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Pulling wads of old newspaper from out of his wife’s bra as she stood grinning adoringly at him, the President waved the crushed-up wads in the air.
‘From now on you will use this on your brown-eye. The Herald of
The crowds roared with approval at this piece of information guaranteed to save their holes.
‘However, always first look-out on the pages for any article by Nathaniel Manheru because they are already full of shit and will not do the job.’
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I was chatting to someone the other night about Mugabe. He described him as a ‘Black Hitler’. The comparison isn’t bad. Hitler was and Mugabe is a complete megalomaniac.
meg·a·lo·ma·ni·a :
1. A psychopathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of wealth, power, or omnipotence.
2. An obsession with grandiose or extravagant things or actions.
Mugabe and his gooks are now striking pre-emptively, firing a salvo of propaganda spin that has now reached a new low. On May 17th The Herald newspaper of
I came across this via the ZimbabweSituation web site. Getting hold of the original from The Herald’s web site is rather difficult at the moment. I have reproduced it here with a few comments in red italics. I have left in the comments (in blue) by the Editor of WORLDMEETS.US who brought this disgraceful article to my attention.
Okay- take your time reading this. I hazard a guess that the spelling mistakes are by Mr Nathaniel Manheru, so I left them in. Even a drunkard with limited knowledge of the English language would be capable of writing a more coherent article -
Why
When James McGee took up his post in
These he would protect and pursue relentlessly - ruthlessly if need be. I hope everyone took note. I certainly did, and I still do. But I also hope that by the same logic, Mr. McGee grants
And when it comes to interests and purpose, he is decidedly White. And when it comes to
WHEN BLACK IS WHITE
Allow me to favor him with a bit of information. His arrival triggered a debate on why White America had chosen a black covering for its envoy here - and at this point in the history of U.S.-Zimbabwe relations. It is the same question debated here following the appointment of Powell, Rice and Frazer to high posts in the American Administration.
We knew of Mr. McGee's checkered history in another country in our region [
I remember someone quipping "White America is now so confident of the Whiteness of its Blacks that color is no longer an issue. Color is no longer a perspective. Look at Obama - he could be White America's next President, and be far better at pushing her agenda than George W. Bush!"
I disagreed vehemently with that reading, reminding the maker of this frivolous point that Zimbabwe and the ruling Zanu-PF retain staunch support within respectable African-African American circles [African Americans that are not descended from slaves]; and that as a matter of fact, many self respecting African-African Americans resent being identified with these Black pastes on America's stripes and stars. [Those Black Americans that behave like Whites]. (Yup, read that again. I did three times and it still doesn’t make any sense. Okay, I am not sure, but I gather he means that all the blacks that descended from slaves are not real blacks at all. This bit Black pastes on
I also reminded this person that Obama was only of use for knocking
The debate (This is a debate? Sound’s more like someone sipping too much Whiteman’s fire-water.)went much further. How should we handle McGee if in pursuit of White America's interests, he begins to take a hostile line toward
But I saw no dilemma: we will handle him like a White American, which is what he is, until he limps back home to the anonymity of retirement. But the debate revealed a lingering complex derived from our history. Our incorrigible desire to be nice and good to anyone carrying our complexion makes us susceptible to needless dilemmas. (Hah Hah, he is kidding isn’t he? His best mates, the South Africans burn Zimbabweans alive -
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/20/southafrica
Just for starters, he conveniently ignores the massacre of 20k plus Ndebeles in his country in early ‘80s. plus…ssh, don’t mention
It is a disposition of gratuitous kindness often expressed against the imperatives of the history we have lived through. And if the cruel history we have lived and endured hasn't taught us that not everything Black is really Black, and that anything White cannot be Black, I guess nothing ever will. (Er, come again. Why not just come out with it – every Martian isn’t green.)
A people who can't learn from thongs of a cruel history can hardly be expected to learn from the fawning kisses and kindness deployed in peacetime. Such people have such an acute wish to be loved, that they will smile after a splatter of sod lands on their forehead. (I got a bad feeling he is a wife beater. That’s the only way I can make some sense out of that statement.)
LEARNING FROM JEWS (aah, here we go… This will be good.)
But the point goes much deeper. A people who can't read or quantify the pain of history, the massive injury done to them by other nationalities throughout history, cannot be a people in history. (Really? So what are they then – little green bottles?) Building a collective identity is based, among other things, on the bitterness and bruises that have been suffered and shared in history, and which becomes a rallying point for building a nation. (At last, the first sentence to make any sense.)
Just ask the Jews, who go as far as declaring war on those who seek to challenge the myth of the Nazi holocaust. (Well, I was hoping he would write a clanger and boy he didn’t fail me. It is at exactly this point when you realise that Mr Nathaniel Manheru would have made a fine NAZI, except for one small point, as a Blackman he would have his chances go up in smoke.)
That myth founded them, sustains them, motivates them and unites them. Ask the Palestinians, themselves victims of Jewish victims. They know that each of their dead must go toward building an Arab counter-myth to the holocaust, by which Jewish genocidal atrocities against them will be put beyond error and culpability for all time. (Going off on a tangent with an extremely complicated subject that is way over his head and nothing to do with
USING
We put too much stock in the man outside and forget the monster inside, we people of little judgment! As if we didn't bring to the world the wisdom of the proverbial fig: sumptuous rind to please the eye, but dark, creeping vermin inside. True, the saying is meant to caution the love-smitten in the human drama of courtship. (It is? Thanks for the tip. What a fruitcase!)
But who says its semantic range is limited to mortal seductive beauty? No, it extends to warning one against the danger of color-based solidarity belying an ugly and sinister White beneath. (Aah, now here is the crux of the matter. Obahma’s mother is white therefore Barrick Obahma cannot be black, so if Obahma becomes President and decides to have a pop at all the self-proclaimed legitimate despots, he can happily be ignored because he isn’t a real Blackman!) It's as if we forget that
ARABIZED LIPS, ARAB BLOOD
When
That is how consent for the war was manufacture - the destruction of Arab life endorsed and normalized. The same happened in
If you are an American of Arab roots, you prayerfully hope
THE STORY OF A GOOD
At some point, a Black ambassador had to come to
We had Ambassador J. Steven Rhodes here [Apr.-Aug. 1990], who turned to be wrong -a premature deployment of Blackness. Beyond his title as
When the time was right, a McGee was bound to come, the same way Andrew Young came to win the confidence of liberation movements which threatened to overrun White Rhodesia in the late 1970s. It's very important to know that not everything Black isn't White. (That’s for sure. Andrew Young was a complete disaster and an embarrassment to the hand-wringing administration of Jimmy ‘I am Nuts’ Carter. To quote the esteemed Young’s own words, in a reply to a Times of
Oh well, perhaps Mr Young was suffering from Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad-cow disease. Please note that the photograph of a mad cow, mostly black with a tinge of white, is for illustration purposes only and can in no way be Andrew Young.)
The technique remains the same: see one side; hear one side; speak one side. We saw this at work in the run-up to the attack on
She accrued testimonials from people opposed to Saddam - people that
Over the past two weeks, McGee has been very active. He has led diplomatic missions comprised mostly of Westerners to many places to build a story of a Zanu-PF-led torture campaign in the countryside.
He has been to the
In one interview, he revealed his entire game plan. It is to pin down the Zanu-PF and
Next month,
The man has made up his mind and will not be moved by anyone or anything. He's defiant and will push aside the police to access any location. Using an arsenal of illegally imported equipment, he pipes his choreographed encounters to CNN which quickly obliges: "
LISTENING TO HIMSELF
But McGee has come with some good evidence. People must see a video produced by an organization called Solidarity Peace Trust, which clearly shows that the Zanu-PF is culpable! But when one searched for information on this organization - horror of horror! -It's an non-governmental organization registered in
[Mugabe has tried to smear Zimbabwe Archbishop Pius Ncube. But to no avail. Ncube has been a staunch opponent of the regime. Bishop Rubin Phillip has campaigned against allowing a shipment of Chinese weapons to be delivered to the Mugabe regime].
It's the same Ncube of church sex-scandals who accosts
These are avowed enemies of the Zanu-PF and unconditional supporters of the MDC, set up and sponsored by the American Government. Why would they have any other motive than to damn Mugabe, the Zanu-PF and
CALIBRATED VICTIMS
Secondly, who are these victims? Who are the villains? What is this violence? These are fundamental questions that the fixation on images of a torn buttocks is meant to push away. You have villagers who are clearly traumatized but who have been rounded up and checked into
They have even spilled over to the
Mr. McGee, something isn't adding up here. (This is an under-statement.) After visiting hours, these "relatives" troop out and congregate to swap animated gossip, all political, before disappearing in the direction of Harvest House or some such MDC-connected NGO office or safe house.
DR. LOVEMORE, I PRESUME?
Much worse, the kingly rags-to-riches victims have been checked on by one Dr. Lovemore, herself historically associated with the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions and the Amani Trust.
She runs something called the Counseling Services Union, again U.S./U.K. funded, and positioned just in time for the violence we all didn't know would come, but which the West predicted and wished through their media networks. More dramatically, Avenues Clinic has a standing contract with the Counseling Services Union, clinched well before the poll and the violence!
Most dramatically, Counseling Services Union generously offers to pay the admitting hospitals in the currency of their choice, with Avenues receiving payment in hard currency. Goodness me! Including Doctors for Human Rights - which is why habitually scarce doctors are always abundant for this assignment. And they are even keen to set aside the rules governing visits to victims. (I think what he means they are prepared to do an honest days work for an hones days wage – which appears to be a crime in
They will allow you anytime and grant you as much time as you want to get the outrage affixed to the Zanu-PF. Come on!
RETURN OF SELOUS SCOUTS
Let us not have short memories. We saw this kind of operation during our liberation struggle, did we not? We had Selous Scouts here, did we not? Cruel men of
[The Selous Scouts was a special forces regiment of the Rhodesian Army which operated from 1973 until the introduction of majority rule and the country's independence as
We had Rhodesia African Rifles, did we not? African askaris who came under the command of White officers - the majority of whom were drawn from territorials. (This is news to me. I would have taken an exceptional territorial white officer to be accepted by these proud volunteer warriors. As from 1979 they had their own black officers.) And territorials were White farmers.
Which stupid Zanu-PFsupporter would create a torture base and leave it intact for Mr. McGee to come and inspect for maximum damage against the Zanu-PF? Are we not stretching believability? (Yup, you hit the nail on the head at last…well done!)
Has anyone asked why Gutu, Hurungwe, Buhera and Chikomba have become critical for the MDC? What was the significance of these districts during the war? And why is the violence following the zone of resettlement, targeting new farmers, Zanu-PF supporters or MDC turncoats?
Ambassador, are you puzzled by this the way we are? (I am bloody sure he is, the poor man. I feel genuinely sorry for him. Hopefully there is enough black left in him to give you back a bit of your own twisted ideology. Good luck to him, I say.) And why don't you visit victims of the Mayo and Shamva? [Tribes loyal to the opposition MDC - which seems to have won the recent elections].
Where have you put the U.N. reports that indicated that the MDC was also a villain, not just a victim?
Where have you put the U.N. reports that indicated that the MDC was also a villain, not just a victim?
Why haven't you investigated the role and place of White farmers in all this? Have they now found a new version of
http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/945
for the full story.)
Are we not seeing the MDC's land policy unfolding ahead of the run-off? When you see an MDC youth arrested amid scenes of violence who is unemployed, unkempt (I wonder why, couldn’t be because of the collapse of the economy by any chance?), he wields an expensive camera and an expensive cell phone with roaming capability. These abundantly unsophisticated uneducated youths even have the hotlines of the BBC and CNN. (Hah hah, this bloke is just too funny.)
So many questions and no one interested in answering them. (These are not questions; this is the imagination of an insane person.)
The Zanu-PF has to be indicted - guilty or not. Sooner than later, the link will be made among the violence, a former White now in self-exile and White commercial farmers who drifted back, at which point Mr. McGee will have a major rethink.
That's assuming that his mission, his conscience and his decency are compatible. In the meantime, McGee defies his Blackness, his history as a descendant of White atrocities and has become such a wonderful, lovely White man. Icho!
Well I hope that my comments kept you interested enough to read the entire rubbish spewed out by nathaniel.manheru@zimpapers.co.zw
(Nathaniel Manheru being a nom de plume, widely believed to be that of successive government spokesmen.)
A search of the net only brings up more of this sort of stuff. I can’t be arsed reading the nonsense, this one was enough. I will give him/them a little tip though –
"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State." (Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels)
Take for example this amazing poster from 1st August 2006. This was the day when in a stroke of economical genius three zeros were lobbed off the currency. Note the colourful logo in the top right hand corner. Zero to Hero. If you are looking for a decent graphic designer get the bloke who did that.
Now here is the (almost) full range of notes since that date. Missing is the new 500 million. It is very hard to keep up. This new note will in theory, at this moment, buy two loaves of bread. Actually this isn’t money at all! This was proved a couple of years ago in a court case in
I am suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome, well it sounds good!
I have something to tell you about soon, but in the mean time, I have given you a few YouTubes that will, hopefully, pump you up as it does me. The first two are contemporary stuff, the last two, yee oldie favourites. Enjoy.
So is this:
