The True Elder Statesmen

I was recently reading about an organization called 'The Elders". This is an organization founded by a terrorist, known as Nelson Mandela. It includes Kofi Anan, former head of the most useless organization on the planet (the UN) and, best of all, renowned failed President Jimmy Carter. I cannot even express how pathetic this is. These people, most of whom ruined a country they were in charge of, have now banded together to promote more ruining of other countries. But then I remembered a time when these types were in charge. A time before I was born, when Harold Wilson ruled Britain, when Gough Whitlam ruled Australia and Jimmy Carter ruled the USA. It was a dark time. These people forced their failed economic policies on the people of these countries and allowed socialism to run rampant in the world. It would have been a dark time, but thank God there were people to oppose them. And in particular, three people, three paragons of justice, truth and strength. Three men trying desperately to rescue a fast decaying world. These three were the true Elder Statesmen.

Antonio de Oliveria Salazar was the President of Portugal. A defiant right wing nationalist, Salazar stood strong and true for Portuguese values. Salazar created a strong, defiant, economically prosperous Portugal. He refused, despite international pressure, to grant independence to the colonies of the Portuguese Colonial Empire, and fought long and hard against the afrocentric Marxist guerrillas who dared raise their pathetic fists against Portugal. Had he not been overthrown in a coup in his own country, there is no doubt he would have won and it is likely that Rhodesia would have too. 

Ian Smith was Prime Minister of Rhodesia during the countries most turbulent period. The British government had decided that the country of Rhodesia would be given independence only with African majority rule. The Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, had decided to grant independence to every sort of uncivilized dictatorship, yet the democratic Rhodesia would not. However, his plans were thwarted by Ian Smith, the first Prime Minister born in Rhodesia, who came to world attention in this defiant interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFR-gq… Ian Smith, who had served the British Empire in the Second World War, declared independence and fought a bloody civil war against black nationalists. The former white minority leader is now considered a hero by most people in Rhodesia (now known as Zimbabwe) today. Though Rhodesia lost that war, they held out for 15 years, with the rest of the world against them. And of course, the war killed 10, 000 + afrocentric Marxist savages. Whenever I hear someone advocate a principle similar to that of the people Smith and Salazar fought against I always remind them that in Rhodesia they didn't tolerate people who thought like that - they shot them.

Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen was the Premier of Queensland, a state of Australia. Australia, like the US, is a federal country. That means that there are certain powers reserved only for the states. And when the left wing Gough Whitlam came to power as the Australian Prime Minister, he set about infringing on the rights of the states. However, he had not counted on the determination of Joh Bjelke-Petersen, who frustrated Whitlams every plan. Bjelke-Petersen was very popular in Queensland. A licensed pilot, he flew about Queensland giving speeches and advocated Queensland seceding from Australia and supporting Rhodesia and Portugal in Africa. A staunch monarchist, he was a strong advocate for keeping the Queen as the constitutional head of state. It is said that it was with almost gleeful joy that he oversaw the downfall of the Whitlam government. 

So why are these three such heroes in my eyes? Two reasons. Firstly, they were all men who possessed an authoritarian streak but at heart loved liberty most of all. This is what can be said about my own political views. Secondly, though Salazar was overthrown, Bjelke-Petersen was forced into resignation and Smith lost his country to communism, they all sent a strong message to the other western countries about their own governments. The people of the west realized that if they ever wanted to defeat the communist threat and win the cold war, they would need new leaders. Wilson, Carter and Whitlam all fell from power and were replaced by new leaders. Australia got the anti communist, if weak, Malcolm Frazier as their Prime Minister. However, it was truly the British and the Americans who got great leaders. We British got Margaret Thatcher, who pulled the Falkland Islands from the jaws of an Argentine junta, pulled Britain out of economic depression and helped end the Cold War. As for the Americans, they got Reagan, one of the greatest Presidents the United States ever had. It just goes to show the effect these three had on the world, by sticking to three principles: stand up for what you believe in, never give your enemies what they don't deserve and, most importantly, decolonize nothing!