ConCourt: ‘Was SA's TRC a falsification of History’?

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Johannesburg, South Africa (26/03/2010): An Amicus Curiae (Friend of the Court) Application was filed today with the South African Constitutional Court, which alleges among others that Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and F.W de Klerk’s ‘TRC was a fraudulent PR publicity stunt’.

The Amici Curiae application was filed in Constitutional Court Case # 23/10: The Citizen Newspaper vs. Robert John McBride.

Robert McBride was a member of the ANC’s military wing MK (Umkhonto we Sizwe), and in that capacity planted a carbomb outside the popular Magoo’s Bar / “Why Not” Restaurant in Durban in 1986, which killed 3 and injured 69. He was arrested, convicted and received the death penalty. He applied for and was granted Amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2001, and subsequently became a top Dept. of Foreign Affairs official and then the Chief of Police at Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality.

Before he became the Chief of Police, the Citizen newspaper found out about his impending appointment and wrote a series of articles opposing his appointment referring to him as, among others a murderer.

McBride launched a civil suit for defamation against the Citizen, on the grounds that he had been given Amnesty, and hence his ‘murder’ conviction had been expunged and accordingly he could not be accused of being a murderer.

The High Court and Supreme Court ruled in McBride’s favour. The Citizen filed an appeal to the Constitutional Court, on the grounds that the interpretation by the SCA, of the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act, meant that it required the media to participate in the falsification of history.

The ‘TRC was a fraudulent PR publicity stunt’ Amici Curiae application is filed by Lara Johnstone, as a member of the Radical Honesty Religion and Culture. This is a religion/culture founded by Dr. Brad Blanton, an American ‘Honesty in Politics’ politician, psychologist and bestselling author of the ‘Radical Honesty’ series of books. Basically anyone can join the Radical Honesty Religion/Culture; the only pre-requisite being a commitment to Radical Honesty: Being Specific About Anger and Forgiveness processes; known as the Truth and Forgiveness Social Contract; which is an excerpt from Dr. Brad Blanton’s book, Practicing Radical Honesty: How to Complete the Past, Stay in the Present and Build a Future with a Little Help from Your Friends

Her Radical Honesty Application basically states that both The Citizen, the Supreme Court Justices and McBride are all confused, because they all assume that ‘TRC’ Act meant what it said, and that ‘Truth’, Forgiveness and ‘Reconciliation’ actually occured; but it didn’t.

She says among others that the TRC was a fraudulent PR stunt because:

It implied to SA’s that it would provide closure to SA citizens anger. It didn’t. The Act does not even define what it means by ‘closure’ or ‘reconciliation’. She says the “TRC’s Religious Circus” used victims and victimizers as a form of ‘Circus Monkeys’ on the world stage; to promote the SA elites fake two-faced hypocrisy Intellectual Forgiveness Rainbow Nation. She asks how anyone can think that ‘closure’ has occurred when victims and victimizers are still furious with each other. What kind of ‘closure’ is that?

It also informed SA’s it would make impartial enquiry to establish the truth about the motives for apartheid and why apartheid occurred, and to prevent Human rights abuses occuring again. But even though rapid population growth colliding with scarce resources is a major cause of resource wars, whether as crime, or political resource war violence; the TRC made absolutely zero effort to determine how much of Apartheid violence was a result of rapid population growth: overpopulation colliding with scarce resources.

She says the TRC raped SA citizens of their psychological integrity by demanding they all pretend that reconciliation and forgiveness had occurred, when it hadn’t. The more everyone pretends they like each other, the more they grow to resent each other. She says the Citizen & McBride suffer from Battered TRC Fraud Syndrome, a cousin of Battered Wives and Battered Voters Syndrome; of people addicted to the Politics of Codependency Abuse.

The Explosion of Crime, racially motivated violence & corruption is a symptom of, among others TRC fraud. She says that a country winning the Crime and Rape Olympics, definitely has not been telling each other the truth, and forgiving each other. She also clarifies what a truly impartial Truth and Forgiveness Commission would have legislated and accomplished.

She asks if those who ran the TRC were interested in ‘the truth’ or the ‘ANC’s truth. For example, she asks: “If it is true that poor blacks, of all black tribes under Apartheid rule had the highest living standards of all poor blacks on the African continent; how is it that ‘Apartheid’ is considered ‘evil’; and all the other Black African states whose poor blacks lived in horrific conditions were not ‘evil’ for suppressing their poor blacks, worse than ‘evil Apartheid’? Is there a different standard of behaviour required for ‘white’ governments, than from black governments? If so, why?”

She predicts that if SA’s Political Elite don’t wake up quickly and end their Two-Faced Hypocrisy Rainbow Nation Charade, “the end result of how this Act was legislated, implemented, and subsequently politically and legally interpreted shall have disastrous consequences, like the ‘Peace’ Treaty of Versailles”.

She concludes that it is important for the Constitutional Court to take her application seriously, because:
 

(a) only a sincere and serious specific, clear and unambiguous Truth and Forgiveness Social Contract, unequivocally understood and practiced by the common man can ever contribute to sincere and serious reconciliation and the reconstruction of South Africa’s violent ridden society; and

(b) any legislation or jurisprudence which professes to advocate on behalf of human rights, peace and social justice, while ignoring their ecological basis – a stable human population at slightly less than the eco-systems carrying capacity – is endorsing and practicing legal dishonesty and hypocrisy; i.e. fraud. It is legislation and jurisprudence that is deliberately indifferent to the laws of sustainability.

Other organizations who intend filing Amicus Curiae Applications are: The Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) and the South African National Editors Forum (SANEF).

Sources: White Refugees ::::: ConCourt #23-10 Amicus Curiae Application (PDF) ::::: Truth & Forgiveness Social Contract (PDF) ::::: Practicing Radical Honesty (PDF) ::::: Laws of Sustainability (PDF) ::::: Dr. Blanton’s ‘TRC was a fraud’ High Court Affidavit