Government Solutions to Global Problems
Courtesy of the American People
Posted on 06/26/2011 3:21:21 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
......His mother, he says, built the 700-pupil local school, his father sat on the local council, and whenever his black neighbours need helping out - be it a fellow farmer borrowing a tractor, or the local police borrowing fuel for their cars - it is his door on which they knock.
....He has already handed over another farm he owns to a group of black settlers who turned up in 2006, since when, he says, he has done his best to be neighbourly.
He helps prepare the land for cultivation and offers advice when they need it, although driving through his estate, it is clear that some of what is now in black hands is being used for little more than subsistence agriculture.
Such goodwill, however, counts for little when groups of club-wielding "war veterans" - ostensibly men who fought in Zimbabwe's war for independence, but in practice often just hired thugs - turn up to demand a farmer's departure...
...What stung more, though, were the "Go back to Britain" slogans they shouted - meaningless to a man who is in fact of French Huguenot stock, has only ever held a Zimbabwean passport, and has nowhere else to go even if he wanted to.
Infuriatingly, the view that he has no longer a citizen of his own country is shared by the black prosecutor who will oversee his trespass case next week, who has described him in previous court appearances as merely a "visitor".
"I have never viewed myself as anything other than Zimbabwean, and that is what hurts me most," he said.
"We are not being looked at as citizens of this country, yet my father was born here before Robert Mugabe. What future do we have when you are fighting people of that mentality?"
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
obama is doing the same thing here.
Too bad the press won’t open their eyes and report it.
If a conservative takes the WH in ‘12, we need to get these people to America - if they will come. They’ll be good citizens (fast-tracked, of course) to have on our side for the ‘16 election.
That's how Mugabe has held power. He's destabilize the country, the food source, the currency. He doesn't care about the blacks or the whites or humanity. Period.
The courts used to uphold these farmers' rights to their property and farms....so the courts had to be stacked with Mugabe people. The people of Zimbabwe tried to vote Mugabe out but he enlisted youth thug gangs to terrorize the people away from the polls and when that didn't work, stuffed the ballot boxes.
Millions have fled across the border (through barbed wire) to South Africa. In the end, while those who remain are starving, he uses racism to divide anyone who has a moral fiber still growing in them.
Too bad the press knows it and doesn't see any problems to report.
There needs to be a majority whitey country created in southern Africa. Whiteys there need a homeland.
Just a bunch of 'racist' who gives a crap? Evil white men who the world will be better off without. Good thing that could never happen here. /s
Snip...In return the Chinese will give them money to help them develop farming operations on their remaining farmland, and also buy the crops they produce.
Snip...In recent years Zimbabwe has hovered on the brink of famine. Only about 200 white commercial farmers are left in a country that was once considered the breadbasket of Southern Africa. Meanwhile, most of the land invaders from president robert mugabe’s ZANU-PF party are unable or unwilling to maintain the farming production levels of their predecessors.
And just who are these "new black farmers", you ask...
Zimbabwe's Mugabe & Cronies Main Beneficiaries of Land Reform - Report 30 November 2010 Zimbabwe's Mugabe & Cronies Main Beneficiaries of Land Reform - Report
Meanwhile, Web-based news agency ZimOnline reported that President Robert Mugabe, top officials of his ZANU-PF party, senior military officers and judges have been the main beneficiaries of land reform with 5 million hectares of land among them.
ZimOnline reported that about 2,200 people now control almost half of the most fertile land seized from white commercial farmers. It said President Mugabe and his wife Grace own 14 farms accounting for a total of nearly 16,000 hectares of land.
I would like to see Al Sharpton and Rev. Jackson comment on the movie “Mugabe and the White African”.
There were a lot of really good black people documented in the movie: the lawyer lady, the farm farm workers, etc.
Where are the Ivy Leaguers and the media advocates who championed the anti apartheid movement in the 80s? Are they sorry for what they did in destroying two productive cultures and replacing them with anarchy and corruption? Is there no accountability?
I hate to say it, but he’s a fool for not leaving years ago.
You’re welcome.
The problem with that kind of “otherness” worship, is that the “culture” they’re elevating is holding people back. The Al Gores’, John Kerrys’ the Ted Turners’ and other commies of the world, who march in to stop drilling (Alaskan natives can’t improve lives), DDT (who cares if the people die?), no clean water or reliable energy sources in these “3rd World Countries” because the “environmentalists” are using them as bartering chips for Carbon Exchange credits.
Remember the articles that used to be posted here by (IIRC)Kathy Buckles?
Her family were white farmers trying to hang on in Zimbabwe.
What became of her and family?
What future do we have when you are fighting people of that mentality?”............................................. Its not a case of “we”, its a case of “They”. It doesn’t really mater, China will probably own Zimbabwe eventually.
I was working in Rhodesia (I refuse to call it Zimbabwe) in 1985. Even then the white Rhodies were selling as much of their wealth for Kruegerrands so they could get the hell out of that disaster-bound country. Most of the Anglos headed for Australia or back to the UK. Others headed for South Africa, which turned out not be such a smart move; it seemed like a good idea at the time. Some even went to Mozambique where they could buy farms. Poor, poor Rhodesia!
| Country | Metric Tonnes of food |
|---|---|
| Argentina | 35,000 |
| Australia | 250,000 |
| Canada | 420,000 |
| European Union | 1,320,000 |
| Japan | 300,000 |
| Norway | 30,000 |
| Switzerland | 40,000 |
| United States | 2,500,000 |
It's not that simple. To them Zimbabwe has is home. The courts were ruling in their favor. It was a slow tortured path. None of us have that kind of 20-20 hindsight.
Indeed... the fact that few people seem to want to openly admit is that in a majority non-whitey country, it will always be open season on whiteys.
Africa Wins Again...
I realize that, but many did leave then. They were always the minority and that was the first clue as to their ultimate fate.
They certainly are "investing" in Africa (where aren't they?)
Here are 2 thugs who have scratched each others' backs: Mugabe, Gaddafi tight business pals
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