Mugabe going for a record?

Amartya Sen has famously stated that no democracy has ever had a famine. Well, as Toby over at BYF points out, Mad Bobby Mugabe may make Zimbabwe the first [here]. Of course Zimbabwe, though it does hold periodic elections, is far from being a democracy. Toby is quite right to lable Mugabe's reign one of the few remaining communist dictatorships. Mad Bobby is a confirmed Maoist who is bent upon replicating the successes of Mao's Cultural Revolution and Pol Pot's killing fields.

The opposition has been so enfeebled that they are reduced to hoping Mugabe dies. That may account for rumors that he is in ill health.

Newzimbabwe reports:

ZIMBABWEAN ruler Robert Mugabe is "as fit as a teenager", if you believe his press secretary George Charamba.

The denial came amid swelling rumours about Mugabe's ill health, or possible death on the streets of Harare.

With mass protests planned for Thursday and Friday in Zimbabwe, the authorities in Harare are rather sensitive when it comes to Mugabe's health and such was the concern that his two deputies called on him to check if he was DEAD.

Read it here.

It will be interesting to see if the opposition actually gets some protests going this time. Previous attempts have fizzled in the face of ZANU-PF's thuggery.

On the rapidly deteriorating situation in Zimbabwe see my previous posts here, and here, and here, and here, oh hell -- just scroll through my archives for the past few months.

Gateway Pundit has a nice posting on Mad Bobby's demolition derby. Read it here.