If that isn’t perfect proof of what Mugabe is about I don’t know what is! Here are two very experienced men of the world and part of the distinguished team of Elders, whose only objective is to help and bring their experience to bear in the world’s troublespots, and Mugabe refuses even their simple entry into the country. Shame on the tyrant! He cares not one tiny jot about ‘his’ so-called pweople! I wonder what Nelson Mandela (who is also an Elder) will have to say to that?

You make my point. ‘Red’ is NOT the color of freedom. Red is the color of Christianity (Prince of Peace), the color of war (blood), and the color of Marxism/socialism.

Green is the color of Islam (a desert religion) and of environmentalism.

Black is the color both of anarchism and power. But blue is the color of the sky, a universal feature of the entire blue planet, because ocean water is blue.

As for the cost of a blue scarf: Why buy a new scarf? If anyone in Zimbabwe is more worried about the cost of wearing a piece of blue than a piece of red, I’d suggest they have a personal psychology which appreciates ‘peace’ more than ‘freedom.’ Mr. Mugabe–any tyrant–depends upon peace-lovers keeping him in office; he will fiercely oppose freedom-lovers, because they represent an end to his dictatorial rule.

It’s your country; you choose. Red ideology, or blue philosophy?

Make a decision, Zimbabwe. Do you want ‘peace,’ or do you want ‘freedom’? If you want both, then understand that freedom is moral, while peace is merely an ideal. 200 years ago, Kant created the formula for achieving world peace: Achieve world freedom first.

Martin Luther King and Gandhi were not murdered because they were men of peace; they were murdered because they were men of freedom.

Hegel wrote that only by a willingness to risk one’s life is freedom won.

Be non-violent, like King and Gandhi. But be militant, like King and Gandhi. Perhaps secret militancy is best, at first.

Adopt a color for your symbol of freedom. Since blue is the color of the universal sky, why not ‘blue’ as the color for a freedom philosophy for Zimbabwe? Blue shirts. Blue blouses. Blue bracelets, blue earrings. Blue scarfs; any patch of blue will do. Adopt a freedom hope phrase, such as “Roar like the lion, thunder like the Falls,” or “First freedom, then peace.” Carefully pick a symbol for expressing your drive for freedom, one which can be seen in public but which has a double meaning, such as an ‘umbrella’ or a picture of ‘Victoria Falls.’

And by all means, secretly recruit policemen and army troops to your freedom cause; they will become fierce defenders of your freedom once it is won.

Finally, tell EVERYONE: Freedom has to be won, peace without freedom is known as ’slavery.’