So what the fuck is going on there? Murderous mobs are seeking out "foreigners" who they see as interlopers in the local job markets and killing them. I'm talking setting them on fire, beating them: more than a week of anti-immigrant violence has left 42 dead. Crazy!NYT:
This nation of about 48 million people is home to an estimated five million immigrants, most of them from neighboring countries with poverty rates even worse than that in South Africa, where about one in four people are jobless. Destitute foreigners are usually willing to work for lower wages, and poor people from here often begrudge the hardscrabble earnings of poor people from somewhere else.
Read about it here.
So where is President Thabo Mbeke in all of this? It is beyond me how he can do such a bad job in everything he does. Where is the government's response? This is what you get when you have leaders who only care about the rich and powerful. Let the poor kill themselves, let them suffer.
And what could someone like McCain say if he were President? "Keep up the good work, that's what I'm trying to get done here with the Mexicans". He could not denounce their actions. Think about that, "Mr. I'm A POW" couldn't stand on the world stage and have any credibility in regards to stopping this. He is the pro-torture and anti-immigrant guy. Well played John.
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