St. Louis CofCC Blog

Two updates for the Poetic Justice section of the St. Louis CofCC Static Webpage.

(1) On Amy Biehl, from KSDK:

Students at Rockwood Summit High School in suburban St. Louis will hear a powerful message about reconciliation — a lesson taught by the mother of a murder victim and the man who committed the crime.

Linda Biehl and Ntobeko Peni will speak Monday at the school in Fenton. Biehl’s daughter, Amy, was killed in South Africa in 1993 while trying to promote democracy.

Peni was at the time a member of a radical political group. He was one of the men convicted and imprisoned in the killing of Amy Biehl.

After four years in prison, he sought forgiveness from the family. Linda Biehl not only forgave him but hired him as program director of the California-based foundation that bears her daughter’s name.

In July 2003, the last time Linda Biehl was in St. Louis on behalf of said foundation, Amy Biehl’s killers were then getting out of prison in South Africa. Now we find out that the mother hires one of her daughter’s killers to work in the foundation named after the woman he murdered. That would be like the ADL hiring Hitler in 1946.

(2) Some people will never learn. Judith Todd now admits what we all knew, that Robert Mugabe was a thug dictator all along. The first story about her in the Poetic Justice section, as you can see, was that she lost her Zimbabwean citizenship at the hands of the dicator that she helped bring to power.

This new story from the London Sunday Times has two noteworthy points. First, her decision to side with Mugabe and his ZANU-PF party was merely a matter of political retribution towards Ian Smith, because her father, former Rhodesian PM Garfield Todd, and Smith, disagreed on voting rights for blacks, and Smith actually had the audacity to confine those egalitarian crazies to their farm while he had power, as if they had to be quarantined, as if they were the purveyors of a highly communicable disease which threatened the very existence of Rhodesia (and it turns out Smith knew what he was doing). In other words, she toppled the entirety of white society in Rhodesia simply because she and another white person had a political disagreement.

Second:

But hasn’t what happened fully justified Ian Smith and the white racists who predicted that black rule would mean dictatorship, corruption and chaos? “You have to say they called it right. But if I had my time all over again I would oppose racism just as strongly as I did then.

In other words, she would do it all over again. Some people never learn anything, and some people are too infatuated with their quasi-religious social doctrines to learn anything.