Posted on 06/27/2004 7:27:22 AM PDT by Clive
Dreams in fantasy land YOU can, of course, believe anything you like. You can believe that everyone in the troubled central African nation will have full bellies this year. You can believe that patriotic and revolutionary new farmers will have grown the food that fills those bellies.
It's entirely up to you whether you believe these things or not.
You can even believe the troubled courts in the troubled central African police State will resolve disputed election results from four years ago - and that they'll do so before the next elections.
And if you're being really optimistic, you can persuade yourself that the courts care about these things. You can even believe they're brave enough to show us they're independent.
You can believe that the most equal of all comrades will hand over the reins of power to a democratically accepted successor. You might even believe that the Zany Party will reach consensus without infighting and turmoil.
Of course, you might believe that all the banned newspapers will win their court challenges so that troubled central Africans can read the news they want to read without risking a long weekend in police cells.
And you may even believe the troubled central bank will regain control of the economy and bring inflation to below, say, 500 per cent within a year.
If you're really chancing your arm, you might want to think that, yes, troubled central Africans in the Diaspora will send real money home to save us all from perdition and penury.
Or you might prefer to dream of the day when you can walk into the supermarket and fill your trolley with everything you want, pay for it and put behind you the planning for shortages brought about by what the Zany Party refers to rather dubiously as economic saboteurs.
You may even put on your double strength rose tinted spectacles and tell everyone that the More Drink Coming Party will win more seats in the next parliamentary elections.
Perhaps you believe the More Drink Coming Party has a plan that extends beyond sitting on its collective bottom and waiting for the Zany Party to devour itself.
Or that the troubled central African basket case will suddenly find itself back among the community of nations with a sack full of proper money.
You may even have faith in the community of nations and believe, even now, there are those planning to save the troubled central African banana republic from bankruptcy.
You may not think our southern neighbour will lift a finger, but you hope others will. (Though why Terrible Thabo should be singled out more than anyone else is a mystery. He's done no more nor no less than anyone else. You don't see Tony "Emily" Blair doing anything more useful than practicing expressions of gratuitous concern either, do you?) Still, if you believe any of this, you probably also believe in fairies - and no, I'm not talking about Emily.
On the other hand, like 99 per cent of troubled central Africans, you know that none of it's true, but that the truth is out there. Just like in the X Files, except this time the aliens seem to have taken over and could possibly be living in the misinformation minister's head.
Still, never mind. Over The Top will reveal the truth for you. No, there is no food. The succession debate will get ugly and the successor will have no democratic mandate. The last elections will not be resolved before the next elections begin - and the next elections will be bloodier still. The courts will subscribe to Zany Party philosophy and the More Drink Coming Party is at least right when it says the rival Zany Party will devour itself. The end ... so hurry up and drink your coffee because it's cold.
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Just reaping what they sowed.
Not sure if I'd be keen to move to Nigeria but some are.
Nigeria: a new home for Zimbabwe’s exiled farmers
http://www.sundayherald.com/42995
These countries had previously driven their own white commercial farmers out and has suffered the loss of agricultural output and the consequent damage to their whole economies, much as what is happing now in Zim. They appear to have learned a hard lesson.
The offers are 50 year leases.
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