Comments on: Dominic, dictators & democracy http://www.humphreyhawksley.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/13/dominic-dictators-democracy/ Humphrey Hawksley Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:34:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Terence M. Blackett http://www.humphreyhawksley.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/13/dominic-dictators-democracy/comment-page-1/#comment-8365 Terence M. Blackett Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:21:54 +0000 http://www.humphreyhawksley.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/13/dominic-dictators-democracy/#comment-8365 Zimbabwe was the bread basket of Southern Africa at a time where vast swathes of land were "White" owned with what at the time seemed to be a stable democratic political edifice under Robert "can't stand Mogan Tsvangirai" Mugabe. We have all seen the unfolded process of a nation in tatters. Rewind to Grenada In 1979, where Eric Gairy's corrupt elected government was ousted in a bloodless coup and the Marxist-Leninist People's Revolutionary Government (PRG) came to power, headed by Prime Minister Maurice Bishop. Subsequent splits resulted in the firing squad death of Maurice Bishop and the invasion by US Special Forces under the pretext of liberating US medical students and crushing any possibility of another Communist-type government within the Caribbean Basin... So I am not sure whether we ever really learn anything from history... We know that the only thing in life that is constant is change - but the more things change, the more they seem to stay the same... Zimbabwe was the bread basket of Southern Africa at a time where vast swathes of land were “White” owned with what at the time seemed to be a stable democratic political edifice under Robert “can’t stand Mogan Tsvangirai” Mugabe. We have all seen the unfolded process of a nation in tatters.

Rewind to Grenada In 1979, where Eric Gairy’s corrupt elected government was ousted in a bloodless coup and the Marxist-Leninist People’s Revolutionary Government (PRG) came to power, headed by Prime Minister Maurice Bishop. Subsequent splits resulted in the firing squad death of Maurice Bishop and the invasion by US Special Forces under the pretext of liberating US medical students and crushing any possibility of another Communist-type government within the Caribbean Basin…

So I am not sure whether we ever really learn anything from history…

We know that the only thing in life that is constant is change – but the more things change, the more they seem to stay the same…

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