Sipsey Street Irregulars: Meanwhile, three lessons in what passes for economics in the collectivist paradise that used to be called Rhodesia.

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Meanwhile, three lessons in what passes for economics in the collectivist paradise that used to be called Rhodesia.

Policeman rapes 14-year-old girl, 'compensates' her with US $2.

Bulawayo man (29) sells fresh foreskin to 2 women for US $150.

Zim guy who married Bona Mugabe identified, President Mugabe didn't charge much.

The Chikore family paid a bride prize, but reporters could not establish how much was paid or the number of cattle the President would receive.

"He (President Mugabe) did not charge much. He said he was, more than anything else, interested in seeing that the new couple lived happily together first," said the source . . .

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: I can see the USA descending into a $#it hole like this 3rd world nation if O'Bongo keeps the current path for us. Time to CLEAN HOUSE in DC and start fresh (from the top down).; August 17, 2013 at 2:04 PM
Anonymous said...: Obamacare = the foreskin story. How many foreskins will it take for a years coverage?; August 18, 2013 at 5:57 AM
Anonymous said...: Unfortunately, cleaning the house from the top down is a much larger task than one might think. Best to clean up the back yard and work your way to the top. The game at the top is obviously rigged. Take a look at locals (school boards, city counsels and county commissioners, ect ect.)To see the smaller tyrants and their actions and how they maintain control. Don't get me wrong, they are thick as thieves and don't give a crap about right or wrong, only what's in it for them. The seed of centralized government has been planted by the government propaganda camps for a very long time. States were "free" to join the Union, but are not "free" to leave it? Indivisible indeed.; August 18, 2013 at 7:02 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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Saturday, August 17, 2013

Meanwhile, three lessons in what passes for economics in the collectivist paradise that used to be called Rhodesia.

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