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How to destroy a once prosperous nation?

Look under Mugabe ..

1 posted on 08/03/2007 1:36:52 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe gives a speech in Harare, March 2007. Mugabe has signed into law a bill allowing the state to eavesdrop on private phone conversations and monitor faxes and emails.(AFP/File/Alexander Joe)


2 posted on 08/03/2007 1:39:47 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Welcome to FR. The Virtual Boot Camp for 'infidels' in waiting)
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all 14 people who have access to such services should be very careful.


4 posted on 08/03/2007 1:46:46 PM PDT by utherdoul
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Internet service provider? I thought all the IT people in that country had already been eaten.


5 posted on 08/03/2007 1:49:16 PM PDT by BlazingArizona
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Hey, if it helps prevent terrorism...


7 posted on 08/03/2007 1:50:22 PM PDT by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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The government defended the new law saying it was necessary to protect the country from international terrorism and espionage.

Looks like a scrappleface quote.

8 posted on 08/03/2007 1:50:43 PM PDT by rocksblues (Just enforce the law!)
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Damn, now I’ll have to reorganize the pool for my Yahoo College Pick ‘Em season.


10 posted on 08/03/2007 1:54:30 PM PDT by Crawdad (I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no class.)
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As much as my heart goes out to the poor souls who are the citizens of Zimbabwe, you have to laugh as these new measures roll off the Marxist New Law De Jour Production Line. It is all so predictable. John Galt saw it all coming 50 years ago. Time passes. Nothing really changes. Socialists never learn.

My view: Zimbabwe will have to choose between revolution and starvation. I'm not betting which way it will go. Probably a lot of both.

11 posted on 08/03/2007 2:02:10 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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I am amazed to find out that they still have phone service.


12 posted on 08/03/2007 2:12:16 PM PDT by razorback-bert (Posted by Time's Man of the Year)
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The Interception of Communication Act

They didn't mince words with the title did they?
13 posted on 08/03/2007 2:16:09 PM PDT by kinoxi
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The law also compels internet service providers to install equipment to facilitate interception "at all times or when so required" and ensure that its equipment allows full-time monitoring of communications.

This has been required in the US for a long time.

15 posted on 08/03/2007 2:59:25 PM PDT by AdamSelene235 (Truth has become so rare and precious she is always attended to by a bodyguard of lies.)
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Did American and Western European IT corporations sell the technology to the Zimbabwe government like what happened in Iran?

Inquiries should be made.


16 posted on 08/03/2007 4:43:41 PM PDT by JerseyHighlander
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"The government defended the new law saying it was necessary to protect the country from international terrorism and espionage."




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18 posted on 08/05/2007 11:20:20 AM PDT by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
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The government defended the new law saying it was necessary to protect the country from international terrorism and espionage.

Hmm, something about this sounds familiar. Oh, yeah - "Bush describes the effort as an anti-terrorist program, but the bill is not limited to terror suspects and could have wider applications, some lawmakers said."

19 posted on 08/05/2007 11:56:02 AM PDT by JTN ("I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of bubble gum.")
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