[JohnHuang2]

Quote of the day by atafak

[atafak]

It looks like Qadaffi and Mugabe are positioning themselves to become the major players in the new African based world opium market. By the time the Afghan production and distribution networks get ramped up again, Zimbabwe will have stolen the markets.

[Cuttnhorse]

Thanks for the post JH,
I worked with a lot of folks from Zimbabwe and S. Africa, and it is absolutely horrible what is happening to these countries.

Nothing is going to change, the west will not condemn what Mugabe is doing; the west has expended too much political capital in the success of black rule in Africa and it just isn't going to happen.

[CatoRenasci]

Zimbabwe post-Ian Smith is a hard example of H.L. Mencken's maxim that Democracy: .... the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

In their ignorance, the common black people of Zimbabwe supported Mugabe and the rebels against Smith. The Western powers supported Mugabe against Smith. For Shame!

Any white who could go, but remains, is fast losing my sympathy. The handwriting has been on the wall for years -- once I would have supported a military operation to evacuate the whites and coloureds, but now I think it's almost too late. Those who remain are mostly those who chose to, placing their businesses and farms above their safety and that of their families. A Choice.

[Jimmy Valentine]

I suggest that you may want to link this somehow to the threads on Klamath Basin.

If the Clinton moles still in the government have their way, we'll wind up like Zimbabwe sooner or later.

Regards,

[bvw]

"Farmers who have been served with a section-8 letter informing them of the seizure of their land have been told to immediately cease all farming operations and have 90 days to get off their farms and out of their homes"

We have our own "Section 8"s that by coincidence parallel this one. Not as harsh, but still a taking -- of value and opportunity.

HUD's Section 8, and a paper about it -- Section 8 Mobility and Neighborhood Health

SBA's Section 8, Small Business Set Asides for Socially Disadvanted Groups, also in Department of Defense Contracts, other government agencies, railroads, etc. Because of the preference for set asides, it can be hard for a small business to do federal government or railroad business unless it is owned by say, a black single mother.

See this timeline of Legislation Affecting Minority Purchasing

[Stefan Stackhouse]

They take the dirt away from the food producers and give it to the non-producers, and now the non-producers have nothing to eat but dirt. Why am I not surprised?

Yet another socialist famine. (Sigh!)

[beowolf]

This entire episode is so sick. None of the 'veterans' are old enough to be veterans. They are simply destroying large efficient farms that operate on modern 'scales of economy' to enable the devolution into subsistence farming plots.

Famine is a foregone conclusion. The truely absurd part will be if the international community (UN) provides food aid to Zimbabwe to bail out Mugabe's butt and delay the day of reckoning. When the population realizes that they are, for the forseeable future, condemned to famine because of Mugabe's policies, he will have a very short life.