[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

It is not marxism that is causing the disaster.

[Richard Kimball]

It is not marxism that is causing the disaster.

Put on your flame-proof suit. When someone makes a statement as stupid as that one, it seldom gets left alone.

[Movemout]

I would ask you to explain that remark. If you believe that Mugabe is not a Marxist and is just your common garden variety despot then I can understand your point. If not, then your skull is full of mush.

[dirtboy]

It is not marxism that is causing the disaster.

Forty-nine of the fifty United States are in some kind of drought condition. Yet we still produce a surplus of food. Methinks the famine has a core cause other than the weather.

[Clive]

It does not advance the discourse to simply make a bald denial without backing up your assertion.

Pray tell us what IS causing the disaster.

In doing so, please take into account that while there is a below average rainfall, this is a drought in which streams are flowing and dams are still full.

The impounded water is not being used because the crops that it would ordinarily have been used go irrigate had not been planted.

The bore holes are not dry. We have heard of several cases whereing squatters have burnt out the pumps on the bore holes through misuse while pumping water.

We have also heard of instances in which squatters have ignored drip irrigation systems already in place and have instead sent the wives and children over a kilometer to bring water back from a stream.

Please also take into account that there are pictures taken during this drought showing the green fields of commercial farmers right next to the brown fields of the land that had been confiscated.

Please explain why this drought is bringing massive famine, affecting half the population of Zimbabwe whhen a worse drought in 1992 did not result in famine.

Drought is a cyclical occurance which can be anticipated and hedged against.

Drought is climatological. Famine is political and geopolitical.

[Mark17]

It is not marxism that is causing the disaster.

LOL, yeah, right. It sure isn't creating a utopia either is it?

[Brian Allen]

<< It is not marxism that is causing the [Atrocity.] >>

No.

But "marxism" is one of the words that all of the African and other -- FRom Albania and Cambodia and Cuba and China to Singapore and Tanzania and Zambia and Zimbabwe -- of the world's self-appointed gangs of thieving, lying, looting, raping, pillaging, psychopathologically-mass-murdering mobster bastards-posing-as-gummints use instead of calling themselves what they actually are.

Self-appointed gangs of thieving, lying, looting, raping, pillaging, psychopathologically-mass-murdering mobster bastards-posing-as-gummints,that is.

[Nuke'm Glowing]

BUNK!!!!!!

Marxism, as a result of the blind eye turned by the Bush Sr. and Klintoon administrations and the procession of socialist European leaders has created the majority of problems in Africa . Mozambique, South Africa, Angola, Rhodesia, etc. all have had dramatic reversals in economic fortunes, not to mention their agricultural output as a result of the communization of their economies. Mother nature has not helped, granted, but has nothing to do with the continuing decline of the output of the farms. Rhodesia's overseas agricultural output has declined to the point where instead of being a net exporter of excess food and grains they are a net importer under the communist Mugabe. And if anyone says that Mandela is not a communist, then you are truely a fool. It is amazing how many posters, readers and of course "political leaders" (I use that term loosely as most are just bought and sold by the left and right) fail to remember the history of the 50's, 60's and 70's. I'm sick of it.

[Tijeras_Slim]

2,900 white-owned farms listed under Section 8 of the Land Acquisition Act, which set a deadline of 45 days for farming to stop and a further 45 days for the owners and their families to leave.

It's a "legislated" famine, so it must be OK. < /sarcasm>