Scrabbling about for a scapegoat
It’s hard to find a scapegoat when you’ve already beaten them, killed them, or driven them away to other countries or out into the rural areas.
So what’s a poor President to do when the weather turns bad? Well, he can always play the good old ‘imperialist’ card.
Zimbabwe has a drought. Our people are starving and the commercial farmers with their local farming expertise and mass irrigation equipment have been forced off the land.
And you know whose fault it is that we have a drought…?
The Americans and the British of course. Who else…? Isn’t it totally obvious…?
Apparently those damned imperialists are deliberately manipulating climate change in Zimbabwe using ‘unconventional’ chemical weapons (I just love the inclusion of the word ‘unconventional’ in this context). Their intention is apparently to use the weather to force the region to capitulate to their demands for regime change.
“The prediction, which was the exact opposite of other forecasts, seems to confirm that the conspiracy to remove the Zimbabwean government has gone chemical.”
The BBC has the full story. Read it here, while I desperately try to stop myself laughing.
