Zimbabwe to nationalise all farms

The Australian ^ | June 09 2004 | Associated Press

[knighthawk]

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[george wythe]

"American tax payers forced to pay for food for Zimbabweans" should be the headline.

Since socialized agriculture is a sure recipe for famine, the compassionate US tax payers always have to pick up the tab for the Marxists experiments. (See Ethiopia, North Korea, Cuba, etc)

[facedown]

Off the cliff they go.

[Shermy]

Well, it worked so well for Stalin...

[grobdriver]

To the white people of Zimbabwe:
Sell what you can, burn the rest, come to America.

[Red Badger]

The Future Farmers of America prototype.....................

[rhombus]

Idiots and thieves. Soon the UN will want to pass out more money that will be stolen as well.

[Captain Rabbit]

"In the end all land shall be state land and there shall be no such thing as private land," Land Reform Minister John Nkomo was quoted as saying.

That should shape things up for the nation with the lowest economic growth in the world. Yup. Nothing like a good ol' abolition of private property to really put a some pep in your GDP. While they're at it, it's good to see that they are using obvious racism to accomplish this monumental feat. And yet the media is shockingly quiet!?!!

[headsonpikes]

This is good news!

The end of the regime cannot be far off, now.

Just a straight-forward genocide to wrap up first!

[OXENinFLA]

Didn't STALIN try this too????

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/coll.html

[Bikers4Bush]

Can someone please tell me why Mugabe's brains are not yet splattered on a wall?

[Dutchgirl]

I saw a "sad" report on BBC World, that Zimbabwe was saying that they no longer needed international food aid, and then an interview with two farmers who had been given a huge farm (taken from white families)that they had no clue how to manage.

They were using hoes and shovels on acres that had been mechanically plowed years ago. They couldn't fix the broken equipment, couldn't afford seed, didn't understand the irrigation systems...

[Shermy]

While they're at it, it's good to see that they are using obvious racism to accomplish this monumental feat.

I read this story a little differently. Those who recieved the redistributed/bought/stolen lands are now having the land stolen by the state.

The state is the bigger thief.

[r9etb]

The only way to help the normal people of Zimbabwe is to get rid of Mugabe and his supporters, and then re-colonize the place.

[RightWhale]

"In the end all land shall be state land and there shall be no such thing as private land,"

In effect this move is non-operative. A 99 year lease is a form of private ownership. Can't they do anything right? They aren't even good Communists.

[Captain Rabbit]

The state is the bigger thief.

It always is.

: )

[Argus]

Stalin not only tried to collectivize agriculture in the SU - he succeeded. His aim was to break the back of the peasantry, the vast majority of the population, and force them to submit to Bolshevik rule. If it was necessary to starve millions to death, ship the most productive farmers off to concentration camps, and condemn the rest to miserable lives as state slaves, so be it. Mugabe has the same goal.

[hosepipe]

The only whites left in Zimbabwe are the liberals that helped put Mugabe in power.. Tears for them are not happening. Any conservative whites left after Mugabe assumed power or soon after. Only the liberals assumed Mugabe was not a murdering son of a hyena. Liberals in Zimbabwe are exactely like liberals in the United States.. same mental disease.. with the same political bent..

[GOP_1900AD]

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