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Robert Mugabe closes in on last white farmers
The Times ^ | 1/31/2010 | Jon Swain in Harare

Posted on 01/30/2010 9:25:19 PM PST by bruinbirdman

One by one the last white farmers are being beaten into submission. Four more had their farms seized by marauding gangs last week.

“They do not want us whites,” one farmer said.

Finaughty, 43, will never forget how his world came crashing down. One moment at his Manda farm there was stillness. Then came a burst of noise and confusion. A screaming, drunken mob hammered at the gates.


Armed mobs encouraged by Robert Mugabe and his cronies forced Ray Finaughty and
his family off their land

It was the climax of a two-year eviction campaign against him. He had fought step by step in the courts. Their judgments in his favour were all ignored. With no respect for the rule of law in Zimbabwe, he finally lost the battle.

Armed with spears and sticks, a mob threatened him and his wife, Loraine, by driving a tractor against the gate of their home. “We’re going to kill you,” they said. The family were given 10 minutes to pack their life’s belongings.

It was not the first attack that Finaughty had weathered. In one savage beating his attackers suggested breaking his legs as he lay injured in a field. “Leave him. He’s dead,” he heard one of them say.

Finaughty crawled away and saved himself. He had four broken ribs and concussion.

Another time, acting in self-defence, he had to shoot dead an armed robber who broke into his farmhouse. The police were sympathetic and took no action. But they treated the seizure of his farm differently.

“This is political. It’s a hot potato. We can’t get involved,” said Vengisai, the chief inspector, when Finaughty contacted his office.

So the Finaughty family drove away from the farm they loved. Soon, they believe, much of the

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; dictators; whites; zimbabwe
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To: healy61
Many of the farmers were 4th and 5th generation farmers. Where do they go? At least they tried to keep things going.

I know it is easy for me to type this from where I live, but it isn't exactly a well kept secret that whiteys who live in Africa in countries with majority black rule there are pretty much cannon fodder. For a whitey there to say he thinks he can "work with" this kind of government... even if he's been there for while... I just can't bring myself to comprehend that.

21 posted on 01/30/2010 9:54:35 PM PST by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: pnh102

Sounds eerily like Germany in the 30s.


22 posted on 01/30/2010 9:59:23 PM PST by Inkie
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To: healy61
Where do they go?

That's a great question. The "writing" is on the wall here also. When the parasites decide to redistribute our homes and land, I guess some folks here think we should all run instead of staying and fighting.

23 posted on 01/30/2010 9:59:29 PM PST by constitutiongirl ("Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."---Leo Tolstoy)
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To: healy61
They'd be welcome in my state of North Dakota. Terribly overpopulated we are...


24 posted on 01/30/2010 9:59:48 PM PST by Last Dakotan
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To: bruinbirdman

what made them think anyone would be fair with them?


25 posted on 01/30/2010 10:00:23 PM PST by dalebert
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To: paristwelve
It’s the same thing that happened in Haiti in 1808.

Or Detroit in the '60's.

26 posted on 01/30/2010 10:01:43 PM PST by Last Dakotan
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To: constitutiongirl
The "writing" is on the wall here also. When the parasites decide to redistribute our homes and land, I guess some folks here think we should all run instead of staying and fighting.

In this country those of us who actually own something would be more willing to fight back. It is also easier because there are far more people who would support the right to own private property than there are people who support taking it.

Once that balance shifts, then we are screwed.

27 posted on 01/30/2010 10:02:21 PM PST by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: pnh102

Yeah, that’s what I mean. The parasites (welfare queens, gov’t workers, unionists, ad nauseum) are quickly reaching critical mass. If Atlas doesn’t shrug in the next decade, we’re in deep dung.


28 posted on 01/30/2010 10:06:17 PM PST by constitutiongirl ("Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."---Leo Tolstoy)
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To: pnh102
It is hard to feel sorry for this guy... most whiteys in Zimbabwe saw the writing on the wall and packed up long ago. It just isn’t worth it when dealing with a country run by thugs.

Whose team are you on? If you don't look out for your race, who will?

29 posted on 01/30/2010 10:07:14 PM PST by LoneRangerMassachusetts
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To: pnh102

Whether the guy is being naive or not has nothing to do with feeling sorry for him.

This man and his family are being exterminated. Anyone who ran and anyone who stayed should have freedom loving people’s sympathy.


30 posted on 01/30/2010 10:08:04 PM PST by Onerom99 (I)
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To: pnh102

Thats like saying why haven’t you left US yet? You deserve what you got with Obama. Zimbawae is home to alot of white ppl. They’re not just visitors who just came along to start a business and have options to leave when things got bad. Those who are still there, probably don’t know what to do outside of their home country


31 posted on 01/30/2010 10:11:17 PM PST by 4rcane
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To: bruinbirdman
“They do not want us whites,” one farmer said. Finaughty, 43, will never forget how his world came crashing down.

Y'all finally figured out you're about as popular as a pork chop in Mecca? Did you come up with that on your own, or did you need help ciphering it?

32 posted on 01/30/2010 10:12:45 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (I think not, therefore I don't exist!)
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts

You mean the human race right, because skin color dont matter


33 posted on 01/30/2010 10:12:46 PM PST by 4rcane
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To: davidwendell
You find it hard to feel sorry for someone who is illegally kicked out of their home, a place they have lived for generations?

If you read the article, you'll see that he tried to "work with" the regime that wants him and his family dead. He also takes a rather interesting view on whiteys who live in Africa (he believes they are "guests").

34 posted on 01/30/2010 10:15:52 PM PST by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: 4rcane

Tell that to the rest of the world.....and our own government’s hiring practices....and Bill Gates Millennium Scholarship.....and the NAACP.....and BET....and etc...etc...


35 posted on 01/30/2010 10:21:51 PM PST by DwFry (Baby Boomers Killed Western Civilization!)
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To: pnh102

Whats he gonna say? Anyone who says “We have a right to be here” gets killed.


36 posted on 01/30/2010 10:24:13 PM PST by DwFry (Baby Boomers Killed Western Civilization!)
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To: bruinbirdman
Armed with spears and sticks, a mob threatened him and his wife, Loraine, by driving a tractor against the gate of their home. “We’re going to kill you,” they said. The family were given 10 minutes to pack their life’s belongings.

Sticks and spears? Thus the intelligence behind OUR second amendment. Come at my home with sticks and spears....or guns, and all you'll need is a will and a proper place for burial.

37 posted on 01/30/2010 10:28:16 PM PST by Engineer_Soldier (Thank God for the Tea Party which, alone, has shocked the RINOs and DNC!)
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To: 4rcane
Thats like saying why haven’t you left US yet?

Look at a lot of inner city and older suburbs in the USA and tell me that isn't happening on a smaller scale here. Why didn't the whiteys who previously lived there stay and fight?

38 posted on 01/30/2010 10:33:39 PM PST by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: bruinbirdman

I have to wonder what the difference in IQ is between the whites who left thirty years ago and the ones who have stayed to the bitter end.


39 posted on 01/30/2010 10:37:01 PM PST by Arthur McGowan (In Edward Kennedy's America, federal funding of brothels is a right, not a privilege.)
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To: bruinbirdman

It will happen in America one day.


40 posted on 01/30/2010 10:38:13 PM PST by bushpilot1
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