Zimbabwe Threatens White Farmers

yahoo.com ^ | Aug 10, 2002 - 1:20 PM ET | ANGUS SHAW, AP

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Well there is one hopeful sign. Rhodesia still has diversity. Just like America!

[xJones]

It's the redistribution of wealth. Old hands know and often love what they are doing. Newcomers don't know what they are getting into.

Your comments are really good. There are tens of thousands of black farm workers but they aren't the ones being given the farms. The farms go to Mugabe's buddies and they don't have the experience. Moreover, they don't care, they just think sitting in the nice houses is all they need and somehow the crops will just spring up on their own.

[demkicker]

"When this business, I felt sorry for the white farmers in their disposession. Now all I feel is contempt. Those people won't fight for what is theirs, they don't desreve it. I recognise that they lost out when the country was Rhodesia and I remember how. Now, they are the opressed people and ought to fight."

I'm shocked and disgusted at your reaction. What planet have you been on that you didn't already know that most every farmer family has been fighting to keep what is theirs? Geeze! In case you haven't noticed (and its quite evident that you haven't), all farmer families have experienced fear of the worst kind. Most all of them have been beaten, fired upon, had their property stolen or set afire. Hundreds of them have had their wives, daughters and sisters raped by Mugabe's terrorists, who are armed to the teeth.

It sickens me that these poor farmers have lived under Mugabe's tyranny for this long and are going to end up with nothing, all because of corruption and cowardice by the UN, the UK and the Bush administration. The UN's silence is not a surprise to me. The UK has completely lost its moral compass and is in utter denial at this travesty. I am, however, appalled that my president hasn't seen fit to use his bully pulpit to routinely address and condemn Mugabe's tyranny and terrorism. No excuse will do.

[Mark17]

Well there is one hopeful sign. Rhodesia still has diversity. Just like America!

Or maybe their diversity is just a little further along than ours.

[Dakmar]

No, no, no, neither. I'm saying the communists have once again made their bed by putting anti-capitalist ideology into a program labeled "social justice". I'm suggesting we let them sleep in it this time.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

The farms go to Mugabe's buddies and they don't have the experience.

Grrrrr. That about sums up the realities of marxism, doesn't it? When they starve, let's some them each a glass of lemonaide and ask how they like their new vacation resorts.

[Dakmar]

The way things are going there won't be any government there in a few months, it appears to me. Isn't modern liberalism great - people can die of starvation, AIDS, or being hacked to death by hopped up 8 years olds, but at least they threw off the rule of colonialism.

[Dakmar]

see #29

[Bahbah]

Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

It's perfectly normal for a red-blooded American to feel scorn toward those who don't fight for freedom. But there are different ways of planning a fight. Traficant lost his farm too. And he didn't fire a shot. But I guaran-da!n-tee you, he's a fighter. Traficant might even win in the end, because he is patient and uses his brains.

[LarryLied]

Letter to the editor of the Zimbabwe Independent:

I heard this Ben-Menashe babbling on ZBC about how he supported Mugabe and believed in Africa for the Africans. If you ever get a chance to interview him, ask him if as a staunch anti-colonialist he also believes in Palestine for the Palestinians. Pathetic!
Mike Davies,
Harare.

Former member of Israel's Military Intelligence and is former Mossad deputy chief Ari Ben-Menashe trades arms for diamonds in Zimbabwe.

$105 million in military equipment from Israel arrives in Zimbabwe. ($895 million more agreed upon when Mugabe comes up with the cash)

Follow the money. Think Section 8 housing on a continent wide scale. Billions can be made looting and destroying countries.

[backhoe]

What gives?

First it was Rhodesia then SA now America paying the price of silence.

-A Capsule History of Southern Africa--

[ExSoldier]

"Is there not one man in all of Africa, capable of shooting this son of a bitch right between the eyes?"

Before you can shoot anybody it helps to have a gun...preferably one capable of doing the job....and of course it helps to have the skill to use it and of course the WILL to use it. Methinks the whites in this coutry have allowed themselves to be disarmed and then robbed of their basic essential sense of courage. And who knows which of these happened first? Think this is bad? I can forsee a time when it could happen here.

[ExSoldier]

When this country was Rhodesia, a man named Robert K. Brown, built a publishing empire and got rich by simply issuing classified ads in his new magazine: "Soldier of Fortune," with theirresistable lure: "BE A MAN AMONG MEN, Join the Rhodesian Army!" Professional and not-so-professional soldiers, mercs, and wannabes answered in droves and a legend was born.

[Dakmar]

Methinks the whites in this coutry have allowed themselves to be disarmed and then robbed of their basic essential sense of courage.

Well, that's progress. Er, no, I meant to say that's Progressive. Most people who describe themselves as progressive really just hate their parents and are taking it out on the civilization around them.

[JMJ333]

Or they hate themselves. Take Robert Reich for example. He's pissed because he's only 4'11..or whatever. And then there is people like Rosa De Lauro who are mad at the world because they lack physical beauty and can't get the attention of men. Look out for those types! ;)