Posted on 11/20/2010 6:47:06 PM PST by george76
Zimbabwe is slowly but surely sliding back into political repression and into a climate of fear as politicians escalate reckless electioneering and belligerent propaganda.
journalists are once more being targeted by President Robert Mugabe's agents of repression and thought police.
The journalists' offence used to justify their arrests is thought-crime (in this case thinking and writing politically incorrect news).
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Zimbabwean journalists now fear the return of media tyranny. After all, this is a country in which journalists have not only been arrested and beaten up, but also tortured, leading to their deaths, and some, like Edward Chikomba, even killed.
(Excerpt) Read more at timeslive.co.za ...
A senator from Mashonoland West even threatened to have the government outlaw a television network because he didn't like the network's opinion ... no, wait, that was a senator from West Virginia.
Good story, George.
If we had a decent president in America, the Nazi Mugabe would be tiny shreds of dog meat after we bombed his palace.
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