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Zimbabwe -- Cathy Buckle -- Just sitting in dusty villages
Cathy Buckle ^ | 2005-07-30 | Cathy Buckle

Posted on 07/30/2005 7:12:25 PM PDT by Clive

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1 posted on 07/30/2005 7:12:25 PM PDT by Clive
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2 posted on 07/30/2005 7:13:02 PM PDT by Clive
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To: Clive
I have a bad feeling about Cathy. Things are bad enough now, that the government might feel emboldened to move on her. "One settler, one bullet."

She needs to leave Zim.

3 posted on 07/30/2005 7:20:37 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: Clive

It sounds like a Zimbabwean Cultural Revolution. Inane policies devoid of any semblance of humanity. Marxism wedded to absolutism at its most inhumane. Over 30 million innocent people perished in the Chinese Great Leap Forward (sic) and Cultural Revolution. How many in Zimbabwe will die under the hand of the same sort of madness?


4 posted on 07/30/2005 7:26:29 PM PDT by Cleburne
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To: Cleburne

It's liberal social justice. I say let them stew in their own juices, that's what they voted for.


5 posted on 07/30/2005 7:32:55 PM PDT by HKaddict
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To: lentulusgracchus
She's living in a country run by the new Pol Pot. If Mugabe's name were Milosevic, he'd have been toast by now. But there's no way any country will criticize a black leader. It wouldn't be PC.

I'm serious. I can't think of any other reason. It's not because of any objective reason that he escapes criticism or outside intervention.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

6 posted on 07/30/2005 7:33:23 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: Clive

bttt


7 posted on 07/30/2005 7:34:34 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Dog Gone
Well, the OAU might.....

The only country regionally that could say anything and make it stick is South Africa, but their situation is not that different from Zim's 10 years ago. I'm waiting for their race war to start.

Or, as you said, someone please correct me.

8 posted on 07/30/2005 7:36:07 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: Clive

Read the entire message before you flame me.

I was in Panama in Operation Just Cause. One night, a bunch of us intel folks sitting around on our shift, shooting the breeze like folks do at 3 in the morning. We were talking about who we knew in common and where we had been stationed.

There was an Army major there that had been stationed in sub-Sahara Africa as a junior military attaché to a U.S. embassy. As a result of that posting, he had traveled quite a bit in Africa, both as a military representative and a tourist.

He made two comments that were burned into my memory.

1. “Nigger run countries are sh**holes. The leaders can’t use anything more technologically advanced than knives and spears.”

2. “I get down on my knees every night and thank God my ancestors were brought to America as slaves.”


9 posted on 07/30/2005 7:37:27 PM PDT by xtargeter
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To: lentulusgracchus

Buckle was one of the leading voices for expelling the evil white colonialists and turning Rhodesia into Zimbabwe. So let her stay there.


10 posted on 07/30/2005 7:37:30 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Dog Gone

you are wrong....Just as soon as the chinese become their new masters ,the african leadership will critize mugabe for letting it happen...Of course,it will be too late because,the chinese will own the value of the nation...Some of the white farms that had been stolen and given to blacks have already been stolen from them and turned over to the chinese ......


11 posted on 07/30/2005 8:13:08 PM PDT by fishbabe
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oooookay, I'll be wrong in the future when the Chinese take over the country and then there will be criticism.

I stand corrected.

12 posted on 07/30/2005 8:19:35 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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"For the last three months almost every single report from Zimbabwe has been about the destruction of homes, stalls and informal structures in our cities and towns."

They're self-destructing. It cant be that bad.


13 posted on 07/30/2005 8:22:50 PM PDT by TAquinas (Demographics has consequences)
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To: Dog Gone
And then, you run into dissonance like this:

http://www.morningmirror.africanherd.com/smalls/smalls129.htm

I don't get it -- the ads portray life in southern Africa as near-normal.

14 posted on 07/30/2005 8:25:56 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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DG you are 100% correct. I've lived in South Africa and traveled and worked all over southern Africa. The place is a hell hole and corrupt governments, tribalism and HIV have doomed the entire southern 2/3 of the continent. There is not a damn thing the west can do about it.
15 posted on 07/30/2005 8:30:08 PM PDT by HoustonCurmudgeon (I'm a Conservative but will not support evil just because it's "the law.")
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To: Lancey Howard
Buckle was one of the leading voices for expelling the evil white colonialists and turning Rhodesia into Zimbabwe. So let her stay there.

She's tonally liberal.....sounds like Margaret Carlson on downers, trying to imitate Emily Dickinson. But I wasn't aware she had a liberal track record as having opposed the Rhodesian government.

So she was an early supporter of Mugabe and Nkomo? Is that why they let her live, after she writes these devastating indictments of Mugabe's party?

16 posted on 07/30/2005 8:30:22 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: Dog Gone

Do you find it a little odd that Cathy Buckle,has been able to survive Zimbabwe,when other less known white farmers were murdered,raped,mutilated and destroyed...She has cost zimbabwe leadership dearly,they know who she is,because they supposedly took her farm and yet,they let her live...Am I the only one who finds this suspicious???????


17 posted on 07/30/2005 8:33:04 PM PDT by fishbabe
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To: xtargeter
On top of which, west Africans would probably look down at him as having had his blood polluted with European DNA somewhere along the line.

One of the boutique services black Americans with serious mad money are signing up for is having their DNA matched to African samples, to see who they're related to over there. One of Tavis Smiley's guests, an actor, was talking about that a couple of weeks ago.

18 posted on 07/30/2005 8:33:41 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: lentulusgracchus
South Africa is not nearly the basketcase that Zimbabwe has become. I'm not certain it won't, but it has much higher to fall from than Zimbabwe does.

SA, I still have hope for. Zim is toast.

19 posted on 07/30/2005 8:33:42 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: Clive

I just hope it's the Chinese who piss away their money trying to rehabilitate Zimbawe, and not US.


20 posted on 07/30/2005 8:39:34 PM PDT by Nachoman
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