UNCENSORED NEWS FROM HENRY MORTON STANLEY SCHOOL OF CHRISTIAN JOURNALISM To listen to an audio of this article in English Only click here To see a video presentation of this article in English only click here To listen to an audio of this article in Zulu and English click here To see a video presentation of this article Zulu and English click here “And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” John 8:32 Responsibilities and Rights The only Biblical restrictions on our freedom of speech in the Ten Commandments are: “You shall not take the Name of the Lord your God in vain” and “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.” Outside of those prohibitions of blasphemy and slander, we have freedom of speech. “Do not commit Adultery” prohibits immorality and pornography in all its forms by upholding the sanctity of marriage. “You shall not commit Murder” prohibits incitement to hatred and violence. So outside of these few Biblical restrictions, we have freedom of speech. To Proclaim Liberty “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, because the Lord has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to those who are bound.” Isaiah 61:1. Liberty to the Captives At the beginning of His earthly ministry, our Lord Jesus Christ quoted this passage from Isaiah: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed.” Luke 4:18 Freedom of Speech is a Fruit of the Protestant Reformation Historically, freedom of speech is a fruit of Christianity. As observed by Carlton Hayes, in Christianity and Western Civilisation: "Wherever Christian ideals have been generally accepted and their practice sincerely attempted, there is a dynamic liberty; and wherever Christianity is being ignored or rejected, persecuted, or chained to the state, there is tyranny." “Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” 2 Corinthians 3:17 Essential Foundations for Freedom From the Dooms of King Alfred the Great, to Magna Carta of 1215, the Petition of Rights of 1628 and the English Bill of Rights of 1689, political, economic and religious freedom is founded on Freedom of Thought, Freedom of Conscience, Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Speech. “For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.” Galatians 5:13 In a Time of Universal Deceit However, anti-Christian forces and tyrants always seek to restrict freedom of speech, freedom of religion and therefore also freedom of thought. This is well illustrated in George Orwell’s insightful book, 1984: “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth can become a revolutionary act.” Free speech is hate speech to those who hate the truth. Truth is truth, even if no one believes it. A lie is a lie, even if everyone believes it! A Tactic to Silence Dissent In the past, in the Middle Ages, political leaders could silence dissent by accusing critics of: “treason!” Religious leaders, such as the popes, could silence critics and opposition by accusing: “heresy!” Today, the modern equivalents of these attempts to silence freedom of thought, freedom of conscience, freedom of religion and freedom of speech, are: “racist!”; “homophobic bigot!”; “anti-Semite!”; “Islamaphobe!”; “Nazi!”; “legalist!”; “intolerant!”; “judgemental!” or “sexist!” War Against Free Speech “Hate speech” is what governments call free speech which they do not like. This is a worldwide phenomenon and part of a comprehensive war against God. The war against free speech is a threat to freedom. It is a threat to Christian schools, missions, ministries, Christian community radio stations, families and individuals. Rise of Thought Police Innocent comments such as: “marriage can only be between a man and a woman” have been construed as “hate speech” in Canada and has been enough for police investigations and criminal charges in parts of the United States, Great Britain and Australia. Thought Crimes Quoting Scriptures, such as John 14:6 “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me’” has been condemned as “intolerant,” “bigoted,” “judgemental” and “offensive”, “hate speech!” Pro-life comments and scientific reality such as: “life begins at conception” and “abortion is murder” have been condemned as “hate speech!” by radical liberals in North America, Europe and Australia. Where Will This End? How far can this go? The answer to that is in George Orwell’s 1984, where Thought Police prosecute “thought crimes.” The bias, prejudice and malice being manufactured by secular humanists through Hollywood entertainment, mainstream news media, secular humanist school textbooks and increasingly intolerant political legislation are providing a sinister tool chest, an armoury for anti-Christian intimidation, harassment, prosecution and persecution. Restrictions on Freedom of Speech will Lead to Prosecutions, Fines and Imprisonments “Gag rules” and restrictions on free speech are only a prelude for a tsunami of prosecutions, censorship, fines and even, ultimately, imprisonment, for those not willing to sell their soul, violate their conscience and be intimidated into silence. “Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.” Galatians 5:1 Confronting Government with Christian Opposition to their Bill On Wednesday, 15 February 2017, Freedom of Religion South Africa (FORSA) hosted a meeting at His People in Goodwood, Cape Town, to discuss potential threats to religious freedom posed by the Hate Speech Bill and the CRL Rights Commission’s proposals to “regulate religion.” Ministry of Injustice The meeting was attended by ANC, Deputy Minister of Justice, John Jeffery, who addressed the delegates and gave an example of a minister who he claimed had called for the killing of gays! Due Process of Law or Taking the Law into Your Own Hand One of the delegates in the meeting challenged him on this and made the distinction between somebody discussing academically what the Law of God may require as far as law and due process of justice goes and someone inciting people to take law into their own hands. There certainly is a big difference between advocating that abortion be recognised as murder and babies protected by law from the violence of abortion by due process of law and some rabble-rouser, or agitator, calling for individuals to take the law into their own hands and murder abortionists! Shutting Down Debate Michael Swain, Executive Director of FORSA (Freedom of Religion South Africa) said, “The Bill’s hate speech provisions have the potential to shut down important dialogue and to entrench a polarisation of viewpoints.” Criminalising Free Speech Member of Parliament, Steve Swart, challenged Mr. Jeffery over the danger of criminalising free speech. At a time when our legal system is overwhelmed and not coping with real, serious crimes, such as armed robberies, assaults, murders and rape, is it wise and helpful to swamp the courts even further with time-wasting and money-wasting intrusions into Freedom of speech and Freedom of Religion? Mr Jeffery then opinioned that, in the light of the “wars of religion”, it was necessary to implement the “Hate Speech Bill.” Death by Government At this, I stood up and challenged him that is seemed ironic to have a politician talk about “wars of religion”, which after all ended over 350 years ago with the Peace of Westphalia 1648. We have just come out of a century where secular humanist states, atheist states, socialist and communist states, have murdered over 190 million of their own citizens. The “wars of religion,” which ended so many centuries ago, pale into insignificance compared to the colossal body count of secular states in our own lifetimes. Secular humanism has caused most of the wars and massacres in the 20th century as documented by Death by Government, by Professor R.J. Rummel and The Black Book of Communism, which documents, from the archives of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, over 100 million of their own citizens killed in peace-time in the name of Atheism, just between 1917 and 1991. All this started with registering churches and restricting freedoms. Hypocrisy and Failure The “Hate Speech” Bill threatens freedom of speech, restricts freedom of conscience and erodes freedom of religion. Who determines what hate speech is? The ANC government has failed in the last 25 years to deal with “kill the Boer, kill the farmer” songs and slogans, which have not only been an incitement to violence, but have actually led to thousands of brutal murders and tortures of South African farmers. Are we to believe that this government is seriously concerned with dealing with genuine hate speech and hate practice such as BLF and EFF espouse daily? What About Islamic Jihad Are we to believe that the ANC government really intends to deal with genuine hate speech and incitement to violence, such as is found in many mosques in our country, where Jihad is proclaimed and promoted? Are they really going to monitor Friday messages at the mosque? What About Pornography and Blasphemy? Are we to accept that pornography is legally protected as free speech? We are told that even blasphemy is considered free speech! But our sermons, publications and postings are now to be examined to see if anything can be construed as “offensive” by subjective secularists who have a track record of harassing and prosecuting Christians? Freedom of speech is essential for any free society. Freedom of speech is not negotiable. An Anti-Christian Agenda There is a clear anti-Christian bias amongst many in this government and we do not believe that political appointees will be fair, even-handed and objective in determining what constitutes “hate speech” and what does not. Thousands of churches have been closed in Cuba and tens of thousands of Christians imprisoned under similar legislation, enacted under Fidel Castro. An Inadequate Response Many of the delegates assembled responded to these questions and statements with applause. This seemed to unsettle the Justice Department representative, who stuttered and stammered in trying to formulate a reply, neglecting to address most of the issues raised. Finally, he lamely said: “I do not think that it is constructive to try and compare who was most responsible for deaths in the last century. Let us just agree that some people died because of wars of religion.” Limiting Freedom Mr Jeffery claimed that no rights are absolute and all must have “limitations”. Whatever happened to being innocent until proven guilty? Truth does not fear investigation. Stifling debate and criminalising dissent does not make for a free society. Condemning people without granting them a meaningful opportunity to answer accusations is unjust. Unconstitutional, Unworkable and Unnecessary The invasive registration process proposed by the Commission is unconstitutional, unworkable and unnecessary. The proposed regulation of religion recommended by the CRL Commission is also not in keeping with the South African Charter of Religious Rights and Freedoms to which the CRL is a signatory. Expose Con-Men Charlatans and con artists who exploit the poor and vulnerable in society need to be exposed and dealt with as false advertising. We must also encourage greater discernment amongst Christians. Constitutional Freedoms are at Stake From a constitutional perspective, the CRL’s proposed Regulation of Religion in South Africa, if implemented, would violate the Constitutional Rights to Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Thought, Freedom of Association and Freedom of Belief and Opinion. Enforcement of Existing Laws is Needed Rather than creating new laws, which would place additional burdens on the already strained resources of government, the police and the courts, the state should focus its energy and resources on enforcing existing laws to address the problems identified. FORSA strongly recommended a Code of Conduct to which religious institutions and practitioners should be encouraged to subscribe. However, one needs to find solutions that are practical and constitutionally permissible without infringing on, or eroding, the freedoms of religion, belief, opinion, speech, conscience and association. The history of registering churches and religious practitioners, as in the Soviet Union, Red China and Cuba, show the disastrous and destructive results of interfering with freedom of conscience. “For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.” Galatians 5:13 The Rise of the GayGB and the Pink Inquisition Africa Christian Action recently published the book: The Rise of the GayGB and the Pink Inquisition, which documents how the radical LGBT homosexual lobby is jealous for the loyalty and approval of all. No longer satisfied with freedom, or tolerance, they now demand approval, funding and conformity. Some even demand prosecution of dissenting voices. If you think that the homosexual agenda will not affect you, your congregation, or your family, you are wrong. Homosexualists and the Gender Fluidity movement want to transform the very fabric of society. They want to homosexualise the schools and the next generation and they want government funding (that is your taxes) to force this on all. “As free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God.” 1 Peter 2:16 War Against God's Created Order Satan’s plan is to invert reality, where blasphemy and perversion become the new normal, but free speech is criminalised as “blasphemy” and “treason” to the New World Order. Pornography becomes an essential aspect of “free speech.” Abortion becomes the blood sacrifice sacrament of the New World Order, replacing the Lord’s Supper. Questioning the multicultural interfaith agenda of the New World Order becomes “treason” and “heresy!” Questioning the secular humanist version of origins through “billions of years” of evolution is intolerable. Questioning the secular humanist New World Order version of “history” is considered “subversive.” Proclaiming and teaching the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and applying the Lordship of Christ to all areas of life, is condemned as “hate speech” and “intolerance.” How Should We As Christians Respond? So, how are we, as Bible-believing Christians, to respond to this war against free speech, criminalising of Christian conscience, prosecution of “Thought Crimes” and pervasive pressure to normalise and accept pornography, perversion and blasphemy? Where the Battle Rages, There the Loyalty of the Soldier is Proved Nearly 500 years ago, Professor Martin Luther declared: “If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God’s Word, except precisely that point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, then I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Him. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battle front besides is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.” Wide Gates to Hell Professor Luther warned: “I am much afraid that schools will prove to be wide gates to hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, engraving them on the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the Scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which men are not constantly occupied with the Word of God must become corrupt.” My Conscience is Captive to the Word of God We, as Bible-believing Evangelical Christians, must respond as Dr. Martin Luther responded at Worms, before the assembled political and ecclesiastical might of Europe, on 18 April 1521: “Unless I am convinced by Scripture, or by clear reasoning, that I am in error - for popes and councils have often erred and contradicted themselves - I cannot recant, for I am subject to the Scriptures I have quoted. My conscience is captive to the Word of God. It is unsafe and dangerous to do anything against one's conscience. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. So help me God. Amen.” The Price of Principle Of course, making such bold and Biblical stands comes at a price. Professor John Wycliffe, “The Morning Star of the Reformation,” was kicked out of Oxford University because of his bold Bible-teaching and translation of the Scriptures into English. Truth Conquers Professor Jan Hus, of Prague University, was excommunicated by the pope and burned at the stake at Constance. However, as Jan Hus was pressed to recant, to save his life, he declared: “I would not for a chapel full of gold, recede from the Truth… the Truth stands and is mighty forever.” Hus declared that he would prefer to be burned in public than be silenced in private. “In order that all Christendom might know what I have said in the end.” To Live is Christ – To Die is Gain Hus declared that he would gladly seal with his blood the truths that he had taught in his life. “In the truth of the Gospel I have written, taught and preached; today I will gladly die.” The Goose and the Swan Jan Hus made a prophecy as he was about to die. “My goose is cooked!” he said. (Hus is the Bohemian word for goose!) “But a hundred years from now a swan will arise whose voice you will not be able to silence.” Many recognised Professor Martin Luther as that voice, hence the prevalence of swans in Lutheran art and architecture. “Over My Dead Body!” Interestingly, a century later, as Martin Luther was being ordained into the priesthood, he was required to lie face down before the altar, in Erfurt Cathedral. Martin Luther was actually lying face down over the tomb of the bishop who had burned Hus at the stake. One could imagine that the bishop, hearing Professor Jan Hus predict that a hundred years later a swan would arise, whose voice the pope would not be able to silence, he may have muttered something along the lines of: “Over my dead body!” Indeed, Martin Luther entered the priesthood over that bishop’s dead body. We Must Fear God Alone “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” 2 Timothy 1:7. Our Lord Jesus Christ told us not to fear man. The fear of man can prove to be a snare and a trap. We should fear God who can destroy both body and soul in hell forever. The fear of God is liberating. Better to fear the one true God than to be enslaved to the fear of the multitude of men. Deception Brings Bondage –The Truth Sets Free It is the Truth that sets us free. Deception brings bondage. The Truth brings freedom. We need to notice that those people who claim to be concerned with “hate speech”: “While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption…” 2 Peter 2:19 The Worst Hate Crimes As Christians, we are, of course, against hate, but the “Hate Speech Bill” is not designed to silence genuine hate speech. The worst kind of speech is blasphemy against Almighty God, our Creator and Eternal Judge. Libel and slander are real hate speech and yet so much of our entertainment industry vilify the victims and victimise the villains, inverting reality, slandering God's people and demonizing those whom, blaspheming, God hating perverts, hate. “Whoever hates his brother is a murderer and you know that no murderer has Eternal Life abiding in him.” 1 John 3:15 Christians are Called to Counter Hate with Love “You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbour and not bear sin because of him.” Leviticus 19:17 “Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins.” Proverbs 10:12 “He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in darkness until now.” 1 John 2:9 Our Lord Jesus Christ taught that: “The world… hates Me because I testify of it that its works are evil.” John 7:7. Our Lord Jesus declared: “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.” John 15:18. The Lord gave a parable how the people of the world would say of God's Son: “We will not have this Man to reign over us.” Luke 19:14 Always Be Ready to Give a Defense The Word of God commands us: “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you…” 1 Peter 3:15 Back to the Bible for Reformation and Revival 500 Years ago, in 1519, Swiss Reformer, Ulrich Zwingli, dispensed with the Latin mass and began Expository Preaching - teaching from Matthew 1:1, verse by verse, chapter by chapter, through the whole of the New Testament. We need to go back to the Bible for Reformation and Revival. Conviction and Courage In the face of intimidation and threats from the world, we need to respond with the courage and conviction of the Protestant Reformers, Martin Luther and Ulrich Zwingli. Our conscience must be captive to the Word of God. We must stand on the unchangeable Word of Almighty God. We must not be conformed to this world. We must be willing to be different. Stand up for Jesus. Step out in Faith. Speak up and proclaim the Word of God faithfully and accurately. “And that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.” 2 Timothy 2:26 Stand Fast in the Liberty by Which Christ Has Set Us Free Truth does not fear investigation. You shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free. Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free and do not be entangled again with the yoke of bondage. “For the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.” Romans 8:2
“Because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.” Romans 8:21 Dr. Peter Hammond Frontline Fellowship, P.O. Box 74 Newlands 7725, Cape Town South Africa, Tel: 021-689-4480 [email protected] www.FrontlineMissionSA.org www.ReformationSA.org
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UNCENSORED NEWS FROM HENRY MORTON STANLEY SCHOOL OF CHRISTIAN JOURNALISM The Christian Legal Centre is currently helping and supporting ‘Sarah’ (not her real name), a survivor of an Islamic sex-grooming gang and raising awareness of the epidemic of Islamic sex-grooming gangs and government cover-ups. In September, Christian Concern reported on the heart-breaking story of how Sarah was kidnapped, forced into three Sharia marriages, repeatedly raped and abused and forced to endure eight abortions, asking you to cry out to God with us not only for her protection, but also for our nation’s heart to be restored. Now, as the actions of even more gangs come to light and many are convicted, the injustices that exist within our state are becoming ever clearer. The problem is even more widespread than first thought, and the need for the Church to step up and act is even more urgent. Sarah’s Story More recently, it’s been revealed that Sarah’s two children – born to different members of the sex-grooming gang – have now been taken away from her, after social services declared Sarah an ‘unfit mother’. After suffering through the ordeal of being treated as a sex slave for twelve years, Sarah now suffers post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression. However, she has said: “When they are taking away my children, it feels exactly the same as what that group did: the same threat, the same anxiety, everything. I am desperate to see my daughter.” When a Rapist Has More Rights than the Mother Her son now lives with a member of her family under a special guardianship order, but Sarah is only allowed to see him for four hours a week. What’s more is that the father of her son could be given a role in the child’s future, despite his history of abuse and violence towards Sarah. However, the case is even worse for her youngest child. Sarah fears that social services may now arrange for her daughter to be adopted, against Sarah’s will by Muslims, after they consulted the father – another one of the sex-grooming rapist gang. Although the rapist father wants nothing to do with the child, the authorities could now treat the child as born of a Muslim father, and therefore, by Sharia Law, of Muslim parentage. “I do not want that, because I do not want my daughter to go through what I went through,” Sarah has said. The Failure of Social Services Sarah’s story was raised in the House of Lords earlier in October by Baroness Caroline Cox, who told the Daily Mail, “I agonise over Sarah's continuing ordeal. And it is appalling that she was forced to confront one of her alleged rapists at a court hearing where he was consulted about her son's future. How can the courts and social services allow this cruel treatment?” Neither Sarah nor Baroness Cox can understand how social services have repeatedly allowed her alleged rapists to have a say in her children’s lives. The Scandal of Political Correctness But the growing influence of Islam, alongside the desire ‘not to offend’ or be ‘racist’, has allowed thousands of girls to be “sacrificed on the altar of multiculturalism”, as Tim Dieppe, Head of Public Policy at Christian Concern, has previously written. Sacrificed on the Altar of Multi-Culturalism Questioning the government, Baroness Cox asked what policies the government had to support survivors like Sarah and how many criminals had been allowed to get away with it, as “countless girls” have suffered similar ordeals throughout the country. “Countless girls” Have Been Victimised It is certainly true that Sarah’s case is not unique. At the end of September, the BBC released the story of ‘Nicole’, a survivor of the convicted sex-grooming gang from Newcastle. Nicole revealed how she felt that the authorities had failed her by missing “warning signs”. And it appears that the problem is evermore widespread. So far, Asian sex-grooming gangs have been found in multiple different towns and cities across the UK, including Oxford, Rotherham, Huddersfield, Telford, Coventry, Drewsbury, Halifax, Keighley and Bristol. In fact, by the end of 2015, Muslim sex-groomers had been tried and convicted in 27 towns and cities across the UK. And it appears that the number is only growing. Suffering Victims Matter Less Than Damage Control for Islamic Public Image In recent weeks, there has been outcry for identifying these sex-grooming gangs as ‘Asian’ for fear of “[rocking] the multicultural boat”. Despite his own Pakistani Muslim background, Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, was called out by many for describing the 20 convicted men of the Rotherham gang as “sick Asian paedophiles”. One Times commentator said: “The suffering of the victims, it seems, mattered less to them [those who criticised Sajid Javid]”. However, if identifying these men as Asian has been difficult, there has been even less willingness to identify the majority of them as Islamic. Fear of Being Islamophobia Led the Government to Turn a Blind Eye On 22 October, Lord Pearson raised the issue before the House of Lords, calling into question how the government planned to respond to the authorities’ fears of being seen as ‘Islamophobic’. He asked: “My Lords, do the Government accept that if we extrapolate nationally the Jay report on Rotherham and other reports from Telford and Oxford, there appear to have been upwards of 250,000 young white girls raped in this century, very largely by Muslim men, usually several times a day for years? … What are the Government doing to prosecute those in authority who turned a blind eye to all this because they were afraid of being called Islamophobic and so on?” Ignoring the Islamic Connection Yet, as Tim Dieppe suggests, the government seems determined to deny any Islamic connection to these gangs and the issues raised by them. He says: “The latest statistics for convictions show that 283/325 rape gang convictions are of people with Islamic names, and therefore with Islamic heritage and most likely self-identifying as Muslim. This means 87% of the convictions are Muslims, compared with only 5% of the population being Muslim. Mathematically this means that a Muslim man is some 127 times more likely to be convicted as part of a grooming gang than a non-Muslim.” Furthermore, the majority of places that these sex-grooming gangs come from are, according to the Muslim Council of Britain, the places where a Muslim population is most concentrated. Drawing on figures from the 2011 census, the Council says, “76% of the Muslim population live in four regions: London, West Midlands, the North West and Yorkshire and The Humber”. Sharia Law, Sexual Abuse and Western Cowardice The Gatestone Institute has also recently argued that Islamic religion and culture “has a very different set of rules and legal codes for relations between the sexes” to what is generally accepted in the West and does not restrict men from keeping women as slaves and/or concubines. Thus, within the Muslim community, there almost seems to be an acceptance that some sort of sex-grooming could take place. This could go far in explaining “why child sexual grooming gangs and the collective sexual harassment of women have taken hold in some places”, and account for a shared silence, not least from within the Muslim community itself, but also from other who fear offending the community by highlighting ‘differences in culture’. It concludes: “Sadly, in the case of Britain’s grooming gangs, religious ideology does not play a role in forbidding child sexual grooming. It is important to examine just how crucial a factor this seems to have been in community silence about them.” The Widespread Problem and a Practical Solution The problem appears to be much bigger and widespread than the government or authorities are willing to accept. And, as seen in both Sarah and Nicole’s cases – and the countless other girls that have been affected by these rape gangs – the failures in the system do not allow for these girls to be supported. In fact, the government seems far more likely to play into the hands of the Muslim minority for fear of being deemed ‘racist’, as seen in the reaction to Sajid Javid’s comment. The Church must be ready to respond and act on behalf of these girls. If the state child services and legal system will not support them, then we must be ready to step in. The government must also answer for its inexcusable failures. Following Baroness Cox’s questioning in the House of Lords, you can write to your MP, asking them to pressure the government to support the victims and survivors of Islamic sex-grooming, rather than allow them to continue to fall captive to the flaws in the system. We must speak up for justice where the state will not. Christian Concern Links Read Tim Dieppe’s article on “Sacrificing Girls to Political Correctness” Read The Challenge of Islam in the UK 2 November 2018, www.christianconcern.com See also:
The Islamisation of Europe – What Can be Done to Stop and Reverse It Africa Christian Action PO Box 23632 Claremont 7735 Cape Town South Africa Tel: 021-689 4480 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.christianaction.org.za UNCENSORED NEWS FROM HENRY MORTON STANLEY SCHOOL OF CHRISTIAN JOURNALISM “Who will rise up for Me against the evildoers? Who will stand up for Me against the workers of iniquity?” Psalm 94:16 A Practical Strategy for Survival 1. First of all we need to be informed. “My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.” Hosea 4:6. This is first and foremost an information war. It is a battle for the mind. We need to understand our enemy, his overall strategy, his tactics and plan. See our articles: How Marxists Subvert Churches and Society; Is South Africa Entering the Second Phase of the Revolution; Farms and Freedom Under Fire in South Africa; Fraud, Failure and Farce – Land Expropriation Hearings; Nine Stages of Genocide in South Africa; Fearless Farmers Who Fight Back and other key articles on the www.hmsschoolofchristianjournalism.org website. See also: The Heart and Soul of Karl Marx; Liberation Theology; How the New World Order is Hijacking Civilisation and Resisting the New World Order on our www.FrontlineMissionSA.org website. 2. We need to be interceding. Prayer is an integral and essential foundation for action. We need to establish prayer groups, prayer chains and prayer networks, mobilising prayer to seek God for Revival and action to work for Reformation and restoration of spiritual life, applying Scriptural principles to all areas of life. Obtain The Power of Prayer Handbook. Pray the Psalms. Visit the www.idop-africa.org website and www.LivingstoneFellowship.co.za website for further teaching on prayer, guidelines and country reports, prayer posters and other resource to help mobilise informed, focused prayer and action against the Revolution. Study and work through the Hour of Prayer. “…‘You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste and its gates are burned with fire. Come and let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer be a reproach.’” Nehemiah 2:17 3. We need to be involved. Support responsible, balanced, independent sources of news, including independent community radio stations, newsletters and magazines and reliable websites. Disconnect from the lamestream, fake news controlled mass media. Recognise that the BBC (Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation), CNN (Clinton News Network), Time (Slime) Magazine, Newspeak and Useless News and World Report are not where one can expect fair, balanced and honest reporting. Visit www.hmsschoolofchristianjournalism.org website and the Henry Morton Stanley School of Christian Journalism Facebook page. Use your social media and networks to mobilise your friends, family and neighbours to mutual support and resistance to the lawless, reckless and dangerous strategies of Marxist Revolutionaries threatening us. Get armed, trained and prepared to defend your family, friends and neighbours. Obtain the Security and Survival Handbook. “…‘Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, great and awesome and fight for your brethren, your sons, your daughters, your wives and your houses.” Nehemiah 4:14 4. Implementation. Expose the communist strategies and AgitProp tactics of the Second Phase of the Revolution. Motivate your friends, family, neighbours and congregation and mobilise them to action. Educate and enlist, inspire positive and practical hope for the future. Counter defeatist propaganda and escapism. Subscribe to the Christian Action magazine and obtain quantities for distribution in your church and community. Contact your friends and family overseas to mobilise prayer and pressure on elected representatives to pressure and persuade the ANC government of South Africa to cease and desist with their dangerous and irresponsible race politics and plans for land expropriation without compensation. 5. Visit the www.SAVotersGuide.org website. Download the Voters Guide and share with family, friends, neighbours and fellow church members. Vote your values. The vast majority of South African voters are supporting parties which are secular humanist and socialist. Most Christians in South Africa are wasting their votes on parties which are anti-Christian, pro-abortion, supporting the GayGB agenda vile perversion under the guise of sex-education in the schools, legalised pornography, legalised blasphemy and other destructive policies. More than half of those eligible to vote do not vote. Hence more than half of all the voters say “What difference can I make!” If one could mobilise these inactive, or disillusioned, citizens to get registered to vote and to vote their values, we could dramatically change the political landscape in the country. There are positive movements for independence of the Western Cape and KwaZulu which need to be supported. 6. Obtain resources for resistance and Reformation, including: the book Biblical Principles for Africa, which is also available in Afrikaans and French. Other useful resources would include: The Rise of the GayGB and the Pink Inquisition; Porndemic – How the Pornography Plague Affects You and What You Can Do About It; The Ten Commandments – God's Perfect Law of Liberty, also translated into Afrikaans, Die Tien Gebooie – God se Volmaakte Wet Van Vryheid. View the Agenda 2 – Masters of Deceit documentary and share it with your friends. 7. If you have school-aged children, take a good hard look at the teachers and textbooks which are moulding and filling your child’s mind. Get involved in the Parents Teachers Association and School Governing Body of your local school. Seriously and prayerfully consider home education. 8. Obtain God-honouring, Bible-based and Christ-centered textbooks to supplement your child’s education. Some recommended History books would include: Victorious Christians – Who Changed the World; The Greatest Century of Reformation; The Greatest Century of Missions and Sketches from South African History. 9. As this is first and foremost a Spiritual War, work to bring the Bible back into every areas of life. Obtain the Biblical Preaching Handbook; Answering Skeptics; Putting Feet to Your Faith; Reforming Our Families and Old Testament Survey. Be a faithful active member of a Bible based, Christ-centered evangelistic church and Gospel preaching mission dedicated to fulfiljling the Great Commission (Colossians 3:9-14). 10. Be prepared for criticism and opposition. Obtain Character Assassins – Dealing With Ecclesiastical Tyrants and Terrorists. 11. If you can, plan to attend the Biblical Worldview Summit (4-9 January 2019) near Cape Town. Send your children, or sponsor someone to attend the BWS as we seek to apply the Lordship of Christ to all areas of life. 12. See What Needs to Be Done? for further practical suggestions and contacts for resisting the Revolution and working for Biblical Reformation. “Those from among you shall build the old waste places; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations and you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach, the Restorer of Streets to Dwell In.”
Isaiah 58:12 Dr. Peter Hammond Reformation Society P.O. Box 74 Newlands 7725 Cape Town South Africa Tel: 021-689-4480 Fax: 086-494-8070 [email protected] www.ReformationSA.org www.hmsschoolofchristianjournalism.org See also: How Marxist Subvert Churches and Society? Fraud, Failure and Farce – Land Expropriation Hearings Is South Africa Entering the Second Phase of the Revolution? Nine Stages of Genocide in South Africa Farms and Freedom Under Fire in South Africa Reformation or Revolution The Heart and Soul of Karl Marx Zimbabwe – A Lesson in How to Destroy Christian Civilisation When All Men Speak Well of You Security and Survival Handbook Character Assassins – Dealing With Ecclesiastical Tyrants and Terrorists UNCENSORED NEWS FROM HENRY MORTON STANLEY SCHOOL OF CHRISTIAN JOURNALISM To view this presentation as a video click here. To listen to this lecture on our Audio Gallery, click here. The First Battlefield As Karl Marx declared: “The first battlefield is the rewriting of history.” Hypnotised by Deception “Modern society is hypnotised by socialism. It is prevented by socialism from seeing the mortal danger it is in. One of the greatest dangers of all is that you have lost all sense of danger. You cannot even see where it is coming from as it moves swiftly towards you. Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit… to destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn PsyOps Marxists aim to demoralise their targeted victims through psychological warfare (psyops). Using guilt manipulation, vilifying the victims and victimising the villains, their politics of guilt and pity seek to undermine Christianity and nationalism. Unable to Even Distinguish Good from Evil “The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability.” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Playing the Victim Card While Demonising Opponents Marxists employ double standards to enable them to always play the victim while demonising the opponents of Marxism. Along with demonising opponents, Marxists seek to promote hero worship of their idols of the New World Order. Ripping Up the Foundations of Justice “In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish, nor reproach, evil-doers… we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations. In our country the lie is not just a moral category, but a pillar of the state. The timid civilised world has found nothing with which to oppose the sudden revival of bare-faced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles.” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Intimidation Through politically correct censorship and intimidation, cyber bullying and cry-bullying, they seek to mobilise hysterical, spiteful, vindictive opposition to silence all dissent. Anyone daring to express a different opinion will find themselves a target of malicious slurs and smear tactics. “The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.” Psalm 55:21 Poisoning the Well and Weaponising Words They seek to weaponise words and poison the well, calling free speech: “Hate speech!” Marxists seek to silence opposition by accusing anyone who dares to introduce facts and reason into the discussion: Racist! Anti-Semite! Nazi! Islamaphobe! Homophobic bigot! and other toxic labels designed to intimidate opponents into silence and retreat. A Loss of Civic Courage “A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The West has lost its civic courage… Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable amongst the ruling and intellectual elite, causing an impression of a loss of courage by the entire society.” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The Gramsci Strategy The Frankfurt School of Cultural Marxism utilised the Gramsci Strategy, otherwise known as the Termite Strategy of eating the heart out of every pillar of Western civilisation until the entire edifice rots and collapses. Their goal is the secularisation of society - to side-line Christianity and deal with all issues without reference to the Bible. “… ‘Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord?’ Therefore the wrath of the Lord is upon you.” 2 Chronicles 19:2 Marxists identify Primary Culture Transforming Institutions for Infiltration and Subversion: Marxist Revolutionaries identify their Stages of Operation for Ideological Subversion: Subversion and Slander Everything is designed to undermine the strength of the targeted enemy through subversion and slander. Straw man arguments are frequently used to weaken the resistance of targeted individuals, or groups. Smokescreens and Distractions Distraction is essential to provide a smoke screen behind which Marxist subversives can destroy everything that could be a strength in the congregation, community or country targeted. The issue focused on is seldom the real concern. Their motivation is normally the furthering of the revolution by discrediting all resistance. Character Assassination As Socrates famously declared: “When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.” Those who resort to ad hominem arguments reveal that they are unable to deal with the issue at hand without resorting to name-calling and character assassination against their opponent. Resist the Lie “The simple truth of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world. You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your Credo be this: let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn “Confuse, Divide and Conquer” If a people can be confused then they can be divided, which makes it easier to defeat them. Hence Marxists aim at: Disinformation, Division and Defeat for the country targeted. “While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption…” 2 Peter 2:19 “Corrupt and Conquer” Degenerate entertainment, defiled art and decadent culture are part of the strategy of cultural Marxists to rot the soul of a nation. Treason from Within As Marcus Cicero warned: “A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious, but it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banners openly, but the traitor moves amongst those within the gates freely, his sly whispers, rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men, he rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night, to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic, so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared.” Vulgar Fads Rot the Soul of a Nation “European democracy was originally endued with a sense of Christian responsibility and self-discipline, but these spiritual principles have been gradually losing their force. Spiritual independence is being pressured on all sides by the dictatorship of self-satisfied vulgarity, of the latest fads and of group interests.” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The Soul of a Nation “The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialisation. Neither a market economy nor even general abundance constitutes the crowning achievement of human life. If a nation’s spiritual energies have been exhausted, it will not be saved from collapse by the most perfect government structure or by any industrial development. A tree with a rotten core cannot stand.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn “Who will rise up for Me against the evildoers? Who will stand up for Me against the workers of iniquity?” Psalm 94:16 Dr. Peter Hammond
Reformation Society P.O. Box 74 Newlands 7725 Cape Town South Africa Tel: 021-689-4480 Fax: 086-494-8070 [email protected] www.ReformationSA.org www.hmsschoolofchristianjournalism.org See also: How Can We Resist the Second Phase of the Revolution? Fraud, Failure and Farce – Land Expropriation Hearings Is South Africa Entering the Second Phase of the Revolution? Nine Stages of Genocide in South Africa Farms and Freedom Under Fire in South Africa Reformation or Revolution The Heart and Soul of Karl Marx Zimbabwe – A Lesson in How to Destroy Christian Civilisation When All Men Speak Well of You Security and Survival Handbook Character Assassins – Dealing With Ecclesiastical Tyrants and Terrorists UNCENSORED NEWS FROM HENRY MORTON STANLEY SCHOOL OF CHRISTIAN JOURNALISM To view this Presentation as a video, click here To listen to the Lecture, click here Kofi Annan, the first black African to lead the United Nations, died in Switzerland, on Saturday, 18 August, at age 80. Kofi Annan’s personal role as head of the United Nations peacekeeping operations from 1993 to 1997 was controversial: this period saw the killing of 18 American service personnel in Somalia in October 1993, the massacre of more than 800,000 Rwandans in the genocide of 1994 and the massacre of 8,000 Bosnians at Srebrenica in 1995. Shake Hands with the Devil In Rwanda and Bosnia, United Nations forces were quick to abandon their peacekeeping missions. In both cases, Kofi Annan was accused of failing to safeguard those who had looked to the United Nations forces for protection. Serving two five-year terms as U.N. Secretary-General, Annan presided over the world body during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Corruption and Fraud Kofi Annan was the first from its bureaucracy to lead the U.N. Annan championed expansive U.N. programs, including controversial condom handouts: Under Annan U.N. peacekeepers in Sierra Leone and Congo received a condom a day, with Annan’s spokesman claiming condoms “have the same value as flak jackets.” In 2004 Annan faced down calls for his resignation after presiding over one of the world’s largest financial fraud schemes, the U.N.-led Oil-for-Food program in Iraq, whose billions in contracts benefited his son, Kojo Annan. Betraying the People of Iraq The people of Iraq owe no debt of gratitude to Annan, who consistently ignored their suffering, opposed their liberation and actively undermined Coalition efforts to establish security and rebuild the country. The Iraq war undermined Annan's own position as a world leader and exposed the U.N.'s growing impotence in the post-9/11 era. It also exposed the huge degree of corruption and mismanagement involving the U.N.'s Oil-for-Food Program, an epic scandal that continues to unfold. Monumental Mismanagement Annan's 10 years in power were a monumental failure and he left behind an institution whose standing could barely be lower and a legacy that is a testament to mismanagement and corruption. As the Whistleblower book and film documented, the U.N. under Annan’s leadership was running human trafficking in Bosnia. Disgrace The U.N. has been dominated by scandal, division and failure. From the disaster of the U.N. peacekeeping missions in Rwanda and Bosnia in the mid-1990s to the U.N.'s slow response to the Sudan genocide, its recent track record has been spectacularly unimpressive. Annan’s successor inherited a U.N. whose image slipped to an all-time low. Gangsters with Flags The Oil-for-Food and Congo peacekeeping scandals have had a devastating impact on the U.N.'s reputation and have reinforced the view that the world body is riddled with corruption and mismanagement, as well as undisciplined in its peacekeeping operations. The failure of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights - now the U.N. Human Rights Council - which was populated with some of the world's worst human rights violators, has added to the U.N.'s poor image. Under Annan the U.N. shamelessly appeased dictators and tyrants, from Baghdad to Tehran to Khartoum and stood weak-kneed in the face of religious persecution, genocide and ethnic cleansing. “The World Failed You!” As head of United Nations peacekeeping operations in the mid-1990s, before he rose to Secretary General, Annan never apologized to the victims of the Rwanda genocide, whose slaughter was the consequence of the U.N.'s failure to intervene, or to the families of those massacred at Srebrenica while under the protection of U.N. soldiers. Annan's lack of humility in the face of great human tragedy has been one of his greatest shortcomings as a U.N. leader. At the tenth anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide, Kofi Annan finally said: “The world failed you!” Hardly taking personal responsibility for his outrageous failures as documented in General Romeo Dallaire’s book, “Shake Hands with the Devil.” Farce, Fraud and Failure The U.N.'s new Human Rights Council, touted by Annan as a breakthrough for the U.N., is an unmitigated farce and the United Nations has largely jettisoned the principles of liberty and freedom. The Council's lack of membership criteria renders it open to participation and manipulation by the world's worst human rights abusers. Tyrannical regimes such as Burma, Syria, Libya, Sudan and Zimbabwe all voted in favour of establishing the Council, in the face of strong U.S. opposition. The brutal North Korean dictatorship also endorsed the Council. When Council elections were held, leading human rights abusers: Algeria, China, Cuba, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia were all elected! Peacekeeping Abuses A series of peacekeeping scandals, from Bosnia to Burundi to Sierra Leone and Haiti, occurred under Annan's watch. The largest concentration of abuse took place in the Congo, the U.N.'s second largest peacekeeping mission, with 16,000 peacekeepers. Congo Crimes In the Congo, acts of barbarism were perpetrated by United Nations peacekeepers and civilian personnel entrusted with protecting some of the weakest and most vulnerable women and children in the world. Personnel from the U.N. Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) stand accused of at least 150 major human rights violations and the scale of the problem is likely to be far greater. The crimes involved rape and forced prostitution of women and young girls across the country, including inside a refugee camp in the town of Bunia in north-eastern Congo. The alleged perpetrators include U.N. military and civilian personnel from Nepal, Morocco, Tunisia, Uruguay, South Africa, Pakistan and France. Shocking Sex Scandals The sexual abuse scandal in the Congo made a mockery of the U.N.'s professed commitment to uphold basic human rights. The exploitation of some of the most vulnerable people in the world - refugees in a war-ravaged country - was a shameful episode and a massive betrayal of trust, as well as an appalling failure of leadership. Corruption and Mismanagement The scandal surrounding the U.N.-administered Oil-for-Food programme had immense damage to the world organization's already shaky credibility. The Oil-for-Food scandal is undoubtedly the biggest financial scandal in the history of the United Nations and probably the largest fraud of modern times. It shattered the liberal illusion that the U.N. is an arbiter of moral authority in the international sphere. Oil-for-Food Scandal Established in the mid-1990s as a means of providing humanitarian aid to the Iraqi people, the Oil-for-Food Program was subverted and manipulated by U.N. officials who siphoned off billions of dollars from the program through oil smuggling and systematic thievery, by demanding illegal payments from companies buying Iraqi oil and through kickbacks from those selling goods to Iraq. Nepotism Despite widespread criticism, Kofi Annan never took responsibility for a scandal that irreparably damaged the U.N.'s reputation. A huge cloud remains over the U.N. Secretary General with regard to the Oil-for-Food contractor Cotecna, which employed his son, Kojo, from 1995 and continued to pay him through 2004. Funds for Favours Questions also remain regarding Annan's appointment of Achim Steiner as Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) just months after Steiner helped award Annan $500,000. Steiner, whose four-year term of office began in June 2006, was part of a nine-member jury chaired by a senior U.N. official, which gave a cash gift to Annan last December. Annan's initial decision to accept such a huge prize (eventually given to charity), as well as his subsequent appointment of a man who had played a key role in the award of that money, gave the appearance of a major abuse of power. Both were extraordinary acts of political recklessness by the Secretary General and gave the impression that jobs at the world body may be traded for financial favours. Shameful Lack of Ethics As an international public servant, the Secretary General should not have accepted money from a U.N. member state or a private foundation, either as an award or gift. He should also have completely disclosed his personal finances, as many Western politicians do. He should also have abided by the same strict ethics and disclosure rules that apply to political figures in major democracies, such as in the United States and Great Britain. Annan has talked about accountability and transparency and the supposed winds of change sweeping through the U.N., but his own leadership has betrayed the emptiness of his words. A secretive culture of impunity still dominates the upper echelons of the U.N. Secretariat. A Broken Institution In an interview with the London Daily Telegraph, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, described the U.N. as “hopelessly out of touch” and “stuck in a Twilight Zone-style time warp" where "there are practices, attitudes and approaches that were abandoned 30 years ago in much of the rest of the world." In a March 2006, poll conducted by Gallup in the United States, the most negative rating for the U.N. in its history. Just 28 percent had a positive image of the U.N.'s job performance. “Today's United Nations is a broken institution in fundamental need of wholesale reform. That is Annan's legacy and the United States and the world looks forward to new leadership at Turtle Bay - leadership that is untarnished by scandal and actually lives up to the ideals of the U.N.'s own Declaration of Human Rights. The U.N. needs a Secretary General who will seek real reform of the U.N. bureaucracy and aggressively stand up for democracy, human rights and freedom.”- Nile Gardiner, Ph.D. (the Bernard and Barbara Lomas Fellow in and Director of, the Margaret Thatcher Centre for Freedom, a division of the Institute for International Studies, at The Heritage Foundation.) U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan Supported Homosexual ‘Marriage’ UNITED NATIONS, August 5, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan came out in favour of homosexual ‘marriage’. Annan attended part of a homosexual activist conference held at the United Nations. The conference demanded that international treaties such as the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights include rights for homosexual couples. A United Nations release said the Secretary General was “glad to be able to attend” part of the event. He believed that the United Nations cannot condone any persecution of, or discrimination against, people on any grounds and recalls article 2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which says that ‘Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, said the release. On the issue of same sex marriage, his personal view, is “that individuals should be allowed to make their own choices and that we should be careful not to draw conclusions, or adopt prejudicial attitudes, towards people for their choices and preferences”. The United Nations, through its various committees has been in the forefront of advocating international acceptance of homosexuality and the bestowing of rights normally reserved for the family on homosexual unions. Annan and most other de-populationists see legitimization and protection of homosexuality as one more way to keep procreation down and to undermine marriage and other institutions (especially religious) that emphasize that children are a blessing. Annan Supported Abortion as Essential Kofi Annan has emphasized that “sexual and reproductive health is an essential part of human rights.” That is, he supported abortion and other population control measures, including explicit sex education, to the extent that they should be declared “human rights”. Ultimately, though, this emphasis on a new category of “human rights” has as its real purpose to advance the agenda of what Kofi Annan says is the “need to stabilize the population of this planet.” All this makes it extraordinary that some Christians have saluted and hailed Kofi Annan as: “A great African diplomat and leader!”
“While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption…” 2 Peter 2:19 “And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the Judgment.” Hebrews 9:27 “For we must all appear before the Judgement seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.” 2 Corinthians 5:10 “Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice and come forth – those who have done good, to the resurrection of life and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.” John 5:28-29 “Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heavens fled away. And there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life and the dead were judged according to their works, by the things that were written in the books. And the sea gave up the dead who were in it and death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. Then death and Hades were cast into the Lake of Fire. This is the second death. And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the Lake of Fire.” Revelation 20:11-15 Dr. Peter Hammond Reformation Society P.O. Box 74 Newlands 7725 Cape Town South Africa Tel: 021-689-4480 Email: [email protected] www.ReformationSA.org www.hmsschoolofchristianjournalism.org See also: The Rwandan Holocaust – 25 Years Ago Lessons from Rwanda Hijacking Civilisation Resisting Babylon and the Beast UNCENSORED NEWS FROM HENRY MORTON STANLEY SCHOOL OF CHRISTIAN JOURNALISM The sex scandals tolerated and covered up for so many years within Roman Catholic institutions are indeed terrible scandals. However, there is an even bigger scandal behind it. Gay Mafia Reign of Terror Father Edwin Palka, a Roman Catholic parish priest in Tampa, Florida, writes that there is a gay mafia at work within Roman Catholicism to “punish, humiliate and blackmail decent, God-fearing priests”, if they threaten to blow the whistle on the endemic cycle of abuse within the Roman Catholic system. “Many people still do not understand just how evil the activist homosexual priests and bishops are… they cannot possibly grasp the hellish depths to which these clergy will go to persecute, lambaste, punish, humiliate and blackmail anyone who stands in their way, or threatens their way of life.” Father Edwin Palka writes that the gay mafia is carrying out a reign of terror on “good priests who teach the truth about homosexuality.” Disproportionate Dominance An associate professor of Religious Studies at John Carroll University warned that, in the United States’ Catholic churches, the percentage of priests who are homosexual could be as high as 50%. That would be roughly sixteen times more than the percentage of gay men in the general population. Homoheresy Promotes and Protects Predators Father Dariusz Oko, in his 2013 essay on Clerical Homosexuality: “With the Pope Against Homoheresy” reported that homosexual priests and bishops have abused seminarians, teenagers and children and that there was a gay mafia at work within Catholicism protecting these predators. In an interview with Life Site News, he reported: “About 30 to 40% of priests and 40 to 50% of bishops in the USA have homosexual inclinations.” GayGB Secret Files Abused by Pink Inquisition Palka reports that the gay mafia’s power over future priests begins in seminary. Students who enrol with the intention of being trained to be priests, are required to provide a great deal of personal details, including their history with chastity, sexual activity, criminal activities and their fears, dreams, hopes and concerns. The longer a student stays in seminary, the thicker his file grows. It continues to grow after his ordination, as the highly centralised Catholic hierarchy maintains files on each of their priests and members that could only be rivalled by the KGB of the Soviet Union. Much of this information is in the hands of the GayGB and Pink Inquisition, which often abuses this confidential information for nefarious purposes. Entrapment and Blackmail Palka lays out various real life scenarios, such as: A priest who struggles with his own homosexual urges, wanting to remain chaste and live out his vows of chastity, can be manipulated by homosexual bishops and set up to fail. “Suppose a priest’s file reveals that as a teen he was sexually abused by an adult male. As a result of this formative abuse, he struggled with homosexual desires as an adolescent and into his early adulthood, but always remained chaste. Once ordained as a priest, he spoke out fervently against the acceptance, promotion and legalisation of homosexual activity and other sins. His homosexual activist bishop, knowing his past, makes him a Boy Scout Chaplain, where he will be working closely with the bishop’s handpicked and openly active homosexual lay diocesan Scout leaders, hoping and even encouraging him to finally fail and fall to his boyhood abuse giving in to his homosexual desires to sexually abuse one, or more, of the scouts.” Set up to Fail in Honey Traps “It is not just homosexual priests who can be manipulated in this way. A heterosexual priest who has been sexually active before being ordained and who dares to speak out against homosexuality, could similarly be assigned to be the chaplain of a girls high school, in a hope that he would succumb to temptation.” Palka writes that the Gay mafia are not at all above exploiting the seal of the confessional to threaten and manipulate decent priests into silence and even to pick up other priests to commit homosexual acts with them. “These men know the way the church works and they use that knowledge for their own evil ends… they have embraced evil. There is a huge difference between a weak man striving for holiness and a man who has sold his soul to the devil.” The Growing Scandal There were some accusations of molestation by Catholic priests, dated back to the 1950s. Significant media attention began to pick up these scandals in the 1980s, particularly in the United States and Canada. In 1995 when the Archbishop of Vienna stepped down amidst sexual abuse allegations, the issue began to grow with stories emerging in Argentina, Australia and elsewhere. By the late 1990s, revelations began of widespread historic abuse in Ireland. A church commission report, in 2004, revealed that more than 4,000 Roman Catholic priests in America had faced sexual abuse allegations in the previous 50 years. These cases involved more than 10,000 boys. A 2009 Report in Ireland found “sexual and psychological abuse” endemic in Catholic-run schools and orphanages. In June 2018, a former Vatican diplomat was sentenced to 5 years in prison for possessing child pornography. Grand Jury Investigation in Pennsylvania An American Grand Jury Report noted a pattern of homosexual predation in the US Catholic church, beginning in seminaries and culminating in the College of Cardinals. The Grand Jury’s opening statement: “There have been other reports about child sex abuse within the Catholic church. But never on this scale. For many of us, those earlier stories happened someplace else, someplace away. Now we know the truth: it happened everywhere.” At least 300 predator priests are named in the Grand Jury Report, accused of committing horrific sexual abuse over seven decades. The number of their victims is estimated at least 1,000. The harrowing 887 page document is a result of a two year Grand Jury Investigation into widespread sexual abuse of children within six dioceses of the Catholic church in Pennsylvania. Pornography and Paedophilia In the overwhelming majority of cases, the delinquent clergy, were homosexual predators preying on adolescent, or young adult, males. The victims were frequently older boys, or seminarians. For example, Father Mauro Cautela purchased homosexual pornography on church computers. Cautela’s rectory computer was overflowing with homosexual pornography, which was used to groom young boys and prepare them for abuse. Most of the priests investigated targeted post-pubescent teenage boys, normally between 15 and 17 years old. Father Paul Spisac possessed homosexual and sadomasochistic pornography, including images of him and two 15 year old boys. Homosexual Epidemic in Honduras In Honduras, 48 seminarians wrote to the bishops in July, protesting a “homosexual epidemic” in the seminary. This followed months of allegations involving homosexual abuse of seminarians by the auxiliary bishop, Juan Jose Pineda. Chile Crime In Chile, all 34 bishops were summoned to Rome after revelations of a gay priest sex-ring, involving bishops and superiors. All 34 Roman Catholic bishops in Chile offered to resign in the wake of the child sex scandal and cover-up. Cardinal Abuse Theodore McCarrick, retired Cardinal Archbishop of Washington DC, was forced to step down after seminarians and priests accused him of decades of homosexual predation. McCarrick called those under his charge: “nephews” and asked them to call him “Uncle Ted.” Homosexual Predators Deny the Sinfulness of their Actions In 2002, the John Jay College of Criminal Justice studied the crisis of priestly sex abuse in the US and produced its report in 2004: “80% of the abuse at issue was of a homosexual nature.” Imminent Catholic author, Father Dwight Longnecker, noted that the social and sexual problems have theological roots. “In treating priests who have engaged in paedophilia and ephebophilia, we have observed that these men, almost without exception, suffered from a denial of sin in their lives.” Utilitarian Ethics Justify Hedonistic Abuse These abusive priests rejected the church’s teachings on sexual immorality and adopted a “utilitarian sexual ethic.” Above all, the predator priests had “come to see their own pleasure as the highest end and use others – including adolescents and children – as sexual objects. They consistently refuse to examine their consciences, to accept the church’s teachings on moral issues as a guide for their personal actions, or regularly avail themselves of the sacrament of penance. These priests either refuse to seek spiritual direction, or choose a spiritual director, or confessor, who openly rebelled against church teachings on sexuality.” Wide Gates to Hell The sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic hierarchy is a criminal scandal, but it also has Theological roots. Almost 500 years ago the great German Reformer, Professor Martin Luther, warned: “I am much afraid that schools will prove to be wide gates to hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the Scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which men are not constantly occupied with the Word of God must become corrupt.” The Rot Begins in the Seminaries It is clear that not only does the Roman Catholic church welcome unregenerate students into their seminaries, but teaching the Scriptures and proclaiming the Gospel is hardly any kind of priority for them. Hence, by failing to engrave the Scriptures in the hearts of their students, they become corrupt. Catholic Civil War This is also symptomatic of a civil war waging in the Catholic church. On one side are the traditionalists who insist that abuse can be prevented by tighter adherence to church doctrine and on the other side are the liberals demanding that the church cease condemning sexual acts and allow gay priests to step out of the closet. Does Celibacy Aggravate the Crisis? Those who believe that the Roman Catholic requirement to have celibate priests is what encourages this abuse need to note that the most sexually permissive environment on earth, Hollywood, is awash in even more horrific scandals. It is not just Harvey Weinstein, there is an entire sub-culture of paedophilia, rape and abuse throughout Hollywood. Hijacked by Homosexuals The Roman Catholic church has been hijacked by homosexuals. The situation is similar to the anti-Christian Inquisition of the Middle Ages. Contrary to popular perceptions, the Inquisition was not a group of Christians mercilessly persecuting unbelievers. The Inquisition was the exact opposite. Reading the Court records of the Inquisitors, such as in Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, it becomes clear that the inquisitors were by no means Christians at all. They would vindictively condemn to death Christians who believed in, translated, or taught, the Holy Scriptures. Often the inquisitors contemptuously tossed the victim’s Bible into the fire to be burned with the martyr. Anti-Christian Inquisition Anyone who has read Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, or similar historical records of the cruel persecutions endured by the Waldensians, the Huguenots and other Protestant reformers, will know that the Inquisition was anti-Christian. The Inquisition occurred at a time of blatant corruption, when priesthoods, bishoprics and even papal seats were bought and sold. There were many ungodly men dominating all levels of leadership in the medieval Roman church. Far from the Inquisition being Christians persecuting non-Christians, the reality is that it was the very opposite. The Inquisition was an anti-Christian persecution of Protestant believers. A Problem of Criminality We know from the John Jay Report, 81% of the victims were males, mostly teens. We know that the subclass of predators are almost all male. This is predominantly male on male crime and primarily with teens between the ages of 14 to 17 years old. Those are the victims. Brad Miner, Senior Editor for The Catholic Thing, pointed out that “while many cardinals of the Catholic church are treating the crisis as a public relations problem, it is a problem with criminality.” The Homosexual Connection Miner pointed out the homosexual element of the abuse scandal by pointing out that pro-LGBT Jesuit priest and Vatican advisor, Father James Martin, downplayed the problem of abuse in seminaries. “James Martin doesn’t want to hear it, but it is a homosexual problem!” Miner pointed out that the 2005 Vatican document issued under pope Benedict XVI, prohibited declared homosexual men to be admitted to the seminary. Plainly pope Benedict saw that it was a homosexual problem. Infiltration and Subversion for Social Engineering However, the same people who continue to put increasing pressure on churches to accept homosexuals for ordination and legalise homosexual “marriages”, are the same people who scream “Abuse!” when many of the very people they have been campaigning for, turn out to abuse the young boys entrusted to their care! “Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonour their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie…” Romans 1:24-25 GayGB Mafia Protects Predator Priests Miner cites Sociologist and clergy abuse expert Richard Sipe who estimated that at least 30% of Catholic priests in America have homosexual orientations and amongst bishops, it could be as high as 50 to 60%. “We have to focus on what is the cause of these children, young children, seminarians, continually being abused by predatory priests – and that is what we have to stop. One of the ways of doing this is the disciplining, the firing, of bishops who have been protecting them for decades. This homosexual network that protects and promotes its own is what is causing this continual cycle of abuse in the seminaries, in the rectories, in the sacristies and in the schools. People are justifiably terribly angry that people sat on this information, that no action was taken, that priests were put back into circulation. It is a day of reckoning for the Catholic church.” A Clear and Present Danger Liz Yore noted the inappropriateness of the Vatican hosting hundreds of children and young people in Rome this fall, to discuss youth, faith and vocation with the bishops. Considering what has recently come to light in the church abuse scandal, “We have not even resolved this problem and we are going to be exploiting children at the synod on youth, all to expand the teaching of the church with respect to homosexuality! That is what’s up! It has got to be stopped! It is a danger to the children! It is a danger to the church! It is also a danger to the faith!” The Word of God “Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonour their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.” Romans 1:24-32 Dr. Peter Hammond
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“… ‘We have made a covenant with death and with Sheol we are in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge and under falsehood we have hidden ourselves’.” Isaiah 28:15 Agitprop Active Measures at Work Those of us who attended the parliamentary hearings regarding the African National Congress (ANC) government’s plans to confiscate farms, were given a classic example of how communist agitprop (agitation-propaganda) active measures works. Bussed-in Party Agitators Huge crowds of uniformed EFF (Economic Freedom Fighters) and ANC (African National Congress) rent-a-mobs were being bussed-in hours before the event even began. There was a party atmosphere (in more ways than one) and the venue (a large Apostolic Faith Mission Church) was strewn with litter. The disruptive mobs made it hard for any Capetonians to access the venue to give verbal testimony to the parliamentary sub-committee gathered there. Hundreds were not even able to get through the door and milled around outside, including members of City council, etc. Confusion in Communications and Changed Venue Parliament had originally been advertised as the venue for the hearings, but barely a day before the event, a new venue was announced, leading to much confusion. Considering how many municipal buildings and city halls and how parliament itself was available to the government, it is inexplicable why they had to rent a church venue. Except, perhaps, that they would prefer to have a church venue trashed by their rent-a-mob than a government building. Free Food for Agitprop Rent-A-Mob It was then pointed out that this venue was ideal for the purposes of the EFF and ANC as it was just across the road from a KFC and MacDonald’s. Reportedly, many of the EFF and ANC rent-a-mob members had been promised free KFC lunches and from the vast amounts of fast-food litter strewn around the grounds of the church after lunch that certainly seemed to be the case. Time Constraints Considering that each citizen who wanted to give verbal testimony was limited to 3 minutes each and that five hours had been allocated (from 11am to 4pm), a maximum of 100 people could have spoken. As it was, with the delays and disruptions, something less than 80 out of over 2,000 people who were crammed into the church were able to be given any kind of hearing. Parliamentary Hearings Regulations Kicking off the Hearing, the Chairman of the proceedings informed everyone that this was a sitting of parliament and therefore everyone needed to behave accordingly and no politicising, shouting, clapping, booing, or any other disruptive behaviour would be tolerated. Cancelling the Promised Afrikaans Translation The Chairman assured us that the parliamentarians sitting on the platform were only present to listen and they would not be saying a word all day, as they had come to hear the people of Cape Town on this matter. This was then repeated in Xhosa. When the translator was about to repeat the introduction in Afrikaans, he was told not to bother. Remember That we are in a House of God After telling us that the members of parliament would not say a word all day, the Chairman gave each parliamentarian an opportunity to introduce themselves. MP Steve Swart of the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) greeted everyone in the Name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and reminded all present that we were gathered in a House of God and should behave accordingly. There was some abuse shouted at him from some of the mob gathered. Marxist Sloganeering by Members of the Parliamentary Committee Then followed the incredible scene of one EFF (Everything For Free) party member after another of the parliamentary committee making rousing political statements and shouting slogans encouraging huge mob hysteria, screams and dancing by their unruly supporters in the venue. Disproportionate Representation Considering that the EFF obtained only 6% of the votes country-wide in the last National Elections and much less than that in Cape Town, it was extraordinary to see that 12 of the 23 members of the parliamentary committee were EFF. DA Absent from the Fight Although the Democratic Alliance (DA) are meant to be the majority party in the Western Cape, we only noticed one person representing the DA stand up from the floor to give any reaction to the proposed amendment of Section 25 of the constitution. We did see a gathering of people in DA shirts with their distinctive blue banners, across the street but we did not see them inside the venue, nor did we hear from them. It would appear that the Democratic Alliance was absent from this fight. Marxist Prejudice on Display at Hearings The vast majority of those chosen by the chairman to represent our concerns in the Cape were uniformed EFF and ANC rent-a-mob. Very few supporters of the ACDP, Freedom Front, or Cape Party were granted an opportunity to speak and almost no DA supporters were in evidence inside the venue. Blatant Bias Throughout the 5 hours of this hearing the chairman continued to choose uniformed EFF and ANC people as the predominant amount of members of the “public permitted” to give verbal testimony. Time and again, one would hear the chairman choose speakers by saying “the man with the red beret”, “the man wearing the yellow ANC t-shirt”, “the lady with the ANC headdress”, “the man in the red EFF shirt!”, “the man in the red EFF jacket”, “the man wearing the ANC shirt!” and so on! Political Realities in the Cape At the Bi-election last year in Brackenfell, the DA received about 70% of the vote, the Cape Party received 19% of the vote, the Freedom Front received 9% of the vote and the ACDP, ANC and EFF all received less than 1% of the vote. That was just one major area of Cape Town, Brackenfell, but there is no doubt that the majority of voters in Cape Town support the DA and only a very small minority support the EFF. You would never had known that from the so-called hearings in Goodwood last Saturday. Verbal and Physical Assault Although there were quite a fair number of Cape Party supporters wearing their distinctive shirts, none were selected to speak. In the end when one woman supporting the Cape Party, but not wearing any identification, stood up to speak, she was actually assaulted by members of the rent-a-mob in the upper gallery! When Jack Miller of the Cape Party stood up to speak, the abusive threats and shouting so drowned him out, that it was hard to hear most of what he said. Contrast of Reactions Everyone listened quietly and respectfully to the endless repetition of radical communist rhetoric and repeating of mindless slogans, yet the moment anyone started to comment critically on the proposed amendment of Section 25 of the Constitution, they were shouted down by increasingly loud and abusive threats and insults. Loud Abusive Heckling Tolerated Although the chairman, on numerous occasions, said that he will not warn the people again to have no shouting, booing, or heckling, the abusive heckling, threats, shouting and blatant politicisation was tolerated until the noise was so deafening that you could barely hear what individuals were saying, despite the use of microphones and a PA system. Marxist Hijackings of Proceedings Looking around the chaotic scene inside the Friends of God Church in Goodwood, one could see huge sways of the area dominated by the red berets of the EFF, or the yellow shirts, jackets and head dresses of the ANC. One could also see many of the young people, some actually just teenagers, sleeping in the church. Evidently their purpose was not to come and listen, or to speak, but merely to occupy seats to ensure that most of the Capetonians who came to participate in these hearings would not have space inside and would be forced to remain voiceless outside. Fraud Exposed The Joint Constitutional Review Committee’s public hearings on amending Section 25 of the Constitution seemed to have been a complete fraud because, even before the hearings began in the Western Cape, ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa announced that, no matter what, the ANC was going ahead with expropriation of land from whites without compensation. Farce and Deliberate Wasting of Time It was a farce because no attempt was made to enforce the rules and blatant politicisation and slogan-shouting. Mob-rule was not only tolerated, but actually even encouraged by members of the committee. Instead of reasoned debate and discussion, considering facts and evidence of case studies in recent history, repetitive shouting of slogans and deliberate wasting of time ensured that the majority of Capetonians who had come to contribute to the discussion were not able to be heard. Failure to Allow Capetonians to be Heard It was plainly a failure if the intention had been to investigate whether it was even necessary to amend Article 25 of the Constitution, considering that they tolerated mobs of uniformed political agitators to fill much of the venue and to dominate the vast majority of the hearings. Counter Productive As a Missionary, who has served suffering people throughout Africa for over 37 years, it is clear to me that the planned Expropriation Without Compensation would be counter-productive. In every case where expropriation without compensation has been implemented, the result has been far greater poverty and suffering for the poor and most vulnerable. Case Studies in Recent History The case studies include: Stalin’s Soviet Union where dekulakisation land reform resulted in the hunger plague which killed 11 million people and displaced 18 million. Red China where Mao Tse Tung’s Great Cultural Revolution destroyed millions of lives, thousands of years of Chinese history and culture and led to widespread famine. The Red Terror under Mengistu in Ethiopia. The disastrous land reforms of Julius Nyerere in Tanzania. The catastrophic famine that resulted from Samora Machel’s communist land reform in Mozambique. The complete destruction of the once agriculturally rich food exporting Angola and most recently, Robert Mugabe’s catastrophic land confiscations in neighbouring Zimbabwe. Political Power Built on the Backs of the Poor In every single case dictators accumulated more power; even while they violated their promises and oppressed the very people they claimed to be serving. Guaranteed Pathway to Starvation Land Expropriation is always disastrous. Evicting capable, experienced farmers from land their families have carved out of wilderness and thorn bushes and cultivated, curtails food production and creates hardships and unemployment. Socialist land reform always leads to starvation in the cities. The Goal is Not Farming But Looting Farming is hard work and it takes expertise and experience. As the Zimbabwe experience showed, most of those advocating expropriation without compensation are not interested in getting up early to plough the fields and milk the cows. Most are not interested in cultivating crops. Most just want to loot productive farms, smash the equipment, burn the homes and then go back to the city to watch TV. Pathway to Disaster Recent history demonstrates the disaster of government interference in the economy. It also demonstrates the disaster of breaking God’s Commands. “Thou shalt not steal.” “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s goods.” Consider the Casualties Missionaries are busy caring for the casualties of such irresponsible political decisions in Zimbabwe, the Congo and other socialist experiments. Let us not follow in the footsteps of failure. Why Disrupt Productive Farms When the State Has Vastly More Land Available? The South African government is in control of vast amounts of land which are unoccupied and unproductive. Rather than settle and develop those lands under government control, they prefer to disrupt productive farms and evict experienced farmers. The South African government has more than 4,000 farms at their disposal which they have acquired over the last 24 years on the “willing buyer, willing seller” basis, which have not yet been reallocated to any farmers. A Cynical Policy Designed to Distract Voters from the Failure of Government We suspect that the present policy of expropriation without compensation is being cynically promoted to distract voters from the failure of government and the looting of this country by excessive taxation, inflation and corruption. A Christian Response to Race Politics Race politics is highly irresponsible. We need to learn to love our neighbour, not to covet and envy and hate and resent. We need a Christian work ethic, not socialist greed and yet another failed state. Waste of Taxpayer’s Hard Earned Money The billions of Rands squandered by the ANC on VIP protection for parliamentarians and the billions squandered by the ANC on bailing out South African Airways (SAA) and the billions squandered bailing out the state controlled ESKOM, electricity provider, would be better spent investing in agriculture and training rural farmers and other entrepreneurs. Private Initiatives by Farmers are Achieving More than Government Policies AgriSA in their 2018 Transformation Report, released in April this year, reported on spending over R331 Million on transformation initiatives nationally, with 109,059 black farmers benefiting from their training and development, mentorship and farming initiatives. It is quite clear that private enterprise initiatives, such as these, are a far more effective and sustainable model than the failed state land grabs which have only led to greater poverty and starvation. This is clearly evident everywhere it has been implemented. Illegal and Unconstitutional Political Opportunism Expropriation Without Compensation is in blatant violation of our Constitution. It is illegal by our own Bill of Rights and laws. It is dangerous to erode our Constitutional safeguards. It would be catastrophic to break our own laws for political opportunism. Economic Suicide It would be economic suicide to violate the Laws of God and the laws of economics. To chase away employers, investors and tourists would result in millions more unemployed and much greater suffering and even starvation. It would be insane to destroy our productive agricultural sector with this highly irresponsible political scheme. Race Hate Betrays South Africa Expropriation Without Compensation would be a betrayal of the vision of the united, colour-blind South Africa, where: “Never, never, never again will any South African be discriminated against on the basis of their race!” Innocent Until Proven Guilty in Court by Due Process It is a fundamental principle of justice that a person is innocent until proven guilty. Due process of law is essential. Checks and balances are vital. No person should be deprived of their property without due process in court, with all reasonable opportunities to defend themselves against any and all charges. It Is Irrational to Pronounce a Whole Race of People Guilty One cannot pronounce a whole people group guilty of any crime! It is not rational, nor is it fair. If any individual has stolen, or expropriated without compensation, let that be tested in court in accordance with the law. Do not do anything against your neighbour that you would not want done to yourself. Do unto others what you want done to yourself. Restitution is Personal Not Political Restitution must be done by the convicted criminals to the victims, directly and entirely. It is not right for people who did not do any crime to be required to do restitution to people who are not the victim! Restitution is not meant to be a scam for politicians to go on a vote while they loot the country through corruption, taxation and inflation. Real Help and Hope for the Poor If our government really wants to help the poor, then they must stop stealing from them by corruption! The African Union estimates that 25% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is stolen by corruption every single year! If the ANC want to empower the poor – give them legal title deeds to their own homes – so that they may have collateral with which to secure loans. The Only Path to Prosperity and Progress If the state wants to create jobs and grow the economy – then they must respect private ownership of property. Do not erode constitutional safeguards and thereby chase away investors, entrepreneurs, tourists and job creators. Socialism is the pathway to ruin. Let us rather follow examples of excellence in Singapore and Switzerland. Decentralise. Create tax havens. Respect life and property. Hope for South Africa The only hope for our country is to turn away from race politics and hate. We need to love one another. We need to turn to God in humility, to humble ourselves and pray and seek His face and turn from our wicked ways. Then God will hear from Heaven, He will forgive our sins and heal our land (2 Chronicles 7:14). Each one of us on the Day of Judgement will one day stand before Almighty God and give an account for every word that we have ever spoken. “For we must all appear before the Judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good, or bad.” 2 Corinthians 5:10
Dr. Peter Hammond Frontline Fellowship P.O. Box 74 Newlands 7725 Cape Town South Africa Tel: 021-689-4480 Fax: 086-494-8070 [email protected] www.FrontlineMissionSA.org See also: Is South Africa Entering the Second Phase of the Revolution? Nine Stages of Genocide in South Africa Farms and Freedom Under Fire in South Africa Security and Survival Handbook Reformation or Revolution The Heart and Soul of Karl Marx
To listen to the From the Frontline podcast interview with Peter Hammond and Emma Vaughan-Jones, click here. To view this Presentation as a video, click here. To listen to the Lecture, click here. “The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.” Psalm 55:21 Ominous Announcement Does the announcement by new ANC president, Cyril Ramaphosa, regarding the ANC’s determination to confiscate land from white South Africans “without compensation” signal a Second Phase of the Revolution? The Reign of Terror in France The French Revolution plainly had two phases. The First Phase of the Revolution was seizing political control. The Second Phase of the Revolution, also called the Reign of Terror, sought the radical transformation of every aspect of French society. It was a Cultural Revolution, a religious Revolution and a social and economic Revolution. The Second phase of the Revolution in France involved seizing control over every area of life, including churches, schools and farms. 40,000 people were beheaded on the guillotine in the Reign of Terror and another 300,000 were executed by firing squads, drownings and other means. France was plunged into 25 years of constant warfare which devastated much of Europe. The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 seized political control of the country from the Duma (parliament) of Russia. 12 years later, in December 1929, Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin announced: “The liquidation of the Kulaks as a class… now we have the opportunity to carry out a resolute offensive against the Kulaks, break the resistance, eliminate them…” The Kulaks were farmers. Dekulakisation was presented as “land reform.” The official state newspaper “Pravda” declared: “In order to eliminate the Kulaks as a class, the resistance of this class must be smashed in open battle and it must be deprived of the productive sources of its existence and development (free use of land, instruments of production, land renting, right to hire labour, etc.) that is the term towards the policy of eliminating the Kulaks as a class.” Dekulakisation - Land Reform in Ukraine Under this Dekulakisation policy, 18 million peasants lost their homes and farms, millions were deported to Siberia and up to 11 million Ukrainians died in the massacres and resultant man-made starvation between 1929 and 1936. This came to be called the Holodomor. Also known as the Great Famine and the Ukrainian Genocide of 1932 to 1933. The word Holodomor literally translated from Ukrainian means: “death by hunger”, “to kill by hunger”, or “to starve to death.” The Holodomor Holodomor is a compound of the Ukrainian words holod, meaning hunger and mor, meaning plague. The 2017 film Bitter Harvest dramatizes the horrors of the Soviet Holodomor in Ukraine. The Black Book of Communism provides further documentation of this systematic extermination of the farmers in Ukraine, which was once called “the bread basket of Europe.” The Great Purge This was followed by the Great Purge or Great Terror in which over 950,000 Russians were killed by the Soviet Secret Police, the NKVD. This included many communist party members and government officials and many officers of the Red Army. Ultimately even Leon Trotsky (Born Levi Davidovich Bronstein) the Soviet “hero of the Revolution” and Head of the Red Army, was assassinated 20 August 1940, with an ice axe. Revolutionaries Eventually Become Cannibalistic Ultimately, Revolutionaries turn on one another and that has been true in every Revolution. Robespierre, the prototype Revolutionary of the French Revolution, ended up beheaded on the very guillotine that he had condemned so many others to. Revolutionaries in Zimbabwe Assassinate Rivals Robert Mugabe had Josiah Magama Tongogara, the Commander of the ZANLA guerrilla army assassinated 26 December 1979. Many had expected Tongogara to be the first president of Zimbabwe, with Robert Mugabe, the head of ZANLA’s political wing, ZANU, as prime minister. The strategic removal of Tongogara left the path to the presidency open for Mugabe. Revolutionaries in Mozambican Remove Rivals Similarly, Eduardo Mondlane, the founding president of Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO) was assassinated in 1969 by a parcel bomb in FRELIMO headquarters in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to make way for Samora Machel. False Flag Assassination Although South African Communist Party leader, Chris Hani’s assassination 10 April 1993 was blamed on Polish citizen, Janusz Waluś and South African Conservative Party leader, Clive Derby-Lewis, ANC leaders Bantu Holomisa and Winnie Mandela, both claimed that it was actually “an inside job” in order to remove the obvious favourite for Deputy President of the ANC under Mandela and make way for Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma. Winnie Mandela claimed that the ANC bodyguards were removed from Hani for the day of the assassination. Revolutionaries in China The Communist Revolution of Red China in 1949 was followed by the Great Leap Forward in 1958 and by a second phase of the Revolution from 1966 to 1976. This second phase of the Revolution or the Cultural Revolution in China included massive seizures of property, wide spread “land reform”, confiscation without compensation, public humiliation ceremonies of religious and cultural leaders, arbitrary imprisonment, torture, hard labour and mass executions. It is calculated that over 69 million people died in this Second phase of the Revolution in China. The Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution in China also included purging the party of any deemed disloyal - which even included the president Liu Shaoqi and General Lou Ruiqing. Mao Tse Tung mobilised his Red Guards to sweep into every farm and village of the vast country to purge “reactionaries”, “counter revolutionaries” and all others not deemed sufficiently enthusiastic for the Revolution. The result was the destruction of thousands of years of culture and crippling the country economically. It impoverished China intellectually and culturally. Mao was able to mobilise the young Red Guards for this destructive campaign because they had never known life in nationalist China and had been effectively indoctrinated in the state schools with Marxist propaganda and Mao’s Little Red Book. Revolution in Cuba Cuba also had a second phase of the Revolution, where Fidel Castro openly admitted his communist roots and ambitions, which included nationalisation of all industries and all agriculture. The courts of law were replaced with People’s Tribunals and the creation of what he called “a workers state. Revolution in Zimbabwe In Zimbabwe the second phase of the Revolution was launched approximately 20 years after the signing of the Lancaster House Agreement, which led to the transfer of power under guarantees of private ownership of property, the rule of law, separation of powers and legal safeguards. Despite massive foreign aid from Britain, America and the EU, Mugabe’s ZANU government failed to provide the vast amount of land at their own disposal to be productively farmed. National Suicide In order to distract their citizens from the gross failure of government, they blamed the economic woes of the country on the white farmers and unleashed a wave of violent farm invasions which led to the total collapse of the Zimbabwean economy, the worst hyperinflation ever seen in history. Even after deleting 16 zeros from the currency, a Hundred Trillion Dollar note in 2008 could not even buy half a loaf of bread. One brick in 2008 cost more than every home, business, farm and property in all of Zimbabwe in 1980. The national suicide of Zimbabwe under the Mugabe dictatorship led to more than half of the total population fleeing the country. Unemployment rocketed to over 90% of those left behind in the country. The ANC's Strategy for a Second Transition in South Africa In 2012, the National Policy Conference of the African National Congress (ANC) adopted the policy document: “The Second Transition – Building a National Democratic Society and the balance of forces.” This watershed document in preparation for the 53rd African National Congress National Conference in 2012 was saturated with talk of “Revolution”, “transformation”, “transforming the economy”; “ideological work and the battle of ideas”; “social transformation” and “mass mobilisation and organisation.” The document speaks of “armed struggle”, “activism of a revolutionary end”, “disciplined cadre ship”, “the eradication of the legacy of colonialism and apartheid and the liberation of the country for national and all other forms of discrimination. The democratic consolidation of the creation of a country… the transformation of gender relations with men and women making a contribution to society as equals. The Revolutionary transformation of South African society by… a Revolutionary people’s movement and an agent for progressive change…” The EFF- Vanguard of the Revolution Interestingly, one year later, on 26 July 2013, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) was launched by one time president of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL), Julius Malema. Generally considered as a radical break away from and opposition to the ANC, there are many who regard the EFF as a deception operation intricately co-ordinated with the ANC for bringing about the second phase of the Revolution. Launching the Second Phase of the Revolution in South Africa The EFF is described as communist, Marxist-Leninist, anti-capitalist, pan-Africanist and black-supremacist. Yet, when EFF’s Malema proposed in parliament to begin the process of amending the country’s constitution to allow for the confiscation of white-owned land “without compensation”, the motion was passed by an overwhelming 241 votes to 83 against. All the ANC and EFF members of parliament unitedly supported the motion. If the EFF was a genuine opposition to and competition to the ANC, every Member of Parliament of the ANC would not have supported any measure proposed by the leader of the EFF who they claim is a traitor who defected from them. What Can Be Done to Resist the Second Phase of the Revolution So, what does the future hold and what can be done to resist and derail this planned second phase of the Revolution?
The Catastrophe of Communism Communism has proved to be a catastrophe. It is the worst disaster and the greatest killer in history. It is outrageous that, in this day and age, anyone could be a Marxist-Leninist. Socialism has never achieved a better standard of life for its adherents. The high sounding ideals of the socialists have consistently turned into nightmares which millions of its long-suffering people have used extraordinary ingenuity to endeavour to escape from. Voting with their Feet Millions have succeeded against all odds in escaping through and across the Iron Curtain and behind the Berlin Wall, or across the shark infested waters from Cuba. The millions of people voting with their feet, fleeing from Marxist oppression and land reform, such as in Zimbabwe, should be sufficient warning to those who believe that in promoting the socialist ideals they are actually working for a better future. “While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption…” 2 Peter 2:19 Do Not Be Deceived Communist revolutionaries actually do not care about the masses that they cheerfully use as cannon fodder and naïve foot soldiers for their Revolution. A study of history and of the disastrous track record of the second phase of the Revolution should be sufficient to disillusion any cadre. “…Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Therefore the wrath of the Lord is upon you.” 2 Chronicles 19:2
Dr. Peter Hammond Reformation Society P.O. Box 74 Newlands 7725 Cape Town South Africa Tel: 021-689-4480 [email protected] www.ReformationSA.org www.livingstonefellowship.co.za www.christianaction.org.za See also: Security and Survival Handbook Robespierre – Inside the French Revolution Agenda 2 - Masters of Deceit DVD The Naked Truth - The Naked Communist Revisited 10 Truths About Socialism Going Through – Even If the Door is Closed Going On In the Killing Fields of Mozambique Holocaust in Rwanda Renaissance or Reformation? Biblical Principles for Africa The Ten Commandments – God’s Perfect Law of Liberty Farms and Freedom Under Fire in South Africa
To listen to the From the Frontline podcast interview with Peter Hammond and Emma Vaughan-Jones, click here. The Other Side of the Story At first this story wasn’t being told at all. Farmers are being brutally mutilated at a genocidal rate, yet few cared or dared to say a word. There has now been an iceberg tip of much needed coverage on this topic, but there is still an under-the-surface glacier that needs to be uncovered. Why is the government not trying to get to the bottom of it? What are they trying to hide? Or what are they trying to prove? Is this really about race? So why are both white and black farmers and workers being attacked? Is it really about land? Do the attackers really want to work their fingers to the bone morning, noon and night, through blood, sweat and tears? Is it about money? Then why in 34% of these brutal cases, is not one thing taken? Is it about poverty? Then why is the ANC government getting richer while their people are homeless and starving? Is this really to be blamed on the previous government? Then why after 24 years of rule, is there still such destitution? Why has unemployment grown from under 4 million to 30 million since the ANC came into power? Where is the Rainbow Nation we were promised? Where is the security, peace and freedom we were promised? Is it the poor and underprivileged at fault, or the ANC government? If it’s the government’s attempt at trying to right past wrong, then why are black people also being attacked? Is this really a war of demographics, or are naïve foot soldiers being brainwashed into a war of hatred and personal greed? We need to honestly answer these questions if we want any curative progress to be set in motion in our splintered country. We need discernment with regards to media and propaganda. Still more needs to be said, as not everyone has heard or realizes the absolute atrocities and terror that South African Farmers face daily – people being boiled alive, 4 year girls being cut joker style, power tools used on human limbs, women being gang raped, people being cooked alive with blow torches, entire families bludgeoned to death. Farm workers being beaten with iron rods and shot – targeting those who have been there the longest. If they are also attacking and killing their own people, what is their true aim? Is this really about land, or is this about selfish greed? If They are killing fellow blacks, in the hope that they can have the farm for themselves, then no matter who the rightful owner of the land is, no matter if the white people have all left or not, they will continue to murder and plunder for selfish desire, as happened in the Mfacane under Shaka, Dingane and Mzilikazi and more recently in Zimbabwe. More truth and press coverage is needed, worldwide and locally, but people need to hear the facts in their entirety. I want to discuss the second side of the story. What Do the Facts Actually Show? Last year, 2017, there were 463 Farm attacks, with 94 cases of murder. In 2016 there were 345 attacks resulting in 70 murders. In 2015 there were 318 attacks with 64 murdered. So despite having the element of surprise, only 1 in 5 attacks are successful for the attackers. In the other 4 cases out of the 5, even though the farmers and workers were still horrendously attacked and terribly outnumbered, they were able to fight back and cause the attackers to flee. The farmers are not just sitting ducks. Although it is important to understand and be aware of the absolute atrocities taking place, we also need to look at the success stories. There is hope. If we are aware and are well equipped and prepared for the attacks, we can be triumphant. Evil will not prevail. We need to fight against it. We will not just flee. We are resilient. We are South Africans. Stories of Resilience Elderly Couple Fights Back 20 August 2009: Anna-Marie (78) and Koert (80) from Kromdraai were attacked shortly after returning from a shopping trip to Pretoria. Anna-Marie had opened the kitchen door and Koert was carrying the groceries from the vehicle when they were attacked. They identified the person as someone who drove past their home in the morning on their way out to town. The attacker hit Anna-Marie over the head, pushed her against the ground and strangled her, while demanding her to keep silent. She shouted, trying to warn her husband, as the attacker first hit her with a wrench and then hit her with a “knopkierie”. Koert was then kicked down on the ground and also attacked with the “knopkierie” as he entered the house - the “knopkierie” was finally broken on his arm. Meanwhile, Anna-Marie caught the attacker with a sambok before grabbing one of the broken pieces of the knopkierie and hitting the attacker back with it. The attacker turned around and bit off the tip of Anna-Marie's ring finger in an attempt to tear her ring off her finger. She kicked him in his genitals, causing him to collapse. Koert took advantage of the opportunity and threw the attacker out the kitchen door. While Koert was holding the door locked, the attacker broke the window and tore off the burglar bars, trying to get back in again. "He was crazy. He wanted to get us. You could see he wanted to kill us" says the elderly couple. The attacker was only started to back off when they phoned SAPS and the neighbours for help. The suspect eventually fled empty handed. No arrest has yet been made. SAPS only opened a case of 'burglary', not attempted murder and armed robbery... Women Resist Attackers April 3, 2011: Ellen went to take care of her horses at 16:00. She was attacked in the feeding room by two men with balaclavas. She resisted with her body weight, pulled one attacker's ballaclava off his head and bit him on the nose. The other attacker pressed a weapon between her eyes and pulled the trigger. She just heard 'click'. After the shot did not go off, she was tied up with the horse-riding reins and left in the feeding room. "I bit the one rope around my wrist slightly loose and then loosened my feet. My biggest fear was about my mother, who was in the house" said Ellen. Ellen then grabbed a piece of iron from the stable and hid it under her arm. When the two men opened the door, she stabbed the one in the stomach. She was hit with a brick in the face, smashing her teeth. After falling to the fall she was kicked everywhere, in the back, stomach, face. She was strangled and they pulled her hair while asking for weapons and money. They then tried to tie her up again, this time with wire. They rolled Ellen in a blanket and pushed her home in a wheelbarrow. In order to breathe, she had to bite a hole in the blanket. Meanwhile, Aunty Fenna, Ellen’s mother, was attacked on the veranda and tied to the guestroom's bed with wire. She pretended to be asleep every time the men passed by her with arms full of their possessions. Only at 20:55 when it was quiet, could Ellen press the alarm and call for help. The attackers were caught while they hid in a dam just 500m from the house. Three Generations Resist Three women fought to beat three attackers on their farm outside of Brits after one of the women seized the robbers' axe. Hannelie Jacobs (59), her daughter Suretha (29) and her 81-year-old mother, Grietjie, bravely stood their ground and managed to keep the attackers at bay. The three women and four children, including a six-day-old baby, were alone on the farm in Krokodildrift West, when three attackers poured through the windows of the house shortly after 22:00. "I was in the room with one of the children when the window shattered behind me into shards. I told him to run to his mother. There were three men." Hannelie told the Kormorant afterwards. "The robbers opened the door and the security door with an axe and entered the house. They threw the axe at Suretha and my mother. My daughter told me to lock the children in the bathroom. I grabbed the baby and ran. Suretha got hold of the axe and attacked the robbers with it. They were driven out of the house, but came back in again. My mother sprayed them with pepper spray and Suretha still threatened them with the axe." Meanwhile, Hannelie pushed the alarm panic button. The women managed to keep the attackers out until Monitor Net security arrived at the scene. "Help was there within five minutes, but it felt like hours." The suspects were surprised by the security team and shots were fired. They then fled quickly. According to Hannelie, one of the attackers was dressed in white and two were wearing blue overalls with reflective strips. Members of the Brits community policing Sector 1 arrived at the scene shortly after the attack. No one was injured during the attack. "If it were not for Suretha, we were all dead. She had a baby six days ago, but fought for us all. " This is not the first time this brave woman protected her parents in a farm attack. The family was also attacked a few years ago. "That night we did not hear the robbers coming in and they confronted my father in his bed. Suretha chased them away with a knife. " The Bottom Line Violence is rampant throughout South Africa. But, the majority of South Africa wants peace between black and white people. Sadly though, with the increasing propaganda and malicious news coverage, that majority could quickly dwindle. The communist, Marxist ANC government is using disinformation in the media, to fill people with hate and convince them to be racist. Together, they are the main instigators of most South African race-related riots. We need to recognise that the real enemies are the irresponsible media and South Africa’s corrupt ANC government. The ANC is busy exploiting their biggest organ, the media, especially SABC, to generate racial division. They use this unwarranted hatred and division to stay in power and to divert the attention of the general public away from the real issues of their incompetence and corruption. Effective and honest administration has not been their legacy, but rather corruption and communism. Many of our leading politicians and political parties collude, working together to purposefully misrepresent the actual condition of the country. They exaggerate the “threat” of white people dominating businesses, of “white racism” and of “majority white land ownership.” According to the government’s own Land Audit report, white owners can be linked indisputably to only 22% of South Africa’s land, most of which is in the Karoo and Kalahari – both of which are semi-deserts. The Institute of Race Relations did a survey, which documented that close on 80% of all respondents - and 77% of black South Africans - agreed that better education and more jobs would in time ‘make the present differences between the races steadily disappear’. Creating more jobs‚ improving education and fighting crime were the three top issues which most South Africans wanted the government to focus on. Two-thirds of all respondents and specifically a 62% of black respondents, agreed that politicians are exaggerating the problems posed by racism and colonialism in order to excuse their own shortcomings. So we can see that actually there is an irresistible and undeniable positivity in race relations. But we need to continue to share the truth and emphasize the importance of discernment when listening to the media. False reports and propaganda are continuously being spread throughout the country by the state-controlled media of South Africa. What Happened to Truth? The media uses propaganda as a tactic to keep the population divided between white and black people of South Africa. They use the mass media. They abuse social media, they write blogs and make comments. “Astroturfing”, is the laying down of fake grassroots. Marketing has a rich history of this. A troll army can be hired if you have the money. In 2011 the PR firm Bell Pottinger told undercover journalists that they could “create and maintain third-party blogs” and spruce up Wikipedia profiles and Google search rankings. There is no doubt that our access to genuine reporting and truth is being stifled. On the other hand, the media loves hate crimes, as it ‘keeps things interesting’. The problem about a lie, is that most of the statement is truth, with only a percentage being false. Just like rat poison is 98% food and only 2% poison. But it’s that 2% that does the damage. It’s that 2% that can kill you if you swallow it. They seem to elucidate everything that is wrong with South Africa, which can be the truth part of the lie. But then they falsely lay the blame and responsibility on the innocent; that is the poison part of the lie. So although they report on the disaster and failure evident all around us, they then twist the facts, spreading information that deliberately tries to mislead people away from the inadequacy of the ANC government. Although they may truthfully report on some of the problems and issues, they are very selective, trying to ensure that they do not report on anything that can lead to exposing their incompetence. Ironically though, they cannot even always get this right. The politicians need a scapegoat to put the blame on. They use someone who can handle it: white people. This disinformation intentionally deceives and causes division. As it is though, there are not enough hate crimes against blacks to go around and therefore lies are necessary and leftist liberal journalists are forced to invent them. The press itself has been manipulated to be a part of the biggest hate crime hoax. By creating this imaginary reality where blacks are constantly being victimised, they are deliberately inspiring them to attack and murder whites. There is no end to the horrendous killings and there is no state intervention to stop these murders. Yet the media chooses to concentrate much of their efforts into demonizing white farmers. Even now during the water crisis in Cape Town, farmers are being accused of being the number one ‘waster’ of water and ‘cause’ of the lack of water. The victimized farmers are even blamed for being attacked, as they didn’t have “good enough security” and “the area was too dark at night” and there were not enough “no trespassing signs” and many other outlandish absurdities. Whatever happened to self-control?! A dark alleyway is not an invitation to mug someone! A woman in skimpy clothing is not an invitation to rape her! Why is it that the victims are the ones in the wrong? Why can no one take responsibility for their own actions? Society has become so grossly backwards and distorted! These farmers are heroes. Even though they are victimized, viciously attacked, falsely accused, left homeless, jobless and family less and have had war raged against them for the last 24 years; they have faithfully stayed and continue to provide food, to keep the very people alive, who are barbarically raging war against them. The government declares that they are trying to take peoples farms - without compensation. This is theft in every aspect of the word. A government is supposed promote the general welfare of its country. Theft, encouraging murder, promoting slander… how is this welfare? Yet the world is turning a blind eye. Donald Trump is portrayed in worldwide media as a white supremacist who is going to destroy America and cause hate and division. But has he actually done any of these things? Has he mobilized a group, encouraging them to kill another group on the basis of race? Has he tried to take away the rights of a specific ethnic group? Has he tried to confiscate private property? If Trump were to do anyone of these things, let alone all of them, the world would be irate! There would be utter chaos. Yet the ANC today and its members throughout the decades, do this and encourage this on a daily basis, yet they not only get away with it, but are applauded for it. The Consequences In 1994, South Africa had 70,000 commercial farmers, feeding approximately 100 Million people all over Africa. Then farmers started to get murdered and have their land taken away and many started fleeing the country. This more than halved the number of farmers. About 10 years ago, we were down to 30,000 farmers, but who amazingly were still managing to feed 40 Million people. Now we have less than 26,000 commercial farmers, so they will be producing for even less than 40 Million, yet our population has increased to 58 Million, which means we are now having to import food, as opposed to before when we were able to export most of our food. This is horrifying for the economy and has never happened before in South African history. Unemployment has gone up by 1 million people for every year the ANC government has been in power since 1994. From less than 5 million in 1994, to almost 30 million now. Almost 50% of South Africa is currently unemployed. These farm attacks will result in more unemployment. The farmers will try to mechanise as much as possible, as a majority of the attacks involve inside men. Land expropriation will lead to a drastic increase in unemployment. It will lead to an increase in starvation. And a major decrease in the economy, as happened in Zimbabwe. Burning of buildings and vehicles, looting of shops, striking from work, none of these things can possibly bring down the price and cost of things. Instead it is increasing the price of everything. Perhaps there are a few benefactors, but in the end someone has to compensate, as nothing in this world is free. VAT has now gone up to 15%, even though the Bible says taxing more than 10% is oppressive. The price of consumer goods will go up. Insurance premiums will go up. Other than the few selfish characters who benefit from such obscenities, the rest of us are left to pay the price! Action It is important that we all seek the truth and have discernment when listening to the media, especially political speeches and addresses. It is important to make wise and well-informed decisions. We need to read unconfirmed articles that don’t spread mainstream propaganda. We need to listen to accurate reports. We need to inform as many people around us as possible about the truth. We need to have respect and love for one another, regardless of past events, demographics, religion, economic status, gender, etc. Being different is not a weakness, it is a strength. Differences aren’t damaging, it is only when people lack respect and love for those who are different, that it is destructive and causes division.
Farm Workers - because many attacks are done by inside men, employees, or people who live in nearby communities, it is mandatory that you and the community are vigilant and truthful. We are given a duty to expose evil. Ephesians 5:11 says, “Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.” You need to take a stand for truth and justice, as this will help to uplift your community. You have power to make a difference by being correctly informed on political situations and voting for a better future. We cannot afford to fall for the short-term empty lies thrown around by corrupt and short-sighted politicians. Rather we must recognise their futility and their endless treachery. If we all stand together against crime, against corruption and against deceit, we can make a difference together. Farmers – you need to treat your farm workers with respect and dignity. They can be absolute assets to your farms and I have heard many farmers exclaim this. Let them know you respect them and treasure them. You must be faultless with how you treat and communicate with your farm workers, so that no one can turn around and try to blame you for improper conduct. This by no means suggests that we can allow people to walk all over us, but rather if people are not working as they should to confront them with respect and loving concern. This is how God commands us in His Word, to treat one another. 1 Thessalonians 5:12-13 says, “Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, to acknowledge those who work hard among you…Hold them in the highest regard in love because of their work. Live in peace with each other.” We are all made in the image of God and deserve to be treated as such. A few tips from people who have been attacked:
“Don’t be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome and fight for your families, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your homes.” Nehemiah 4:14 South Africa is our home. It is all of our homes. Both black and white people have been born here. In our passports, our Identity Books, there is no black or white, we are only green. We are South Africans. Friendships have been made, bonds have been formed. We are brothers all aspiring to a common desire – security, peace, freedom. Let us start taking a stand for truth. Let us take a stand against corruption, crime, racism and rabble rousing irresponsible politicians. For evil to flourish, all good people have to do is nothing. Let us not do nothing in this fight for what is right. Let us actively strive for a better tomorrow… together. by Emma Vaughan-Jones Henry Morton Stanley - School of Christian Journalism P.O. Box 74 Newlands 7725 Cape Town South Africa Tel: 021-689-4480 [email protected] www.hmsschoolofchristianjournalism.org See also: 9 Steps of Genocide Farms and Freedom Under Fire Security and Survival Handbook
To listen to the From the Frontline podcast interview with Peter Hammond and Emma Vaughan-Jones, click here. Dr. Gregory H. Stanton, a professor at Mary Washington University and the Vice President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars says.... “Genocide cannot be committed by an individual or small group; rather, it takes the co-operation of a large number of people and the state. The genocidal process starts with prejudice that continues to grow.”
2 - SYMBOLIZATION Symbols are used to categorize and label certain classifications. Sometimes the symbols originate from physical characteristics, other times the symbols are attributed to the category. Classification and Symbolization are natural human process, and on their own, do not lead to genocide. It is when they lead to discrimination and dehumanization, and are coupled with blind hatred, that they become perilous. For example, in Ottoman Turkey, Christians were isolated and marginalized. They wore crosses instead of the muslim attire, so they were easily distinguished and subsequently disparaged. In South Africa now, the color of your skin alone is used to distinguish the group to be destroyed. Regardless of your wealth or poverty, regardless of your age, regardless of your intelligence, regardless of your nationality, regardless of your life of service and sacrifice for the country, in South Africa the color of your skin tone can be a matter of life or death. 3 - DISCRIMINATION Discrimination is the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, based on race, age, religion etc. This is aggravated when a majority group dominates, and uses laws and political power to deny the rights of other groups. For example, the minority group is given limited civil rights or even citizenship, like communists in the Soviet Union prohibited education for Christians. Discrimination on the basis of race was prevalent during Apartheid. Blacks, Coloureds and Indians were only allowed in certain areas, and prohibited from other areas. But in their allocated living areas, they were looked after – they were provided with electricity, running water, education, medical facilities etc. - luxuries that hundreds of thousands of South Africans don’t have today. We have all been awaiting the promise of the Rainbow Nation to be delivered, but with no avail. Even though Nelson Mandela promised that “never, never, never again will any South African be discriminated against on the basis of their race”, hopes of a Rainbow Nation, along with most of our civil rights, have been trampled into the water barren land, as our country is even more divided and alienated than before. Entire families are being murdered and mutilated daily, on the basis of their skin colour and language, by people who were “born free”. The murderers didn’t even live through the times of apartheid, so where is this hatred coming from? It’s being taught to them by our very own government. Many black South Africans are upset that they are still living in poverty. Why are they still living like this? Have they themselves not worked hard enough to better themselves, or has the government not fulfilled any of their promises of a brighter future? Rather than actually looking after the people, the leaders in our government are too busy enriching themselves and blaming the poverty and malfunctioning systems on the white minority. “While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption…” 2 Peter 2:19. 4 - DEHUMANIZATION Dehumanization is depriving a person, or a group of people, of positive human qualities, diminishing them by likening them to animals, diseases, pests, parasites etc. such as, in the Rwandan Holocaust, where the minority group of Tutsis was called cockroaches. As soon as a people group is perceived as ‘less human’, it becomes easier for the dominant group to exterminate them. Denying others of their humanity pardons their murder, and therefore victims are often butchered and mutilated to express this denial. Farmers and their families are having their eyes gouged out, electric drills and angle grinders used on them, “joker” smiles cut into their faces etc. During this stage of genocide, hate propaganda is spread in media, newspapers, and radios, to portray the terrorists as victims, and portray the actual victims as villains. White people are still being blamed for oppression, yet according to African Union statistics, the government is stealing a trillion rand (R1 000 000 000 000) a year from the country through corruption, and therefore causing millions of South Africans, black and white alike, to live without basic human rights. The Lord knew this would cause disaster and warned against it in His Word, “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil… who justify the wicked for a bribe and take away justice from the righteous man!” Isaiah 5:20-23. 5 - ORGANIZATION Genocide doesn’t happen by accident, it is premeditated and well organized. Occasionally it is organized by a terrorist group, but most often it is planned by the state. Soldiers are often specially trained and armed, in order to execute the genocidal murders. Even though genocide is planned, the actual killings are often primal, for example hoe-blades to the back of the neck in Cambodia, and butchering by machetes in Rwanda. Force is then often used to gain participants, and group hysteria is whipped-up and spread in order to overcome or prevent individual resistance. We have many racist and marxist groups in South Africa, like ANC, EFF, BLF who are spreading hate speech and training their followers to detest and want to kill whites. Genocidal leaders promise utopia and advocate these atrocities in order to achieve the dream. Yet in the end, the only ones to benefit are the handful of leaders. 6 - POLARIZATION After these stages, genocide continues in a downward spiral of blood until it reaches a pool of mass murder. Hate groups continue to reinforce abhorrence by broadcasting lies and propaganda, and intimidating their victims into silence. Massacres can then be directed to polarize the groups further, until settlement cannot be negotiated. Greedy, incompetent and narrow-minded political leaders, are polarizing our country through deceit and incendiary hate speech, and have destroyed South Africa’s dream of peace and of a Rainbow Nation. 7 – PREPARATION One of the first steps in the preparation of genocide is identification. The victims are singled out and made known. Identification enables the mass killing process to be sped up. In further preparation armies are built, maps are drawn, troops are trained, houses are marked, weapons are bought. Dr Gregory H. Stanton of Genocide Watch, states that preparation also includes expropriation of the victims property, and often victims are concentrated or herded into a specific area or region. The leaders indoctrinate the nation with a fear or hatred of the victim group. ANC, EFF, BLF, and DA are all political parties who are all vigorously preparing. They are in the process of trying to accomplish “land reform” and “land expropriation”. They are meticulously planning the removal of white people, and they are starting with the farmers. This is a masquerade for theft, for murder and for violence, all under the guise of liberation. 8 – EXTERMINATION As the victims are demonized and not considered human, their deaths are not even considered murder, like in Rwanda, mass murder was called “work” and “clearing the bush”. Men, women and children are slaughtered, and then buried in a mass grave or burned in a heap like rubbish. The savagery of the occurring farm murders is appalling. It is not a matter of property or right, but rather a hatred that has been entrenched deeply within them through many years of endless lies and hate mongering. This is evident, in that, during many of the attacks little or even nothing is stolen. The single aim seems to be to inflict as much excruciating pain as possible. 9 - DENIAL The final stage of genocide is just as tragic as the preceding stages. After every genocide, indubitably, denial occurs - the mass graves are destroyed, witnesses are intimidated or eliminated, historic files are eradicated and any evidence is extirpated. The initiators and leaders deny that any crimes were committed, and continue to try and blame the victims for the atrocities. Due to their power, they impede any investigations until they are forcefully driven from power. Because the only information comes from ‘unofficial’ sources, the stories are considered alleged and ostensible. The leaders keep spreading propaganda of distorted statistics, and the actual definition of genocide is disputed, as the number of killings is scrutinized as to whether it’s considered genocide or not. All these lives have been lost, and not one lesson is learned. As evil tries to change and rewrite history, it is doomed to occur again, and again, in selfish greed. Our government’s dishonesty continues. Our police force has been ordered to stop collecting data, and stop supplying the public with actual statistics. There have been more farm murders than deaths in many wars, such as the Northern Ireland Conflict 1966-1998, the Anglo-Iraqi War 1941, and the Falklands War 1982, just to mention a few. Even so the crisis is dismissed and not considered a crisis or special crime. Farm attackers are found to be using military grade arsenal, unavailable to citizens, yet the government denies that the attacks are premeditated, denies their involvement in the farm murders, and denies the public truth and peace. JURISDICTION
It is clear that there is an explicit communist agenda. We need to learn from history, and be vigilant towards the indicative warning signs. None of the ideas and plans of our political leaders are new and revolutionary. They are simply stealing failed ideas from other marxist rulers, who starved their nations, and left their countries in decay. The government idolizes these criminals, and their ardour towards them is evident in the fact that we have roads and buildings named after them, for example, Fidel Castro building in Bloemfontein named after the Cuban communist, Che Guevara Road in Durban is named after the mass murdering militant marxist. They even attempted to name a road in Pretoria after Mao Tse Tung - the butcher of Beijing. Marxism expresses that ownership of any private property must be confiscated and the state instead, should have ownership of all property. The government is misleading and manipulating poor and uninformed people who are living in rural areas, by lying to them and making empty promises, in order to acquire more votes in the upcoming elections. Yet, every time, without fail, after the election these people will still be living in townships without any of the promises being fulfilled. While the politicians drive even faster cars, live in bigger mansions, buy more holiday houses in the Bahamas, while sipping their 21-year-old whiskey… Yet somehow the poverty and oppression is because of the white man, and therefore the scapegoat must be slaughtered. by Emma Vaughan-Jones Henry Morton Stanley - School of Christian Journalism P.O. Box 74 Newlands 7725 Cape Town South Africa Tel: 021-689-4480 [email protected] www.hmsschoolofchristianjournalism.org See also: Farms and Freedom Under Fire in South Africa Racism, Rhetoric and Reality A Christian Response to Xenophobia The Heart and Soul of Karl Marx The Greatest Killer Understanding South African History |
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