[BITList] : A Brit's response to Zuma s outrage over Jan van Riebeeck

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*Subject:**A Brit's response to Zuma s outrage over Jan van Riebeeck*
After President Jacob Zuma’s statement two weeks ago that all the 
problems in South Africa started with the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck in 
1652…..

I know, I know... We had the same problems in England, you know...
First we had the Picts and the Scots. And then came the Romans who stuck 
around for about four centuries. Then we had the Angles and the Saxons 
and all those other Germanic tribes. Oh ho! Then came the Danes and 
their Viking mates, a nauseating bunch of horny helmeted rapists and 
looters they were.
Nevertheless, the Danes were eventually displaced by the Normans, who 
turned out to be Frenchmen in disguise - but we were a bit slow to 
recognise the fact until it was too late; anyway, they were led by the 
Duke of Normandy, who was a real bastard, and who gave our wimpy king a 
right one in the eye. (The bloody French are still hanging around with 
their cheese and their bread and their wine and their accordion music 
and their fancy restaurants, seducing our people away from our culture 
of slap chips with custard.)
And then, and then, came the Dutch when King William and Queen Mary of 
Orange popped over and started causing nonsense with the Irish at the 
Battle of the Boyne. The Irish have never completely forgiven us, so 
they came over and settled all our building sites.
Then the Germans came back again, surreptitiously, and occupied the top 
of the Mall in Buckingham Palace...


    And where are we now...? Now we have Arabs, Pakistanis, Indians,
    Caribbeans, Syrians, the Oz, Italians, Americans, Canadians, Poles,
    Portuguese, Saudis , Kuwaitis, Moroccans, Egyptians, Iranians,
    Palestinians, Israeli Jews, Ethiopians, Somalis, Nigerians,
    Rhodesians, Scots (to run the government)... And (whoa!) South
    Africans...

    It has been going on for two thousand years. It's an outrage...
    And yet, and yet... All of these people (well most!) have
    contributed to make England and the English a great and democratic
    nation.And yet, I have never felt the slightest inclination to bomb
    Rome, to shatter the Pyramids, to close a Pakistani restaurant, to
    nuke the Ka'aba in Mecca, to blow up a bus in Jerusalem, to chop off
    the head of a Nigerian etc. (And even if I have, I have controlled
    myself from saying so.)
    I have few words for Mr Zuma and his depraved ANC:Grow up, or piss
    off. You stand in the way of civilisation.


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