Genocide - The starving of Africans

Boston Globe ^ | June 26, 2002 | Robert I. Rotberg

[Cincinatus' Wife]

THIRTEEN MILLION Africans risk starving between now and November, thanks more to local leadership failures than to drought. Naked greed and political calculation, when coupled with spotty rains and poor maize harvests across a broad swath of southern Africa, have resulted in disaster. Wealthier nations will now have to provide relief supplies, if only needy African governments let them. When the Group of Eight leading industrial nations meets this week in Canada, feeding Africa's hungry should be high on its agenda.

[RightOnline]

"When the Group of Eight leading industrial nations meets this week in Canada, feeding Africa's hungry should be high on its agenda."

Utter bovine excrement.

Not one thin DIME of my money will go to that hell-hole. Black Africa has done this to themselves, as usual. That's the Elephant in the Living Room that most choose to ignore. Tribalism, greed, megalomania, still more greed, bloodlust, envy..........all have contributed and will continue to contribute to Africans killing Africans.

I want to hear Jackson, Mfume, and Sharpton on this. Where the hell are these droolers now???? Let's hear it; let's hear about "Mother Africa" and how put upon blacks in America are these day, shall we?

Self-governance is impossible for these people in Africa. I don't care how that sounds, for it's the proven truth. They just starve or murder each other (and tee off on whites while trying to blame them for their shortcomings) by the millions, and we're supposed to send millions of dollars yet again........only to see it all wind up in the coffers of another tinpot, murderous, primitive dictator??? Over my dead body...........

[DB]

"Ordinary" Zimbabweans need to take back their own country.

I don't see how that is my job.

[11B3]

"Wealthier nations will now have to provide relief supplies"

We shouldn't provide them anything - especially to Mugabe. Let them reap what they have sown - dust. As the late Sam Kennison said: "It's a f_cking desert!!! It'll always be a desert!!! MOVE!!" How many times in the last 20 years has the US bailed out the entire populations of these African nations? With what result? SCREW 'EM.

[backhoe]

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[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

In the genius of African leadership, people are being starved by their own governments. The ruthless and deliberate elimination of one's own countrymen by starvation is nothing but barbarism and beyond the reach of civilized relief. These people cannot be helped because food from elsewhere always falls under the control of those in power who use it as a weapon against their own.

[Utmost Certainty]

If the wealthier nations would stop sending these people money and supplies, their populations would shrink back to a more acceptable level where they could maintain themselves.

[Goetz_von_Berlichingen]

What's happening in parts of Africa could be straight out of Atlas Shrugged. The looters have either expropriated, driven out, or simply murdered the productive members of society (who were, coincidentally, often Europeans) and now they do not have the talent, knowledge, or motivation to grow their own food.

The wages of sin are death. Some people have to learn this the hard way.

[camle]

they want US benifits? Let them petition for statehood.

[Dazedcat]

Exactly right. The Colonial powers are long gone, so who is to blame for this? It really is about time that African nations accept blame for their own corruption, greed and failure.

It shouldn't be America's problem.......in fact it isn't.

[He Rides A White Horse]

These people cannot be helped because food from elsewhere always falls under the control of those in power who use it as a weapon against their own.

That is the cold hard truth.

[RWCon]

Your post makes sense, but I wonder if halving
or quartering of the African population would do the trick.There is also the problem of intelligence. I rather believe that if the continent could be returned to its pre_empire state, therewould still be starvation. In those days the media did not cover such triviality.
If they had no one would have cared. Africa's best times were the imperialist era.

[Maceman]

If the wealthier nations would stop sending these people money and supplies, their populations would shrink back to a more acceptable level where they could maintain themselves.

They could sustain themselves at current levels now. It is not about overpopulation. It is about Death by Government.

[Maceman]

they want US benifits? Let them petition for statehood.

Please let's not give them any ideas.

[sneakypete]

When the Group of Eight leading industrial nations meets this week in Canada, feeding Africa's hungry should be high on its agenda.

Why? Rewarding them for bad behavior will only encourage more bad behavior. If the starving people of those nations are so gutless they would rather starve than have a revolution,let them starve.

BTW,somebody ought to point out to this educated " president of the World Peace Foundation" that it ain't genocide when you do it to your own people. It's only mass murder.

[Kenton]

"When the Group of Eight leading industrial nations meets this week in Canada, feeding Africa's hungry should be high on its agenda."

Last time we tried this was Somalia. Look at the thanks we got.

Somebody feels sorry for the Africans (which after all, have taken one post-colonial country after another from prosperity to famine and social chaos), let them send a check to Bono. Maybe he can get a bunch of rap artists to put together a "Save Africa" telethon or something.

Wouldn't do much good of course, but think how good it would make some people feel! (Unless of course, they found out the charity check went directly to somebody like say, Robert Mugabe, in which case, boy, would they have egg on their faces, huh?)

Let me put this in simple terms that any hunter understands. Under current conditions, the African population exceeds the carrying capacity of the land. Mother Nature has a rather brutal way of dealing with these situations, called culling the herd through starvation and disease.

It's a pity, because Africa has the potential to feed it's people when managed properly. But the people who were doing that have had their farms confiscated and have fled Africa as it has slipped from the late 20th century back into the stone ages.

Oh well... It's kinda like up in Yellowstone Park... since they stopped hunting elk, they've overpopulated. Every winter they come down from the mountains to the yards where all the well-intentioned people put out feed to get them through the winter... thus assuring the elk population continues to exceed the ability of the land to support them. Kind like what happens when we rush in to save these starving Africans (although at least the elk don't say "thanks" by hating us in return). 'Nuff said.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Last time we tried this was Somalia. Look at the thanks we got.

Yes, but who was president and how did he support our troops?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Self-governance is impossible for these people in Africa...

Communism is not self-government, it's imprisonment.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Perhaps international pressure, true condemnation with some anti-corruption dictates from countries giving aid (and hopefully assistance to opposition) can remove murders who see political advantage to murdering and starving people who vote against them. You see they did try to legally rid themselves of Mugabe but he brought in Ghaadfi's terror squads to train local thugs. He worked the electorate over pretty good in advance of the vote and when he saw the people still planned to go to the polls and vote him out, he stuffed ballot boxes, intimidated and murdered voters, closed down polling places and literally stole what he could not win. Other African leaders need to condemn and remove their support for his presidency, but most have not. They too must be convinced to abandon Mubabe or face international rejection and dismissed as leaders. We should acknowledge and show the people who are trying (they number in the millions) to establish a democratic government, that we will stand with them.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

These people cannot be helped....

Yes they can by helping those who are working for a democratic government. And when Mugabe and the others cry racism, laugh in their lying, evil faces and don't run like a bunch of rabbits.