[BretLudwig]

Zimbabwe: Sam Francis was right (3)
[Patrick Cleburne]

"So Robert Mugabe has won the Zimbabwean election by his traditional
methods: violent intimidation and murder.

Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai pulled out of Zimbabwes
violence-wracked presidential runoff Sunday, declaring the election was no
longer credible and the loss of life among his supporters was simply too
high.

The announcement cleared the way for President Robert Mugabe to
continue his 28-year rule, despite mounting condemnation from even loyal
African allies that the former independence hero has become a despot who
has bankrupted the countrys once thriving economy.

(Zimbabwe opposition leader pulling out of election By Angus Shaw
Associated Press June 22, 2008)

An interesting feature of todays news coverage is how much more
explicit the non-US Anglophone press is about the actual details of the
violence than the American. An honorable exception is todays Los
Angeles Times;

New wave of attacks on Zimbabwe opposition ratchets up the death toll By A
Times Staff Writer June 22 2008

The pair saw their three colleagues and an unknown passerby being
taken away to a makeshift militia camp where victims are interrogated and
beaten. The location: the local kindergarten. The mob then looted and
gas-bombed the house.

€œThe house was in flames. They started celebrating,€� Chipiyo
said.

The body of one of the activists was found the next day, his genitals
cut off. Archifords body turned up two days later with a gunshot wound
to the head, witnesses said. The body of a third activist had an ax wound
in the skull.

The fourth person was in critical condition in a hospital.

Zimbabwe was of particular concern to our late stalwart, Sam Francis, who
pertinently asked six years ago €œWhat Did We Expect?€� As I noted last
year

Sam was one of a handful engaged in skirmishes in Washington (the
disparity of forces was such they could hardly be called battles) in the
early 1970s attempting to gain a hearing for the point of view of Ian
Smith, the leader of the then Rhodesia. Smith argued that the likes of
Mugabe, the current Zimbabwean President, were not suitable to rule the
country, then one of the most prosperous in Africa.

The forces of Political Corrctness won, of course, in no small measure
by white self hate in the Northern Hemisphere, and hundreds of thousands of
lives have been ruined as a result. Sam was right, conventional opinion
wrong €“ although very unwilling to admit it. Unlike his opponents, Sam
continued his interest in the unfortunate country.

Things are now so bad in Zimbabwe that some of the Smith regimes most
dedicated opponents have recanted. Last year Judith Todd, the prominent
white liberal who in her youth was a kind of pin up girl for enemies of
Ian Smiths attempt to win independence for the country with white rule,
was asked:

But hasnt what happened fully justified Ian Smith and the white
racists who predicted that black rule would mean dictatorship, corruption
and chaos?

and replied

€œYou have to say they called it right€¦Smith did love the country
which was why he gave way rather than see it destroyed. Mugabe is
destroying it rather than give way€�.

The nice thing about black rule is that it gives a lot of credulous people
a bracing drenching in reality.

Bring on President Obama!"


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BretLudwig wrote:

Zimbabwe: Sam Francis was right (3)
[Patrick Cleburne]

"So Robert Mugabe has won the Zimbabwean election by his traditional
methods: violent intimidation and murder.

Yeah, we should have let Smith keep it.

Graham