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From: janw@inmet.UUCP
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Subject: Re: South Africa terrorizes Souther
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Date: Tue, 7-Oct-86 15:08:00 EDT
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[rjn@duke.UUCP ] [/* ---- "Re: South Africa terrorizes Souther" ---- */]
>How quick you all are to criticize the ANC, and how slow to  cri-
>ticize  the white government. What about the school children shot
>in the back by security forces? I question the  ability  of  many
>people  on  the  net to equate a very small number of white lives
>with the thousands of blacks of all ages and sexes who have  been
>killed over the years.

(1) The Pretoria regime is intolerable and has to be changed - I
*hope* not for the *worse*. 

(2) The great majority of those killed in this struggle - on
both sides, by both sides - and the majority of those killing
them, are black. One reason is that the majority are black,
another is that the whites have more means to keep themselves
from being killed, and even from the need to pull the trigger.

(3) The white victims (however few) do not offset the black victims
but are added to the toll. If killing an innocent white *saved*
one or more blacks - that would make some argument for the terror -
though I think unacceptable. But you did not argue that.

(4) On the contrary, it is probable that terrorizing the whites will
cause more blacks to be killed. What is even worse, it  may  make
killing a way of life in SA, and any eventual stable regime  to
emerge from this (white, quite likely) may institutionalize it.

(5) As means of extracting  concessions,  terror  has  apparently
been  counterproductive, but strikes and boycotts quite effective.

Terror does *not* advance the cause - it only advances the more
extreme *people* within the movement.

There is *no* reason to justify the terror.