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What's the issue?

What's the issue?

Author: Tomas Yoko
Date: 2013-10-04
Here is an extract form a presidential speech worth taking notice of.

"In Russia live Russians. Any minority, from anywhere, if it wants to live in Russia, to work and eat in Russia, should speak Russian, and should respect the Russian laws. If they prefer Sharia Law, then we advise them to go to those places where that's the state law. Russia does not need minorities. Minorities need Russia, and we will not grant them special privileges, or try to change our laws to fit their desires, no matter how loud they yell 'discrimination'. We better learn from the suicides of America, England, Holland and France, if we are to survive as a nation. The Russian customs and traditions are not compatible with the lack of culture or the primitive ways of most minorities. When this honorable legislative body thinks of creating new laws, it should have in mind the national interest first, observing that the minorities are not Russians." Vladimir Putin received a five-minute standing ovation for this speech recently.

In South Africa we have a very different situation. Our minorities make up an intrinsic and dare I say an important part of our social fabric. If I get really daring then I could say that our minorities are a crucial and extremely important part of our countries heritage and even more so our countries potential. There are those who would say that overlooking the potential of a certain group like say the white South Africans, might be a little short sighted, and that exploiting their potential could amount to a win-win situation. But we are all too sensitive to even breach that topic of conversation so I will just stick to speeches.

Another presidential speech of recent news was one delivered by old Bob. "Shame shame shame we say to the United States of America. Shame shame shame we say to Brittain and its allies" said Bob. The tirade went on and on and saw the United States delegation walk out of the 68th General Assembly of the United Nations in disgust. Bob was speaking out against sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the US and the EU. Bob seemed totally oblivious of the shame he should be feeling because of the over two million people in Zimbabwe who are starving. This in a country that was once the bread basket of Africa.

Our own President Zuma lashed out at the UN structure saying "In close to 70 years after its establishment, the UN Security Council still remains undemocratic, unrepresentative and unfair to developing nations and small states," no ovtion for this, however Zuma did have a point and went on to say that the 15 member council can no longer be dominated by what he called "The Big Five". Zuma did us proud for once and the organ grinding (mammal unspecified) Bob just went about his routine rhetoric.

In a speech to the American troops around the world Obama said that Congress had failed them when the Republicans pushed against funding for Obamacare and effectively shut down the American Government. The first time this has happened in 17 years. Most people see the shut down for what it is, political theatrics. Speech!