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To: russet who wrote (3127)	9/25/2002 1:50:36 AM
From: ralfph	Respond to of 8273

Gee Russett , I tripped over the same thing on the SUF thread. Articles like this are a shorters wet dream. It has a basis of truth mixed with some puffery. Kind of like the race riots that the Fraser institute alluded to in its last paper. Or that Surrey will become an East Indian state. Perhaps insanity is catching, an airborn virus that started in Africa, we can see the effects in Sadam Insane, Bin Laden , and a whole bunch of the rest of the world has caught it as well. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee its the end of the world sell sell sell. regards ralfph

To: russet who wrote (3127)	9/25/2002 10:31:11 AM
From: gg cox	Respond to of 8273

Yikes spud,and here i haven't been heeding marco's suf's dangerous country warnings... well there it is then...i'm running for the hills...what's your bid on suf...$5.25 <<<<gggggggggg gg>>

To: russet who wrote (3127)	9/25/2002 1:31:50 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8273

A little overstated here i think, the degree of risk in RSA, especially as it pertains to Messina and like claims, but it is useful to keep in mind the possibilities ... also the waves of increasing and decreasing fear ... feels to me almost like it's time for some bad news in re suf 'The new ANC, African National Council, laws say that blacks can verbally make claim to white-owned farmland that supposedly belonged to their ancestors who had been removed by force. The white farmer then must prove he owns the land and previous owners did not drive those black ancestors away. Now who will be able to access records from the 16-1700’S?' Exactly this happened to my wife's uncle not too many years ago, he lost an entire ranch ... 'indians' came wandering through and decided that this is where their ancestral territory was, some bureaucrat decided they were correct, and that the agrarian law applied .... he tried to fight it and the lawyer's fees broke him, so instead of losing two thirds or whatever they wanted, he lost it all .... the claim was entirely bullshit, and everybody nearby knows it, because there are still oldtimers alive who were clearing that area in the 1930s, it was heavily timbered with lots of caoba and cedro, and had had no agriculture of any kind practiced on it for hundreds of years, probably during the classic maya period and not since ... but these people had connections superior to his, and that's all there was to it, he lost a ranch and herd that he'd been building all his life ... and he was just as 'indian' by blood as they were, if not more, it wasn't a race thing, but a thing of crafty opportunists versus a plodding worker who minded his own g.d. business The shame of this sort of thing - and there are other examples of it - is that there is good reason for such laws, people have been robbed of their land, and should rightly have a claim on it, in many cases .... but too many times, the law gets 'enforced' on the wrong people, and not at all applied where it should be