignore the mandate given to them from their voters, a mandate
born out of the only democratic right that the voters have their votes. Once
elected, councillor’s start driving their own personal agendas, trashing the
rights of the very people that they are representing, the very people who gave
them a mandate to look after their rights. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I can obviously not say that, that is what is happening in
Amanzimtoti, but I have to ask the question. As a responsible citizen I need to
investigate if the voters have any rights or not, if the council do what he
promised or not.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The DA promise where they govern things are going well, so
does the increase in vagrant and prostitution constitute that it is going well,
does the fraud allegations in Midvaal constitute that it is going well. Yes I
must agree that in Cape Town it is going well, but then through the history
Cape Town have a great track record.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So the real question will remain, do the councillor’s keep
their promises, do the councillor’s represent their voters.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Willie Beetge<o:p></o:p></div>
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tell it as it ishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10944931479098265439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485315558144836863.post-39437558289881385122016-07-29T17:13:00.003-01:002016-07-29T17:22:32.491-01:00Open letter to Andre Beetge (DA)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Open letter to Andre Beetge (DA)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dear Andre<o:p></o:p></div>
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So Andre like the ANC you have decided that it is a good
idea to lie to your voters, to send a sms to the people ignoring the
constitution of South Africa. I must say you and your party have “balls” to
under estimate the voter intelligence to this extent, to think that the
population can be fooled with cheap untrue intimidation. I am well aware that
this sms started in Pretoria (sorry you will only know it as Tshwane) but I
thought your and the DA’s integrity in Amanzimtoti would not have lowered to
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Besides the sms I would like to ask you and your supporters
a few questions, a few questions on your integrity that you flaunt on social
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Why did you betray your people and the minorities in
Amanzimtoti by supporting your parties vote for BBBEE, while our children in
Toti have to find work in other countries, why did you betray your people by
supporting your parties vote for stronger affirmative action, while white Coloured
and Indian people in Amanzimtoti are struggling against the quota systems.
Andre how did it feel to betray your people, when your party voted for land
reform against your own people, against the very people who created your
heritage, the very people that had to suffer in concentration camps, people who
paid with their lives so that you and your family can be here today.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You know Andre I am sure while you were a rugby coach at
Toti club, you probably must know how it feels if you have to tell one of your
star players, that you cannot take them to represent their province, because
you need to take a black player. You probably know how that poor black person
feels, when he is known as a quota player, how the talented players of colour
feel when everyone labels them as a quota player, but yet you remain steadfast
behind a party that promotes these systems. Don’t you feel ashamed when you
tell your minority group supporters that you will represent them with the party
that trashes their rights. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Andre I fail to see the difference between you and the ANC
councillors, suddenly you all start doing something, posting on social media
only because the election is around the corner. Have you kept a list of the
things you have done in Amanzimtoti, did you add that prostitution has exploded
during your time as councillor, that the drug trade has flourished under your
control, or shall we blame it on the mayor, apartheid or even Jan van Riebeeck.
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You know Andre I will rather lose an election before I
betray my friends and people of my town with stories that is untrue. Perhaps I
am too hard on you Andre, perhaps you have lived the lie so long that you
actually believe it, perhaps you betray the minorities because you believe that
they have no rights, and perhaps because you only fight for your own survival.
You know Andre in your defence you are not the only politician that fight for
yourself, I think of Pik Botha, Kortbroek van Schalkwyk and suddenly I
understand. The question however will your voters understand?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Yes Andre I am in total disagreement with you, but should
this country fall I will still come and fetch you and your family, because I will
never leave my people behind, I will never betray my people for a pot of lentil
soup or a job.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Your slandering sms offended me, it offended the educated
voters. This letter should not offend you, as there are no lies in it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hope you all of the best for the election not because you
represent me at all, but you are still one of my people. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Regards<o:p></o:p></div>
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tell it as it ishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10944931479098265439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485315558144836863.post-62029977032091140722016-07-10T21:39:00.002-01:002016-07-11T04:27:11.930-01:00OPEN LETTER TO Mr MAIMANE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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OPEN LETTER TO Mr MAIMANE<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dear Mr Maimane<o:p></o:p></div>
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It is always
noble to introduce different systems to empower people in South Africa, and as
a business man I appreciate your stand against the ANC with their BEE system
and your new proposal of how BEE should work in South Africa, sir.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But
unfortunately once again the proposed system, like that of the ANC, was done
without a proper investigation, and will probably be implemented without any
changes. The system Mr. Maimane will really empower me as a business owner, but
unfortunately it will destroy the new black empowered worker. Other than you
coming up with a dream, I investigated this empowerment long ago, and came to
the conclusion that I will destroy my loyal work force by doing this.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At the
moment, sir, my employees earn between 65% and 70% of gross profit, so if I
decide to give them 51% of my company, they will earn on average at least 14%
less per month, but the good news is I will earn 14% more, and that sir is why
we would like to thank you for your commitment to the business owners in our
poverty stricken country.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The fact that’s
bothering me, sir, is that you and your esteemed learned leadership came up
with this brilliant plan to address the poverty levels in our beloved country,
and you stand unashamed in front of thousands of possible new voters, telling
them that you will empower them without the faintest idea of the industry sir.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sir I will
gladly assist you with a working model of empowerment, a model where we
represent our voters with real hope, hope that is not found in dreams but in
reality. Sir, I am talking about a model that empowers the economy, where the
poverty stricken black man can regain his self-worthiness. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I will
assist you because I believe together we are stronger.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Your vote
for me will empower you and the poverty stricken population, so if you
committed to real change for these people vote for my knowledge.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Yours
faithfully, in building a nation<o:p></o:p></div>
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