The grovelling Tsvangirai even forgot the history that the US itself had been actively involved in busting UN sanctions against Smith.
He did forget too, that the Bush regime was violating people’s rights at Guantanamo and could never be trusted to lay a healing hand on anybody.
Bush even left his people to perish in Hurricane Katrina.
But the unctuous Tsvangirai, far from thoroughly discrediting himself for his smarmy activities, represents a present and continuing threat to the national security of Zimbabwe and Zimbabweans.
If the country could count itself lucky to have survived a Chapter VII, as calls for the same were made as lately as 2008, sanctions that the US maintains, as conducted by Tsvangirai, represent a real danger.
It is clear that the “leverage” that Tsvangirai talks about is the suffering or screaming of people which amounts at best to threatening the power of President Mugabe and worst fomenting a humanitarian disaster or civil strife in the country.
By Tichaona Zindoga
It is hardly news to know, as the world recently did through a batch of Wikileaks on Zimbabwe, that Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai works with hostile outsiders to achieve regime change in the country.
Such revelations only serve to confirm that which is already known in Zimbabwe and outside that the MDC-T leader is what some would pointedly call a Western puppet.
Where that description seems unpalatable, there is a wish that the former trade union leader would divest of the manifest Western influence which only serves to provide fodder to his detractors.
On the other hand, Tsvangirai’s actions lead to the recognition that he is a national security threat, the same actions being basically what would pass for treason.
But there is something fundamentally dangerous about the MDC leader, as revealed in what The Sunday Mail dubbed “Tsvangirai’s letters of shame.”
Consider for example his October 16, 2002 letter to the then US President George W Bush.
Similar text of this letter were sent to former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter; then US ambassador to the UN Ambassador John Negroponte; Representatives Ed Royce and Donald Payne; Senators Thomas Daschle and Chester Trent Lott; Reverend Jesse Jackson and Chester Crocker.
A cursory look at this list shows men of dangerous imperialist credentials like Negroponte, former intelligence director and US ambassador to Iraq, while the likes of Donald Payne and Chester Crocker were heavily involved with sanctions against Zimbabwe.
Lott is credited for pushing for US military expansion, as he worked with Pentagon.
Jackson, a well-known civil rights activist, provided wolf in sheepskins, just as the missionary of yore did to colonialism.
In this shameful letter Tsvangirai invited the United Nations Security Council to institute a war against Zimbabwe based on Article 39 (Chapter VII Powers) of the United Nations Charter.
Using the well-worn criminalisation catchword, Tsvangirai claimed that the “Mugabe regime” was “carrying out crimes against humanity as a means of subjugating the people of Zimbabwe and denying them the right to freely determine their own destiny.”
Wrote Tsvangirai: “Crimes that rival fascism and Nazism in scale and wickedness are being committed daily, not by an occupying force, but by a supposedly sovereign government of the country.”
He then called on for investigation into “the gross human rights abuses and crimes against humanity”; “state-sponsored violence and the breakdown of the rule of law”; and “the denial of food relief to suspected political opponents and the consequent mass starvation”.
Tsvangirai also likened the “Mugabe regime” with that of Rhodesian strongman Ian Smith who fashioned a rogue regime out of what was termed the Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
The UNSC slapped Smith with sanctions
in 1966, which Tsvangirai wanted replicated in Zimbabwe.
in 1966, which Tsvangirai wanted replicated in Zimbabwe.
Tsvangirai then beseeched Bush: “We therefore urgently appeal to you, Mr President, as one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, to act with your characteristic determination to put a stop to the violent abuse of human rights and the carnage that is going on and assist in the process of laying a healing hand on the country and its tortured people.”
It is important to read this letter of shame with the other one that Tsvangirai wrote to Bush’s successor, Barack Obama.
One of the key highlights of the December 21, 2009 letter is Tsvangirai’s call for the US to maintain its sanctions regime – the Zimbabwe democracy and Economic Recovery Act – “striking a careful balance between retaining leverage and rewarding progress.”
Characteristically, Tsvangirai thanks Obama for working behind the scenes with another foreign power, South Africa and its leader Jacob Zuma to influence events here.
Tsvangirai’s “letters of shame” – and one can sense a pun here – demonstrate that he is a shameless politician who will go to great lengths to access power.
It is hard to reconcile Tsvangirai’s claims of “crimes against humanity” as supposedly committed in Zimbabwe without him providing the slightest evidence to back that.
In fact, at the time he wrote to Bush, his party had claimed no more than 100 deaths of his supporters in the previous elections.
The number was as liberal as could be given the propensity of Tsvangirai’s party to overstate such numbers just to play the victim.
This has led observers to remark upon MDC’s “morbid” preoccupation with dead bodies to the extent of claiming those who died naturally to have been their own killed in political violence.
It is surprising that Tsvangirai could call on for an investigation into “crimes that rival fascism and Nazism in scale and wickedness” that were “being committed daily” when it is known that these crimes as the world saw them being committed in the West, could well speak for themselves.
It is little wonder then that the leaders that Tsvangirai appealed to did not heed the call, certainly not because of their goodness but because the allegations did not hold any water at all.
As for Bush, he chose to invade Iraq the following year where “better” lies on weapons of mass destruction had been spun to pave way for the invasion of that country.
He went on to do just what Tsvangirai falsely accused President Mugabe of doing here, namely violent abuse of human rights and carnage and torture of innocent people.
One is repelled by Tsvangirai’s sycophantic exhortation of Bush’s “characteristic determination” when the man evidently expended the same determination for evil ends like invading Afghanistan and Iraq.
The grovelling Tsvangirai even forgot the history that the US itself had been actively involved in busting UN sanctions against Smith.
He did forget too, that the Bush regime was violating people’s rights at Guantanamo and could never be trusted to lay a healing hand on anybody.
Bush even left his people to perish in Hurricane Katrina.
But the unctuous Tsvangirai, far from thoroughly discrediting himself for his smarmy activities, represents a present and continuing threat to the national security of Zimbabwe and Zimbabweans.
If the country could count itself lucky to have survived a Chapter VII, as calls for the same were made as lately as 2008, sanctions that the US maintains, as conducted by Tsvangirai, represent a real danger.
It is clear that the “leverage” that Tsvangirai talks about is the suffering or screaming of people which amounts at best to threatening the power of President Mugabe and worst fomenting a humanitarian disaster or civil strife in the country.
A politician that behaves in such a Machiavellian manner is clearly a threat to national security.
Tsvangirai and his party have thrived on the suffering of the people of Zimbabwe which Tsvangirai and his party contrive to attribute to President Mugabe and Zanu-PF.
Tsvangirai, in the real fashion of the devil, goes even further to taunt his victims saying they will suffer even more.
“Muchasaisisa!” promises the sadistic Tsvangirai.
If this is not a threat to national security, which in any sane world should be appropriately censored, then nothing is.
One other thing that makes Tsvangirai a national security threat is his working with foreign powers to effect regime change in Zimbabwe.
It is reprehensible that a politician can be grateful that foreign powers meet in the shadows to discuss how to influence events in his country.
Tsvangirai could be criminally naive, but the regularity with which he acts in a manner that prejudices Zimbabwe’s security points to his being a present and continuing danger.
It would not be very fair on President Zuma to point to what Tsvangirai’s letter without affording him a hearing, but it would not be out of order to express fears over his role on Zimbabwe especially in light of his mediation.
One is bound to think of the likes of Lindiwe Zulu, President Zuma’s international relations advisor and spokesperson of his facilitation team here.
Zulu has conducted herself in a manner that has found question in Zanu-PF, whom she has blatantly and undiplomatically described as daydreaming on the issue of elections which the party is demanding, while she has found favour with the MDC formations.
The favour she has also found with Western-sponsored media here also seems to speak of how she resonates with the foreign agenda of the MDC in which the media has mutual funding.
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