Zimbabwe -- Cathy Buckle -- The names are felled

Letters written by Cathy Buckle ^ | 2008-10-25 | Cathy Buckle

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Thank you again for your time in posting these letters.

Regards.

[Tarpon]

No guns, either place. The goons got there first.

Show me a place where the people have arms and they are starving.

[Clive]

The American Revolution was not a revolution ab initio

It was a tax revolt that ran amok after the Crown badly handled its response to the colonials' agitation.

[Steve Van Doorn]

I would say Classic liberal not a libertarian. libertarians will not fight if need be such as in Iraq and Afgainistan.
The founders were obviously willing to fight.

[Steve Van Doorn]

How about a tax revolt/ religious freedom revolt that turned into an organized revolution?

[Steve Van Doorn]

"To simply slap the fascist label on Franco is to fall for the leftwing propaganda."

you are right I am sorry about that.

[Billthedrill]

Buckle is very accurately describing the collapse of an infrastructure that took just over a century to build. It is likely to take that long to rebuild, unfortunately, because while individual pieces may be recoverable the system as a whole is gone.

Certainly the educated entrepreneurial class - one hesitates to use such emotionally-loaded phrases as bourgeoisie - has departed, taking with it what little might be salvaged in terms of know-how from that prostrate land. In terms of the revolutionary Marxism that empowered Mugabe, that should open the way for peace and prosperity. In fact it offers the equality of crippling poverty and starvation. Thus "social justice."

It isn't, actually, a mere "handful" of people who are effecting this tragedy as Buckle seems still to hope. It's practially everyone who is left with any semblance of political power including Mugabe's opposition. Anyone attempting to rebuild this eviscerated country will find that he or she doesn't have all the pieces anymore. They're dead or gone or both.

[Little Ray]

There is nothing left in Zimbabwe except a chance to robbed and murdered. So why is this person still there?

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

You read my mind. Very scary.