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Atlas Shrugged—African style
It’s not only productive whites who are becoming an extinct species under Zimbabwe’s black-run kleptocracy. Along with the seizure of white-owned commercial farms and the resulting ruin of the country’s once thriving agricultural economy, Zimbabwe has experienced a catastrophic loss of wildlife on its game farms and conservancies in the last few years. It’s estimated that two-thirds of Zimbabwe’s wildlife population—including elephants, buffalo, impala, wild dogs, and rhinos—has been wiped out. The immediate causes are dehydration stemming from lack of the money and resources to maintain the water pumping systems that animals in arid areas need to survive, and uncontrolled poaching which is being allowed by the persons responsible for running the game preserves. But, as with everything else that pertains to blacks’ all-too-common inadequacies, failures, crimes, and corruptions, because this atrocity is being effected by a black government, and because nothing seriously critical can ever be said about blacks, the world is doing no more to stop the destruction of Zimbabwe’s wildlife than it did to stop the dispossession of its white farmers.
Meanwhile, even as the left accepts and even applauds a racialist black dictator who is destroying a once flourishing, white-ruled country (remember how the New York City Council welcomed the mad dictator to New York last year?), conservatives blame the left’s indulgent attitude, not on its pro-black, anti-white agenda, but on its supposed bigotry against blacks. Yes, it’s true. In the minds of these brilliant conservatives, when the left fails to stop or actively supports blacks who are killing whites, stripping their property, and destroying a successful economy that the whites had built, it’s because of the “soft bigotry of low expectations.” Comments
Amazing, isn’t it? Where are the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, the Natural Resources Defense Council and PETA? By the way, the same hypocritical behavior was displayed regarding the polllution and environmental disasters (many degrees worse than abuses in Western countries) created by various Marxist regimes. The bottom line is that the majority of professional environmentalists really don’t care about the environment or preserving the natural world, it is merely a hook to advance the leftist agenda - which is to destroy what remains of Christendom. The more we expose these people for what they truly believe, the greater chance there is that someone out there will start to see that the emperor indeed has no clothes. A similar type of laughable hypocrasy can be observed from the feminist quarter on the subject of gang rapes of European women and girls by Mohammedan immigrants. Multiculturalism trumps women’s rights as well. Posted by: Carl on October 25, 2003 10:43 PMThat was an excellent blog entry. Incidentally, I wonder whether some of the poaching of game in those preserves isn’t being driven by a need to feed the starving in that country. In kicking the white farmers off their farms, which are then confiscated and handed over as payback to African political cronies who have no idea how to farm, Mugabe has created a food shortage and people have been starving there. Posted by: Unadorned on October 26, 2003 3:04 AMAlso of course a great comment by Carl. Posted by: Unadorned on October 26, 2003 3:09 AMI just went back and read the article (suddenly remembered what my NYT log-in password was), and they do mention the starvation connection as one factor. It’s a starkly graphic article. I wonder what the leftists think of it, they being the ones who told the world, in 1982 I think it was, how great Mugabe was going to be as the Ian Smith government was replaced by his. But oh, I forgot — being a leftist means never having to say you’re sorry. Excuse me! Posted by: Unadorned on October 26, 2003 3:25 AMWhat is about Christendom that draws such passionate hatred? Is it the sense of inferiority of the non-believer? Resentment of the perceived usurper of the sacred center of significance? Posted by: Bill on October 28, 2003 2:55 PMHere’s a quote from the One best qualified to address Bill’s question: “If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you… . If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you … But all these things they will do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me… . He that hateth me hateth my Father also.” John 15:18-23 Posted by: Joel LeFevre on October 28, 2003 3:13 PMA friend recommended a film from the early 60’s which I’ve ordered called “Africa Blood and Guts.” Besides showing the bloody effects of the transition from colonial to native ‘rule,’ this “shockumentary” depicts similar scenes to what Mr. Auster refers to in Zimbabwe. African dictators who had promised meat on every table carried out this promise, for a while, by simply opening up the wildlife preserves the colonial governments had set up and taking out entire herds. Elephants one day, giraffes the next, gazelles … And then we hear about endangered species. I have been informed that it is not for the fainthearted. A review of the movie can be seen here: http://www.epinions.com/content_48643935876 Posted by: Joel LeFevre on October 30, 2003 11:53 PM |