SPRINGBOK CYBER NEWSLETTER
October 2012 edition
In the February 2012 edition of the SCN we expressed some misgivings about the suitability of Mitt Romney to be the GOP candidate for this year’s U.S.
Our concerns about Mitt Romney centred on his perceived pro-German sympathies and his Mormon faith – not that we object to anyone’s choice of religion, but rather because we worried that his faith would alienate a substantial percentage of the American electorate. As the campaign has progressed, however, it has become apparent that Mitt Romney is probably more pro-British than pro-German (as his high praise for Baroness Thatcher and his wife Ann’s effervescent pride in her Welsh ancestry confirms). Furthermore it has become clear that far fewer people than we originally imagined would be alienated by his Mormon religion. Most importantly, however, Mitt Romney possesses one most vital attribute when it comes to November, namely that he is not Barack Hussein Obama.
We were criticized by a number of American readers for stating in our February 2012 edition that Obama’s first term in office hadn’t proved as disastrous as we had feared. We stand by this assessment (after all he was prepared to dispatch the evil Islamic terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, and to continue with drone attacks against terrorist bases in Pakistan Iraq Afghanistan Clinton
Of course the mystery remains about how Obama was ever elected president in the first place. Bizarrely there still seem to be many in the U.S. Hawaii Kenya
Mitt Romney may seem to be an unlikely saviour of the West, but there were far worse possibilities, even among this year’s GOP contenders. It is essential that he is victorious in November therefore, as it may be the West’s last chance for salvation – and we’re not being over-melodramatic. We wish him well.
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SPRINGBOK CLUB NEWS
In September the Springbok Club staged a trip to Greenwich in order to see both the restored Cutty Sark and Greenwich Park, the venue for all the Equestrian Events at the recent London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. As well as visiting these two planned locations the Springbok Club party also toured Greenwich Palace, where they were able to see the famous painted ceiling featuring King William III and Queen Mary II seated in splendour – which as this event took place on exactly the same day as the grand march in Belfast commemorating the signing of the Ulster Covenant (where a number of Springbok Club members from Ulster participated) proved a particularly appropriate setting!
On Saturday 20th October the Springbok Club will be supporting a trip to Chatham Dockyard which forms part of New Britain
During the afternoon of Saturday 10th November the Springbok Club will be staging its annual UDI Day commemoration dinner, at which a prominent ex-Rhodesian activist now resident in the UK London
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The Swinton Circle held its 2012 AGM last month, at which a new Executive Committee was elected for the forthcoming year, and a minor amendment to the Swinton Circle Yorkshire family and was the uncle of Admiral Lord Edward Hawke. After a successful military career, during which he served under Marlborough Low Countries , he entered politics, and finished his parliamentary life as MP for Portsmouth
On Monday 22nd October the Swinton Circle will be supporting New Britain London
In November the Swinton Circle will be addressed by a famous former Conservative MP and MEP, and in December by a DUP MP. Full details about both these events will be appearing in future editions of the SCN.
Membership fees and donations to the Swinton Circle can now be made via PayPal by accessing the organisation's web-site at: www.swintoncircle.co.uk [Simply 'click' on the line "PayPal = The safer, easier way to pay online" at the bottom of the site's Home Page. If the error message "This content cannot be displayed in a frame" then appears simply 'click' on the line "Open this content in a new window".]
The Swinton Circle
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New Britain will be staging a special three-day celebration of Trafalgar Day this year over the weekend of 20th/22nd October. The details are as follows :-
1) A trip to Chatham Historic Dockyard (where HMS Victory was of course built) on Saturday 20th October. Assemble at approximately 12.00 noon by the main entrance to the Visitor's Centre (near to the former Pembroke Gate). The day will consist of the laying of a wreath at the dock where HMS Victory was built, and then a general tour round the attractions of the Historic Dockyard, before a meal at one of the excellent restaurants now situated there. Cost of admission is £10.00 per person. Those travelling by train should disembark at Chatham Station (if travelling from London Kent
2) A special reception at the Immanuel Church Hall, Pleasington near Blackburn in Lancashire on Sunday 21st October, commencing at 15.00 hrs, at which it is anticipated that the Mayor and Mayoress of Blackburn will be in attendance.
3) Participation in a wreath-laying ceremony at Admiral Viscount Nelson’s grave in St.Paul’s Cathedral on Monday 22nd October at 11.00 hrs, followed by a visit to the near-by Hall of the Stationery and Newspaper Makers’ Livery Company, and then a buffet lunch at the crypt of the church of St. Magnus the Martyr near London Bridge commencing at 14.00 hrs. A charge of £6.00 per head will be asked for this buffet lunch. There be a small charge of £6.00 per head for the buffet lunch.
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OPEN MESSAGE TO ANDREW MARR FROM THE AUSTRALIAN MONARCHIST LEAGUE
We have recently been informed of the following excellent and encouraging letter written by Mr. Philip Benwell, the National Chairman of the Australian Monarchist League, to the BBC presenter Andrew Marr regarding certain errors relating to Australia’s constitutional position in an otherwise excellent programme which he presented about the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. It reads as follows :-
We have recently been informed of the following excellent and encouraging letter written by Mr. Philip Benwell, the National Chairman of the Australian Monarchist League, to the BBC presenter Andrew Marr regarding certain errors relating to Australia’s constitutional position in an otherwise excellent programme which he presented about the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. It reads as follows :-
”Dear Mr Marr,
”In your otherwise excellent programme The Diamond Queen, you say in episode 3 that 'Oaths of Allegiance have been removed in
”Accordingly to our Constitution, which can only be changed by a referendum vote of the people: "OATH. I, A.B., do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, Her heirs and successors according to law. SO HELP ME GOD!"
”It is too late now to correct the false impression you have given. You bear a great responsibility to ensure that your comments are factual. In this regard you have failed.
”Yours sincerely,
”Philip Benwell”
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PLEA FROM THE INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE
The following most distressing appeal has recently been received from thee IFAW :-
“I'm sickened by a recent attack on elephants, and I'm writing you with this urgent plea to help them.
”IFAW staff have just returned from Bouba Ndjida National Park in Cameroon where we witnessed the aftermath of a horrifying slaughter of these majestic animals.
”To date more than 300 elephant carcasses have been found and poachers have claimed a total of 650.
”That's almost half the Park's total population of these beautiful creatures slaughtered - in just a couple of months!
”Entire elephant families – inCameroon
”We need to train and equip rangers to protect our majestic elephant friends.
”We need to end the illegal trade in elephant ivory by continuing our groundbreaking law enforcement work with INTERPOL and our critical training of customs officials.
”We need to protect vital elephant habitat and care for the animals wherever they live.
”We need YOU.
”You can help stop the elephant massacre.
”Ivory poachers will stop at nothing to get their hands on ivory.
”And these killers are using a sickening new method: they trap a baby elephant and wait for its mother to come to rescue it. When the mother arrives, they spray her with bullets and kill her in cold blood.
”Please protect elephants from these vicious, ruthless killers.
”Elephants are so much like us. Females in particular are very family-oriented and social. They care so deeply for their young they will risk their own lives to protect them. And they grieve for their lost loved ones, often standing vigil over their bones for days on end and even "burying" them with brush and dirt.
”There's no denying - they need and deserve our protection. And they had it – for a short time. The trade in ivory was banned in 1989. Demand dropped and poaching plummeted.
”But some governments got greedy. They wanted to sell their huge stockpiles of ivory in so-called ‘one-off’ ivory sell-offs.
”The ‘one-off’ sale of 1999 was followed by a second in 2008...and the message was clear for the poachers: since governments will eventually sell the ivory, let's kill elephants, collect their tusks, and slip our illegal ivory into the legal market.
”Elephants are dying every day because of this illegal trade, and they need your help now.
”Please give now to stop the elephant massacre.
”Together we can make a better tomorrow for elephants and all animals.
”Thank you.”
”IFAW staff have just returned from Bouba Ndjida National Park in Cameroon where we witnessed the aftermath of a horrifying slaughter of these majestic animals.
”To date more than 300 elephant carcasses have been found and poachers have claimed a total of 650.
”That's almost half the Park's total population of these beautiful creatures slaughtered - in just a couple of months!
”Entire elephant families – in
”We need to train and equip rangers to protect our majestic elephant friends.
”We need to end the illegal trade in elephant ivory by continuing our groundbreaking law enforcement work with INTERPOL and our critical training of customs officials.
”We need to protect vital elephant habitat and care for the animals wherever they live.
”We need YOU.
”You can help stop the elephant massacre.
”Ivory poachers will stop at nothing to get their hands on ivory.
”And these killers are using a sickening new method: they trap a baby elephant and wait for its mother to come to rescue it. When the mother arrives, they spray her with bullets and kill her in cold blood.
”Please protect elephants from these vicious, ruthless killers.
”Elephants are so much like us. Females in particular are very family-oriented and social. They care so deeply for their young they will risk their own lives to protect them. And they grieve for their lost loved ones, often standing vigil over their bones for days on end and even "burying" them with brush and dirt.
”There's no denying - they need and deserve our protection. And they had it – for a short time. The trade in ivory was banned in 1989. Demand dropped and poaching plummeted.
”But some governments got greedy. They wanted to sell their huge stockpiles of ivory in so-called ‘one-off’ ivory sell-offs.
”The ‘one-off’ sale of 1999 was followed by a second in 2008...and the message was clear for the poachers: since governments will eventually sell the ivory, let's kill elephants, collect their tusks, and slip our illegal ivory into the legal market.
”Elephants are dying every day because of this illegal trade, and they need your help now.
”Please give now to stop the elephant massacre.
”Together we can make a better tomorrow for elephants and all animals.
”Thank you.”
The IFAW can be contacted in this regard at: http://www.ifaw.org/united-kingdom/
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SCN BLOGSPOT
It is alas taking us quite a bit longer than we anticipated to place all back-issues of the SCN on our new blogspot, though slowly but surely we are getting there. Hopefully all back issues will be in place within the next month or so, but many can already be viewed at :-
http://springbokcybernewsletter.blogspot.co.uk/
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S.A.PATRIOT-IN-EXILE
We are happy to be able to announce that the next edition of S.A.Patriot-in-Exile, No.37, is now well on the way to publication. We will still be requiring further funds in order to cover the printing costs and to distribute it effectively of course, and donations to assist in this task can be made via PayPal at the Springbok Club web-site (www.springbokclub.org.uk) or by cheque made payable to “Patriotic Press” and sent to: S.A.Patriot-in-Exile, BM SAPAT, London WC1N 3XX, U.K.
Copies of S.A.Patriot-in-Exile (editions 30 to 36) are still available price R5.00 or 50p each, as well as batches of 50 copies (including copies of the original S.A.Patriot) price R80.00 or £8.00 (plus 20% for p&p.).
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW ?
No.167: JOHN HIRST of Bexley.
John Hirst, an ex-South African, initially made friendly contact with us several years ago. Evidently a teacher by profession, he was living at the time in the Bexley area of south-east London
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RECOMMENDED WEB-SITE OF THE MONTH
For those who are unable to attend the Lewes Bonfire Night celebrations this year there are several videos of last year’s parades and displays available via YouTube. The following video of one of the Cliffe B.S. parades really captures the atmosphere! :-
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTER
Sir,
It would not be that easy for me to go over to the UK South Africa
Yours etc.,
NLT, Durban Natal
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BLOWING HIS COVER
Sir,
I see that you’ve had some problems from someone called Ryan Marcovich.
I therefore went to the trouble of searching him out on FaceBook. It was quite some problem as he’s evidently adopted the weird middle name of “Ofthefamily” – but I got there in the end.
His FaceBook Cover Picture contains the mask of the Marxist “Occupy” movement, and also seems to advertise a subversive left-wing gathering. Definitely not someone who stands for what we stand for therefore! Also, when you read his “About Me” section he seems a bit of a nutter.
Yours etc.,
“Cromwell”, Devon , U.K.
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GERMAN MASTER PLAN
Sir,
Re. the Greek economic catastrophe. As anyone with any sense of reality could have predicted, the entire Euro project - a "one size fits all" idea whereby all the great nation-states of Europe surrender their economic independence to the most powerful member - was destined for failure and disaster.
Great success forGermany Greece Germany Iraq Mediterranean Sea around Portugal Germany North Africa .
Great success for
Yours etc.,
H. Koch, Pretoria Transvaal .
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