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Zimbabwe Crisis: White Farming Couple Beaten And Kicked Off Land
The Telegraph (UK) ^
| 6-4-2008
| David Blair
Posted on 06/03/2008 6:14:59 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam
They probably feel they have the right to ‘take back their land’ as this was pretty much how their ancestors lost their native lands to the Dutch and English settlers. (and no, I’m not saying it’s right).
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posted on
06/03/2008 6:59:08 PM PDT
by
ktscarlett66
(Face it girls....I'm older and I have more insurance....)
To: blam
I feel sorry for these folks, but the writing was on the wall years ago. They should have packed up and left a long time ago. I know it’s hard to abandon a home you love, but an erupting volcano doesn’t care — neither does a mob.
There is no hope for Zimbabwe. Outside massive foreign intervention (yes, I mean colonialism) its slide back into the stone age is inevitable.
South Africa won’t be far behind.
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posted on
06/03/2008 7:00:30 PM PDT
by
Ronin
(Is there some rule that says that when an evil man gets sick, we must pretend he was saint?)
To: kublia khan
I've said it before and Ill say it again; Africa was better off under colonization then it has ever been since.
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posted on
06/03/2008 7:03:14 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(Is Barak HUSSEIN Obama the Anti-Christ? "Barak Ho-Tep!! Barak Ho-Tep!")
To: kublia khan
I've said it before and Ill say it again; Africa was better off under colonization then it has ever been since.
Wonder why my addition didn't shoe up? Anyways, I agree with you, it was better under colonial rule. Then again, if I were them, I'd rather stand and fight, preferably with an M1 Garand, but on the other hand, they should have gotten out. I know it would be hard to leave your home but Mugabe and his mob are like giant ants, sometimes it is better to leave for safer places. Anyways, without those farmers, they will starve. Let them starve then and then we can move back into Africa.
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posted on
06/03/2008 7:07:56 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(Is Barak HUSSEIN Obama the Anti-Christ? "Barak Ho-Tep!! Barak Ho-Tep!")
To: television is just wrong
"these people should be taken into our country. they are refugees. oh, wait they are white and whites are racist, nevermind they were beaten up by black zimbabweians."There's also the fact that they are idiots.
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posted on
06/03/2008 7:10:03 PM PDT
by
norton
To: blam
"We are like hungry lions." Yeah--and soon they'll be a lot hungrier, as internal production of food continues to plummet.
To: blam
The ringleader ordered him to hand over his weapon.
He should have handed it over very quickly, one shotgun shell at a time. It took the local police five hours to arrive, the farmers could have been over the border in that time.
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posted on
06/03/2008 7:29:56 PM PDT
by
monkeycard
(There is no such thing as too much ammo.)
To: FlingWingFlyer
White people shouldnt be allowed on the planet. If you think this through, that might actually be a good idea. May Bert Rutan perfect the technology that will allow our children to escape.
To: blam
are we seeing America in the second Obama term?
To: Ronin; blam
I feel sorry for these folks, but the writing was on the wall years ago. They should have packed up and left a long time ago.Just like the Jews should have left Germany?
Where would they go?
What would they live on?
Would the U.S.A. have let them in?
To: norton
so are most of the other refugees we take into the country from like lets say Islamic Somalia?
To: Ronin; blam
I feel sorry for these folks, but the writing was on the wall years ago. They should have packed up and left a long time ago.The way America is heading, someday people may be saying that about you and me.
To: television is just wrong
Sorry,
But someone who escaped Somalia and got here may be a cultural basket case but one that's a whole lot more clever than a white farmer still hanging out in Zimbabwe waiting for something good to happen.
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posted on
06/03/2008 8:43:01 PM PDT
by
norton
To: blam
All the Ivy League colleges should be proud of this picture. They spearheaded the "divestiture" movement that caused the governments of Rhodesia and South Africa to fall.
Why are they not taking the credit they deserve for their hand in what has happened in these countries?
To: norton
But someone who escaped Somalia and got here may be a cultural basket case but one that's a whole lot more clever than a white farmer still hanging out in Zimbabwe waiting for something good to happen.One day they'll be saying the same thing about me here in California.
But hell, I was born here.
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posted on
06/03/2008 9:01:26 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: kublia khan
“I’ve said it before and Ill say it again; Africa was better off under colonization then it has ever been since.”
Very true. Some other parts of the world as well.
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posted on
06/03/2008 9:10:04 PM PDT
by
buwaya
To: ktscarlett66
They didn’t.
For the most part, Europeans in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) took untilled virgin lands, setting aside native tribal lands as traditional communal property not subject to sale and transfer.
The problem was that -
1. The native population outgrew the carrying capacity of their communal lands, and they desired expansion into what were now white-owned rich agricultural properties.
2. The white settlers brought in farm workers from outside the local tribal society, many even from South Africa and Mozambique. A lot of these people are now a big part of the black Zimbabwean refugees in SA, Botswana, etc.
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posted on
06/03/2008 9:17:09 PM PDT
by
buwaya
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Read any college book. White people shouldnt be allowed on the planet. The majority of white college kids all agree.You're right. I don't know how liberals have programmed in self-loathing to such a degree but they have managed not only erase any bit of racial pride in white kids but also erased any feeling of human pride.
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posted on
06/03/2008 11:22:14 PM PDT
by
TheThinker
(Capitalism is the natural result of a democratic government.)
To: blam
Does Mugabe have a policy of genocide towards white Zimbabweans?
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posted on
06/04/2008 8:33:20 AM PDT
by
junta
(It's Poltical Correctness stupid! Hold liberals accountable for their actions, a new idea.)
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