they should change this law...now!!!!!!, page-29

re: they should change this law...now!!!!!! dlux "....and the root cause of terrorism is poverty !!!"


With statements like that no wonder the human race is in a sad way - find the root cause of the cause of poverty!!

Here we have the USA the 'richest' country in the world, quite possibly the universe, at least the known universe & it has terrorised so many countries that I have lost count. The British, when they were the 'richest' country in the world also looted other coutries of 'anything' valuable with the help of the big corporations which are still in play today. Nothing has changed in the grand scheme of things.


The aborigines in Australia never had any money until the white man came along. Was there any terrorism? Probably a few tribal skirmishes but certainly not over the lack of money,, but according to you they should have been bombing the s**t out of each other because they were in poverty. (no money)

This is the modus operandi of those that will conquer & cause poverty where all was ok before the white man came along.


British imperialism was not the only power engaged in the scramble for Africa. Germany, a rising strong imperialist country, was equally intent on acquiring African territory. Germany countered the Rudd Concession by the Lippert Land Concession, also acquired by deceit from Lobengula in April 1889. However the Lippert Concession was quickly bought by the BSAC. But even before this purchase, Rhodes' company had made vast land grants to white colonists in Mashonaland.

Disappointed at the absence of the 'Second Rand' in Mashonaland, but still believing in the existence of large deposits of gold in Matabeleland, BSAC, on an extremely flimsy pretext, invaded Matabeleland in 1893, smashed Lobengula's kingdom, practised wholesale plunder and seizure of cattle and overwhelmed its inhabitants.

Following upon its victory, the Company established a "Loot Committee", which decided to award a land grant of 6,350 acres anywhere in Matabeleland to every settler participant in the war, but with not the slightest obligation to occupy, let alone cultivate, it. Failing to find gold in Zimbabwe, the colonists turned in earnest their attention to a land grab for agricultural production - both arable and livestock - and for purposes of speculation. Thus began the process of ruthless expulsion of the Africans from their most fertile and productive soil and their being herded into poor and marginal land with the creation in 1894 of the Gwaai and Shangani Reserves in Matabeleland. The systematic infringement of the rights of the African people, the brutality meted out to them, and the humiliation heaped upon them by the colonists, were justified by the Rhodesia Herald of 19 April 1895 in these racist terms:

"For the Rhodesian it was absurd to take the untutored savage, accustomed as he is from time immemorial to superstitious and primitive ideas of law and justice, and suddenly try to govern him by the same code of laws that govern a people with many centuries of experience and enlightenment".

First Chimurenga

It is not to be surprised at, then, that the people of Zimbabwe should have risen in revolt against these overbearing invaders during the First Chimurenga in 1896-97. Even less surprising is it that the chief aim of this war of liberation was to restore the land stolen by the invaders to its rightful owners - and with it to restore their dignity so cruelly violated by the settlers.

http://www.lalkar.org/issues/contents/sep2004/zim.html