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I am following the events in Zimbabwe with interest. In the current police state that exists in Minneapolis-Saint Paul with the images of police assaulting demonstrators and members of the press, I cannot help having increased identity with the abuses there. As Bruce Nestor of the National Lawyers Guild here says, we are not at the point of massive roundups of dissenters here as those in Zimbabwe experience, but we are getting a foretaste of brutal repression.
Somehow I must believe that the human spirit and human goodness will prevail there and here. I salute all those in Zimbabwe who work tirelessly for peace and justice and take them as models.
Posted by Nancy Vining Van Ness | September 4, 2008 3:31 AM