Bulwayo, Jul. 2, 2007 (CWNews.com) - Archbishop Pius Ncube of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, has openly called for the overthrow of the government led by President Robert Mugabe.
In an interview with the Sunday Times of London the archbishop said: "I think that it is justified for Britain to raid Zimbabwe and remove Mugabe."
Archbishop Ncube later told BBC that while he suggested intervention by Great Britain, the former colonial ruler of the African country, he could justify action by any other power to ease the suffering of the people of Zimbabwe. Some action is required, he said, to oust "a government which is ready to sacrifice the lives of its people."
"We have to choose between two evils," the archbishop explained. He said that Zimbabwe is facing a desperate situation, with widespread crop failures aggravating an economic disaster that has seen the annual inflation rate rise toward 15,000%.
Archbishop Ncube, the most outspoken critic of President Mugabe, places the blame for the economic disaster squarely on the government. He notes that the Mugabe regime is spending millions on domestic surveillance programs to monitor political opposition, and drawing millions more from the impoverished financial system in graft. The Catholic bishops' conference of Zimbabwe has denounced the regime for pervasive corruption.
Archbishop Ncube has said in the past that he is prepared to face death in order to bring about change in his country. Now he told the Sunday Times, "I'm ready to lead the people, guns blazing."
However, the archbishop admitted that the people are not prepared to rise up against the incumbent regime. He argued that public apathy is the result of Mugabe's successful efforts to intimidate political opponents. "You can't mobilize when one out of every 10 Zimbabweans is a spy for Mugabe," he told BBC.
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He'll have to wait until 2015 for us to invade, as our two CVF aircraft carriers won't be ready until then. Then there are the four Astute class submarines which can fire cruise missiles the distance from Plymouth to North Africa.
But the Bishop is slightly incorrect in saying we have to choose between two evils. The civil use of the sword to restrain evil and protect the innocent is morally good in its object. All it has to do then is pass the test of double effect.
I was reading on the Internet just yesterday that Mugabe has been buying surveillance equipment from the Chinese. No wonder, because he's a Communist and has been a Chinese agent ever since he took guns and money from them during the Smith regime.
Zimbabwe's heading for a million per cent by the end of the year, and some commentators are saying his regime will be gone by the end of the year.
Don't you believe it! Mugabe will just get bailed out by his Chinese masters. When enough of the native population have starved to death or been driven out, the Conqueror of the British Empire will import Chinese settlers to repopulate the place. Welcome to the Colony of Jin-ba-bu-wei.
Pardon me, a typo. I should have said Zimbabwe's heading for amillion per cent inflation.
'with guns blazing'.
Lord have mercy.
Christ have mercy.
Lord have mercy.
May God help the brave Archbishop Pius Ncube.
I've a nasty feeling no one else is going to.
I think this makes the archbishop open to charges of treason and would tempt Mugabe to take action against him. Ler's pray that the Lord will sustain him in these moments of trial.
I am never happy about calls for overthrows of regimes unless there is something clearly better to put in their place.
In the seventies Brighton was covered in Parsi graffiti calling for the overthrow of the Shah of Persia. One young man once asked me to sign a petition. I refused, and suggested that they could get worse than the Shah. They got the Ayotollah Kohmeini
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