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Refusing to Live in the Stink

Averageguy Wrote: Nov 25, 2009 10:45 AM

Its pathetic that a columnist who who writes a column condeming a dictator and praising those with the courage to stand up him draws people who somehow seek to legitimize a racist dictatorship which used anthrax and cholera against civilian non-combatants and which was opposed because it was a government by the minority, for the minority (actions and attitudes which are profoundly un-American).

Its tragic that the vicious, racist government was replaced by a vicious, racist, incompetent government, but it doesn't really vindicate those who support(ed?) the original government.

What I see when I look at Zimbabwe is the importance of leadership due to the massive amount of political credit amassed by former resistance...

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Refusing to Live in the Stink

WASHINGTON -- As Americans count their blessings, it is useful to remember women who count their beatings -- in the once-fair country of Zimbabwe, cursed by Robert Mugabe.

Magodonga Mahlangu and Jennifer Williams, leaders of Women of Zimbabwe Arise, sit at a table at the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights in Washington, quietly recounting acts of democratic courage that should be shouted from rooftops. "We are very ordinary people," says Williams, about a movement of perhaps 75,000 women who have engaged in more than 100 nonviolent protests -- protests that often end in a hospital or...

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