White British Woman Rails Against White Zimbabweans

Even I am amazed at what some "people" will go through to justify a "free lunch" obtained involuntarily at someone else's expense, i.e., theft. According to the UK Telegraph:

A white British woman who formerly worked as a local government officer in Essex is the latest and most unlikely beneficiary of Robert Mugabe's land-grab policy in Zimbabwe. Anne Matonga and her black Zimbabwean husband, Bright, have been given possession of a 1,500-acre farm after it was seized from a white farmer on the orders of the President. Mrs Matonga's new home, which the farmer and his family had lived on for four generations, is a reward for her husband's support of Mugabe, whose dictatorial policies are responsible for Zimbabwe being ostracised by much of the outside world.

...Despite moving to Zimbabwe only last year after a lifetime in Britain, Mrs Matonga last week spoke angrily, and without a hint of irony, against the "white colonialists who stole our land"...After delivering her diatribe, Mrs Matonga returned to supervising the crop of roses that had been planted earlier this year by Mr and Mrs Schultz...

...Mr Schultz had been arrested by the police for defying the eviction order only minutes before. "Mrs Matonga was screaming at me: 'Get off our land: we are taking back what you stole from our forefathers'," said Mrs Schultz. "I thought it was a remarkable thing for her to say since she was clearly white and British." Mr Schultz, 57, is now virtually penniless.

The U.S. Should Withdraw from the Geneva Convention

IRVINE, CA--The investigation of a marine for the suspected "crime" of killing an unarmed Iraqi terrorist is a moral and judicial travesty, said Dr. Yaron Brook, executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute.

"The accused marine was completely right to kill a terrorist who he suspected was setting up a booby-trap by faking death--a common terrorist technique used in Iraq. For the marine to do otherwise would have been to risk his life and the lives of his fellow marines to preserve a committed murderer. Yet this is exactly what the U.S. government says he should have done, in the name of the 'rules of war' of the Geneva Convention."

"Throughout the War on Terrorism," explained Dr. Brook, "America has sacrificed its military objectives and the safety of its soldiers in the name of adhering to the Geneva Convention accords, which are based on so-called Just War Theory. Monsters like Osama bin-Laden and his deputies are still alive because we hesitated to bomb them out of their hideouts, for fear of hitting so-called innocents. Hundreds of American soldiers have died unnecessarily due to crippling rules of engagement requiring them to place the lives of Iraqi civilians above their own."

"Now," said Dr. Brook, "we are telling our soldiers that if they kill a terrorist who happens to be wounded or unarmed, they could be court-martialed!"

"America must assert its right to defend its citizens--including its soldiers--by any means necessary," said Dr. Brook. "And as a first order of business, we must withdraw from the suicide pact that is the Geneva Convention."

Spamming for Freedom

For anyone looking to defend property rights and make money at the same time, here's an interesting business model I discovered: 

The Tabloids, an Oakland-based rock band... recently launched stopnapster.com, urging people to sabotage Napster by mislabeling songs posted to the site. Music entrepreneurs and Internet saboteurs have already started circulating fake versions of popular songs on Napster. 

Stopnapster.com also calls for releasing songs into Napster that have anti-piracy speeches inserted randomly into the music. For instance, you may be listening to Eminem when suddenly Charlton Heston begins reading a public interest message opposing song theft...  "We're looking at the big picture here. Intellectual property is intellectual freedom," says Michael Robinson, the band's leader, a freelance writer and a marketing consultant. "The U.S. Constitution and the Internet are on a collision course. We don't want our rights ripped off," he adds. The Tabloids seek government regulation of technologies like Napster's.  (From Digital Music Weekly,
You could probably get this funded as an Internet business model. Get permission from bands to use their songs, and thirty seconds in start mixing in voiceovers of interviews with the band, etc. Then create all kinds of bogus music servers and spam the hell out of Napster, Gnutella, etc. with the fake mp3s. (Actually, I hear the Nettwerk label just did this with the new Barenaked Ladies single.) 

The band gets advertising and fights theft, you make a little money selling the ads, and the Net gets clogged with so much music spam that it gets difficult and costly to find intact pirated tracks. If Napster raises technical barriers, you have a financial incentive to overcome them. And the pirates can't very well call on the law to protect them, can they? 

Personally, I find something deliciously satisfying in the image of some young thug, smugly expecting to marinate his brain in the latest Eminem tirade he's swiped off the net, getting an earful of Charlton Heston.

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