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March 24, 2008
Zimbabwe Blazes a Trail into the Future
Zimbabwe provides another glimpse into America's eventual future, if through pure moonbattery we turn the country over to Barack Obama et al.:
President Robert Mugabe's regime is stepping up its intimidation of Zimbabwe's white farmers as he seeks a sixth term in office.
A few hundred landowners managed to stay put on small portions of their original properties despite Mr Mugabe's land seizures, which began in 2000 and destroyed commercial agriculture, the backbone of the economy. But the president's re-election campaign ahead of next weekend's election is driven by the notion that the country's independence is under threat.
He has long presented the farm confiscations as part of Zimbabwe's struggle for freedom.
Deon Theron, a vice-president of the Commercial Farmers Union, is on trial in Harare magistrates' court. He faces a two-year prison sentence if he is convicted of trespassing on the farm he bought 24 years ago.
His farm in Beatrice, about 40 miles south of Harare, used to produce about two per cent of all the milk consumed in the capital, but an eviction order was issued against the Therons a year ago. […]
Scores of white farmers who have survived daily torment from Mr Mugabe's travelling "war veterans" are now appearing in shabby courtrooms around the country, accused of defying eviction orders.
Zimbabwean-born George Fick and his wife Jill, who are also dairy farmers in Beatrice, went on trial in Harare this week and were told by the state that their desire to remain in their home was "frivolous and vexatious".
Meanwhile, inflation in Zimbabwe has hit 100,000%, and people are starving. But at least Mugabe's righteous campaign against Caucasian farmers has landed Zimbabwe the top position on the U.N.'s Sustainable Development Commission.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at March 24, 2008 8:57 AM
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Those farmers should be offered asylum in the USA.
Or, maybe an exchange program. We'll take Zimbabwe's productive white farmers, and they can have the congregation of Jeremiah Wright's "G-D America" church. Sounds like a fair trade to me.
Posted by: V the K at March 24, 2008 9:09 AM
Hey Bobby Mugabe, it looks like there's a position opening up in Detroit... Maybe you can fix things there.
Posted by: Anonymous at March 24, 2008 9:15 AM
"Sustainable Development Commission"
The very name tells you what a complete joke this collection of bureauweenies is. Whereas Zimbabwe was once far more than merely capable of "sustainable development," now it's the basket-case of the entire world under Idiot Racist Thug Mugabe. That our very own Idiot Racist Thug, Barry Hussein bin Usama O'Bigot, wants essentially the same thing for America seems to be having zero impact upon his followers (his "sheeple") -- perhaps his wife, the lovely Michelle, will start opening her big mouth again and utterly destroy his candidacy, but I won't hold my breath (she's likely been quarantined until the Convention, if not longer).
Posted by: jc14 at March 24, 2008 5:52 PM
Isn't Mugabe, Obamanation's cousin or something, bet if the truth be known... they are twins!
Yeah, you are probably right jc14, if I had a spouse like that, I'd have her committed until after the election!
Posted by: HoosierArmyMom at March 25, 2008 1:30 PM
