Are the IMF, WB, and sanctions ethical or legal?

“Do not exploit the poor because they are poor and do not crush the needy in court, for the LORD will take up their case and will plunder those who plunder them.” - Proverbs 22:22-23. “He who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth and he who gives gifts to the rich--both come to poverty.” - Proverbs 22:16. - “The wealth of the rich is their fortified city; they imagine it an unscalable wall." - Proverbs 18:11.

Can the foreign policies of the West be considered legally incompetent or irresponsible because of an Anglo Saxon chauvinistic disorder?

Former Colonizers who openly exhibit visible testaments of their past crimes in public museums. And, without embarrassment, unapologetically pontificate sanctimoniously human rights, religion, and democracy to the very victims of their maltreatment. Have they no shame?

Is there a doctor in the house?

One would think after committing a crime (colonialism) generating trillions of dollars that to return to the scene of the transgression one would be remorseful, generous, and charitable. Build roads, hospitals, grant interest free loans, share technology, together with open and equitable trade relations. But these up-to-the-minute plenipotentiaries re-return to Africa, Zimbabwe in particular, demanding apartheid obtained land rights for white farmers and free open markets.

Today America can only find one African country (Liberia) willing to accept AFRICOM, a military Iraq-like base on their soil. Is the African nation’s refusal a testament to the 30 year CIA Analyst and veteran Chalmers Johnson’s “The Sorrows of Empire – Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic”? In one chapter ‘The Empire of Bases’ he states there are 279 foreign deployments of U.S. military personnel in Sub-Saharan Africa prior to 2001.

Chalmers Johnson sums up the above mentioned Proverbs: “the United States put the IMF and the World Bank in charge of the Third World debt problem and essentially instructed them to do two things: keep the debtor countries paying something so that official defaults could be avoided and squeeze as much money out of them as possible. The two semimoribund institutions accepted their new role with alacrity, delighted to act as collection agencies for banks that had made bad loans. Thus were born the World Bank’s “structural adjustments loans” and the IMF’s “structural adjustment programs.”

“We have utilized the Central Intelligence Agency and the International Monetary Fund to bring about “regime changes” via coups, assassinations, or economic destabilizations and have bombed or invaded countries that have openly broken with or opposed our hegemony.”

Read Ezekiel Chiwara’s article in The Zimbabwe Guardian “Zim economy now cruising in unchartered territory’ warns IMF’ 24.DEC.O7. ‘THE International Monetary Fund has warned that Zimbabwe’s economic downturn is now leading the country into "totally uncharted territory", as inflation continues to rise unabated.”

Kevin Phillips in “Wealth and Democracy” says “America, in an ironical perversion of Lincoln’s words at Gettysburg, had become a government of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations” and that “war itself remained the principal pathway to new territory and grandeur for rulers as well as to huge fees and commissions for paymaster-generals, principal contractors and commissaries, naval officers in search of prize money, and commissioned privateers.’

“That corporations have taken the spotlight as latter-day English-speaking conquistadores—Magellans of technology, Cortéses of consumer goods, and Pizarros of entertainment—reflected in the cosmopolitanizing of their profits, a cousinship to earlier Dutch and then British cosmopolitanizing of investment.’

If concerned that Zimbabwe is a socialist government, Mr. Phillips further notes “Twenty-first century Washington insistences on U.S. global economic virtue are likely to be shrugged off by Asians just as European rivals shrugged off Dutch and British insistences. Britain and the United States, after all, had both built their own early industrial momentum with generations of government support and economic protection.”

A UN Report: Sanctions Ineffective, By Naomi Koppel, Associated Press, August 15, 2000 stated “Economic sanctions aimed at changing government policy are usually ineffective and often illegal under international law, according to a U.N.-commissioned report…The theory behind economic sanctions is that economic pressure on civilians will translate into pressure on the government for change. This theory is bankrupt both legally and practically," said the report by Belgian law professor Marc Bossuyt.”

Why has the MDC positioned itself politically in an artificial setting; posturing itself as an initiator of the sanctions?

Hypothetically fast track to March 2008 with headlines “MDC wins elections ZANU-PF respect results and wishes of the people.” Afterward the next state of affairs will reveal the precise objectives of the MDC: Can they stop the EU & USA sanctions? If not, what are the contingency plans in the event sanctions are not lifted?

Is the MDC aware they have ratified legislative policies the EU, USA, IMF and World Bank will never recognize? So here we are after the elections with MDC party in authority and powerless to lift sanctions?

Are the sanctions a strategic move for the cubanization of Zimbabwe? U.S. Cuban sanctions have nothing to do with socialism or democracy but the containment of Cuba’s sugar and tobacco plantations.

Is Southern Africa becoming a nightmare for the West to see Africans once again in control of their family jewels (mineral resources) and waterfalls; the source of the Nile?

Will the spirit of a South African Zulu influenced administration to prominence cause migraine headaches for the imperialist? Is an African renaissance resurging?

Take notice that after 150 plus years of imperialist plundering of Africa’s minerals indigenous African mined diamonds now become “blood diamonds” and uranium becomes “terrorist yellow cake”.

Has anyone seen the doctor?

Southern Africa better keep “Looking East” and keep in mind American businesses have been “Looking East”, outsourcing, in such an extremity that the U.S. Congress called for hearings questioning their loyalty and corporate tax breaks. Factories and large corporations are shutting down and relocating to Asia without local community notice.

In the zim-babwe of the Crown Jewel of Africa, Zimbabwe, the people have once again chosen their Mwanamutapa Robert Mugabe. This modernized Mwanamutapa position should be respected regardless of who holds office. Leaders come and go but the office must remain well-regarded.