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Hi! From time to time I post items from I get them from a Georgist in Eddie Cross is an officer in the opposition party to Mugabe. However, its influence has diminished as Mugabe alters the election rules and heavily coerces its supporters. Here is his latest. Harry --------------------------------------------------------- Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 11:36 AM Subject: Child Morons OVERGROWN MORONS AT WORK. The BBC has a very well developed sense of the bizarre and knows when to use a propaganda
clip to good effect when it becomes available. They did that
this week with a short clip from the only State run
television channel here and the subject was the reaction in
Parliament to the success of the vote on the 17th constitutional
amendment since 1980. The clip showed the despair of the MDC opposition to the vote and the specter of the Zanu PF Members of Parliament (one third of them unelected and appointed by Mugabe for such an event in our sorry
history) dancing in Parliament and clearly showing their gross
indulgence and scant regard for the suffering of our people.
But the sad thing is that what we were really witnessing
was a collection of overgrown child morons at work. Just look at the childish actions of this collection of clowns in the past fortnight. They create a new Senate which will cost us US$20 million before the end of this year in
direct and indirect costs at a time when we cannot find the
money to import food, raw materials, fuel and spare parts.
The only function of this completely useless institution is
to accommodate those who failed in their bids to join the
gravy train in the last election. They gave themselves the right to take away from those who disagree with them and who are
standing up to them politically, the right to travel.
This is clearly simply a "tit for tat" measure designed to
match the smart sanctions imposed on Zanu
leadership for gross human and political rights violations. The fact that
this was yet another violation of our basic rights as
entrenched in international law made no impression. They took away from all of us any remaining security of tenure over assets that we have
owned, in many cases, all our lives. In one fell swoop they
destroyed whatever hope they once had of agricultural
recovery and spread the malaise to every sector of the
economy. No mine or industry or even urban residential
property is now safe. This stupid and childish act (which has no
legal validity in the long term as others in similar
circumstances around the globe will testify) has undermined all
serious future investment and confirmed decisions like that
of the huge Anglo American Group, that disinvestment is the only sensible strategy while these clowns are in power. They declared (and this really takes the cake) that we could not demand elections for a new
Mayor and Council in crisis riven
postpone such an event for three
months at a time for up to 4 years! So much for democratic rights and the principle objects of the liberation struggle
that Zanu and others fought for over half a century. When faced with the threat of expulsion from the IMF and the efforts by mature and rational way to end
the present crisis, they raided the private bank accounts
of local business and simply took the money to pay the
IMF US$120 million. This, at a time when we have no seed or
fertilizer for the new season now two months away, no
fuel, no raw materials, shortages of all basic foods and
shortages of just about everything else. All that this
act of defiance did was to say to look after ourselves! If we
needed a clearer example of the rejection of the SA loan offer
with its political and economic conditions - here it is. What did this childish act achieve? Absolutely nothing! It came in a week when payment of accounts and the PTC
announced it owed other telephone systems over US$100
million in unpaid bills. We owe everyone money and our
creditors now hold our useless script on nearly US$7 billion in
foreign debt and Z$16 trillion debts at home - rising
now at a trillion a week. We even had a plane impounded at
Gatwick for non-payment of landing fees - and they held
passenger luggage as hostage until the overdue account was
paid. But when it came to rectifying the fundamental
problems, that underline our economic and political crisis and
which the IMF and others have been demanding action for
years -they did virtually nothing. So now we sit - passengers at international airports waiting for days for a plane to take them
home, businessmen waiting for urgently needed imports to
keep their businesses running, miners to keep their
mines open and functioning, farmers across the country
sitting on their useless assets, waiting for fuel and fertilizer
and seed to get a crop in the ground this season. It town
we sit in queues for hours and days for fuel and other
essentials and when we get them they have doubled or trebled in
price. The stock market is still frozen in its tracks - trillions of dollars worth of
"sell" orders, no buyers. The government is losing Z$500 million a day
while this impasse goes on but still no action, they childishly
refuse to accept they were wrong and these new regulations
will simply destroy what was until a few weeks ago one of the
few institutions still functioning normally. These guys
are morons - 25 years of experience in government and they
are still not learning anything as they go on. We have yet to see what the final IMF position will be but I am sure the payment of US$120
million will not mean a great deal. In fact the way it was done
and the total lack of transparency that was involved
will not impress those stern international bankers! It was
probably counterproductive. The truth is the IMF does not give a damn about the arrears - it's our policies that worry them. They know
better than most with their global network of
offices and people that it is the policy stance of this
government (the goon show) that has destroyed our economy, halved
incomes and life expectancy and driven a third of
our total population into exile or an early grave. If I were on the IMF Board I would send their cheque back to them and tell them to go away and
not to come back until they were prepared to put their
house in order. Right now we are in a firestorm of inflation -
for the first time in our history we are seeing triple
digit inflation in one month. The good news is that no government in history has survived that sort of storm and neither
will this one. Then perhaps we can start to get on with
rebuilding our lives. There is little hope of that while this
collection of child morons is at work and in control. Eddie Cross ******************************** of 818 352-4141 ******************************** |
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