Re: Missing Episodes in Zimbabwe ?

On 22 Feb, 07:35, "Agamemnon" <agamem...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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LONG-lost Doctor Who episodes thought to be hidden away in Zimbabwe may
never be recovered because despot Robert Mugabe hates the UK.

BBC investigators believe the troubled nation holds some of the early
episodes of the cult series which are still missing.

But tyrant President Mugabe has banned the Beeb from setting foot in his

And do you really think that calling him a tyrant and a despot is going to
make him more likely to change his mind?

country. And diplomatic relations are also extremely tense - meaning
researchers are unable to get into the nation's TV vaults.

The BBC destroyed early episodes of the sci-fi series in the late
Sixties
and Seventies to make room in its film library for new programmes.

But Zimbabwe is understood to have bought the first season of the show
when it was still a British colony known as Rhodesia. It starred William
Hartnell and ran from 1963 to 1964. The Beeb suspects the historic
series,
together with later episodes not held anywhere else in the world, may
still be locked away.

Ag!  Robert Mugabe is the ultimate feudalist!

No, he's the ultimate anti-feudalist. He's taking from the rich white
farmers who stole their land from the indigenous people and giving to the
poor blacks who they used as slaves.

You don't have a fucking clue, do you Aggy? And you really do lap up
tabloid headlines.

You know when much of the land Mugabe's seizing was given to the
whites? In the 1980s. Who gave it to them? Robert Mugabe. The guy who
was busy committing genocide against rival tribes at the time.
Mugabe's purges against whites had nothing at all to do with race - it
was because the whites overwhelmingly supported the MDC, and were a
visible target.

You know why whites in Zimbabwe had more land than blacks, other than
Mugabe selling it to them on the cheap? Because they're mostly
farmers. Lawyers and city professionals, the jobs largely reserved for
blacks, tend not to own as much land - in Britain, you'd find that
farmers own a disproportionately large amount of land as well. The
whites were also the main source of employment for rural black people,
a source Mugabe took away. He has also been far more brutal to the
black population than to the whites, very few of whom were killed (and
some of those who were killed or beaten were killed/beaten while
trying to protect their black workers from attacks), who Mugabe's
thugs routinely attack and kill for supporting the opposition.

Get some exposure to the real world, Aggy. Learn what it actually
means to live under a totalitarian regime, rather than using 'tyrant'
and 'despot' as meaningless insults to hurl at an unpopular leader in
a liberal democracy (hint: despots tend not to step aside when they
lose an election. Look at Mugabe).

Phil
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