South Africa Votes for UN Resolution 1973 and Declares War on Libya

South Africa Joins the Imperial Axis and Declares War on Libya

This declaration of war on Libya is yet another one of those disgusting and racist imperial moments in post-colonial history and it is made worse by states like South Africa and Lebanon and the Arab League who should know better than to declare war on their own.

Before you click the comment button below to tell me about a humanitarian action to save Libyans from Gaddafi please explain why the same kind of intervention has not been imposed on states where the human rights violations are longstanding, verified, and monumentally worse by any fair measure.

Why did the UN not impose a "no-fly zone" when Israel declared war on flesh and bones in Gaza and used its full military might to attack the ghettoized Palestinians?

And what of Zimbabwe and the Ivory Coast?

I admired Gaddafi for his committed anti-apartheid stand when the US and its lapdog ally, Britain, were spewing sh*t about reforming apartheid and "constructive engagement" policies.

I am, however, no friend of the Gaddafi of the last decade who ran all across the West to make friends and spread his capital among the same murderers who now want him dead.

Why?  What has changed for the West?  And who the hell are those nameless/faceless ragtag rebels we are being asked to support as they wage war against a sovereign state with American weapons?

If we had a principled government in Pretoria our leaders would be pushing Gaddafi to step down peacefully.

I am, therefore, disgusted by the decision of the South African government to join the imperial axis in their newest war on brown and black skins.

President Zuma like Obama is a compliant stooge who can be bought.  South Africa's vote at the Security Council is about its ambitions to be inside the power arrangement of the West.

By voting to confirm the all encompassing war on Other skins this sellout regime is demonstrating its mini-me mimicry that wants nothing more than a permanent seat in the Security Council.

There should be consequences for trading on the skins of a sovereign people even as Tripoli moves to comply with Resolution 1973 (See BBC breaking news: Libya 'to halt military action').

And we are not free!  And we will never be until we remove with unreserved contempt the constructed petite bourgeois of compliant ass-kissing natives and their colonial masters who have conspired to interrupt the manifest journey toward a real revolution in South Africa.

Onward!

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