is enough enough?
Saturday, December 6, 2008 at 02:38PM I have never really been a fan of so-called ‘protest songs’, mainly because I’ve never been a fan of so-called ‘Protests’, whether musical, marches (viz. Aldermaston etc) or of the protesters themselves, who usually turned out to be clones of Michael Foot in his duffel coat, but without the education, wit or sartorial neglect which personified the author of the ‘Longest Suicide Note in Political History’, but I am reminded of the particular protest piece “Blowing in the Wind”, sung, if that be the correct term, by one Bob Dylan, who always seemed to be suffering from inflamed adenoids when performing. Reminded, that is, by the infantile utterings of our own Dear Leader Gordon, he of the one eye and one policy, when asking for the help of ‘The wider International Community, and the African branch of that illustrious body, to tell Robert Mugabe that ‘it’s time for him to go!’, and to allow democracy to rule once more in that god-forsaken place!
As if anyone is going to take any notice of the drivellings of a Prime Minister whose own Democratic leanings swayed a raid by twenty anti-terror policemen on the office of an Opposition M.P. who had the temerity to publish leaked details of the failings of the Home Office in the really secure area of allowing over five thousand bogus asylum seekers to work in the so-called ‘Security’ industry, including some working within the Home Office itself.
Zimbabwe may well be in the throes of epidemics, but the only people with any possible chance of breaking the stranglehold held by the thugs of Zanu-P.F and the blank-eyed army gorrillas are the soldiers of South Africa. Well, they would have been been once upon a time, but fourteen years of so-called Black Independence have brought the once proud ranks of a disciplined, well-trained S.A. Army to an ill–led rabble, who no longer march in formation except when attacking isolated Afrikaans farmers or robbing banks!
The once-beautiful country of Southern Rhodesia has been swept bare by a madman and his cohorts, and all Gordon Brown can do is tell world leaders to stand together to defend human rights and democracy in Zimbabwe. Why not save his breath, and continue planning further attacks on what is left of Democracy in Britain!
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Reader Comments (5)
Well said, Mike. Oh for cyclops to realise that enough is enough where his own nation is concerned.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/23/opinion/23kristof.html?_r=1
Quote 1:
"If we had the chance to go back to white rule, we'd do it," said Solomon Dube, a peasant whose child was crying with hunger when I arrived in his village. "Life was easier then, and at least you could get food and a job."
Quote 2:
An elderly peasant in another village, Makupila Muzamba, said that hunger today is worse than ever before in his seven decades or so, and said: "I want the white man's government to come back. ... Even if whites were oppressing us, we could get jobs and things were cheap compared to today."
Quote 3:
His wife, Mugombo Mudenda, remembered that as a younger woman she used to eat meat, drink tea, use sugar and buy soap. But now she cannot even afford corn gruel. "I miss the days of white rule," she said.
So where are RS, Daytripper, Frank, Petr(?) et al to tell these people that they're mistaken?
Of course the days of white rule were better than the hell that is Zimbabwe today, but racial minority rule by whites over a black majority population is not coming back, it is part of history . The world should rid Zimbabwe of Mugabe , give the opposition their rightful place in govt. and try to help Zimbabweans of all races to heal the battering their country has taken . Wistfully hoping for a return to colonialism is futile.
Colm, I'm not wistfully hoping for a return of colonialism. Apart from the Cape, the white man has no place and no business in Africa. However, there are some blacks who remember that the racist government of Ian Smith provided food and jobs for the indigenous of that area.
Allan
Apart from Mugabe's cronies and the Zanu PF privileged crowd, I think everyone else in Zimbabwe while not supporting the days of Smith's regime will be painfully physically aware that their lives were better in those days.