Posted on 06/24/2005 6:40:09 PM PDT by BringBackMyHUAC
Mugabe Forbids Food Growing In Backyards - Millions Starving
Jan Lamprecht - 6/23/2005
Just as Eddie Cross of the opposition MDC predicted a short while back, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has wiped out homes, and even bulldozed grocery stores - in mid-winter. Eddie Cross estimated two million Blacks will become homeless as a result of the dictator’s actions. The UN estimates that this campaign, which has taken only 1 month, has already resulted in 1.5 million Blacks losing their homes. As unbelievable as this may sound, at the time when Zimbabwe needs to import 1.2 million tons of food to support its population, Mugabe has banned people from growing food in their own yards in urban areas to feed their own families. It appears to me that Mr. Mugabe wants to be in complete control of the food supply so that he can starve people at will.
The reasons given for his actions are absoluteely. The people are struggling to get food and stand for hours on end in food queues. The people are just trying to feed themselves in a country which has been on the verge of famine for years, and millions would already starve to death were it not for food from the UN or (secretly) from South Africa. They are, at best, just managing to survive.
In my book, Government by Deception, I wrote about the need for socialist governments to create a dependency on politicians. They work hard, as they try to control the populace, to find ways of making the people depend on them for everything, including food.
So far, only the United States criticized Mugabe’s action. South Africa has not only kept quiet, but actually supported the regime, both secretly and openly.
Where is the world?
Mugabe has said he will allow a UN inspection. But the Useless Nations - as the UN really should be called - will probably do little or even nothing.
What is happening is despicable. South Africa’s Apartheid regime was never even 1/100th as evil as Mugabe’s dictatorship. What is happening there is unprecedented in southern African history. And yet, the world has not seen the worst of Mugabe. If he is backed into a corner, this man will not just make millions homeless - he will kill millions.
He already wiped out 20,000 to 30,000 people belonging to the minority Matabele tribe in 1985 when out entire villages were destroyed. They were throwing Black people down wells. An old school friend of mine (see TheBeardedMan Blog spot) was a Policeman in Zimbabwe and had the opportunity to see some of the aftermath of Mugabe's mass murder in the 1980's. Mugabe is capable of murdering not merely tens or hundreds of thousands - he is a murderer on the scale of Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Pol Pot.
This is the work of a megalomaniac who is punishing those who voted against him in past elections.
I find it incomprehensible that no major country in the world will sponsor a war against this complete maniac of a man. Not even Saddam Hussein has done anything close to the evil that this man has gotten away with.
The Black African states are refusing to deal with Robert Mugabe, and some even admire him. They will never condemn him - even if he slaughters millions of his own people.
And the British talk, but never act. The British Bulldog is toothless.
Yet, the British were the ones who strong-armed Zimbabwe's first democratically elected, pro-Western Black Prime Minister, Bishop Abel Muzorewa into handing over to this Chinese-sponsored Communist cretin (Mugabe)who used intimidation to win his first election back in 1980. He has cheated in several elections ever since. He clothes himself in a weak charade of so-called "democracy" - but he is, and has almost always been, an outright Dictator.
So where are the British now to take responsibility for this maniac whom they helped to get in power? I haven't seen bombers flying over Zimbabwe, Naval forces in the Mozambique channel or the SAS sneaking into southern Africa, as happened during the era of Ian Smith’s rule.
The British had a lot to say at the time, but where are they now? In the 1960's, when Rhodesia issued the Universal Declaration of Independence, the British sent the Royal Navy to hunt down tankers bringing oil to Rhodesia. The UN declared Rhodesia a "threat to world peace" and the whole world immediately declared "comprehensive sanctions" on 250,000 of White people, who were trying to stand in the gap, trying to prevent absolute vicious dictators like Mugabe from bringing that country down to where it is now. White people were allegedly the vicious criminals which the world could not wait to kick down.
But no destruction ever took place in Rhodesia. Rhodesia grew amazingly fast, despite total and complete world sanctions. Rhodesians, White and Black, never went hungry despite comprehensive world sanctions. Rhodesia had to export its beef and other products illegally, but both Blacks and Whites had food. They had more work too. Things were so much better back then - but everyone attack the government of Ian Smith. And now? Mugabe is laying waste to the country and has been bringing complete ruin to it for the past 5 years. Yet, the world is silent.
Sanctions were employed only against White people in Rhodesia and South Africa - but when a Black Megalomaniac Dictator commits crimes ten thousand times worse than any White regime ever did, we hear only silence. Politically Correct hypocrites only see evil among Whites, but a Black man can do anything he wants, even to other Blacks. There is no evil too great - as long as you are Black.
Jan Lamprecht was born and raised in Zimbabwe, then called Rhodesia, during the "Bush War", which resulted in Robert Mugabe coming to power. He was educated in Harare, the capital of the country, before leaving for South Africa, where he spent some time in the Navy. He wrote a book called "Government by Deception" about African politics related to Zimbabwe and the effects Mugabe's policies may have on other countries.
He publishes a popular, highly "politically-incorrect" web site AfricanCrisis.org
"Yet, the British were the ones who strong-armed Zimbabwe's first democratically elected, pro-Western Black Prime Minister, Bishop Abel Muzorewa into handing over to this Chinese-sponsored Communist cretin (Mugabe)who used intimidation to win his first election back in 1980. He has cheated in several elections ever since. He clothes himself in a weak charade of so-called "democracy" - but he is, and has almost always been, an outright Dictator."
ping!
No gardens?
1. No growing in your own backyard.
2. Court approved government land redistribution.
And that is the US Supreme Court just this session. I guess we can look to Zimbabwe to see what's coming next.
The liberal media are ignoring this horrific war by a socialist monster against his own people. May the MSM rot in hell.
didn't Mugabe also not allow American food to be brought into the nation to help the starving since it was genetically altered???
*sigh* I hope they don't see this...
- My Dubanology
Actually, the USSC ruled against growing of food in one's backyard some time ago. They said the food that is grown for one's own use is "interstate commerce" and can be regulated. The farmer in question grew the government allotted maximum (10,000 bushels, IIRC), but grew an addition 300+ bushels for his family.
How Pol Pot of Mugabe
This man is NUTS!!! He needs a rubber room, fast!!
I know, but I took some poetic license to make a point.
From the article: Where is the world?
Good question. Some of us have been noticing and caring for quite some time, while the people of Zimbabwe are systemically killed in a genocide that rivals any of those of the 20th century (when it started) and thanks to the new technology age, we can watch the genocide as it happens. Disgusting. And apparently the chi-coms are eager to step in after the place is stripped bare. And 'we' in the west helped him. It's time we help him exit the office.
Anyone miss the good ole days when the CIA used to take out trash like this ?
What Robert Mugabwe has done to his own people is absolutely criminal.
The man is a nutcase, and must be stopped.
Rhodesia was a self-sufficient African nation, now it's people are starving at the hands of a mad man.
What do we have to do to stop him?
Well said.
This kind of behaviour from headcases like Mugabwe make me well-up with tears of frustration.
OH MY GOODNESS!
HAS ANYONE TOLD J. JACKSON ABOUT THIS??
==Where is the world?
The (western) world is busy giving Communist China a more favorable rating than the US. See latest PEW Global Survey:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-06-23-world-poll_x.htm
The road to hell is paved with you know what. Munich time. PC nonsense. Anyone listening in DC? But no gardens? Maybe Mugabe wants to be the only person left alive in that country.
I do. Imagine the ego-trip a sniper would have.
That would be better than offing Castro.
He's doing exactly what Castro did to Cuba in the early 1960s.
I'm onto the next level - anger, disgust. As people have probably 'heard' me post, we had a regular summer visitor in our parish, Fr. Peter from Liberia. He had visited us for 6 or 7 summers, to help out with our priests here and have a retreat himself. He (and 2 other Amer priests) had been telling us about the meltdowns, under the noses of the world, in Africa, the rebels and terrorists. Mostly unnoticed in the media, even Rwanda. I say 'had' because Fr. Peter stopped coming a few years ago (3 or 4). He's been missing and presumed dead, killed in one of the Sunday church attacks by the rebels he warned us about. I think of him fondly, especially at the start of every summer.
Disgusting, isn't it? We've sent so many of our jobs over there, and now 'we're' all busy elevating their status.
1. No growing in your own backyard.
Washington State
2. Court approved government land redistribution.
Most recent Supreme Court Decision.
Yes, you are so right.
He's been missing and presumed dead, killed in one of the Sunday church attacks by the rebels he warned us about. I think of him fondly, especially at the start of every summer.
That is very sad. Certainly puts our lives here in the U.S. in perspective, doesn't it? Prayers for Fr. Peter.
Mugumby disarmed them first. We are still armed to the teeth. According to the UN about 85% of the privately owned small arms in the world are right here in the US.
Our SCOTUS seems to want to follow this path imho.
Hard to believe....can you site the case?
whats next... Soylent Black???
Don't you guys understand. Terror famines are right out of the the offical soviet playbook for subjugating populations and consolidating state power after a revolution. Every communist dictator has followed basically the same playbook. It makes everyone a government ass kisser or dead.
Thank you. Yes, it really does put things in perspective. Even simple, often taken for granted things like attending Mass/Church on Sundays or taking a walk. Fr. Peter always spoke of how he loved to take a walk. Little wonder, he was relatively safe here. And accustomed to a much warmer climate, he always wore a sweater, even on the hottest days! He told of how the attacks were aimed at the Sunday church goers of all denominations. Yes, prayers for Fr. Peter.
Yeah, it does seem so. But why? The chicoms seem in charge of Zim, at least, and their way of life is diametrically opposed to ours, recent manufacturing and market success of China notwithstanding. It would seem that move would set us up for a real culture war and with so many US haters out there (even in our country), it doesn't seem like a war we would win easily or at all. Why would our SCOTUS want that path? Yet it seems they've chosen it.
Sorry about that.
Good catch.
Wickard vs. Filburn (1942)
I was wondering when someone was going to point that out. Yes, Russia was once one of the largest exporters of food and after the Communists took over they became the largest importer after they starved the farmers to death.
Farmers are a big threat to tyrants because they are usually Christians, self-sufficient and not easily subjugated.
The problem is he has a lot of support from the left political leaders in America and Europe. Just like Castro. They see Cuba and Zimbabwe as successes. Where an ultra rich political elite rules over the population, trying different communist experiments.
For example both nations have no population growth now, which the left views as a major triumph.
Yes. And why, other than the obvious, wouldn' we still?
The UN is missing on this and other attrocities in Africa but can get huffy about so called abuses in Gitmo. They show their true communist colors by actions such as those. I think W is wrong to try to salvage this corrupt and useless organization. Dump it and start over, or bettre yet give up on the idea of a world organization. This is the second time the idea has failed.
I know the posting rule is "no violence in posts," but I am going to advocate assasinating this fartknuckle, anyway.
Quote from case ---"In its effort to control total supply, the Government gave the farmer a choice which was, of course, designed to encourage cooperation and discourage non-cooperation.
" The farmer who planted within his allotment was in effect guaranteed a minimum return much above what his wheat would have brought if sold on a world market basis. Exemption from the applicability of quotas was made in favor of small producers. 30 The farmer who produced in excess of his quota might escape penalty by delivering his wheat to the Secretary or by storing it with the privilege of sale without penalty in a later year to fill out his quota, or irrespective of quotas if they are no longer in effect, and he could obtain a loan of 60 per cent of the rate for cooperators, or about 59 cents a bushel, on so much of his wheat as would be subject to penalty if marketed. 31
"Finally, he might make other disposition of his wheat, subject to the penalty. It is agreed [317 U.S. 111, 131] that as the result of the wheat programs he is able to market his wheat at a price 'far above any world price based on the natural reaction of supply and demand.'
"We can hardly find a denial of due process in these circumstances, particularly since it is even doubtful that appellee's burdens under the program outweigh his benefits. It is hardly lack of due process for the Government to regulate that which it subsidizes. "
This guy, Mugabe, makes Boukassa of the old Central African Empire look like a rank amateur. Mugabe is evil. I remember back in 1979/80 when I was listening to "Radio Rhodesia" switching over to "Radio Zimbabwe" on the shortwave radio, I had a sick feeling.
Thomas Sowell's latest book, Black Rednecks and White Liberals, points out that whereas "liberals" make it sound like American white Christians invented slavery, in actual history slavery was commonplace at all times just about everywhere. And that situation did not change with the advent of Christianity.But suddenly, in historical terms, Europe coalesced into nation-states which were powerful enough to make marauding to steal slaves from Europe too risky for the reward, thus reducing slavery markedly. And even more importantly, white Christians - especially English-speaking ones, began to adopt an ideology of freedom, and to reject the idea that slavery was legitimate. It was only then that slavery became on the defensive in a place where it was substantially established - the American South. The consequence of that is that only in the antebellum South was there ever a literature of appologies for slavery - slavery had never been on the defensive before the time of the American Revolution.
Relatively suddenly, in historical terms, British Christians rejected slavery - and Victorian Britain controlled about a quarter of the area and population of the earth. Britain used its influence and power for the altruistic purpose of eliminating the slave trade wherever it could. And of course, Christians in the American North became less tolerant of the slavery in the South. And, within the constraints of practicality, southern founders of the US like Washington tried to limit slavery. The problem in the South was less that of contempt for black slaves but of fear of a race war if those slaves, who had reason to hate, were given the opportunity to act on that hatred.
At substantial expense the British maintained a squadron of ships on station to blockade the slave trade coming from west Africa. And at enormous expense the North suppressed the secession of the South - a secession which occurred only over the issue of slavery. The bottom line is that if you are a slave you would do best to pray for the arrival of Christians with guns.
And if - as in the American South - Christians with guns are already the problem, why then historically what you need is still more Christians with guns. Nothing much else has ever done slaves any good.
And I guess that applies to tyrants like Mugabee as well. If neither America nor Britain suppresses this problem then it will simply run its course . . .
BTTT.
I wish with every fiber of my being that Mugabe will either die of natural, or unnatural causes, very soon.
Where is Koffi Onan on this one? Where is the UN outrage?
If FReepers could get the Dan Rather story on page 1, why can't we do the same with this? I think it's our Christian duty.
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