This was, in fact, a grotesque analysis, but you would be wrong to dismiss it or others like it. So know now that some of Mugabe's domestic political opponents were here last week, trying to drum up support for a democratic transition in Zimbabwe. They turned up at the State Department, Congress and the Council on Foreign Relations. They also met, unhappily, with what one of them called their "African-American brothers."
Most of the brothers, it seemed, did not want to take any kind of stand against Mugabe. According to the Zimbabweans, they had bought into the idea that he was a revolutionary leader and that any attempt to unseat him would play into the hands of his country's old white rulers. The Zimbabweans were disappointed, of course, but there you are. McKinney may deal in paranoid absurdities, but they are not without effect. ***
Zimbabwe -- State to ignore security rulings***Observers say it appears that the country's courts are becoming increasingly irrelevant as Mugabe moves in what is seen as a campaign to silence all his opponents. Mugabe has for years declared he would not listen to judges who ruled against his mass seizure of white-owned land, but observers say this is the first time that the regime has openly stated it would ignore the country's courts on any other issues.***
Cowardly whites who help Mugabe**** A less abashed co-operator is John Bredenkamp, a former member of the Rhodesian rugby team and husband to ex-Miss Rhodesia, who was revealed last Sunday to be the 33rd richest man in Britain with a £720 million fortune and a home in Berkshire. Mr Bredenkamp is thought to be close to Mugabe, but especially to Emmerson Mnangagwa, the speaker of the Zimbabwean parliament and Mugabe's heir-apparent. Mr Bredenkamp's mining operations in the Congo benefit greatly from the incursion of Zimbabwean troops, which is a kind of joint-stock venture by Zanu-PF and its business friends. Has Bredenkamp ever raised his voice in protest at anything done by his chums? On the contrary. He is going round offering to buy up some of the most beautiful white farms, on the understanding that he can get the acquisition orders lifted. Then one might mention another Zanu-PF crony, called Billy Rautenbach, who is wanted by Interpol. And then there are the really big players, the ones who should have had the guts to speak out, but who have kept silent. Prime among these is Anglo-American, the giant South African conglomerate, which is now supposed to have a good liberal conscience.****
How Did Mugabe Win Re-Election?-Terrorism, Torture and Overwhelming Vote Fraud***The man who knows the secrets of Mugabe's re-election is Tobaiwa Mudede, the Registrar-General, the outspokenly pro-Mugabe official who runs all Zimbabwe's elections. More than a month before the election Mudede told a meeting at the International School in Harare that he could imagine no circumstances in which he would declare anyone other than Mugabe the election winner. Pictures in the state-run Herald of how the results were announced are almost beyond parody. In the centre sits Obriel Mpofu, who announced the results on TV, flanked by Mudede and a series of other Mugabe loyalists, including the Police Commissioner, Augustine Chihuri, in full uniform. These are not only the men who know the secrets of the results but the men who, in large part, manufactured them. ***
Flame away at me for saying this, but black Zimbabweans of my aquaintance are of the opinion that Black Americans are willful idiots.
The average black African villager knows more about the world than Black Americans know about "africa" which they consider to be one country.
It's pathetic.
An enemy at the gate is less formidable, For his is known and carries his banner openly.
But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, His/Her sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, Heard within the very halls of government itself.
For the traitor appears not a traitor: He speaks in accents familier to his victims, And wears their face, And their arguments.
He appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the sould of a nation.
He works secretly and Unknown in the night. To undermine the pillars of the city.
He infests the body politic, So that it can no longer resist.
A murderer is less to fear
Marcus Tullius Cicero 42 B.C.
"While falsely pretending to be the friends and allies of many African countries, so desperate for help and assistance, many western nations, and I'm "ashamed" to say most notably the United States, have in reality "betrayed" those countries' trusts and instead, have relentlessly pursued thier own economic policies"....
"You will hear that the West, and most natable the United States, has set in motion a policy of oppressioon, destabilisation, and tempered, not by mora principle, but the ruthless desire to enrich itself on Africa's fabulous wealth. While falsely pretending to be friends and allies of many African countries, so desperate for help and assistance"........"The Western nations have even actively participated in the assassinaton of duly elected and legitimate African Heads of State and replaced them with corrupted and malleable officials"....... (Cynthia McKinney)
(Cybthia McKinney): ""imagine (your)selves going faster and faster into a black unknown." Then, she said, they will see a "bright light," and hear "a huge booming voice coming from nowhere, and at the same time coming from everywhere."
(Jocelyn Elder): "I like Eric Clapner."