Mugabe is in America to attend the annual UN General Assembly
denounced. Pastor Evan Mawarire whose #ThisFlag campaign calling for Mugabe to
fire corrupt ministers, for the return of the looted $15 billion, etc. had
hundreds of thousands of followers on the social media inside Zimbabwe and
beyond. #ThisFlag staged a number of well supported public protests in Zimbabwe
and was hoping to stage one such protest in New York City to surprise Mugabe. It
was the Pastor who was in for a big surprise.
A group of, mostly black Americans, calling themselves
December 12 Movement’s street protest out staged that of Mawarire and his group.
The D12 Movement activists, as they called themselves, who were interviewed, were
as generous in the praise of Mugabe as they were ruthlessly critical of
Mawarire.
“He is a preacher without a church, with a
following of less than 50 members in Zimbabwe, but who has apparently unlimited
funding,” reads a D12 report.
“He denounces the conditions
of life in Zimbabwe but NEVER mentions what the devastating effects of hundreds
of years of Western underdevelopment, terrorism and 16 years of direct US and
European SANCTIONS have had on the Zimbabwean economy and quality of life.”
The D12 article was headed Pastor Evan Mawarire’s True
Flags: America & Great Britain and had the photograph of
Mawarire draped in the two flags.
The shallowness of the D12 movement’s arguments is
what screams at you. At the heart of the people of Zimbabwe’s tragic economic
suffering as a result of the country’s economic meltdown and political
helplessness is a cry for freedom and human dignity including the right to
free, fair and credible elections and the right to life itself.
Given that most of the D12 activists are descendants
of black slaves and that over 150 years after the abolition of slavery blacks
still continued to suffer to this day all manner of racist abuse, exploitation
and oppression should have made D12
activists even more sympathetic to anyone else out there crying for freedom and
human dignity.
Indeed one of founding members of D12 even has the chutzpah
call himself human rights activist!
“One of the founders of
the December 12th Movement was Sonny Abubadika Carson, who, according
to Workers World Org, was a staunch activist against racism and #Police Brutality," according to a report in BlastingNews, a USA
based publication.
Zimbabwe has been independent for the last 36 years
now and is yet to hold free, fair and credible elections. What has that got to
do with “devastating effects of hundreds of years of
Western underdevelopment”?
If the December 12 members have heard of the “16 years of direct US and European SANCTIONS”
they must too have of Zimbabwe’s rampant corruption. In February this year Mugabe, himself, admitted
that $15 billion of diamond revenue were “swindled”.
"Lots of smuggling and swindling has taken place
and the companies that have been mining, I want to say, robbed us of our wealth,"
Mugabe said.
Surely not even one D12 activists would deny that the
looting of $15 billion from USA’s US$18 trillion GDP will have adverse effect on
country’s economy and its people; if it causes a hip up on the American
economic it will cause a fatal heart-attack on the Zimbabwe economy whose GDP is
a mere $14 billion! So are these D12 busy-bodies are telling us, Zimbabweans,
we cannot raise the serious problem of corruption, even when it has become “fatal”
to the national economy, because we have “never” mentioned sanctions? How
stupid is that!
Mugabe has used his liberation war credentials to hide
his corrupt and tyrannical post-independence record. He has kept up his
anti-colonial rhetoric especially to the naïve and gullible captive audience
outside Zimbabwe who had no first-hand experience of economic hardship of 90%
unemployment or 500 billion percent inflation rates or the mental anguish of
being beating and some killed to vote for a tyrant.
The D12 members are supporting Mugabe because he has
always been very quick off the mark to condemn white oppression and has often
taken over the top position on such matters as homosexuality just to bolster
his radical reputation and draw attention away from his corrupt and tyrannical rule.
D12 members love Mugabe because he has supported them against white abuse
although Mugabe has committed even worse acts of abuse on his own people then
the D12 member have ever suffered but, of course, that is irrelevant to them.
How selfish it that!
Like it or not the D12 activists who attended the UN demonstration
in support of Robert Mugabe have tarnished the image of the movement for all
time. Anyone with an self-respect will never ever want to be associated with
the group.
Thank God the D12 activists who took part or supported
those who did in whatever form constitute the lunatic fringe of black Americans
and it would be wrong for any Zimbabwean to paint all black Americans with the
same brush. After all Mugabe has a hell lot more Zimbabwean lunatic supporters
then Americans! He has used some of the looted wealth to buy the lunatics’
continued blind loyalty; the war veterans only finally came up to their sense
and acknowledge Mugabe’s “dictatorial tendencies” when Mugabe stopped paying
them and poverty started to bit!
1 comment:
Judging from the stupid arguments put forward here, I would say December 12 Movement is a group of lunatics whom one, having met them once, would want to avoid like a skunk! In a way they are skunks, outwardly they look like every other human being but wait for them to open their mouths, for the skunk to lift its tail, what comes out stinks!
Mugabe may go around in designer everything from the hat on his head to the socks and shoes on his feet but once he opens his mouth there cannot be any doubt he is from the skunk family. So we should not be surprised that all the skunks in New York City came out to cheer one of their own! D12 members have probably just had their greatest moment of fame and glory, I would say notoriety but for them all publicity is good publicity there is no such thing as bad publicity. They are just like Mugabe, he has been coming to New York every year for the last two decades at least without fail just to rant and rave at the West, blaming them for his own failures! What I find distasteful about Mugabe and D12 is that they are having their cheap thrills at other people's great expense.
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