Let Nature Take Its Course

The view offered by a kind friend that there were a 

host of other influences, makes me feel even better:

“The deaths of women and children in the British Boer War

camps were primarily caused by rampant infectious

diseases, insanitary condition and overcrowding, hardly

the same circumstances as specific exterminations practised

by the SS, or the 1904 German colonists in SW Africa”

“So while the British were certainly part of it they were by no

means the root to its whole cause.”

There is NO logical connection between the CAUSE - burning the

country and putting people in dirty camps without provisions -

and the EFFECT of that very people dying, these people caused

their own deaths  because they were meant to keep themselves

alive – oh how UNGRATEFUL they were!

The EVIL people who failed to survive are GUILTY of bad hygiene

and suicide, UNGRATEFUL for British kindness providing tents

for the people and There Was No Need For Special Means To Kill

“The Herero and Nama were specifically targeted by the Germans,

their deaths were orchestrated” while the British merely let nature

take its course, the people died of their own accord – hooray!

What sweet solace to know that the invaders did not plan to

kill anybody, the people were so UNRULY that they died all

by themselves - these prisoners should be INDICTED for

LACK of RESPECT for the British who wanted them to live

without hygiene, water, food and basic provisions – which

obviously is nothing serious and in no way should be construed

as involving any intention for the people to die; those in charge

should be hailed as saviours as they expected the starving

people to DUTIFULLY survive

Chapter 2

Exceptional Space: Concentration Camps and Labor Compounds

in Late Nineteenth-Century South Africa

Lindsay Weiss

An Omnipotent, Kind Adversary

I hope you have noticed that I commend the British for

invading South Africa, burning the settlements of the

Afrikaans and Black inhabitants and taking the gold

mines – anyone can see the British were right to assume

they were entitled to any riches discovered anywhere

and the Afrikaners, descendants of the Dutch in Holland

who don’t know the value of wealth, were wrong to fight

in defence of their home territory – it was as clear as day-

light that the British  were so right to conquer and destroy,

only a brain-dead idiot would offer resistance to such an

omnipotent, kind adversary as the Britsih – nowhere do

I doubt the mastery of the almighty British!

Hitler’s Concentration Camps were modeled after the

British Concentration Camps during the Boer War

Originally called re-education centres the Schutz Staffeinel (SS)

soon began describing them as concentration camps. They were

called this because they were “concentrating” the enemy into a

restricted area. Hitler argued that the camps were modeled on

those used by the British during the Boer War.

British Concentration Camps (Boer War)

The Red Cross put Dachau at 18,000, Auschwitz at 53,000 deaths.  

A report after the war concluded that 27,927 Boers (of whom

24,074 [50% of the Boer child population] were children under 16)

had died of starvation, disease and exposure in the concentration

camps. In all, about one in four (25%) of the Boer inmates,

mostly children, died.]

Just over a century ago during the Boer War, the British were responsible

for about 27,000 deaths of innocent women and children who were

rounded up and placed in British concentration camps after burning them

out of their own farms and settlements in (now) South Africa.

Quotes
In 1900, Britain invaded the Boer Republics, stole the gold mines, turned

the Western Transvaal into a “smoking desert” (in their own words-

scorched earth policy), imprisoned 110,000 women and children in

concentration camps where 28,000 of them died CARLOS W. PORTER

http://politicalvelcraft.org

13 May 2013

Invaders Jovially Spread The Misery (REVISED)

Some families were impoverished already when
they started their scorched earth policy, burning
land and houses of the wealthy, reducing them
to poverty as well; it is such a heart-warming
piece of information, it also helps to know

The British kindly reduced all to the life of misery
Emily Hobhouse stated. So to alleviate suffering in
‘concentration camps’, which were not such a bad
idea after all because everybody lost interest in
hygiene while dying, the English cheerfully –

No offence meant, stiff upper lip old chap, then
incarcerated ‘em in death camps. I commend the
author for specifying this detail – some families
were already starving – so this makes it easy to
understand how the invaders jovially spread

Misery equally throughout the whole community,
systematically starving ALL women and children in
camps without social distinction,  a truly visionary,
insightful facet of the Anglo-Boer War which this
disdainfully discrete author describes

What a consolation to know some families were
already dying of hunger; all the English invaders did
was to see to it the wealthy also shared their fate,
with a perfect justification to starve women and
children regardless of wealth and social class…

And all exonerated because Boers were adamant
it was their land – when everyone knew the world
was shaped specifically for colonisation alone by
the British and acceptance of their reign is the only
thing that makes sense in an estranged universe…

 

 *“The Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War: A
Social History” by Elizabeth van Heyningen]

http: //samilitaryhistory.org/lectures/aftermath.html

'This scorched earth policy led to the destruction of about
30 000 Boer farmhouses and the partial/complete destruction
of more than forty towns. Thousands of women and children
were removed from their homes by force. They had no time to
remove valuables before the house was burnt down. Over
20 000 women and children died in British concentration
camps. An entire generation of Afrikaners had perished.'

Stripping Life Of Its Sweetness

Sunday afternoon, boredom creeping in too soon,
you dreaming about a family reunion while I’m
thinking of a trip doing our own thing - does not
matter which, as long as we have adventures,
getting to meet new friends

I live in fear of the time my boredom threshold
would make it impossible to do my job - every
third week is a new beginning as I have fallen
into depression by then, dreaming of the time
when I’ll be free from these

Chemical-induced moods and feelings that lead
nowhere in the end; except that I keep searching
for deeper meanings instead of believing this is all
life ever holds, I trust that the mind continues after
the body is buried - this

Belief keeps my lips smiling, my mind happy and
my heart rejoicing with every new insight, even if
death were complete after he body is gone I would
not concur simply because the belief is deadening,
stripping life of its sweetness

What advantage is there in believing oneself destined
for nothingness and therefore being incapable of doing
the most basic positive thing - what a way of robbing
oneself of joy and happiness, I believed it when young,
ended up in mental hospital

Today I only believe things that promote my ability to
live in joy and happiness - no longer willing to endure
the depressing pleasure of cynical superiority in
positivist distrust of dreams and humanity…

12 May 2013

The Way Africa Operates (REVISED)

After Sunday newspapers I feel depressed, ‘African time’
Redi Tlhabi suggests ruled again at the Economic Forum
in Cape Town without courtesy of cancellations* or the
protagonists arriving on time – and she ended by saying:
“There is NO such thing as ‘African time’, just plain
incompetence, inefficiency and arrogance”

“Africa’s where ministers and presidents lie to the people
with impunity, says Eben Meiring, accountability, liability
& transparency are unheard of; Zuma’s democracy means
majorities have more rights than minorities, voting ANC
means an automatic visa to heaven while voting otherwise
will call down the wrath of our forefather spirits”

Revolutionaries in power like hashish, strong drink and fat
 women, ours is the continent of dictators & megalomania
without ethics; Africa’s dappled morality is Zuma happily
celebrating Nkandla and Guptagate in the same way –
going for a two-thirds majority regardless of any outrage
regarding the might of the Gupta-family

Why complain – it is the way Africa operates…


* An interview for Al Jazeera with Joyce Banda which took place
eight hours later because her aides had double booked her and
had not informed her of the interview.

How Astounding Men’s Love Is (REVISED)

My son played imaginary guitar at the steering wheel

while driving to work – marginally better than turning

his steering wheel from left to right to the beat of

the music; when he got out I drove home listening to

French conversations recorded for my edification and

to which he refuses to listen

Picking him up after work I told him about the Dutch

Queen Beatrix abdicating, the Crown Prince was to be

crowned King; my son showed no impression, making

sarcastic remarks like how much he appreciated my

information – without which he could not have lived

down being bereft this uselessly ‘important’ news

I laughed, driving with Tiaan makes life seem such an

adventure, he imitates old men emphasising certain

words, at age seventeen his joie de vivre is irrepressible,

his dad watches him with the care of a mother hen to

make sure nothing untoward befalls him just as he is

on the brink of a wonderful life – what love there is

In the heart of a father, my dad gave his pension to my

younger brother; my beloved would bring the sun, moon

and stars to our son if required – such passionate love,

yet when the kids were babies, how little his interest –

I had to carry both – one on each hip – when we were

camping but today their dad loves them so much

How astounding a man’s love is!

9 May 2013

A Point Of Light (REVISED)

Maybe my imagination is big enough to agree

out-of-body experience is possible; I respect those

who teach about adventures in other dimensions

but with sense of direction lacking I’d morph into

a pinpoint of light, lose my way so I’d never return

to manage and effectively live my life

Moving about as restless light isn’t the right way

to pass time – I’m sure human imagination can

make any idea come true through focus – I love

to read what travellers say and marvel at their

fearless spirit, Von Neumann said life is a figment

of the collective imagination therefore anything

Can be achieved through enough belief; I keep my

powers of believing for things acceptable to my

loved ones, unwilling to leave, live in an ashram,

look for enlightenment among saffron-clad men

living on high mountaintops, neither to become

a nun meditating sin out of me, but

Neither shall I forget all wonderful possibilities

offered by these alternatives – will look into it

when my consciousness has been released from

this physical house and I can choose, amongst

all other things, to become anything I like –

even such as a point of light!

http://www.monroeinstitute.org – Quoted from this website:

“…asked about the concept of an astral body apart from the physical

body we occupy. He said we have the impression that when out-of-body

we retain a bodily form similar to our physical façade, but he no longer

experienced himself that way, he thought of himself "like a point of light."

 The notion of a second body was a carryover perception from Earth-life

beliefs. The humanoid form is simply "local traffic" on the interstate.”

9 May 2013