Newsworthy-ish

2 items caught my attention in the news today. 1 about mugabe and the other about public indecency.

Lots of people are hoping that mugabe is going to announce his retirement this year. This is as per the SABC radio news, lead story this morning. Now there is just a whole lot in that story that i take great exception to. For a start, it's not news. Nothing happened. Some people are speculating and hoping for something as unlikely as the toothfairy going commercial.

Millions of people are sitting in dire poverty, waiting for this animal to ANNOUNCE his retirement. There is no will of the people, no best for the most going on there. All there is is a seriously sick man, a bunch of cowards around him, and our own dear leaders and all their adoration. The glaringly obvious fact, is that this is what mbeki holds as his ideal, with so much spin doctoring and wordplay coming out of the anc conference about the succession. I can't keep up with their arbitrary and hair splitting descriptions of their perception of how the world might look if only we closed our eyes and listened harder.

You hear what i'm typing? Really ... the world has more scope for assasination. Make some down side to standing up and mouthing off with no actual result other than a burgeoning bank account.

As an aside, despite the police denunciations etc, vigilantism is alive and well in south africa. WE THE PEOPLE. In the cape they're doing it right, going to the drug sellers houses.
The police are not our friends. They are the friends of the politicians, who are CERTAINLY not anyone's friend but their own.

Which brings me to the next story, in the JHB Metro paper. A couple were arrested for public indencency near Dobsonville. They were naked in a car and having sex. It was approximately midnight, they were parked (it seems) sufficiently out of the way to be ... unobvious, or discrete maybe.
So the police came along, arrested them, charged them, court case to follow.
Now here is the kicker ... the police said that they discourage people from having sex in their cars as it opens them up to violent crime (paraphrased). ummmmmm .... and harassment by the police it seems, which is remarkably similar to violent crime.

Please understand, i don't know the couple, or their scenario. I guess they should be inside somewhere, but at the same time they know that too. If they were there, they had no where else to go. And anyone anywhere getting sex is good, when consensual of course. They were not being a problem in any way. So now "for their own protection" (?) they are arrested and charged. Fuck that!!!

I have the dubious honour of having been arrested for exactly the same thing - public indecency.
With my wife. We weren't naked, were not in the car, and not having sex. However, it took a van with 6 policemen approximately 4 hours to arrest us, charge us, etc. They intimidated us, lied to their own superiors, did not follow due process, threatened my wife, lied to us, and generally fucked up our day rather solidly. Court on monday morning, the case was thrown out.

We're MARRIED, had kids at home with a babysitter and were literally just getting out for a while. They charged me with rape and wifey with prostitution, and told us we were lying that we're married.

This is not justice. This is neither protecting nor serving. My heart goes out to those 2 lovers. May the universe compensate them, since i know that they both were badly treated, for no reason at all.

Loud and proud .... FUCK THE PIGS (police ... i like real pigs)