Posted on 06/14/2008 8:51:04 PM PDT by Clive
Dear Family and Friends,
Every time the man insulted and complained in his ugly, raised voice, I could feel droplets of his spit on my neck. He was standing so close behind me that I felt distinctly uncomfortable. There must have been about twenty of us waiting in the queue at the supermarket but no one commented or said a word about the abusive tirade. The owners of this sort of behaviour are well known to us all and to stay safe we stay quiet. "Hey Manager," he shouted, "someone send for the manager. Why must I wait like this? I don't expect to have to wait." The more the man ranted the quieter it got in the shop. Two security guards standing at the exit doors did not come forward, instead they retreated out of sight and the shower of spit on my neck increased. "Hey, bring more tellers! Come on, I'm tired of waiting. Hey, you, how much is that chocolate? No, not the local one, the imported one. What about the newspaper, the imported one? How much? Hey, hurry up."
The owner of the abusive behaviour was a man of perhaps thirty. His head was shaven and he wore a thick gold chain around his neck. In his hand, on obvious display, he flicked a thick bundle of money. Under his loose, open-necked shirt we could all see the T shirt he wore with the face of Mr Mugabe on it.
This is the face of Zimbabwe a fortnight before elections: one man silences twenty. We see but we stay quiet.
Two men arrived on foot at a farm this week and they were carrying Zanu PF posters. As they began putting up the posters on the walls of outbuildings a worker tried to object - this is private property after all. "You are not allowed to complain," came the response. "Or maybe you are MDC?" The worker did not respond and the posters of Mr Mugabe were plastered on the walls of private property.
This is the face of Zimbabwe where election observers have begun arriving but are only allowed to watch from 8 am to 5pm.
A friend was at the hospital when the latest victim of political violence arrived. The victim was in his early sixties and accused of being an MDC supporter. Both his arms and one leg were broken , his skull was fractured and the injuries too severe to be treated at the local hospital.
This is the face of Zimbabwe where only 400 election observers will watch 12 million Zimbabweans on the 27th of June. 400 election observers to watch 9231 polling stations. One observer for every 23 polling stations - it is a mockery, an insult to a tired, broken, hungry and frightened population. Is this really the best Africa can do?
Until next time, love cathy
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The first bit sounds like it could have happened in Brooklyn.
Their going to all die anyway either murdered or from eventual starvation so why not take these mugabeast thugs down with them when they catch them alone.
A knife to the kidneys does wonders for a persons demeanor.
I hate to think that in this day and age people can be subjected to this kind of evil and the civilized world just looks away and ignores the suffering. Of course there’s no oil or other precious natural resources at risk, so that motivation is lacking.
To say it’s shameful is much too weak a condemnation.
Change a few things here and there and it could be describing the United Socialist States of America come November ‘08.
“I hate to think that in this day and age people can be subjected to this kind of evil and the civilized world just looks away and ignores the suffering.”
Don’t forget that since the 1950’s, black Africans have placed the blame for all human suffering at the feet of the white Africans. To admit that Africa without white Europeans is anything but the land of milk and honey would be heresy, and possibly even racist. Political correctness requires that only the suffering of certain groups is relevant, and even then only when blame can be apportioned to the politically appropriate parties. The millions slaughtered by Stalin, Mao, Ho, Fidel, Che, and all the horrors in Uganda, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and the Sudan, are merely, as Stalin would say, a ‘statistic’.
All true.
And all still heart breaking.
Mugabe will die someday
This is what happens when a nation is disarmed by the government.
Exactly. There should have been open warfare in the streets there some time ago.
I've read her posts from time to time on the FR.. I sit and read the "outrages" of this tyrant and his murderous and thuggish behavior.
Finally I sat and thought, "why does this woman's writing bother me." and I finally figured it out. Her country men are allowing this to happen without a fight. Not one of them stood up and fought. The first farm to go should have been the warning.
Once the first farm went without bloodshed, except the farmer's, then the rest followed.
These people allowed themselves to be run out.
Now the choice, fight, die or move. Living there without making that choice is stupid and cowardly. The UN will never help. The US will not help. The choice is for the farmers to fight and that's it. Cause you will die and your farms will be taken. Putting your head in the sand and "waiting it out" is going to get you killed.
>This is what happens when a nation is disarmed by the government.<
Use a rock to get a knife.
Use a knife to get a handgun.
Use a handgun to get a rifle.
Use a rifle to get a machine gun.
Use a machine gun to get a .....
The only people who are unarmed are braindead or cowards who can’t dig up the will to win.
| • $19 billion: Eliminates starvation and ... |
So if we just pour some money into Zimbabwe with thugs like that running around, everything will be sweetness and light, or do the thugs just collect?
• $484 billion: Cost of Iraq War thus far.
cost of thug removal
So if we just pour some money into Zimbabwe with thugs like that running around, everything will be sweetness and light, or do the thugs just collect?
• $484 billion: Cost of Iraq War thus far.
cost of thug removal
With the present and past (UN) system, just the thugs have been collecting. Iraq, because it has not been part of the UN system, has been successful so far.
If that were to happen here warfare they would get, and deservedly so.
>>So if we just pour some money into Zimbabwe with thugs like that running around, everything will be sweetness and light, or do the thugs just collect?
I know it’s a rhetorical question, but I have to answer.
Most of the history of Western aid to post-colonial Africa is that the thugs just collect.
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