Subject:	FWD: Soweto riots anniversary
Author:	Ted Mayett (KOX) <teddy@skylink.net>
Date:	1998/06/17
Forum:	alt.religion.scientology
Msg-ID:	<3587a0e4.900598 @enews.newsguy.com>

Today (16th) is the 22nd anniversary of the Soweto riots in South Africa. Perhaps scientology wishes to take credit for the end of apartheid??

16 June 1998 marks the 22nd anniversary of the "Soweto Riots" in South Africa. When thousands of black students protested the government's imposition of Afrikaans as the official language, white police responded with violence and brutality that eventually resulted in 176 deaths and 1139 injuries.

10 years ago, Rena Weinberg (current President of ABLE International) reported in IMPACT magazine (issue 16) on the wonderful things "tech" had accomplished in South Africa (editorial comments interspersed):

On June 16th 1976, riots erupted in the black townships in South Africa. Violence, unrest and enturbulation affected the whole country, majorly in black areas and the worst area was Soweto near Johannesburg which houses 3 million people. Every year, on June 16, the people who are sowing suppression and revolution get the majority of the township populations to commemorate the anniversary of the 1976 riots. Every year, since 1976, there have been major riots and unbridled violence during June.

It should come as no surprise that the black areas were "majorly" affected by apartheid and as a result, "enturbulated". It should also not be surprising to anyone, except perhaps a Scientologist, that the townships wished to commemorate the deaths of their children (13-year-old Hector Petersen was the first victim of the police action in 1976).

The implication here is that the oppressed black majority's protests against the evil that was apartheid makes them "suppressive". As we all know, this means they can be "sued, tricked, lied to or destroyed", right in keeping with the white-minority government's policies. How convenient.

With the help of a second Association grant we were able to implement a campaign that completely destimulated the Soweto Riots Anniversary scene. There were literally no incidents of violence and very little enturbulation in the country over that period of time.

The "Soweto Riots Anniversary scene" —sounding more akin to the latest privileged-youth fad than the bloody fight for freedom— is an appallingly condescending turn of a phrase. Scientology communication skills at their best.

This was done by the distribution of a quarter of a million "The Way To Happiness" booklets, a quarter of a million fliers introducing the Happiness Club and a half a million information fliers picturing LRH with his Zulu name (URONI), to a third of the homes in the area. (LRH was made an honorary member of the Zulu tribe by their Chief — he has been assigned the Zulu name meaning "Great Teacher").

CoS most likely made up the name "Uroni". According to the Zulu-English online dictionary, the Zulu word for teacher is "uthisha" and words that mean great are: "khulu", "dumile", and "nekhono", none of which bears any resemblance to "Uroni". Also, "Uroni" is just too similar to "Ron" to be a coincidence.

To laugh or to cry? It is patently absurd to think that blanketing the countryside with insipid "Way to Happiness" maxims could avert riots. Yet, Ms. Weinberg appears as delusionally serious in making this preposterous assertion as her readers undoubtedly are in accepting it.

Thus the Association grant really prevented major civil unrest and introduced LRH and his technology to more than one million people. The response from the promotion was excellent. Tens of thousands of people are interested in joining the Happiness Club and membership fees have started coming in.

Scientology success: $$$

Contrast:

<http:// www.anc.org.za/ ancdocs/ history/ mandela/ 64-90/ anvil.html>

UNITE! MOBILISE! FIGHT ON!
BETWEEN THE ANVIL OF UNITED MASS ACTION
AND THE HAMMER OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE
WE SHALL CRUSH APARTHEID!

This message was Mandela's call after the Soweto uprising of 1976. It was published by the ANC on 10 June 1980, with an introduction by O R Tambo, President of the ANC at the time.

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Ted Mayett   OT 1.1
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