Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Support Mugabe, Get a $88,000 Land Cruiser

Fire of Liberty

As the people in Zimbabwe are starving to death, seeking new homes after being thrown out of their homes due to Mugabe's "Drive Out the Filth" campaign as well suffering from an inflation rate hovering above 1,000%, the ruthless regime of Robert Mugabe has purchased some 100 Land Cruisers valued at £47,000 a piece($88,362.35)to dole out to various members of his family and regime loyalists to retain his hold on power. One thing that perplexes me is that even after Christina Lamb has run several fine pieces in The Times on the horrific nature of the regime, few nations besides the US and the UK are interested in saying a thing about Mugabe and his actions. If the UN amounted to anything you'd think they'd step up and condemn Mugabe and call up sanctions or call for him to step down but as with Rwanda, Kosovo and Sudan they've once again demonstrated their ineffectiveness. So here's hoping someone ends the burden of the people in Zimbabwe real soon. (Twenty-six years of Mugabe is enough hell for anyone to endure.)

**Even worse, mothers are abandoning up to 20 babies a day due to the lack of food in Zimbabwe(Once the bread-basket of Africa) due to the regime seizing farms from farmers to give to cronies (Thus no crops being grown) as well as the tremedous inflation rate of 1,000%.(Cost too much to buy food.)

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