Robert Mugabe eats a zoo for 'obscene' 91st birthday party
Source: The Independent
The ZANU-PF leader saw in his 91st year with the slaughter of wild animals, including an elephant, which were cooked and served to his guests.
His party took place at an exclusive lodge, spa and golf course in Victoria Falls, and it was estimated to have cost $1million (£648,000). During the celebrations, Mugabe released 91 balloons into the sky with the help of his wife, Grace.
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His guests were fed a young elephant, and two buffaloes, two sables and five impalas were also donated to the president by a local landowner. He also threw in a lion and a crocodile to be stuffed as an extra gift for Mugabe. On top of this, 40 cows were offered to the president by two members of his government. A second elephant is going to be shot and given to the Victoria Falls community.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/robert-mugabe-eats-a-zoo-for-obscene-91st-birthday-party-10077805.html
But, if he was good enough for Hugo Chavez, he's good enough for me.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)and has been for decades at least.
bhikkhu
(10,725 posts)dropping a million on a birthday party would be meager joke to plenty of 1%r's, and killing animals in Africa has long been a popular pastime for the privileged here.
brooklynite
(94,851 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)iandhr
(6,852 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)navarth
(5,927 posts)Our species will surely get what it deserves. The shame is we'll take down all the innocent species with us. Shame on us.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)That, more than anything, is what pisses me off RE: Mugabe's extravagance. Though killing possibly endangered animals is pretty bad too - I mean, is elephant meat even any good?
GuntherGebelWilliams
(58 posts)Sorta like Bald Eagle.
madokie
(51,076 posts)you're attempt at sarcasm, if indeed thats what it is
philosslayer
(3,076 posts)samsingh
(17,602 posts)olddad56
(5,732 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)primarily because he was anti-white people.
madokie
(51,076 posts)sounds a tad off to me to be reading crap like this here on du
I've been here a long time and I've yet to read any praise for anyone because they were anti-white people
kwassa
(23,340 posts)I'm surprised he has lasted here.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)because it was before my time. But Mugabe had a lot of support on the U.S. Left= back in the day. At the time, he was leading a revolution against a corrupt white supremacist government, and such support was not out of line. He maintained that support for quite a while even when he started displaying obvious corruption and incompetence. He has been able to maintain a lot of support among the poor of his own country based on old animosities and the always-promised, but never quite delivered economic reforms, while seizing the land of white farmers and distributing most of it to his political supported.
Even now, I know some hard lefties that are reluctant to criticize him because of how they used to view him as a hero, even though they now acknowledge that he's a dirt bag.
I haven't seen any support for him here, though. At least not yet.
FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)This was after he started going downhill, but some still supported him. Why? Who knows?
It's weird the people who get support here sometimes. Now there is the Putin defenders. Why? Who knows?
Throd
(7,208 posts)Their prose always had that tortured SLA quality to it, so I think they were clinging to the past.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Not the starving people, of course--they're hunted--but fattened human cattle for the pleasure of the rulers.