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Africa's heart of darkness - Zimbabwe's corrupt ruler will do anything to hang on to power
Toronto Sun ^ | March 8, 2002 | Peter Worthington

Posted on 03/08/2002 8:34:05 AM PST by Clive

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1 posted on 03/08/2002 8:34:05 AM PST by Clive
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2 posted on 03/08/2002 8:34:44 AM PST by Clive
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3 posted on 03/08/2002 8:35:22 AM PST by Clive
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To: Clive; JanL
Bump
4 posted on 03/08/2002 8:37:16 AM PST by Slyfox
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To: Clive
The only solution is white rule.

These people can not maintain thriving a western civilization.

Maybe our elites will see this example before the United States becomes a multicultural hell.

5 posted on 03/08/2002 8:42:30 AM PST by wwcc
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To: Clive
Hard days.
6 posted on 03/08/2002 8:44:55 AM PST by Travis McGee
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To: Clive
Again with the miracle! ;^)

Peter Worthington once ran as a Libertarian candidate for Parliament in Toronto, and received 15% of the vote.

He is a highly principled man, a rarity in public life.

7 posted on 03/08/2002 8:46:09 AM PST by headsonpikes
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Pity about Africa....

AfricaWatch: for AfricaWatch articles. 

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8 posted on 03/08/2002 8:51:57 AM PST by backhoe
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To: Clive
This guy sounds like a typical DemocRAT!
9 posted on 03/08/2002 8:54:36 AM PST by wjcsux
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To: wwcc
No, the solution is "intelligent" rule.
10 posted on 03/08/2002 9:02:55 AM PST by KineticKitty
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Maybe our elites will see this example before the United States becomes a multicultural hell.

The socialist left eglatarian illuminatti that you refer to already knew what would happen before they destroyed South Africa and Rhodesia. That is exactly what they intend for America.

11 posted on 03/08/2002 9:13:22 AM PST by Navy Patriot
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The curse of Africa, as reiterated to the Organization of African Unity by Eritrea's President Isaias Afwerki, is "tribalism (racism) and corruption." Today's problems can't be blamed on colonialism.

It is being nurtured by those described here: The perils of designer tribalism--"Part of what makes The Tears of the White Man such an important book is Bruckner's sensitivity to the aerodynamics of liberal guilt. He understands what launches it, what keeps it aloft, and how we might lure it safely back to earth. He understands that the entire phenomenon of Third Worldism is fueled by the moral ecstasy of overbred guilt. Bruckner is an articulate anatomist of such guilt and its attendant deceptions and mystifications. "An overblown conscience," he points out, "is an empty conscience."

12 posted on 03/08/2002 9:14:39 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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Where's the United Nations in all this? If this were happening in the USA, you can be sure they'd be sticking their noses into it.
13 posted on 03/08/2002 9:19:05 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts
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Can anyone point me in the right direction on some statistics of Muslim violence in Africa against Christians? Thanks. I've got a few leads, but little time.
14 posted on 03/08/2002 9:29:36 AM PST by screed
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To: wwcc
Ya, the whites have a definate monopoly on all manner of virtue . . .
15 posted on 03/08/2002 9:53:07 AM PST by freedom9
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Ya got that right.
16 posted on 03/08/2002 10:12:17 AM PST by Warren
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To: Clive
By Monday, the world should know the results of elections in Zimbabwe, where 78-year-old Robert Mugabe, Marxist freedom fighter turned tyrant, is fighting (literally) to cling to power.

I think most of the world already knows the outcome already. They just keep hoping against hope (and against common sense) that Mugabe won't steal the election.

By the way, isn't 'Marxist freedom fighter' an oxymoron?

17 posted on 03/08/2002 10:27:02 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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Thanks for adding me to your bump list.

Are there any figures on exactly how many whites remain in Zimbabwe? There can't be many left.

I fear for their safety, and their freedom --- it will be another month of starvation before harvest, and it's rumored to be a poor one.

Rioting may break out --- real anarchy, not staged this time. If whites aren't killed outright they may be enslaved on the same farms they formerly owned.

The squatters and Mugabe cronies that seized the farms don't know how to make them produce and I doubt Mugabe will return them.

Forced white labor may be the only way to feed the people.

18 posted on 03/08/2002 10:44:43 AM PST by ZOOKER
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I never said anything about "virtue".

Althought the "white man" has his share of vices, he does tend to advance civilization even after horrific events. Others seem to drift back into barbarism once left to their own devices.

19 posted on 03/08/2002 10:55:54 AM PST by wwcc
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"I think most of the world already knows the outcome already. They just keep hoping against hope (and against common sense) that Mugabe won't steal the election."

He has already stolen the election. Actually "robbery with violence" is a better description.

My, possibly vain, hope is that the citizenry will take it back.

The outcome of the balloting will go some way toward helping the Commonwealth decide whether to back the tyrant or the citizenry.

This ought to have been a no-brainer but the Commonwealth Heads of Governmant meeting at Brisbane deferred making a decision pending the balloting.

The EU is also waffling, but that is totally in character for the left dominated European states. As Zim is part of the Commonwealth, it has a higher duty than the EU.

Zim is a common law country with a citizenry that, unlike most of Africa, knows the Rule of Law.

As always, it is for them to stare down the tyrant and for us to support them.

20 posted on 03/08/2002 10:56:40 AM PST by Clive
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