It is a long time since a comedian made us laugh with his Mugabe joke:
- How can we tell that the man comes from Yorkshire?
- Well, if you read his name backwards all is revealed - E BA GUM!
Tragically, there is absolutely nothing remaining to laugh about where this evil despot is concerned.
Life expectancy in 'his' country has plummeted from 60 to just 37 years old.
Inflation is 100,000%. He is a liar, a brutal blackguard, a cheat and a multiple murderer.
His country - under Ian Smith one of the wealthiest in Africa - now has 80% unemployment and people are literally starving to death.
{Dare I ask - just how terrible was British colonialism after all?}
SO THEN! Where are all those leftwing hypocrites who made out that the Ian Smith regime was so terrible?
Under which rocks have they scuttled because the silence from these appalling people is deafening?
How many starved under Smith? How many could not live or work?
I am not defending a non democratic system but imposed democracies in Africa have tended to be just as successful as what has happened in Iraq. Why military action in Iraq but not in Zimbabwe?
So why virtually no attacks on this vicious man? [ Didn't the hapless tories even give the wretch a knighthood - or is my memory failing? ]
The left got what they wanted in S. Rhodesia.
So, is the silence a result of mere embarrassment or is it more sinister? Is it that in our Brave New PC World, we are not allowed to attack evil if perpetrated by a leader who is black?
My view? - A combination of both.
LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/newscomment.html?in_article_id=557518&in_page_id=1787
