Should the Concourt Order The Citizen to Apologize to McBride, for calling him a murderer?
Radical Honesty argues: Only if SA's TRC intentions are “an ever-rising tide of corporate and political bullshite” to coverup their TRC Fraud
16 March 2011
Andrea Muhrrteyn
Why We Are White Refugees
Radical Honesty submissions to the Constitutional Court, in the matter of The Citizen v. Robert McBride (CCT 23-10). In directions dated, 7 March, the Justices asked all parties to make submissions on whether they should order The Citizen to apologize to McBride. More specifically:“Should the Court find that any statement The Citizen published about Mr. McBride was actionably defamatory, would it be appropriate, in view of the findings of the High Court and the nature of the submissions before the Supreme Court of Appeal and this Court, for the Court to order The Citizen to publish an apology?”
Radical Honesty Submission on Forced Apologies
Radical Honesty's submission (PDF) is as follows:
[2] As detailed in the First Amicus Heads of Argument: These submissions (a) address alternative legal arguments to those of both the Applicant and Respondent, i.e. from a Radical Honesty culture/religion perspective; (b) ‘argues points deemed too far reaching for emphasis by parties intent on winning their particular case’ ; (c) ‘apprises the court of broad-based legal, social, economic, ecological and cultural enquiry implications for its consideration to avoid unintended consequences for groups not before the court,’ (d) informs the court of information to base its decision on a larger, more comprehensive, and more accurate reality based natural law legal framework, so that the court’s final judgment shall include a fully-informed refined legal analysis, which provides equal protection to all SA’s tribes; and (e) provides a perspective from a culture practicing sincere sensate forgiveness.
First Amicus Cultural Forgiveness, Reconciliation and Apology Differences to Parties:
Pema Chodron: “The job of a spiritual friend is to insult you” |
[3] First Amicus is not a member of either the Applicant (Citizen) or Respondent (McBride) culture of intellectual fake insincere ‘forgiveness’ and ‘reconciliation’; nor its hyper-sensitivity to ‘insults’. Radical Honesty are far closer to Pema Chodron’s views of ‘insults’ – “The job of a spiritual friend is to insult you” -- as detailed in Pema Chodron: Troublemakers.
[4] In Radical Honesty we very brutally clearly define what we mean by forgiveness, and no Radical Honesty member would ever pretend to another that they have forgiven them, until they have gone through the process of reaching sensate forgiveness. Sincere forgiveness is also a process of acute personal responsibility; so that we can honestly forgive ourselves for our contribution to the misunderstanding.
[5] Nobody in the Radical Honesty community would ever force anyone to make an apology; or even recommend that such an apology be made; for we believe that the only apologies that contribute to meaningful sincere spontaneous and loving relationships are those that are totally 100% sincere, from the gut and the heart. We do not do public relations – i.e. bullshit the public -- with fake insincere apologies.Radical Honesty Guru Scott Ginsberg describes Edward Bernaysian PR protocols as “the ever-rising tide of corporate and political bullshite”.











