If you liked Obama’s de facto siding with the regime in Iran, you’ll love the fact that $73 Million of Your Tax Dollars Are Going to Marxist, Anti-White, Zimbabwe Strongman Robert Mugabe
My mother keeps lamenting the fact that we still buy the New York Times. We tried to boycott, but it’s better to keep an eye on what the bastards are up to. That, and we love the crosswords.
Also, the Times is not pure lies. It is a very useful exercise to analyze their omissions and distortions- they’re like one of those 3D posters- mull over it a while and things jump into focus. And I like to take a page from Noam Chomsky and say, “Look, the information isn’t coming from a controversial source, it’s right here in the New York Times.”
Who is Robert Mugabe? Robert Mugabe is the Zimbabwe Strongman, a “committed Marxist”, who came to power in 1980 after Zimbabwe gained indpendence from the UK, who murders and tortures the people of Zimbabwe while he “lines his pockets.” He exploited racial animus to spur Zimbabwean blacks on to kill white landowners.
(The 2008 CIA World Factbook entry for Zimbabwe is under construction…)
This from the (left-leaning) BBC (in 2000):
Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe Strongman
Raised and educated as a Roman-Catholic Mr Mugabe became a committed Marxist during the guerrilla war against the Rhodesian Front government of Ian Smith.
Taking power on a wave of popular support his early political promises of reconciliation and democracy were later overtaken by a strong authoritarian streak and a deep distrust of opposition.
In recent years Mr Mugabe has become an increasingly outspoken nationalist, lashing out at the 75,000 white Zimbabweans and their alleged foreign backers for his country’s economic collapse.
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Local journalists who have tried to investigate . . . allegations against Mr Mugabe and his family say they have been intimidated and in some cases tortured.
This from the American Spectator:
UNTIL 2000, ZIMBABWE WAS the breadbasket of Africa, exporting wheat, tobacco, and corn to the rest of the continent and beyond. . . .
All that changed in 2000 as Mugabe’s popularity began to slip. First the president’s new constitution was rejected by voters, a constitution that would have radically increased his authority. Mugabe blamed the white farmers and black sell-outs for his defeat and immediately undertook fast-track land reform, which literally meant confiscating the best farms and giving them to his cronies, few of whom had any interest in farming. Mugabe justified the land grab by saying that white settlers had stolen the land from blacks, so they were simply taking back what was rightfully theirs.
Later that year a white farmer, David Stevens, was murdered by squatters. Within two years 10 white farmers had been murdered. Those that did not flee were soon evicted as the pace of land-reform quickened. By 2003, there were only 500 of the 4,000 large-scale farmers left. And these farmers could grow crops only at severe losses due to Mugabe’s price controls and nearly 800 percent inflation. Today farm machinery lies rusting in ruined fields and emaciated cattle wander the back roads dying of foot-and-mouth disease. The land grabs, however, have done little to ease the plight of average Zimbabweans. Hunger and disease is rampant and unemployment now stands at 70 percent. And yet every night before the evening news the state-run television broadcasts footage from the colonial past as a reminder of what could happen if whites or their lackeys in the opposition regain power.
Do you see a pattern here? Where do Obama’s sympathies lie? With the people who strive to live in a democracy or with the dictators who oppress and exploit them? Why are we taxpayers giving Robert Mugabe $73 million? Why are we inviting members of the Iranian regime to a Fourth of July barbecue (our national holiday, our day of independence, what is going on?)?
I tell you what, though, if I find out that the USOAS or the US Mission to the UN is hosting the Iranian regime for a little Fourth of July barbecue, I am going to go stand outside the UN with a photo of Neda Agha Soltan, and show them how an American exercises the freedoms that we celebrate on the Fourth of July.
