WorldNutDaily whitewashes Apartheid

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"As an avid follower of American politics, and especially American views on South Africa, I happened upon WorldNetDaily. After trawling the WND archives, I came across a voluminous number of reports on South Africa by WND "international correspondent," Anthony LoBaido.

According to LoBaido's background, published in an August 2001 WND article, he received an undergraduate degree in political science from Arizona State University and a masters degree in international journalism from Baylor University. While at Baylor, he allegedly received the "Best Columnist Award" from the Society of Professional Journalists.

Many of his articles on South Africa revolve around the activities of certain far right wing organizations, most notably the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Weerstands Beweging (Afrikaner Resistance Movement or AWB) and a number of right-wing fanatics, such as Willem Ratte and Eugene Terreblanche, the leader of the now-defunct AWB, who has recently been released from prison after serving time for the assault on and attempted murder of two black men. It is clear that LoBaido greatly admires these racist demagogues.

It is clear that LoBaido regrets the demise of apartheid in South Africa and the puritanical society it fostered:

"The Afrikaners were against abortion, which was illegal in their nation from the 1600s until the ANC took over in 1994. Television was kept out of South Africa until the mid 1970s. Pornographic magazines were also illegal until the late 1980s. Shops in South Africa closed on Saturday afternoon to prepare for the Sunday Sabbath."

As someone who grew up under this system, I remember all too well the oppressive atmosphere of the cultural and political black hole that was apartheid South Africa.

LoBaido is unperturbed by the fact that the successive apartheid governments in South Africa murdered political opponents, carried out assassinations in foreign countries, wantonly gunned down civilians, incarcerated tens of thousands without trial, regularly tortured detainees, executed people for political offences, forcibly removed more than 3 million of its black citizens, imprisoned people for interracial sex, and generally endorsed murder and mayhem. He dismisses these "flaws" as "represent one tenth of one percent of the Afrikaner nation" and apparently justified because they were "committed in the suppression of a Marxist terrorist war, launched by the Soviet-trained African National Congress." "

http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2005/lobaido.html

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1. Thanks for posting. WND is a piece of shit site for reich-wingers