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October 3, 2005
BBC Audience Chooses Dream Dictator
Posted by Dave Blount at October 3, 2005 1:56 PM
If you didn't think your opinion of the BBC and its audience could get any lower, check out the results of its poll to determine who should lead a "fantasy world government." Coming in at Number One: Nelson Mandela.
Of course it's taboo to say anything critical of St. Nelson, but let's get serious for a moment — no one in his right mind would want to live under a government run by this socialist thug.
Yes of course, apartheid was bad. So is Mandela. Trained as a terrorist in Algeria, Mandela endorsed setting off bombs as a political tactic. His wife Winnie and her follows are closely associated with "necklacing" — the practice of putting a gasoline-filled tire around someone's neck and setting it on fire. The African National Congress — which Mandela helped to radicalize — is well known to have practiced not only terrorism, but also torture (not to mention election fraud). The ANC's stewardship of South Africa has converted a prosperous nation into a godforsaken hellhole. Under Mandela and his hand-picked successor, Thabo Mbeki, leftist ideology has crippled the economy, and the rate of violent crime has exploded, making South Africa a prime example of the perils of moonbattery. From Discover the Networks:
Crime has been rampant and largely underreported by the press. In the KwaZulu-Natal provincial elections of 1996, for example, the South African press admitted to underreporting the number of people killed in election violence in order to stop the freefall of South Africa's currency, the Rand. Government prosecutors have complained of being hampered by party considerations in their pursuit of political murderers. The rate of rape against women, both white and black, has been extraordinary. The rape of children, sometimes in exchange for cash payments to the parents, has also been on the rise. Crimes against white farmers have been on the increase, with at least 6,000 attacks leading to 1,600 murders and innumerable rapes and assaults reported since the end of apartheid. Overall estimates of those killed in all violent crimes in the country since 1991 total 230,000.
Incidents of HIV infection have been rising steadily, fueled in part by the declaration of Mandela's successor, President Mbeki, that AIDS is not linked to the HIV virus. The country's hospitals have, for the most part, deteriorated, and diseases long thought to be cured have returned. Much of the road system, sewer systems, and the electrical grid have fallen into decay. Corruption is rife at all levels of government. The South African army, once one of the best in the world, has disintegrated into loosely organized bands of thugs. Mandela, Mbeki, and the ANC have turned South Africa — once the most prosperous power in southern Africa into a genuine Third World country.
A longtime friend of likeminded goons Yasser Arafat, Fidel Castro, and Muammar al-Qaddafi, Mandela has been openly hostile to both the USA and Israel.
This is the BBC's audience's idea of an ideal leader. Okay, I know, since it's taboo to report anything critical of Mandela or the thugocracy running South Africa, most of these moonbats probably didn't have more than the vaguest idea who they were voting for. But check out some of the other specimens who made the list:
- #2 Bill Clinton
- #4 Noam Chomsky
- #10 George Soros
- #11 Kofi Annan
- #14 Bono
- #15 Michael Moore
- #16 Hillary Clinton
- #33 Hugo Chavez
- #36 Fidel Castro
- #70 Osama bin Laden
- #92 Jennifer Lopez
Apparently the dead weren't eligible, because I didn't see Joseph Stalin or John Gotti.
Hat tip: LGF.
