If
you enter the room and a cat with a distended belly does a Usain Bolt out
through the window, you can bet your bottom dollar he was up to no good! Mugabe
is the cat caught chewing on a piece of biltong still between his paws and is so
blotted he cannot even stand let alone run.
Mugabe
was not particularly bothered that the whole world might see any of the
evidence of his bolt vote rigging schemes. His main, indeed one might even say
his only, priority was that the plan worked and gave him the overwhelming
victory.
He
is a man who five years ago had turned spent five weeks cooking the electoral
defeat to deny his rivalry the 50%+1 so there would be a run-off. He had then
turned the country into a war zone in which millions were forced to in fear,
hundreds of thousands were beaten and/or raped and over 500 were murdered forcing
his challenger to withdraw. He was not going to be bothered about his refusal
to implement any meaningful democratic reforms or his blatant vote rigging
schemes.
Mugabe
dismissed the wanton violence of 2008 as “minor political skirmishes” and has
dismissed all claims of vote rigging in 2013 with the same arrogance. As far as
he is concerned the world should give him extra brownie points for successfully
restrained his political thugs for using any violence. There were a number of
people harassed and beaten by his thugs, but nothing compared to 2008.
As
far as Mugabe is concerned he expected the people of Zimbabwe to accept the
rigged election results and be grateful they had been spared the beatings,
rape, etc. To him the people are so powerless and helpless they are no more
than a mouse stumbling into the room with the blotted cat. What can the mouse do?
Nothing!
But
of course the regime could not come out right and say there is nothing anyone
can do about the vote rigging. And so it has asked its critics for the evidence
of the vote rigging. The regime controls the Police, the Judiciary, ZEC, so
even if one was to produce sworn statements of the bussed voters saying they
voted two or three times, etc.; it will all be thrown out of court, if the case
was heard at all!
It
is not about the evidence. It is about the people being powerless to do
anything to stop Mugabe doing as he pleases!
Vote
rigging is high treason but so what if it is the all-powerful Robert Gabriel
Mugabe who is committing the high treason.
If Zimbabwe is to have any
hope of ever ending this Zanu PF reign of terror and corruption then the nation
has to stand up to Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs. They rigged the elections and they
must not be allowed to get away with it. Mugabe is not above the law and he
must be reined in now – not in five years-time, NOW!
2 comments:
@ Ruwa
No one believes in that nonsense of Mugabe delivering a "blow against the West" by rigging the election! Rhodesia was put to bed in 1980 but instead of a free and democratic Zimbabwe we have had the great misfortune of a corrupt and tyrannical regime ruling the nation. But, thank God, the tyrant is now caught in a trap of his own making; his reign of terror is over!
@ Lizard
Are you telling me what happened in Zimbabwe is acceptable in a democracy? You ignoring the blatant vote rigging, the facts and reality out of arrogance. Mugabe and Zanu PF have always done as they pleased these last 33 years.
They rigged the elections confident the people of Zimbabwe are weak and feeble to do anything about it! Well this time Mugabe went too far, he crossed the red-line; he is NOT going to get away with it!
Your repeated calls for evidence is nothing but another show of this regime's arrogance; they know the regimes controls the Police, the Courts, everything. The regime should explain what all those bussed voters came from and all the other many irregularities!
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