It appears we not only have a temporary shortage of toilet paper but a permanent shortage of common sense.

You can exist without toilet paper since mankind did until 1920. It didn’t come to West Virginia until about 1940 based on my personal experience. But we couldn’t afford it. Food has been around a little longer and is considered indispensable while toilet paper is only important.

The Daily Mail reported on a British study that revealed any city or nation is only “nine meals from anarchy.” The report said that it would take only “nine meals–three full days without food on supermarket shelves–before law and order started to break down, and British streets descended into chaos.”

The reason for empty shelves and empty stomachs isn’t important since it could be a national lockdown resulting in disruptions in the food chain or political unrest, or a natural disaster. People will react as they have in all nations, in all ages, and under all circumstances—panic, fighting, looting, thievery, even killing to get food.

I remind you that all of mankind’s trouble started with food when Adam and Eve refused to obey God about food. And it has been a constant struggle for mankind since that day. Man’s chief drive through the ages is to find enough food and water to sustain himself. In the Garden of Eden, the human race received a mandate that man would have to fight the bugs and beetles, weeds and weevils in order to produce enough food to sustain himself and his family. God didn’t promise us a rose garden but He gave us the ability to grow one for ourselves that includes beans, potatoes, corn, onions, and tomatoes—even okra and beets if you are really hungry.

However, it would require work, a dirty four-letter word.

If we don’t work, we don’t eat; therefore, we starve. Some people are too lazy to work and some simply think it is foolish to work if they can convince others to provide them a place to stay and food to eat.

Animals instinctively know that food is required to survive as the daily struggle is evidenced with the life and death battle in the wild kingdom. Recently, we saw hundreds of hungry monkeys fighting over one single banana in Thailand after the coronavirus pandemic caused a massive drop in the number of tourists who normally feed them. Days later, they (the monkeys) fought over a cup of yogurt.

It may be the tourists tomorrow.

Moreover, there is no record of monkeys ever fighting over toilet paper.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, people looted “in order to feed themselves and their families.” However, much of the looting in all disasters is greed, not groceries—and stealing is never justified.

The major cities and nations of the world are locked down; streets are empty; schools are closed; stores, restaurants, and markets are vacant; airplanes are parked; the world has stopped because of an invisible bug—the Chinese coronavirus.

What if there is a sudden shutdown of oil supplies—no fuel for trucks that move food to our cities; no diesel to run farmers’ tractors; production methods are now such that 95% of all the food we eat in the world today is oil-dependent. So what happens when wells are not pumping, trucks are not running, and grocery shelves are empty?

Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy at City University, London declared, “We are sleep-walking into a crisis.” London imports 80% of its food, so London is close to a major crisis.

We are in big trouble if farmers can’t produce food, truckers can’t deliver to grocery stores, and farmers quit the farm and move to the city.

Zerohedge.com reported the average farm income has fallen to near 15-year lows in the U.S. resulting in bankruptcies, suicide, and farmers giving up and leaving the farm. Farmers are not sleeping well because major commodity prices have plunged “by about half since 2012, farm debt jumped by about a third since 2007, bad weather prevented farmers from planting nearly 20 million acres in 2019 alone, and U.S. soybean exports to China dropped 75 percent from 2017 to 2018 amid festering trade tensions.”

Obviously, there are major problems down on the farm so that means problems at the dining room table. Farmers are fleeing the farms and if they don’t farm, we don’t feast.

USA Today reported that more than 450 farmers killed themselves in nine Midwestern states from 2014 to 2018 all related to failure to successfully produce food.

Americans spend more money on food than on almost anything else in their budget. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nationally “we spend more than $7,700 per year on groceries and going out to eat. For rural and suburban consumers it’s their third highest expense after housing and transportation.” City residents spend more on housing followed by food than anything else.

This coronavirus may change us in many ways including the way we eat as happened with other plagues. During the Middle Ages, a person’s status determined what he ate and how he dressed. Consider, for example, the average diet of an English peasant before the 1300s when their diet consisted of bread and oatmeal pottage; very little bacon; and thin ale. Following the plague, their diet consisted of beef and mutton instead of bacon; wheat bread instead of barley; fresh fish instead of salted herring. The peasants ate better after the plague than before!

However, the peasants were held back in their attempt to get better food by lecturers, literature, and legislation criticizing the “greed” of the workers and tried to restrict their ability to earn better wages and eat better food. In other words, the poor needed to stay poor.

William Langland’s Piers Plowman in 1360 reminds us that beggars even ate better following the pestilence and they refused the cheap ale and wanted the “brownest that brewers sell.” Moreover, they demanded fresh fish instead of bacon.

Poet John Gower in the 1400s declared if a person was hired to serve in a household, he scorned “all ordinary food… he grumbles… and he will not return tomorrow unless you provide something better.” The peasants, while earlier were pleased to eat “course food,” now felt empowered and became demanding.

It was obvious that the peasant class knew they had far more power since workers were few, so they demanded the right to dress up and to eat up. The upper class did not like their uppity ways; however, it was inevitable that the world had changed and was going to change even more.

Sumptuary legislation (an attempt to regulate personal habits on moral or religious grounds to preserve class distinctions) prevented people from eating food that was not appropriate to their status and was intended to control conspicuous consumption. Such arrogant laws restricted the kind of food available to people based on income and social position. For example, the English sumptuary legislation of 1363 declared that lads “shall have meat or fish to eat once a day,” and at other times “food appropriate to their estate, such as milk, butter, and cheese.” Likewise, live-in servants were to receive “appropriate, not excessive, food and drink.”

It seems the English had come through the plague but their common sense had not improved.

I suggest people stop, take a deep breath, be thankful you’re not living in the England of the Middle Ages, go home and read the books you have boasted of reading, including the Bible, and get to know your kids better and thank God for life, liberty, and health—then plant a garden to be sure of having food this summer.

It seems we not only have a temporary shortage of toilet paper but a permanent shortage of common sense.

(Dr. Don Boys is a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives who ran a large Christian school in Indianapolis and wrote columns for USA Today for 8 years. Boys authored 18 books, the most recent Muslim Invasion: The Fuse is Burning! eBook is available here with the printed edition (and other titles) at www.cstnews.com. Follow him on Facebook at Don Boys, Ph.D.; and visit his blog. Send request to DBoysphd@aol.com for a free subscription to his articles, and click here to support his work with a donation.)

South Africa is about to be devoured by black vultures. The nation is dying or more precisely, it is being killed by its own leaders who will pick it to pieces like a flock of disgusting vultures.

But the U.S. media are silent and less so in the United Kingdom. Maybe, just maybe if the revolting affair is ignored, the vultures will go fly back to wherever vultures nest.

The mainstream press in the U.S. is once again silent after major politician Velaphi Khumalo, declared, “I want to cleanse this country of all white people…They deserved to be hacked and killed. You must be skinned alive and your children used as fertilizer.” The African National Congress (ANC) party member and government official was forced to apologize and pay a fine for his incendiary threat. He was suspended with full salary but is now back to work—a paid vacation. This case has been a major issue for about two years in South Africa but U.S. media seem to be so busy with a possible “Russian collusion” that they don’t have enough ink or media time to deal with the death of South Africa.

The U.S. media has also been silent about the president of a South African political party who called for the deaths of white people. Andile Mngxitama is the president of South Africa’s socialist Black First Land First Party (BFL) and it is shocking that he is not in the hoosegow. He yelled, “You kill one of us, we kill five white people,” at a Saturday rally where he called for revolution. “We kill their children, we kill their women, we kill their dogs, we kill their cats, we kill anything we find in our way.”

Andile is a real sweetheart.

Another BFL official, Lindsay Maasdorp, stated his views reflecting his party’s belief that all white people in South Africa are criminals by virtue of their existence.

Why would anyone think South Africa is on a suicidal road to destruction?

The sky is dark over South Africa as vultures, buzzards, and other birds of prey are gathering for a feast.

In a social media post, Mampuru Mampuru, a member of the South African Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party, called for white genocide in his country. Mampuru wrote in his own vernacular, “We need to Unite as black People, there are less than 5 millions white in South Africa vs 45 million of us. We can kill all this white within two weeks. We have the army and the police. If those who are killing farmers can do it what are you waiting for. Shoot the boer, kill the farmer.”

Here was another public call to kill all white people in South Africa and the media is silent.
He also said, “Who is the devil? A white man is the devil.” Again, he wrote, “It’s time our people organize n kill wives, sons n daughters of any white USA police officer.” Showing his twisted knowledge of history, he wrote, “Never shall we forget how white people took our land away from our great grandfather’s. when time is right we will implement ‘Dubull_bhunu.’ [shoot, shoot] All white are evil.”

Such irresponsible racism was only encouraged when they heard their President Jacob Zuma singing the genocide song himself, leading a crowd in a musical chant, “We are going to shoot them with machine guns, they are going to run . . . The cabinet will shoot them, with the machine gun . . . Shoot the Boer, we are going to hit them, they are going to run.” The high court has declared the song a hate crime (oh, really) but it is impossible to charge thousands of people who sing it at political rallies. And when the song leader is the president.

Deputy Minister of Higher Education Mduduzi Manana, a member of the ruling African National Congress, declared on the floor of Parliament during a discussion of the killing of white farmers, “Bury them alive.”

Black thugs are listening and following their orders.

“My grandfather says a good farmer is a dead farmer,” declared Jason Mfusi the leader of the South African Students Congress of the North-West University. The Times of London reported in 2014 that four thousand white farmers have already been killed, and five are being killed each week.

Mseleni Mogolwane Gwabeni, who is a member of police force in Port Elizabeth, declared, “then we must continue to kill more of their farmers at least to make up for what they did to us.” Policeman Chris Gumotso, who works at the South African Police Service youth crime prevention desk placed the following on Facebook: “All white man…deserve to die…in future..f*©k u..Mr white man.”

The sky gets darker every day.

Julius Malema, Member of Parliament and leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) commented, “The time for reconciliation is over. Now is the time for justice. We must ensure that we restore the dignity of our people without compensating the criminals who stole our land.” He told his supporters he was “not calling for the slaughter of white people—at least for now.”

On Nov. 26, 2018, Malema “launched a brazen attack on ANC leaders (who had expelled him from the ANC), referring to them as “baboons.” Well, they may be thugs, thieves, and tyrants but they are not baboons. However, when you watch the televised sitting of their parliament and watch the fistfights and chaos on the floor, you might agree that baboons don’t act that way.

The nation’s first black president Nelson Mandela promised jobs and homes but he and his successors failed to keep the promise. Millions of poor Blacks have stood in line for years waiting for homes that cannot be produced. They are tired of waiting; and hunger and fear make their frustrations turn to dangerous anger.

What is usually overlooked by the media is that there are about half a million Whites living in abject poverty along with millions of Blacks. Now that the nation has been “liberated,” the Blacks have priority over Whites. Blacks don’t envy starving Whites, but they cast lustful eyes toward white farmers. I have seen posters warning white land owners, “Everything you have is ours. We’re coming for it.”

So, every problem of Blacks is blamed on apartheid; however, honest Blacks know this is not true. Even The New York Times did an article recently stating, “The African National Congress, always a Communist political party, has controlled South Africa since the ascension of Mandela in 1994.” The ANC is run by thugs, thieves, and tyrants, but internecine fighting has erupted into one faction putting murder contracts on others. The thieves are killing each other.

Since the once prosperous nation is swiftly moving into chaos, the now black-controlled government (remember how terrible it was for the government to be white-controlled) recently voted overwhelmingly to take land owned by whites without compensation and give it to Blacks. In polite circles, that is known as thievery but now it is legal thievery.

White farmers in South Africa go back to the 1600s when their white ancestors drained the swamps, leveled the jungle, dispensed with malaria and other diseases, and build roads, railroads, homes, hospitals, airports, schools, and modern infrastructure whereby South Africa became a great nation—until greedy Blacks (with some greedy Whites) stole everything that wasn’t nailed down.

On March 23, 2018, the Daily Mail reported that white farmers in South Africa “have the most dangerous job in the country, are twice as likely to be murdered than police and are killed at four times the rate of the wider community, a rights group claims. …Some of the killings are reported to have been barbaric, with farm owners tortured, raped, burned alive and slaughtered in front of their families.”

The conditions are ripe for revolution as millions of Blacks and Whites are hungry, out of work, and living in shanties as they watch ANC leaders living in gated mansions, driving around in expensive Mercedes from which they dispense fistfuls of money out of their trunk to the low level thugs.

It is one thing to browbeat and dismiss even half a million starving Whites but it is another thing to take land from white farmers and do so without compensation. White farmers are well armed and will fight. Gangs of black thugs have attacked hundreds of white farms killing as many as five per week. The farmers are taking measures to resist the “legal” taking of their land. They have organized, strategized, and regularly practice weapon handling.

They have vowed not to go quietly into the dark night.

The sky over South Africa is dark with birds of prey—waiting—more aware than the U.S., England, and the United Nations that weeks of feasting on the decaying flesh of hundreds of thousands of people is imminent—Blacks and Whites.

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