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Combined Zimbabwean Armed Forces Mobilize, Capture 3 Boy Scout Leaders
By John
With everyone focused on the Israelis and their perfectly legal defensive action in Gaza, few have noticed the downward spiral in Zimbabwe -- which is on the verge of total collapse. Robert Mugabe, dictator for nearly 30 years, is starving his people into submission, and playing the old tried and true dictator card by blaming the Western powers for the nation's misfortune. In that vein, here's the latest crazy ass story from the dying Zimbabwean Republic --
Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Zimbabwean air force, military, police and intelligence officials raided a boy-scout camp and arrested three white farmers on charges of training insurgents, the Zimbabwe Independent said, citing people it didn’t identify.The adventure camp, known as Kudu Creek, was suspected of being used as a base to train bandits who plan to topple President Robert Mugabe, the Harare-based newspaper reported. The site provides outdoor activities and leadership training for schoolchildren, it said.
The raid was described by one observer as a full-scale military exercise, the Independent said.
If the situation out there wasn't so damn tragic, this would be hilarious. Mugabe deploys troops as if he's invading Poland -- all to capture three farmers running an effin' scouting camp (modern scouting traces its roots to the former Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe). Although, I read the Zimbabwean state propaganda rag's take on this, and they accused the famers of being members of the old Rhodesian Selous Scouts. Seeing that the Scouts, a special forces outfit numbering a mere 1300 men, accounted for almost 70% of Mugabe's casaulties during the Bush War, maybe the Zimbabwean armed forces were erring on the side of caution.
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Never mind restoring Rhodesia- I'd settle for one Fireforce unit rolling up at Mugabe's presidential mansion, with Hunters & K-cars in support.
Zimbabwe reminds me of the old P.J. O'Rourke dictum that some african countries don't need foreign aid, they need a L.G.B. through the window of the presidential palace at the right time.
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Restore Rhodesia!
Naw I'm just kidding -- the world would never go for that shit. It could be the most despotic regime on the planet, just so long as it's politically correct.