Armed mobs encouraged by Robert Mugabe and his cronies forced Ray Finaughty and
his family off their land
Posted on 01/30/2010 9:25:19 PM PST by bruinbirdman
One by one the last white farmers are being beaten into submission. Four more had their farms seized by marauding gangs last week.
“They do not want us whites,” one farmer said.
Finaughty, 43, will never forget how his world came crashing down. One moment at his Manda farm there was stillness. Then came a burst of noise and confusion. A screaming, drunken mob hammered at the gates.
Armed mobs encouraged by Robert Mugabe and his cronies forced Ray Finaughty and
his family off their land
It was the climax of a two-year eviction campaign against him. He had fought step by step in the courts. Their judgments in his favour were all ignored. With no respect for the rule of law in Zimbabwe, he finally lost the battle.
Armed with spears and sticks, a mob threatened him and his wife, Loraine, by driving a tractor against the gate of their home. “We’re going to kill you,” they said. The family were given 10 minutes to pack their life’s belongings.
It was not the first attack that Finaughty had weathered. In one savage beating his attackers suggested breaking his legs as he lay injured in a field. “Leave him. He’s dead,” he heard one of them say.
Finaughty crawled away and saved himself. He had four broken ribs and concussion.
Another time, acting in self-defence, he had to shoot dead an armed robber who broke into his farmhouse. The police were sympathetic and took no action. But they treated the seizure of his farm differently.
“This is political. It’s a hot potato. We can’t get involved,” said Vengisai, the chief inspector, when Finaughty contacted his office.
So the Finaughty family drove away from the farm they loved. Soon, they believe, much of the
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Don’t PUBLISH pictures like that!!! We want outsiders to think N.Dakota is under three feet of snow—year-round!
If he thinks he’s a “guest” in his own country—that sounds like a “citizen of the world” mentality. I.e., a lefty. That explains why he didn’t get out when the getting was good.
Then just plow the crops under, salt the earth, poison the wells and burn the house... as you walk away flip them off and kill any of the thugs that chase you.
Idiots shoot themselves in the foot.
Is Obama’s constant refrain of tax the rich any different?
You missed wallet.
Don’t you mean Ice Dakota?
Friends of Obama on the march.
Friends of Obama on the march.
I think Obama has the same thing planned for US.
Summers are nice in ND... BOTH days!
Your bank and your bank account are two different animals.
I knew that there was something wrong with Tsvangirai. The idea of him standing up for freedom was too good to be true. He just parroted freedom to gain media coverage and put himself in power. He didn't give a rat's end what happened to his people. The name "Movement for Democratic Change" should remind you of another leader's movement—a mobocracy movement much closer to home.
In reality, Tsvangirai and Mugabe are two despots competing for the same throne.
The whiteys should raze the farmhouses and farm equipment when they leave. Give these uncivilized mobsters nothing to produce food.
Then, you’d be screwed NOW!
The title is a take-off from a forgettable book with an unforgettable name:
For more:
“If you read the article, you’ll see that he tried to “work with” the regime that wants him and his family dead.”
We work with Democrats, and believe me they would have Republican leaders (and their families) DEAD also, if they thought that they could figure out a way to pull it off.
It’s not that much different here.
LOL !!
It's not like he posted that on April 15. It's just a matter of degree. We only have about HALF of ours confiscated. So far. It is human nature to sit here and say, "I would have left years ago", but the creeping incrementalism is happening to us also, just much more subtly. Just like the farmers, we sit here hoping it doesn't happen.
“I don’t play politics. I believe we whites are in Africa as visitors,” he said.
Dumb bastard.
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