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Edited on Mon Aug-18-03 06:35 AM by panzerfaust
In Zimbabwe, choosing your political affiliation is a matter of life or death … Political abuse of food is the most serious and widespread human rights violation in Zimbabwe at present (Nov 02)… if it not possible to increase non-partisan food supplies into the country, then starvation and … death would occur along party political lines … "We conclude that in the last four months, manipulation of food was directly related to elections. The threat of being deliberately starved by the government if the opposition won votes, was used to profoundly influence vulnerable rural voters in recent elections …"
It is not very difficult to imagine the current Republican Party taking this step. Indeed, when you look at the slashes being made in social programs, it is happening now. The Compassionate Conservative program is simply not as crude as that described in this article from the Pambazuka News (Pambazuka is Kiswahilian for "New Dawn"), but it is based on the same callous, self-serving and arrogant disregard for Life, Liberty, and Democracy.
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