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Message: 8
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:00:35 +0100
From: Mario Sousa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2005 poll puts Zim under spotlight
Dear Mahoso
I realy agree with you.
Revolutionary greetings.
Mario Sousa
Uppsala, Sweden.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 2005 poll puts Zim under spotlight
>
> African Focus By Tafataona P. Mahoso
> AS we face the March 2005 parliamentary elections, Zimbabweans must
> count themselves blessed not only by the extraordinary global
> attention focused on our affairs but also by the capacity of Zimbabwe
> to force the enemies of Africa and all sell-outs to reveal themselves
> apart from the Pan-Africanists. Zimbabwe has provided a moment of
> truth and clarity for the rest of Africa.
>
> When I went to Gaborone in August 2004 I was warned that Britain, the
> US and the EU would be seeking to use Zimbabwean, Sadc and AU
> structures, organisations and individuals to discredit the 2005
> elections even before they took place.
>
> This was because, with Zimbabwe’s departure from Commonwealth and
its
> subsequent decision not to allow uninvited observers into the
country,
> the Anglo-Saxon countries were left with no other option but to use
> those seen to be already inside or part of Africa.
>
> Apart from Zimbabwe’s departure from the Commonwealth and the
decision
> not to allow uninvite d observers into the country, there was a third
> reason why the imperial powers would put more efforts into the
> recruitment of internal African groups and individuals.
>
> The prominent role of the same US and UK in the illegal invasion and
> occupation of Iraq totally discredited the imperialist doctrines of
> democracy, human rights and rule of law.
>
> No matter how hard the Anglo-Saxons tried, it had become harder and
> harder for white folks to masquerade as missionaries of democracy,
> human rights and rule of law.
>
> Zimbabwe and Iraq had successfully decolonised the human rights and
> democracy charade. From now on only African stooge movements,
> sponsored NGOs and individual sell-outs, would be used.
>
> Sure enough, this is what we see — a parade of sponsored African
> institutions, NGOs and individuals all carrying the US-UK or US-EU
> agenda: United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, African
> Development Forum, Zimbabwe Human Rights and NGO Forum, National
> Constitutional Assembly, African Commission on Human and People’s
> Rights, Crisis Zimbabwe Coalition, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade
> Unions, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, Archbishop Pius
> Ncube, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Tony Leon and many other purchased
> voices have emerged to carry the US-UK agenda against the Zimbabwean
> revolution.
>
> The imperialists have proven to be quite capable of adjusting their
> weapons to current requirements. Since Africans in the Sadc region
> went through decades of war against Portuguese fascism, Rhodesian UDI
> and South African apartheid — it would no longer do for the
> imperialists to set up yet another Inkatha, another Unita or Renamo.
> The imperialists have to find new versions of Jonas Savimbi, Afons o
> Dhlakama, Abel Muzorewa or Moise Tshombe. The new versions must not
> sound militaristic or war-like.
>
> They must adjust and put on sheep’s clothes. So their language has
> been adjusted to human rights, democracy, free-flow of information,
> humanitarian relief, rule of law and dialogue.
>
> For instance, in his latest attack on Zimbabwe, Archbishop Desmond
> Tutu regretted the fact that Zimbabwe’s assertion of its
sovereignty
> and independence makes the Anglo-Saxon donors believe that all
> Africans are like Zimbabwe or that all Africans want to be like
Zimbabwe.
>
> This association with Zimbabwe means that those African countries
> which really want to collaborate with imperialism are denied donor
> aid, either because they are seen in the same light as Zimbabwe or
> they may one day reclaim their land and other assets just as Zimbabwe
> has done.
>
> Now this kind of complaint is much less honest than what bishops and
> missionaries used to say in the 1970s and 1980s against the Patriotic
> Front and other liberation movements.
>
> Both the religious men of the 1970s and the reactionary bishops of
> today were working for Anglo-Saxon imperialism, but today’s
bishops,
> Desmond Tutu and Pius Ncube, are bigger liars because they have to
> couch their venom against Africans in sweet human rights language.
>
> Reverend Paul Lindstrom and Giles Pace of the Church of Christian
> Liberty in Chicago, USA, decided in 1978 that Zimbabwean freedom
> fighters were just terrorists.
>
> So they used their church to recruit white mercenaries for the
> Rhodesian regime. They made no pretences about the rule of law or
> human rights.
>
> To them, God was on the side of Ian Smith and the Africans were
cursed
> if they resisted white rule. These religious men even went as far as
> buying weapons for Ian Smith’s army.
>
> That same year in October, a Canadian missionary couple based in
> Chiredzi wrote a circular letter to all their support congregations
in
> Canada and the US, declaring that the Patriotic Front of Zimbabwe ".
.
> . is trying by all means available to stop free and open elections
> (that is the internal settlement elections of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia) . .
.
> Truly, the enemy (the Patriotic Front) is the enemy of our souls.
Make
> no mistake about this. Southern Africa is the frontline between the
> free world and communism. Yet many Christians (in the West) have
> literally no concern for the lost souls who are dying daily and going
> to a Christless eternity".
>
> Like Lindstrom and Pace in Chicago, this Canadian couple were far
more > honest than Tutu and Ncube because they made it clear that to them
God
> was an anti-communist, anti-socialist and anti-African deity.
>
> They made no pretences about the rule of law and universal human
> rights. They were concerned about the rule of white capitalism.
>
> Another religious leader who was also more honest than Tutu and Ncube
> was Reverend Robert Grant of Christian Voice, Pasadena, California.
> When Rhodesian minister of foreign affairs P. K. van der Byl wrote to
> US senators who in turn wrote to Rev Grant about defending Rhodesia,
> Rev Grant wrote a four-page circular letter to members of his
> organisation, saying:
>
> "As you know, Rhodesia is a small Christian anti-communist country in
> Southern Africa, one of America’s few allies in that strategic
> continent."
>
> Grant couched his letter and his condemnation of African freedom
& gt; fighters in the US foreign policy and US demands for strategic
> minerals. He told his white Christian colleagues that Rhodesia should
> not be allowed to become Zimbabwe because:
>
> "1. Rhodesia contains most of the free world’s supply of chrome —
> essential for making stainless steel. Without it, the US cannot make
> planes, weapons, etc, to defend ourselves.
>
> "2. Rhodesia and South Africa are the key to controlling the sea
lanes
> from the Indian Ocean — from which our oil is imported. Military
> experts say if communists (meaning Zanu-PF and PF-Zapu) get control,
> they can cut off our supplies and bring America to her knees.
>
> "3. If communists (that is the Patriotic Front) take over Rhodesia,
> America will be known as a nation who turns its back on (white)
> friends. Other small nations will be enticed to join with communist
> powers."
>
> Rev Grant did not write about universal human rights, rule of law,
> transparency and all the rubbish which Tutu and Ncube pretend to be
> concerned about.
>
> He went to the point: "I am launching a massive (white) lobbying
> effort in the US Congress on behalf of (white) Rhodesia. We have
> already spoken to many Congressmen and they are introducing
> legislation to help Rhodesia . . . I must receive from you
immediately
> the largest gift you have ever sent. Christian Voice must raise
US$100
> 000 to push this legislation through Congress."
>
> Archbishop Tutu and Archbishop Ncube are still collaborating with the
> same Anglo-Saxon forces of the 1970s. Those Anglo-Saxon forces still
> want the same strategic minerals (plus platinum as the latest) from
> Zimbabwe.
>
> But these African bishops cannot be as honest as the white racist
> Christians of the 1970s . Those of the 1970s made it clear that the
> struggle was about white imperialist foreign policy and white
> survival. They made it clear that they attacked the Patriotic Front
in
> order to raise money on behalf of white interests.
>
> They also made it clear that they believed that Christianity ended
> where the US empire ended. Anyone beyond the boundaries of US
> domination was lost to both heaven and civilisation.
>
> It would help everyone if the current religious campaigners for white
> racist hegemony, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Archbishop Pius Ncube,
> would be as honest as their predecessors
>
>
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:00:35 +0100
From: Mario Sousa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2005 poll puts Zim under spotlight
Dear Mahoso
I realy agree with you.
Revolutionary greetings.
Mario Sousa
Uppsala, Sweden.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 2005 poll puts Zim under spotlight
>
> African Focus By Tafataona P. Mahoso
> AS we face the March 2005 parliamentary elections, Zimbabweans must
> count themselves blessed not only by the extraordinary global
> attention focused on our affairs but also by the capacity of Zimbabwe
> to force the enemies of Africa and all sell-outs to reveal themselves
> apart from the Pan-Africanists. Zimbabwe has provided a moment of
> truth and clarity for the rest of Africa.
>
> When I went to Gaborone in August 2004 I was warned that Britain, the
> US and the EU would be seeking to use Zimbabwean, Sadc and AU
> structures, organisations and individuals to discredit the 2005
> elections even before they took place.
>
> This was because, with Zimbabwe’s departure from Commonwealth and
its
> subsequent decision not to allow uninvited observers into the
country,
> the Anglo-Saxon countries were left with no other option but to use
> those seen to be already inside or part of Africa.
>
> Apart from Zimbabwe’s departure from the Commonwealth and the
decision
> not to allow uninvite d observers into the country, there was a third
> reason why the imperial powers would put more efforts into the
> recruitment of internal African groups and individuals.
>
> The prominent role of the same US and UK in the illegal invasion and
> occupation of Iraq totally discredited the imperialist doctrines of
> democracy, human rights and rule of law.
>
> No matter how hard the Anglo-Saxons tried, it had become harder and
> harder for white folks to masquerade as missionaries of democracy,
> human rights and rule of law.
>
> Zimbabwe and Iraq had successfully decolonised the human rights and
> democracy charade. From now on only African stooge movements,
> sponsored NGOs and individual sell-outs, would be used.
>
> Sure enough, this is what we see — a parade of sponsored African
> institutions, NGOs and individuals all carrying the US-UK or US-EU
> agenda: United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, African
> Development Forum, Zimbabwe Human Rights and NGO Forum, National
> Constitutional Assembly, African Commission on Human and People’s
> Rights, Crisis Zimbabwe Coalition, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade
> Unions, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, Archbishop Pius
> Ncube, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Tony Leon and many other purchased
> voices have emerged to carry the US-UK agenda against the Zimbabwean
> revolution.
>
> The imperialists have proven to be quite capable of adjusting their
> weapons to current requirements. Since Africans in the Sadc region
> went through decades of war against Portuguese fascism, Rhodesian UDI
> and South African apartheid — it would no longer do for the
> imperialists to set up yet another Inkatha, another Unita or Renamo.
> The imperialists have to find new versions of Jonas Savimbi, Afons o
> Dhlakama, Abel Muzorewa or Moise Tshombe. The new versions must not
> sound militaristic or war-like.
>
> They must adjust and put on sheep’s clothes. So their language has
> been adjusted to human rights, democracy, free-flow of information,
> humanitarian relief, rule of law and dialogue.
>
> For instance, in his latest attack on Zimbabwe, Archbishop Desmond
> Tutu regretted the fact that Zimbabwe’s assertion of its
sovereignty
> and independence makes the Anglo-Saxon donors believe that all
> Africans are like Zimbabwe or that all Africans want to be like
Zimbabwe.
>
> This association with Zimbabwe means that those African countries
> which really want to collaborate with imperialism are denied donor
> aid, either because they are seen in the same light as Zimbabwe or
> they may one day reclaim their land and other assets just as Zimbabwe
> has done.
>
> Now this kind of complaint is much less honest than what bishops and
> missionaries used to say in the 1970s and 1980s against the Patriotic
> Front and other liberation movements.
>
> Both the religious men of the 1970s and the reactionary bishops of
> today were working for Anglo-Saxon imperialism, but today’s
bishops,
> Desmond Tutu and Pius Ncube, are bigger liars because they have to
> couch their venom against Africans in sweet human rights language.
>
> Reverend Paul Lindstrom and Giles Pace of the Church of Christian
> Liberty in Chicago, USA, decided in 1978 that Zimbabwean freedom
> fighters were just terrorists.
>
> So they used their church to recruit white mercenaries for the
> Rhodesian regime. They made no pretences about the rule of law or
> human rights.
>
> To them, God was on the side of Ian Smith and the Africans were
cursed
> if they resisted white rule. These religious men even went as far as
> buying weapons for Ian Smith’s army.
>
> That same year in October, a Canadian missionary couple based in
> Chiredzi wrote a circular letter to all their support congregations
in
> Canada and the US, declaring that the Patriotic Front of Zimbabwe ".
.
> . is trying by all means available to stop free and open elections
> (that is the internal settlement elections of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia) . .
.
> Truly, the enemy (the Patriotic Front) is the enemy of our souls.
Make
> no mistake about this. Southern Africa is the frontline between the
> free world and communism. Yet many Christians (in the West) have
> literally no concern for the lost souls who are dying daily and going
> to a Christless eternity".
>
> Like Lindstrom and Pace in Chicago, this Canadian couple were far
more > honest than Tutu and Ncube because they made it clear that to them
God
> was an anti-communist, anti-socialist and anti-African deity.
>
> They made no pretences about the rule of law and universal human
> rights. They were concerned about the rule of white capitalism.
>
> Another religious leader who was also more honest than Tutu and Ncube
> was Reverend Robert Grant of Christian Voice, Pasadena, California.
> When Rhodesian minister of foreign affairs P. K. van der Byl wrote to
> US senators who in turn wrote to Rev Grant about defending Rhodesia,
> Rev Grant wrote a four-page circular letter to members of his
> organisation, saying:
>
> "As you know, Rhodesia is a small Christian anti-communist country in
> Southern Africa, one of America’s few allies in that strategic
> continent."
>
> Grant couched his letter and his condemnation of African freedom
& gt; fighters in the US foreign policy and US demands for strategic
> minerals. He told his white Christian colleagues that Rhodesia should
> not be allowed to become Zimbabwe because:
>
> "1. Rhodesia contains most of the free world’s supply of chrome —
> essential for making stainless steel. Without it, the US cannot make
> planes, weapons, etc, to defend ourselves.
>
> "2. Rhodesia and South Africa are the key to controlling the sea
lanes
> from the Indian Ocean — from which our oil is imported. Military
> experts say if communists (meaning Zanu-PF and PF-Zapu) get control,
> they can cut off our supplies and bring America to her knees.
>
> "3. If communists (that is the Patriotic Front) take over Rhodesia,
> America will be known as a nation who turns its back on (white)
> friends. Other small nations will be enticed to join with communist
> powers."
>
> Rev Grant did not write about universal human rights, rule of law,
> transparency and all the rubbish which Tutu and Ncube pretend to be
> concerned about.
>
> He went to the point: "I am launching a massive (white) lobbying
> effort in the US Congress on behalf of (white) Rhodesia. We have
> already spoken to many Congressmen and they are introducing
> legislation to help Rhodesia . . . I must receive from you
immediately
> the largest gift you have ever sent. Christian Voice must raise
US$100
> 000 to push this legislation through Congress."
>
> Archbishop Tutu and Archbishop Ncube are still collaborating with the
> same Anglo-Saxon forces of the 1970s. Those Anglo-Saxon forces still
> want the same strategic minerals (plus platinum as the latest) from
> Zimbabwe.
>
> But these African bishops cannot be as honest as the white racist
> Christians of the 1970s . Those of the 1970s made it clear that the
> struggle was about white imperialist foreign policy and white
> survival. They made it clear that they attacked the Patriotic Front
in
> order to raise money on behalf of white interests.
>
> They also made it clear that they believed that Christianity ended
> where the US empire ended. Anyone beyond the boundaries of US
> domination was lost to both heaven and civilisation.
>
> It would help everyone if the current religious campaigners for white
> racist hegemony, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Archbishop Pius Ncube,
> would be as honest as their predecessors
>
>
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