South African white supremacist leader Eugene Terreblanche has been killed on his farm

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-428006?hpt=Mid

Mr Terreblanche, 69, was beaten to death after a dispute over unpaid wages, local media reports said. Two people are said to have been arrested.

Mr Terreblanche, who campaigned for a separate white homeland, came to prominence in the early 1980s.

He became the champion of a tiny minority determined to stop the process that was bringing apartheid to an end.

"Mr Terreblanche's body was found on the bed with facial and head injuries," AFP news agency quoted a police spokesman as saying.

"He was hacked to death while he was taking a nap," a family friend in the town of Ventersdorp was quoted as telling Reuters news agency.

Good riddance...

The right wing in the country were/are about as bad as the KKK here. Simply frightening and very authoritarian.

One of the comments:

"I will never forget hearing - and seeing - Terre'blanche speak in the Pietermaritzburg City Hall. I went along to see what all the fuss was about, and found a scene straight out of a Nazi propaganda movie, with enormous banners bearing the AWB swastika, and jack-booted 'soldiers' standing to either side of the podium. When Terre'blanche started speaking, the audience reacted strongly and it took me a moment before I realised they weren't jeering at him, as I expected, but were eating out of the palm of his hand! Of course the AWB were a political throwback, but there were plenty of white South Africans who supported his brand of xenophobia. Thank God he fell off that damn horse, or he may actually have influenced our political landscape, instead of simply adding colour to it."

http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-04-03-terreblanche-killed-on-ventersdorp-farm

Here is a video of him:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwXiw97R-b0

And dont tell me at least he had the courage of his convictions. I dont offer humanity to those who deny it to others. Pinto Basta!

My Bad

You trot out some wild ass logic in which, because I bemoan the celebration of a man being hacked to death in his sleep I automatically assume his beliefs? You wanna connect those dots for me, Einstein?

Question: Does gaining some joy from a human being being hacked to death prove you love human beings?

Give me a fucking break.

it;'s similar to how if one defends somebody's (a rightwing dipshit) free speech rights, you are accused of defending them or propping them up

Which judge or jury gets to decide on who gets their humanity stripped?

"On June 17, 1997, Terre'Blanche was sentenced to six years in prison for assaulting a petrol station worker and the attempted murder of a security guard."

"But he had been in relative obscurity since his release in 2004 after a prison sentence for beating a black man nearly to death."

name change.

Next question.

Or at least I should hope so.

we can now feel free to debate each case on it's own merits rather than just make a blanket statement that this sort of thing is wrong. The last thing we would want to do is make a broad brush statement that hacking someone to death in their sleep is wrong. :sarcasm:

If someone had done the same to the leaders of the German Nazis in 1923 or so, I think it would have also been cause for celebration.

Indeed, I oppose the death penalty for most offenses for which it currently applies. But for fascist criminals attempting to incite genocide, I think some should be executed to make an example and to terrorize the would-be fascists.

"We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals"

There is indeed such a thing as right and wrong. The fascists are wrong, whereas the antifascists are right. Pacifism is ultimately morally bankrupt though pacifists can play a positive role with the right leadership. There is just violence and unjust violence.

and not feel any sympathy for this fuckstick either

Taking a machette to an obscure nobody is assault/murder pure and simple.

THE ONLY JUSTIFICATION for killing another human being is an immediate and palpable threat to one's own safety or the safety of others.

He was the leader of a fascist movement that was responsible for great crimes. AWB was a Nazi group that had infiltrated the state power of apartheid and was quite influential. AWB and its kindred groups still pose a threat to the ongoing national democratic revolution led by the ANC and its allies.

Due process is for all. Not just those who share your ideologies.

Way, way too often, and increasingly moreso, the only discernible difference between a number of people here and over at FR is the quality of the spelling, and WHO it is, they think should be lined up against the wall and summarily shot.

I definitely prefer that laws be implemented to criminalize fascist politics and that the main culprits be prosecuted according to law. That does not mean, however, that I mourn the extralegal annihilation of such people. In the liberation struggle, informers and spies were necklaced and it wasn't ideal, but it helped pave the way for freedom.

white supremacists/nazis get universal hate, that's why they changed the bad guys to make it palatable.

it's kewl to celebrate their being hacked to death, even.

kind of like water is the universal solvent

I think that's how the old saying goes.

I get your point about celebrating someone being hacked to death, but Terreblanche was no sweetheart. Given the immense assistance he was to sustain a movement that resulted in nearly incalculable repressions and deaths, I'll just say some hackings are less tragic than others.

Nicely said. :)

But in the case of this violent neo-Nazi son-of-a-bitch, I'm making an exception. The world's a better place without this fascist fuckstick in it.

Because hacking a human being to death in his sleep is only bad when it's a *good* kind of human being being hacked to death.

It's kind of silly, when you come right down to it, to have laws against hacking people to death, when some people so clearly deserve it.

On the other hand, one might wonder who gets to decide who deserves it. However, I see by some of the responses in this thread that such a question doesn't unduly bother some DUers.

Just in case it's not clear, I'm totally with you.

sw

feed whats left to the hogs, that way his life will have had some positive purpose.

Amen

:eyes:

(nt)

should we not make negative comments about that because someone else migh thave hurt more people ?

himself.

Wow, what goes around comes around. Sometimes more effectively on the come around.

Capital punishment is perfectly fine, so long as the punished is white and demonstrably racist. And in that special circumstance, we need not be concerned with the distinction between capital punishment and murder.