Today is Rhodesia’s Independence Day. A great country grinded into dirt by Robert Mugabe.
I thought, in the light of Robert Mugabe’s unending fear of the rise of Rhodesia from the ashes of his rotten Zimbabwe, that I’d remind everyone this is also 11th November. On this day in 1965, 44 years ago, Ian Smith rebelled against the British Empire in the same way the Americans did in 1776. Rhodesia was the only British Colony to rebel against Britain since the Americans in 1776 (to my knowledge).
On this day, Ian Smith mentioned that his motivation was to fight COMMUNISM.
Today, 44 years later, Robert Mugabe, the ultimate communist dictator stands over the ruins of Zimbabwe, which once was great. Robert Mugabe stands for everything and every reason why Ian Smith rebelled. Ian Smith did not believe that communism would h!
elp white or black people in that country… AND 44 YEARS LATER IN 2009… on 11th November… I CAN SAY: IAN SMITH WAS COMPLETELY RIGHT.
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I have a spot in my heart for Rhodesia as well. But let’s be honest, the idea that Ian Smith and Rhodesian was fighting against “communism” is a rhetorical canard. They were fighting against the idea of black rule, and they were fighting against communist governments that were financing guerillas seeking to establish black rule. Mugabe is not a “communist,” just an unusually stupid and hateful black ruler.
I was in Rhodesia towards the end of Ian Smith’s government. The Whites really wanted things to work out, but as usual, when it came to “black majority rule” in Africa, the dream turned into the nightmare.
What is interesting is how this shows the triumph of liberal ideology. Despite the demonstrated failure of “black majority rule” in the rest of Africa, the liberals were determined to apply the same formula to Rhodesia. And the fact that it led to disaster in Rhodesia aka Zimbabwe makes no difference to liberals. The same formula was applied in South Africa, which is going in the same direction, though there is a longer path there to totally wrecking that country.
But as I have posted elsewhere, Rhodesia-South Africa ought to give pause to White people in the rest of the West about the reality of the struggle. Even if Whites do not want a racial struggle, that struggle is being forced on them. But liberal ideology refuses to recognize this struggle. Instead, it fantasizes a world in which, once the barriers of colonialism-racism-apartheid-immigration barriers are torn down, everyone comes together for the utopia.
I like to use as a metaphor the “rave” scene in the opening part of “Matrix Reloaded”, the great big multicult fantasy of people of all races gettin’ down together in one big party. (The fact that the vast majority of raves and other underground music scenes are usually race-segregated goes by the boards to the movie’s makers, they are pushing ideology, not reality.)