[Dean's World] Rudy Rummel: Who Are The Mortacracies? Part II

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Posted by Rudy Rummel:
Who Are The Mortacracies? Part II
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   RETRACTION: In case you read it in yesterday's [1]Part I, before I
   edited it out: I lost my cool at the end of the blog and called for
   the democracies to make war on these bloody mortacracies (a thanks to
   Walter W. Cox for questioning it). I retract that as an irrational and
   dangerous thrashing about. I had just seen the previous night the A&E
   "Flight 93" and 9/11 recap, and then stupidly wrote my [2]Part I about
   the bloody mortacracies. But the question as to what to do about these
   mortacracies has to be answered sensibly, and as a last part in this
   series, I will try to write a more nuanced, practical, and rational
   blog on what the democracies can do about these mortacracies.
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   Now, in [3]Part I, I defined the gang of democide committing
   mortacracies. But what about those regimes whose actions create such
   life threatening conditions as to unintentionally cause the mass death
   of its people?

   Consider Zimbabwe, for example. Because of the Marxist policies of the
   Robert Mugabe gang that rules the country by force (the country is
   rated not free by Freedom House), it has caused the country that had
   relatively high standard of living for Africa before Mugabe's rule to
   deteriorate into being among its poorest. It has an unemployment rate
   of over 70 percent, and among the world's the highest inflation rate
   at [4]900% (a roll of toilet paper now costs $145,750 Zimbabwean
   dollars). There is a crisis food shortage that without outside aid
   will turn into a famine, and fuel is hard to get. Its economy has
   collapsed by about 40 percent, dragging down the country's standard of
   living such that the people now have among the shortest lives in
   Africa. Their life expectancy (LE) at birth is 36.7 years, and
   continues to fall. Compare this to 82 years for Japan, the highest
   among sovereign countries, and 77.1 years for the United States. The
   chart below shows the six-year movement in Zimbabwe's LE (If the chart
   does not show, click [5]here)

                        [ZIMBABWE_LE.2000_2005.PNG]

   Moreover, Mugabe suppresses speech, curtails and controls civil
   organizations, and corruption is widespread among officials. He has
   set his army on opposition supporters, using rape as a preferred
   weapon. And he continues to expropriate land owned by Whites. The 2005
   [6]Human Development Report gives Zimbabwe a human development index
   (HDI) of .50, while for comparison it is .94 for the U.S., .91 for
   Israel, and an average of 74 for the world.

   (continued [7]here)

References

   1. http://freedomspeace.blogspot.com/2006/05/who-are-mortacracies-part-i.html
   2. http://freedomspeace.blogspot.com/2006/05/who-are-mortacracies-part-i.html
   3. http://freedomspeace.blogspot.com/2006/05/who-are-mortacracies-part-i.html
   4. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/02/world/africa/02zimbabwe.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
   5. http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/ZIMBABWE_LE.2000_2005.PNG
   6. http://hdr.undp.org/
   7. http://freedomspeace.blogspot.com/2006/05/who-are-mortacracies-part-ii.html