Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "Zimbabwe crisis: Mugabe 'Not Prepared to Break the Constitution by Leaving Office' - BBC News" video.

  1. Not prepared to break the constitution by leaving office but fine with breaking it by ordering the killing of white farmers and the theft of their land. He'd make a good Republican. I wonder if he's prepared to break the constitution by taking a bullet in the face?
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  2. But hypocrisy IS the expert domain of the Republican party. All the things they whined about when they were not in power and now do the same but worse. All the times they manufactured moral outrage or stood on the Constitution, just as Mugabwe is doing, only to abandon their principles the second THEY were in power. The Democrats are incompetent, disingenuous liars but they can't old a candle to the sheer two-faced hypocrisy of the Republicans.
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  3. I think you're very right, but even in the swamp that is US politics, some swamp monsters are larger than others.
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  4. "White farmers in fact stole farms from black farmers so it never was theirs to begin with." I agree wholeheartedly, but the current tenants were not the thieves. Two wrongs don't make a right, and the murder of these people puts the black people on the wrong side. " this man is an evil racist and dangerous" agreed.
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  5. Mismanagement of the land destroyed Zimbabwe's maximise its arms. Sanctions had nothing to do with the incompetence of the thieves to farm the land that they stole. And if it wasn't stolen, why was it only the "war veterans" of Mugabwe's Zanu PF who took the land, not all Zimbabweans, who clearly had an equal claim? The reclamation was a political act of terrorism and misdirected "retribution" by the supporters of a disgruntled Mugabwe, not an act of justice by those who had been wronged. And even if you say "well they were the only ones willing to act for some reason" why was that land then not redistributed to all Zimbabweans rather than allowed to fall into disuse?
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