Swazi group calls for sanctions on elite

[dArKeR]

Swaziland's main pro-democracy group has asked the Commonwealth to impose sanctions on the king and his ruling elite, whom they accuse of running the country like a fiefdom.

The People's United Democratic Movement (Pudemo) said in an open letter to the 53-nation grouping of mainly former British colonies that human rights were being suppressed in the tiny kingdom.

Swaziland's young king, Mswati III, has drawn criticism at home and abroad for plans to buy a luxury jet and palaces for his 11 wives.

Many of his subjects face hunger and the UN says they have the world's highest HIV/Aids rate.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=68&art_id=vn20040706094901726C539968

They're really talking about the Bush Crime Family and the GOP in America!

[Mnemosyne]

1. Great call dArKeR, totally agree!!!!! n/t

[dArKeR]

2. If the American 'Whore' Media were instructed, by Bush as they were told

to do on Iraq, to start attacking, vilifing... Mswati and dig up some torture violations and some murders by his security forces to keep the people from revolting... I am 100% sure the American 'Whore' Media could convince 80% of Americans that we must invade and bomb Swaziland. And the 10,000 innocent children and adults killed by our military would be acceptable to the American citizens.

Where are American citizens intelligence and morality?

Friendly Dictators
http://home.iprimus.com.au/korob/fdtcards/Africa.html



America's Empire of Bases
At Least Seven Hundred Foreign Bases

It's not easy to assess the size or exact value of our empire of bases. Official records on these subjects are misleading, although instructive. According to the Defense Department's annual "Base Structure Report" for fiscal year 2003, which itemizes foreign and domestic U.S. military real estate, the Pentagon currently owns or rents 702 overseas bases in about 130 countries and HAS another 6,000 bases in the United States and its territories. Pentagon bureaucrats calculate that it would require at least $113.2 billion to replace just the foreign bases -- surely far too low a figure but still larger than the gross domestic product of most countries -- and an estimated $591,519.8 million to replace all of them. The military high command deploys to our overseas bases some 253,288 uniformed personnel, plus an equal number of dependents and Department of Defense civilian officials, and employs an additional 44,446 locally hired foreigners. The Pentagon claims that these bases contain 44,870 barracks, hangars, hospitals, and other buildings, which it owns, and that it leases 4,844 more.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0115-08.htm
http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/01/01_200.html

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

3. 11 wives?

Does that include the one he got at that fast food joint in Queens, NYC, or not? :silly: