Jane you wrote:
“Actually, he bought his farm under a BLACK SUPREMACIST REGIME”

1974 is the date Mike Campbell bought the large estate with its 500 workers, please do check the court papers and understand your mistake.
The South African army captain purchased the land in the middle of a civil war when Rhodesia was ruled by a white supremacist regime.

Those are well documented facts Jane, ask people who are telling you otherwise who owned the land between 1974 to 1999 if it was not Mike Campbell because he lived there.

Campbell says:

“The theory they [Zanu PF] are feeding [the people] is that the land was stolen. All the land that I’ve got in this country, I bought. And I bought with their [Zanu PF government's] blessing. On one of the farms the government signed a Certificate of No Interest, post 1980, so I didn’t steal anything from anybody”.

You may not be aware of this Christian, but Independence happened in 1980. And post 1980 farms had to be offered to the government first to buy – if they didn;t want it, they issued a ‘Certificate of No Interest’ and it was sold on the open market.

Second: I can’t hear Campbell saying anything disparaging about the people who ‘work for him and fed him and his family for decades’ as you suggest. I CAN hear him make disparaging remarks about the thugs who invade the farms and the Zanu PF elite who have benefitted from all the stolen land.

And frankly, what he says about those twits is true: they are not farmers, they are politicians who swish up to farms in Mercedes Benzes and do nothing; they have asset stripped property and sold everything they can for quick profit. There ARE derelict farms EVERYWHERE in Zimbabwe – its a tragedy.

And there is no way our country is producing food to feed its people – you only need to see our (new) reliance on importaed food on the shelves, and you had to experience the food shortages in the past few years to know that as a FAT FACT. Prior to this land reform debacle, Zimbabwe used to export surplus food.

So Christian, I think you’re talking cr*p, basically, and I don’t think you have any idea of the reality in Zimbabwe or Zimbabwe’s history.

Regardless, you don’t have like or respect a man to know that he deserves justice and law as much as the next person. Whether you feel compassion or not is irrelvant, I guess the only question is whether you think the rule of law should apply, and if so, then the Campbells should be given their farm back according to the regional laws which the government signed up to.

I feel no compassion for Mike Campbell and Ben Freeth after seeing the documentary because, unlike the real Zimbabweans, Campbell and Freeth have a choice, they can leave the land they purchased under a white supremacist regime.
Anyone feeling compassion for Mike Campbell should hear what he thinks of the African people who worked for him and fed him and his family for decades:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbfhrr2NyH4

I was moved by the determination and faith of Ben Freeth, Mike Campbell and their family. Those who feel no compassion for them after seeing the documentary shown earlier this year should analyse why they feel that way. Racism in all its forms is wrong, and it doesn’t matter whether those who suffer are white or black or any other race. What matters is that people’s greed and hate causes so much pain to others, and I offer my support to Ben and his family. I do care, and I pray that you find what you seek.

Ben Freeth is only fighting for white farmers in Zimbabwe, Ben Freeth is no more a farmer than he is Zimbabwean.
It does matter that Ben Freeth comes from a wealthy family in the UK and he did not purchased his property, his South African father in law did under the white supremacist Rhodesian regime.
As for looting Zimbabwe bone dry of its minerals and gems look who is at it, Ben Freeth supporting uncle, Sir Robert Hill Smith third baronet of Crowmalie MP:

Blood money: the MPs cashing in on Zimbabwe’s misery
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/blood-money-the-mps-cashing-in-on-zimbabwes-misery-856583.html

If you read my post and think about it which you clearly haven’t or just can’t, it doesn’t take much brain power to work out that if I am clearly condemning Mugabe and reference the fact that he is a self-proclaimed Hitler, that I am very strongly against “exterminating” people – I assume you don’t need a lesson in Hitler’s approach to ensuring the supremacy of the Aryan Race, concentration camps, the SS, etc.

Its also not difficult to see that I wasn’t offering any advice, so no, its not “silly isn’t it?” as you say. What I was doing was asking Christian to provide a more balanced point of view. I would advise you now to read his response which provides the balanced point of view that I said I would be interested in hearing from him.

Next time you write a post, I would get someone you know who has got a brain to check what you have written to make sure it doesn’t make you look like the idiot you clearly are.

Now I read you are still fighting. It is a shame. Why isnt UN or “worldpolice” USA doing anything about black Hitler Mugabe?

For all it is worth – I am praying for your health and well being.
God bless you all!

Kieron , thank you very much for giving me a chance to explain why I chose to take such a view on Mike Campbell and Ben Freeth instead of echoing everyone else’s view that Mugabe is the man responsible for the problem of land redistribution.

Had the “documentary” been about poor black Zimbabweans being thrown out of their homes under a white supremacist regime and now under Mugabe’s regime, I would have condemned the privileged black Zimbabwean few who are doing today what the fewer privileged white non Zimbabweans did for decades.

But we all know that this “documentary” is about a handful of privileged white non Zimbabweans showing the world that they are victims of a system that they created and benefited from. What Mugabe’s henchmen are doing to them today is what those old folks did to Zimbabweans in order to get their white hands on African land.

Mike Campbell and Ben Freeth are not farmers and are not Zimbabweans; one is South African, the other a British citizen and both are owners of an estate where more than 500 people are living and working for them.

They certainly do not need any money as they have accumulated enough to last them for generations but they are trying very hard to target the South African government because they know that Mugabe is not the problem regarding land redistribution; if he was, South Africa wouldn’t start the process to redistribute the land.

That’s the logic of your advice. Silly, isn’t it?

Please tell us ” What we can do to support you over there”… ( as i don’t think people truly appreciate how they may be of help in this situation). xxx

Steve, the word you are looking for is subtleties and not subleties, no need to thank me.

There might be no oil in Zimbabwe Steve but some “idiots” in Whitehall are making a lot of money out of Zimbabwe:

“Blood money: the MPs cashing in on Zimbabwe’s misery
Tory frontbenchers are among those with shares in companies accused of propping up the violent – and now illegal – regime in Harare.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/blood-money-the-mps-cashing-in-on-zimbabwes-misery-856583.html

Are you sharing my outrage Steve? If you are, ask Ben Freeth to tell us the truth about his own family’s fortune. Sir Robert Hill Smith, third baronet Crowmallie, Liberal Democrat MP is one of the MPs with investments in Zimbabwe and Sir Robert is Ben Freeth’s uncle!

On Wednesday 24 March 2010 Sir Robert Hill Smith, third baronet Crowmallie, declared in the House of Commons: “I should declare an interest, as my nephew is a Zimbabwean who has been evicted from farmland.”

Who still believe Ben Freeth story of a poor farmer who lost his farm?