Anybody here from Katanga? Clap your hands.
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Okay, anbody here ever HEAR of Katanga?
*chirp* *chirp* *chirp*
Just for fun, ask your UN representative about Katanga and the wonderful events that happened there in the early 60s.
What's that? You don't know who your UN representative is? That's because you HAVE no UN representative. That's okay, though. Neither did Katanga.
Katanga was part of the Belgian Congo. When Belgium granted the Congo independence, the Central Congolese Government formed. The CCG soon became riddled with Communists (bear with me, I'm not channelling Joe McCarthy). The people of Katanga did not like this form of rule, especially when they found their mining revenues being sapped away without getting anything back in return. Katanga seceded and formed a democratic government founded off of the principles of the United States (the principles, not the actual practices).
Moise Tshombe, the democratically-elected president, soon led his nation back to economic prosperity. The CCG tried to force Katanga back into the decidedly lop-sided CCG. When the UN looked the situation over, it joined the fight to pull Katanga back under the yoke, regardless of the hardships the CCG was imposing on the people of Katanga.
The other nations in the CCG lived in classic third-world squalor, and made no attempt to hide their jealousy of the Katangese lifestyle. The UN decided that Patrice Lmumbe, a murderous, womanizing drug-addict, was who the Katangese REALLY wanted, whether they wanted him or not.
When Katanga started successfully fighting off the CCG, who invaded Katanga, the UN pulled some political tricks, acted like they were peace-keepers, and proceeded to set up Katanga as the agressor in the affair.
After establishing themselves as the major source of information to the media, it wasn't hard for the UN to convince the world that the evil Katangese were trying to rape and pillage the Congo.
From there it became open season on civillians, hospitals, schools, foreign journalists, children, and anything not wearing UN blue. They even got the dog.
Try to find Katanga on a map. They'll tell you it's a plateau. It used to be a prospering democracy.
Now, the same force that crushed Katanga has established itself in East Timor, where another nation has been granted independence, attempted to elect a democratic government, only to find "patriots" of the old system launching terrorist attacks on anybody who tries to vote. They even shot at the UN (missing, fortunately), which has given the UN the excuse it needs to roll in, impose martial law, and prevent another budding democracy from forming.
What does the UN have against democracy? Every UN secretary-general has been a citizen of a Communist or Communist-influenced country. The system that makes the US pay everybody else's UN dues has cost the US it's voice in council, since the US can no longer pay it's own bill.
I recommend, very highly, a book called "The Fearful Master". Get the one with the photos in it. The newborn with the shrapnel in it's body should speak volumes.
And don't even get me going on the UN charter and what they want to do with our kids. This is something I can quote directly.
[This message has been edited by Oxygen (edited October 01, 1999).]
*chirp* *chirp* *chirp*
Okay, anbody here ever HEAR of Katanga?
*chirp* *chirp* *chirp*
Just for fun, ask your UN representative about Katanga and the wonderful events that happened there in the early 60s.
What's that? You don't know who your UN representative is? That's because you HAVE no UN representative. That's okay, though. Neither did Katanga.
Katanga was part of the Belgian Congo. When Belgium granted the Congo independence, the Central Congolese Government formed. The CCG soon became riddled with Communists (bear with me, I'm not channelling Joe McCarthy). The people of Katanga did not like this form of rule, especially when they found their mining revenues being sapped away without getting anything back in return. Katanga seceded and formed a democratic government founded off of the principles of the United States (the principles, not the actual practices).
Moise Tshombe, the democratically-elected president, soon led his nation back to economic prosperity. The CCG tried to force Katanga back into the decidedly lop-sided CCG. When the UN looked the situation over, it joined the fight to pull Katanga back under the yoke, regardless of the hardships the CCG was imposing on the people of Katanga.
The other nations in the CCG lived in classic third-world squalor, and made no attempt to hide their jealousy of the Katangese lifestyle. The UN decided that Patrice Lmumbe, a murderous, womanizing drug-addict, was who the Katangese REALLY wanted, whether they wanted him or not.
When Katanga started successfully fighting off the CCG, who invaded Katanga, the UN pulled some political tricks, acted like they were peace-keepers, and proceeded to set up Katanga as the agressor in the affair.
After establishing themselves as the major source of information to the media, it wasn't hard for the UN to convince the world that the evil Katangese were trying to rape and pillage the Congo.
From there it became open season on civillians, hospitals, schools, foreign journalists, children, and anything not wearing UN blue. They even got the dog.
Try to find Katanga on a map. They'll tell you it's a plateau. It used to be a prospering democracy.
Now, the same force that crushed Katanga has established itself in East Timor, where another nation has been granted independence, attempted to elect a democratic government, only to find "patriots" of the old system launching terrorist attacks on anybody who tries to vote. They even shot at the UN (missing, fortunately), which has given the UN the excuse it needs to roll in, impose martial law, and prevent another budding democracy from forming.
What does the UN have against democracy? Every UN secretary-general has been a citizen of a Communist or Communist-influenced country. The system that makes the US pay everybody else's UN dues has cost the US it's voice in council, since the US can no longer pay it's own bill.
I recommend, very highly, a book called "The Fearful Master". Get the one with the photos in it. The newborn with the shrapnel in it's body should speak volumes.
And don't even get me going on the UN charter and what they want to do with our kids. This is something I can quote directly.
[This message has been edited by Oxygen (edited October 01, 1999).]