Talk:Fritz Joubert Duquesne

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"In 1916, Duquesne was awarded the Iron Cross for the sabotage and sinking of the HMS Hampshire, killing Field Marshal Kitchener and most of the crew. According to German records, Duquesne assumed the identity of Russian Duke Boris Zakrevsky and joined Kitchener in Scotland. On route to Russia, Duquesne signaled a German U-Boat to alert them that Kitchener’s ship was approaching. He then escaped on a raft just before the HMS Hampshire was destroyed.[1]"

This has to be the stupidest thing I have ever read with the intention of being believed. Even coming from the mouth of a culturally-retarded Boer on a website as poor as this, it is incredible. Did it not come to your attention, at any point, that if it was so easy for you to galvanize your idealised and far-fetched, unsubstantiated opinions by writing about it on Wikipedia, nobody but the stupidest of your Dutch compatriots (granted there would have to be quite a lot in South Africa given just how bad it is there) would believe it? You're dumb quite simply. The fact that someone with such a limited education could publish this on the internet as unequivaocal truth belies the fact that the Boers really can't deal with any style of Government and were much better at farming sheep. It's indicative of the idea that South Africa is a leech on the world, living of the technolgy and support of other countries that really shouldn't exist either, and the goodwill of others that don't know any better. The quality of life for the majority of people in SA would have been greatly improved, (the obvious weakness of the education system wiped out) had the Boers been suppressed after their continually understated defeat. What little cultural sparks South Africa has shown is largely the result of those with strong connections to Britain, or those following what was clearly the righteous way, like Mandella. If this is the calibre of current Boer history, what else on this website, if not the who internet, is to be believed? Why should we feel sympathy for young Boer prisoners of British "concentration camps", when the average South African is complacent enough to believe that their struggle for independence played out along lines that could have been set by the poorest of action screenwriters 90s Hollywood had to offer?

Please respond because I don't know were to start (hence the scattershot above) and can't help myself from becoming complacent to the idea that any well-consructed, coherent argument between us would result in a resounding defeat for you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.65.69.179 (talk) 02:28, 29 December 2007 (UTC)