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Original Post Date: 2002-03-22 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 3/22/2002 12:10:34 AM
Zimbabwe – Comments by a Former Reader"s Digest Editor
Source: http://www.frontpagemag.com/columnists/ponte/…br>
Zimbabwe and the Global Left
FrontPageMagazine.com (124)| March 21, 2002
Author: Lowell Ponte
DEMOCRACY IN NEWLY-INDEPENDENT COLONIES, it was said, would be One Man, One Vote, One Time. Thereafter those who won power would make sure that they could never be replaced by a genuine vote of the people.
Nowhere has this patronizing prediction proven more true than in the former British colony of Southern Rhodesia (and briefly independent white-ruled Rhodesia), now the southern African nation Zimbabwe, whose name in the Shona language means House of Stone.
Two weeks ago its Marxist dictator Robert Mugabe, 78, was elected to a fifth term as Zimbabwes President in an election so obviously rigged that only fellow African nations applauded the outcome.
Since his 22-year misrule began in 1980, Mugabe has turned this nation into a prison of stone and degraded what had been a breadbasket of the continent into a basket case verging on famine and economic collapse.
Three out of four of this once-prosperous lands unlucky 13 million citizens are now poor, and 60 percent are unemployed. The average worker, reports even the Leftist New York Times, earns less than he did under the white government. Industry and investment has largely shut down since, to cope with rampant inflation and national debt, Mugabe imposed confiscatory price controls.
Mugabe also turned Zimbabwe into the most openly racist nation on earth, permitting his gangs of thugs to expropriate white-owned farmland and murder white farmers almost without restraint. 1,700 white farms have been occupied by Mugabes followers “ except for the choicest, which have been given to his cronies in this Marxist kleptocracy. The result has been a devastating drop in food production.
In his inauguration speech last Sunday, President Mugabe vowed to speed up the seizure of another 4,500 white-owned farms. A day after Mugabe scapegoated Britain and its white allies for his nations problems in this speech, yet another white farmer was dragged from his car, tied to a tree, and killed with a bullet to the head. People found the body of Terry Ford and, guarding it, his faithful 14-year-old Jack Russell terrier dog Squeak.
At least 150 people have died and tens of thousands have been left homeless, reports Associated Press, in a two-year campaign of violence human rights activists blame mainly on [Mugabes] ruling party militants.
The government-encouraged genocidal pogrom against what Mugabe calls Zimbabwes greedy, arrogant and conceited.white tribe has prompted most Caucasians under age 65 to flee the country, as this column has discussed. Following the election, nearly four dozen more whites have been targeted for arrest for the crime of giving help to the black MDC (Movement for Democratic Change) party whose presidential candidate nearly defeated Mugabe.
Mugabes government is a textbook example of racism and ethnic cleansing, not unlike the former Rhodesia or apartheid South Africa against which Leftists righteously demanded global economic and political sanctions. Where are those Leftists now? Where are Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton “ and other Leftist supporters of existing anti-white government preferences in the United States “ to call for cutting off trade with racist, Marxist Zimbabwe? (The usual Politically Correct claptrap that Blacks cannot be racist because they have no power wont wash in Zimbabwe, where government power is entirely in black hands and whites are less than three percent of the population.)
But Mugabes dictatorship is arguably worse than even apartheid South Africa, which at least provided democracy for its white citizens. Mugabe now indicates that he aims to confiscate and redistribute property owned not only by whites but also commercial property owned by Asians, who were never colonial oppressors, (and presumably the property of any other non-blacks) living in Zimbabwe. Why should we be surprised? All socialism and Marxism is based on theft. And like his fellow Marxist Fidel Castro, Mugabe encourages the torturing and killing of homosexuals “ yet both go uncriticized by the Politically Correct Left.
And, of course, under Mugabes dictatorship the black citizens of Zimbabwe are denied democracy, liberty, justice, human rights, free speech and honest government. As even the New York Times reported, In the fever of Zimbabwes recent presidential campaign, more than 20 opposition party supporters were killed while the authorities looked the other way. Officials eliminated polling stations in opposition strongholds, effectively disenfranchising thousands of voters, and the police fired choking clouds of tear gas to disperse hundreds more who were waiting to cast their ballots.
Mugabe has also unleashed goons on his opponents, jailed journalists, destroyed the offices of one opposition newspaper, and intimidated critics with his soldiers, mobs, and implicit threats to their lives and property. Many international election observers were prevented from doing their job, and Mugabes refusal to let observers freely monitor the election brought European Union sanctions. And two days following the vote, Mugabe announced sharp limitations on local and international news organizations operating in Zimbabwe. This has been justified as complying with African standards of democracy.
In the wake of this stolen election, Germany cut off aid to Zimbabwe and urged the European Union to do likewise. But on Tuesday, March 19th, the 54-nation Commonwealth of Britain and its former colonies voted only to suspend Zimbabwes membership for one year because of the high level of politically motivated violence during its election, even as those engaged in a three-day general strike in Zimbabwe were being threatened with police and military retaliation.
By refusing to expel Zimbabwe, the Commonwealth revealed its common moral bankruptcy. By refusing to condemn Mugabe and demand his immediate resignation, many on the political Left worldwide are revealing both their hypocrisy and evil.
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Mr. Ponte hosts a national radio talk show Saturdays 6-9 PM Eastern Time (3-6 PM Pacific Time) that can be heard on 213 station and via TalkAmerica.com. The shows live call-in number is (888) 822-8255. A professional speaker, he is a former Roving Editor for Readers Digest.