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Post by Trog on May 11, 2016 8:16:12 GMT
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Post by cjm on May 11, 2016 8:47:54 GMT
Good heavens is that photo you posted on the FB page one of her?
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Post by Trog on May 11, 2016 8:54:50 GMT
Yip.
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Post by Trog on May 12, 2016 10:47:06 GMT
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Post by cjm on May 13, 2016 11:31:50 GMT
Gillian calling for affidavits sounds rather desperate.
What the legal position is I have no clue and with the missing "conversation" and the screenshots being the best evidence even the utterances might be in dispute.
Assuming that all can be proved, we have the situation that freedom of speech (in the popular mind at least) is non-existent if the opinion deviates from the master script.
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Post by Trog on May 16, 2016 12:49:21 GMT
I must confess I've spent the last few days on her facebook page. I find it to be much more fun than on my own FB page. I even had the privilege of her creating an entire fake facebook profile, complete with friends, anniversary and graduation pictures, places visited, etc. solely to engage in an 'intellectual' pissing contest just with me. Two profiles, actually, because she had a bit of a too-and-fro with another fake profile she had set up. (I managed to bring in a bit of Nietzsche, and to throw around a few names of people I have no clue of of what they actually said). She found it prudent to erase the whole caboodle early the next morning. I must be irritating the shit out of her.
Maybe small, I know. I feel kind of small doing it. Is it really worthy? Is it really worth it? Probably not. I just get massively pissed off with the lying subterfuge, the ignorance, the entitlement, the gross, unfounded assumptions. The hate and malice.
Mind you, I get some of the same thing when I read the user comments on Mike Smith and PRAAG, too, and yet I do nothing about it. So maybe I'm a bit of a hypocrite. Maybe I should engage with some of the posters there - I believe that some of them are doing massive harm. But as on Gillian's page, I guess that harm is not something they want to avoid - that it is actually the point.
But it is a lot of hassle, even hard work, to be that engaged, and I get bored after a while. I do not have the passion of the zealots.
Ah well. Maybe I have another 30 years. Maybe this place will last that long.
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Post by cjm on Oct 19, 2016 8:39:57 GMT
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Post by Trog on Oct 19, 2016 17:47:01 GMT
Pity it is not possible to comment on the article. In particular, I would want to ask how the judge's comments could be considered racist.
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Post by cjm on Oct 19, 2016 18:43:05 GMT
Pity it is not possible to comment on the article. In particular, I would want to ask how the judge's comments could be considered racist. It is spineless not allowing comments. Many sites manage quite successfully to keep comments in line. |
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Post by cjm on Oct 24, 2016 7:14:38 GMT
 The student protests according to Sipho Singiswa ... According to Media for Justice the LWB Gillian Schutte’s husband and former Robben Island inmate, Sipho Singiswa has been filming the student protest since 2015. They say that: “Because of his political background and his ongoing activism against the injustices meted out by what he describes as “a corrupt state which is reduced to managing white monopoly capital and protecting white interests and their own shares,” Singiswa feels immense solidarity and resonance with the students involved in the uprising.” Singiswa, in his own words, was apparently one of the youngest “political prisoners” on Robben Island and was arrested for student protests in Gugulethu in 1976 and spent times in and out of solitary confinement and tortured by the Apartheid inquisition by having to stand on a brick for hours, being water boarded with an old white lady’s panties over his face, etc, blah, blah, and bullshit. Nevertheless, Sipho Singiswa feels that he needs to “continue to struggle against a system that aims to rob them of their right to a free education and a positive future”. Of course, Sipho is an unsuccessful, non prize-winning documentary film maker today who sells his bullshit propaganda movies to the highest bidder whilst monthly cashing his ANC check for being in the Robben Island inner circle, but last week, whilst filming the Wits University student protests, Sipho Singaswa was baton charged and beaten to a pulp by Zuma’s goons, the SA Police Services. Couldn’t have happened to a better man, was my first thought. According to eye witnesses the poor guy was just clutching and trying to protect his camera and whilst the police moered seven types of shit out of him with their tonfa batons, he was squealing like a pig and crying like a baby. Ironically the police were all black and spoke to him in Afrikaans and Xhosa asking him what he was doing and why he was filming. He is currently recovering from his injuries smoking dagga at his house in Edenvale with white wifey Gillian and 16yo half white son Kai. ... |
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