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It is sometimes hard to tell whether people are telling the truth, but it's
usually nigh impossible to work out whether people think they are
telling the truth. For instance, it's hard to tell whether a bunch of
economically illiterate aging rock stars really believe they can drag people
out of poverty by propping up their thieving and oppressive governments. They certainly sounded sincere enough as they cranked out memorable, if
rather tired, classic after classic in what has been hailed as the world's
largest rock-n-roll event - Live-8 - but rock-star are notoriously fickle, and
maybe they just started believing their own publicity material. When there was trouble in the colonies, Queen Victoria would command 'send a
gun boat!' We don't do that any more, but the lefties seem to believe that
sending money off to darkest Africa will solve the problem. The possibility that
maybe the African nations are not capable of working out the best thing to do
with the money never occurs. The fact that the problems of the Africans are
primarily caused by the oppression by their fellow Africans is unthinkable. Any suggestion that guilt money given by bleeding heart collectivists in
hard-working first-world countries could possibly be used for anything other
than promoting the common good when it made the taxing trip to darkest Africa
is ignored. Just like the left refuse to accept that the many of the black
slaves sent to the USA were herded up and sold by black slave traders. [Yes,
gentle reader, 'black slave trader' refers to the color of the trader here, not
just to the color of the slave.] Oppression seems to be a proud tradition which
continues to this day in the world's poorest continent. So 20 years after the fabled and failed Live Aid concert (African poverty
is said to have increased since then), the rock stars are at it again. A
poverty-stricken continent has been transformed into a poverty stricken
continent of beggars (now with rich politicians), but this time Bob Geldof says
'We don't want charity, we want justice!' Sir Bob didn't
actually say what justice was, but speaker Nelson Mandela gave a clue:
'Where there is poverty there is no justice'. Ah - so justice is the
new word for welfare? The wrinkly rockers were a pretty sad bunch, but maybe, to their credit, they
are actually total cynical about the exercise, and merely see it as a chance to
relive the glory days, get their sagging mugs on international TV, and get a
new generation of fans to go out and buy their forgotten records. There's one born
every minute (and in Africa one dies every three seconds). Capitalism comes in
many forms - sometimes it's just disguised as collectivism.
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