What happens when governments go mad?

What happens when the people who are in position to lead and are given so much power start to have a hysteria? This is what's happening in Zimbabwe today. Dictator Mugabe's government and militia has gone completely MAD and turned on their people. There are many killed, many dieing either because of governments genocidal actions or denial of a fast spreading cholera epidemic. Millions live in fear.

What can we do? The least we can do, and a good place to start, is to know what's going on and let it be known by spreading the word. Below is an e-mail I received which is very special and it comes from a heart far away to your heart right here and now. It's a sad story but it needs to be known so that it doesn't repeat in other places and times. Please give yourself a few minutes to think about it. He is not asking for donation or a petition or something like that. It is a genuine request for you to send good vibes and prayers in that direction. What else we can do will manifest itself when the time is right. For more information please visit zimbabwesituation.com

Thank you for your time and prayers.

photo taken from zimbabwesituation.com

Letter from Zimbabwe sent in by John Winter !


I reckon that these are the last days of TKM and ZPF. The darkest hour is always before dawn.

We are all terrified at what they are going to destroy next……..I mean they are actually ploughing down brick and mortar houses and one white family with twin boys of 10 had no chance of salvaging anything when100 riot police came in with AK47’s and bulldozers and demolished their beautiful house - 5 bedrooms and pine ceilings - because it was “too close to the airport”, so we are feeling extremely insecure right now.

You know - I am aware that this does not help you sleep at night, but if you do not know - how can you help? Even if you put us in your own mental ring of light and send your guardian angels to be with us - that is a help - but I feel so cut off from you all knowing I cannot tell you what’s going on here simply because you will feel uncomfortable.

There is no ways we can leave here so that is not an option. I ask that you all pray for us in the way that you know how, and let me know that you are thinking of us and sending out positive vibes… that’s all. You can’t just be in denial and pretend/believe it’s not going on.

To be frank with you, it’s genocide in the making and if you do not believe me, read the Genocide Report by Amnesty International which says we are - IN level 7 - (level 8 is after it’s happened and everyone is in denial).

If you don’t want me to tell you these things-how bad it is—then it means you have not dealt with your own fear, but it does not help me to think you are turning your back on our situation. We need you, please, to get the news OUT that we are all in a fearfully dangerous situation here. Too many people turn their backs and say - oh well, that’s what happens in Africa.

This Government has GONE MAD and you need to help us publicize our plight— or how can we be rescued? It’s a reality! The petrol queues are a reality, the pall of smoke all around our city is a reality, the thousands of homeless people sleeping outside in 0 Celsius with no food, water, shelter and bedding are a reality. Today a family approached me, brother of the gardener’s wife with two small children. Their home was trashed and they will have to sleepoutside. We already support 8 adult people and a child on this property, and electricity is going up next month by 250% as is water.

How can I take on another family of 4 —–and yet how can I turn them away to sleep out in the open?

I am not asking you for money or a ticket out of here - I am asking you to FACE the fact that we are in deep and terrible danger and want you please to pass on our news and pictures.

So PLEASE don’t just press the delete button! Help best in the way that you know how. Do face the reality of what is going on here and help us SEND OUT THE WORD.. The more people who know about it, the more chance we have of the United Nations coming to our aid. Please don’t ignore or deny what’s happening. Some would like to be protected from the truth BUT then, if we are eliminated, how would you feel? “If only we knew how bad it really was we could have helped in some way”.[I know we chose to stay here and that some feel we deserve what's coming to us]

For now,— we ourselves have food, shelter, a little fuel and a bit of money for the next meal - but what is going to happen next? Will they start on our houses? All property is going to belong to the State now. I want to send out my Title Deeds to one of you because if they get a hold of those, I can’t fight for my rights.

Censorship!—-We no longer have SW radio [which told us everything that was happening] because the Government jammed it out of existence – we don’t have any reporters, and no one is allowed to photograph. If we had reporters here, they would have an absolute field day. Even the pro-Government Herald has written that people are shocked, stunned, bewildered and blown mindless by the wanton destruction of many folks homes, which are supposed to be ‘illegal’ but for which a huge percentage actually do have licenses.

Please! - do have some compassion and HELP by sending out the articles and personal reports so that something can/may be done.

“I am one. I cannot do everything, —but I can do something.. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. What I can do, I should do. And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do.” - Edward Everett Hale

Please send this on to everyone in your address book. We send jokes out without blinking an eyelid. We don't get told this on the news in South Africa , we only get told what they want us to hear. We all have a chance to do something, even though the something is by pressing forward to as many people as possible.

Let's stop talking and let's start doing! There is power in prayer, there is also power in more people knowing about this than you in my address book. This is going to America, Dubai, Australia, France, South Africans all over South Africa, the UK. By forwarding this to all in my address book I have done something. The world needs to know what is going on.

for more information please visit zimbabwesituation.com

___________________________________

Revision, December 29, 2008

After I posted this and forwarded the e-mail to many friends, one dear friend reminded me of something which we have to take notice of. It is mainly about this line in the above letter:

"The more people who know about it, the more chance we have of the United Nations coming to our aid."

It is true that these kind of outcries are used as reasons to invade countries, supposedly to help them. We received many such letters before the invasion of Afghanistan about the situation of women there. These last days we are being bombarded by such news from Africa, from Congo, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, etc. There surely may be some other motive in bringing these to our attention.

But on the other hand, what's happening in these countries is very real. There is genuine suffering and tyranny going on and some people try to reach out for a helping hand. In Turkey we say "that who is drowning grabs the snake", to mean that sometimes we invite hard solutions when our problems get out of hand.

Of course I do not favor, in any way, the invasion of a country to save its people from themselves. There are evidently better ways of stopping dictators as long as there is enough international force against them. This is what is lacking in these situations; the international knowledge as to what's happening there and why it is happening. A big part of Africa's suffering comes from the colonialists who still keep a stranglehold in most countries there. Most African governments would be powerless if they didn't have the support from this government or that government, sometimes represented by corporates. We have to acknowledge this.

But most important for me about this letter is the way it asks us to believe in the power of praying, thinking positive and sending good energies there. I wouldn't post it if it was just about the suffering; we know that there is so much around. And I didn't send it to make us remember Zimbabwe in particular. I sent it so that we think about these people, we pray for them and when the opportunity arrives actually help them. And these people are not the people of Zimbabwe only, it's the people of Gaza, the people of Darfur, people of Myanmar, people of North Korea, and all other people who live in fear of their leaders who are gone mad. So please do not support the UN-sponsored invasion of any country because of the line above. Know the reasons, spread the word, be wise and act when you can.