Susan Shabangu is my new hero

Posted on April 24th, 2008 by Richard Catto 2,722 views

Yes, it’s true. I’ve been thinking about what she said and about the various reactions to her, and right now I’m falling on the side of supporting her.

Here, for the first time, in the flesh is an ANC politician who is tough on crime. I think many South Africans had given up on ever experiencing this day, but it has come.

Probably the most controversial thing she said was her urging of policemen to ignore the Constitution of South Africa and just kill the bastards (referring to criminals).

"One-shot one-kill" Shabangu has told the police that they should not worry about firing warning shots anymore.

"Just kill the bastards."

Dammit, you just gotta love the whole concept. Killing criminals is yummy stuff.

But you know, I think we can go even one better than that. We can totally and utterly destroy criminals and dirty deal them all the way down the line. We don’t need to stick to our agreements with them. We can set them up, get them to dance to our tune and then kill them anyway. Just for kicks. Just because we’re pissed. Just because they deserve to die.

Take this article for instance. A gang of thugs attacked a man and his daughter, robbing them and gang-raping the woman. Now one of the young punks, a minor has pleaded guilty, turned state’s witness and is now offering testimony against the rest of his thugs for a reduced sentence. He confesses that he was the first to rape the woman.

Old enough to rape, old enough to die, in my opinion. Sure, tell him he’s got a deal, let him sing, get the convictions on the rest of the thugs and then snuff him anyway. Screw his deal. Screw honouring our word to a criminal thug rapist. Just snuff his ass when we’re done with him. We have no shortage of punk rapists and if we snuff out a couple of thousand maybe the rest of them will think very hard before pulling out their puny penises.

And if not, well we won’t have to think hard before wiping them out. It will have become an automatic reaction by then. See a rapist, shoot a rapist. No arrests. No paperwork. Just one clean kill. And the thanks of your community.

And as for the Constitution and the legality of all this? Like Susan Shabangu says, we ought not to worry about this because that’s her department. She’ll look after all the rules and regulations. The ANC has something like a 73% majority in Parliament which means they can amend the Constitution without obtaining any other political party’s agreement.

I think it could work.

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