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End Near for Zimbabwe's Last White Farmers
VOA ^ | May 30, 2011 | Peta Thornycroft

Posted on 06/02/2011 7:47:24 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

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To: TruthConquers

I’ve known for decades that the rule of law is irrelevant here as well; no white male has any misconception about how the law treats him in terms of employment/promotions, higher education, or interracial disputes of any kind.

I felt terrible about the individuals lost on 9/11, living a few miles west of the WTC in a town that lost people, but at the same time felt like I was watching a foreign group attack another foreign country that I happened to be living in.


21 posted on 06/02/2011 8:11:26 PM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: BaylorDad

I don’t know that South Africa has gotten as bad (yet); the blacks were begging the whites to stay in South Africa, as without them they literally had no schoolteachers, doctors, etc.

I believe that is why more whites in South Africa are better off than in Zimbabwe; the black ruling class realizes that without them (at least for the time being) the country is doomed. The events on their northern border can demonstrate that for the black ruling class in SA better than anything else could; Zimbabwe’s problems are spilling across the border, and black South Africans are beating the immigrant horde back.


22 posted on 06/02/2011 8:15:36 PM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: Lancey Howard

Things change. They should have gotten out a long time ago. Now they will basically have to flee.


23 posted on 06/02/2011 8:17:19 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: BaylorDad

I was in Zimbabwe in the mid 80s. The Rhodies then were seeing the handwriting on the wall. A lot of them got out. The Anglos headed back to Blighty or to Australia or NZ. The Boers went back to South Africa. They were all trying to unload whatever they could just to get enough hard currency to bail. The currency of choice was the Kruegerrand, solid gold. Poor sods. They and their forefathers had invested everything in Rhodesia and it worked. Then along came “uhuru.”


24 posted on 06/02/2011 8:17:39 PM PDT by Ax
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To: ladyjane

They’ll eat, and be literate; it certainly lifted Ireland out of the Stone Age. Without those basics they are just more black people holding their hands out to whites for alms...


25 posted on 06/02/2011 8:18:09 PM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: reg45
Which one did the following Mugabe or Obama

1. Water down the currency
2. Facilitate black farmer “reparations”
3. Encourage racial polarization
4. Advocate energy policies that increased energy costs
5. Pursue policies that intend to slow or restrict economic growth

Obama is telling you white people, you may have been born here but the colored world will take back what you colonialist stole. Third world immigrants and the non-western demographic will soon change America. It may be inevitable just as with South Africa, Rhodesia, and its what the non-Jews want to do to Israel. They won't have to fight they will just vote democracy away.

26 posted on 06/02/2011 8:25:30 PM PDT by SonsOfLibertyII
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To: reg45
0bama wants to be the American Mugabe

he is...and the worst part is that he has nuclear weapons....now that is frightening

27 posted on 06/02/2011 8:26:10 PM PDT by terycarl
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To: dynachrome; blam; Cincinatus' Wife; sarcasm; happygrl; Byron_the_Aussie; robnoel; GeronL; ZOOKER; ..

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28 posted on 06/02/2011 8:40:33 PM PDT by Clive
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To: Ax

I remember doing a report on Rhodesia in high school, back in the ‘60s.
Back then the place was known as, “The Breadbasket of Africa”.

Now Rhodesia’s name has been changed to “Zimbabwe” and it’s become just another starving third-world toilet.
I wonder what happened?


29 posted on 06/02/2011 8:40:40 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Ax

“They were all trying to unload whatever they could just to get enough hard currency to bail.”

The lucky ones left with something; those remaining will be lucky to escape with their lives. When East Africa gained its independence (Kenya/Uganda), they let British whites leave with their property to maintain relations with Britain afterwards. They were less merciful with the Indians (settled there at the behest of the British), who were forced out with the clothes on their backs.

The lesson here (as in Northern Ireland) is that when the crown encourages you to settle in an area, don’t believe you will have their support forever; they’ll trade your rights away in a heartbeat. Rhodesia fought for Britain in their darkest hours, and was repaid with abandonment. At least Portugal and France fought for their settlers...


30 posted on 06/02/2011 8:45:42 PM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: kearnyirish2

I don’t disagree with what you said about the Crown. Question though — where did Portugal fight for its settlers?


31 posted on 06/02/2011 8:47:39 PM PDT by Cronos (Palin, Cain, Jindal)
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To: muawiyah

The sad thing is I knew one Zimbabwe white guy who came to England. He was completely out of sea there — he was really, like I’m sure most white Zimbabweans were/are — completely African. He may have had white skin but he was African, he loved the continent.


32 posted on 06/02/2011 8:54:58 PM PDT by Cronos (Palin, Cain, Jindal)
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To: Cronos

Angola, for years; it was called Portugal’s Vietnam. Even Goa had to be stormed by Indian troops to take it from Portugal.


33 posted on 06/02/2011 8:56:03 PM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: MinorityRepublican
Battle Cry:

Remember Pigford!


34 posted on 06/02/2011 9:02:32 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. -- John Steinbeck)
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To: reg45
"If they, the white farmers, came to the United States, would they be classified as African-American?"

Some of them have already been denied. The remaining ones probably can't afford the high attorney fees, transportation costs and other relocation costs.


35 posted on 06/02/2011 9:11:41 PM PDT by familyop (Shut up, and eat your brains!)
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To: Cronos
"The sad thing is I knew one Zimbabwe white guy who came to England. He was completely out of sea there..."

I knew one who visited the USA for a time and was unsuccessful at being legally allowed to stay. He was completely western culture and would have fit in fine here except for our mad transition over more than three decades to contemporary political correctness.

As for other concerns about people near the Equator, many Americans have had their children permanently and officiously stolen by the globally concerned for no more reason than carrying their own water in containers while building their own water systems.


36 posted on 06/02/2011 9:30:06 PM PDT by familyop ("Wanna cigarette? You're never too young to start." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
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To: MinorityRepublican

Can’t say I feel sorry for them . As Forest Gump says Stupid is as Stupid does & these folks thought they would a honest court hearing from racists & communists who hate them with a passion .Yes I think they are in fact STUPID.


37 posted on 06/02/2011 9:56:06 PM PDT by Nebr FAL owner (.308 reach out & thump someone .50 cal.Browning Machine gun reach out & crush someone)
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To: TruthConquers

Correction : no justice & the peace of the grave is all these folks will have to look forward to.

I don’t mean that their passing will be from old age & natural causes but they will be murdered .


38 posted on 06/02/2011 9:59:47 PM PDT by Nebr FAL owner (.308 reach out & thump someone .50 cal.Browning Machine gun reach out & crush someone)
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To: Nebr FAL owner

Sadly, I don’t disagree.

It’s just that I remember the blacks screaming that during assemblies I was required to attend. Yet, if they really wanted justice, they wouldn’t do this, or the flash mobs.

They never really were for justice at all.

It makes a mockery of all that they claim was wrong that they continue to want redress for. Hypocrites. On both continents.


39 posted on 06/02/2011 10:03:54 PM PDT by TruthConquers (.Delendae sunt publicae scholae)
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To: kearnyirish2
Angola! I knew I was forgetting something.

on Goa I know more -- the Portuguese refused to give it up -- with some reason, they had ruled for 450 years and intermingled with the populace. In the end they defiantly said no, but they had no choice and no means to keep Goa. The Indian army just walked in.

40 posted on 06/02/2011 10:50:21 PM PDT by Cronos (Palin, Cain, Jindal)
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