Usually I do not take any party in the struggles of other people as I try to keep this blog concentrated in my own struggle but as this friend of mine sent this text to me I am making an exception.
Most of the times when some people have problems is because somebody else is trying to make a Difference and in doing that they forget people. The following text exposes so.
My other comment is that if you look at a pyramid as an example of country's structure we have a base that is quite big, usually is made up of "common" people and at the top of the pyramid there is a space only for one, two or maybe three people and obviously between the base and the top corner is filled with people who do not think of themselves as "common" but they are as are the ones at the top also. The problem becomes when people at the top corner of the pyramid can not see what happens with the people at the base of that pyramid. I could go on and on but I think it is a very good time to shut up and publish the text.
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This arrived in my post........he doesn't ask for money, just your  energy.     Please at least read his letter.  
Letter from Zimbabwe sent in by John  Winter
I reckon that these are the last days of TKM and ZPF.  The darkest hour is always before dawn.
We are all terrified at what  they are going to destroy next...I mean they are actually ploughing down brick  and mortar houses and one family with twin boys of 10 had no chance of  salvaging anything when 100 riot police came in with AK47's and bulldozers and  demolished their beautiful house - 5 bedrooms and pine ceilings - because it  was 'too close to the airport', so we are feeling extremely insecure right  now.
You know - I am aware that this does not help you sleep at night,  but if you do not know - how can you help? Even if you put us in your own  mental ring of light and send your guardian angels to be with us - that is a  help -but I feel so cut off from you all knowing I cannot tell you what's  going  on here simply because you will feel uncomfortable. There is no  ways we can leave here so that is not an option.
I ask that you all  pray for us in the way that you know how, and let me know that you are  thinking of us and sending out positive vibes... that's all. You can't just be  in denial and pretend/believe it's not going on.
To be frank with you,  it's genocide in the making and if you do not believe me, read the Genocide  Report by Amnesty International which says we are - IN  level 7 - (level  8 is after it's happened and everyone is in denial).
If you don't want  me to tell you these things-how bad it is-then it means you have not dealt  with your own fear, but it does not help me to think you are turning your back  on our situation. We need you, please, to get  the news OUT that we are  all in a fearfully dangerous situation here. Too many people turn their backs  and say - oh well, that's what happens in Africa
This Government has  GONE MAD and you need to help us publicize our plight---or how can we be  rescued? It's a reality! The petrol queues are a reality, the pall of smoke  all around our city is a reality, the thousands of homeless people sleeping  outside in 0 Celsius with no food, water, shelter and bedding are a reality.  Today a family approached me, brother of the gardener's wife with two small  children. Their home was trashed and they will have to sleep outside. We  already support 8 adult people and a child on this property, and electricity  is going up next month by 250% as is water.
How can I take on another  family of 4 -----and yet how can I turn them away to sleep out in the  open?
I am not asking you for money or a ticket out of here - I am  asking you to FACE the fact that we are in deep and terrible danger and want  you please to pass on our news and pictures. So PLEASE don't just press the  delete button! Help best in the way that you know how.
Do face the  reality of what is going on here and help us SEND OUT THE WORD.. The more  people who know about it, the more chance we have of the United Nations coming  to our aid. Please don't ignore or deny what's happening.
Some would like  to be protected from the truth BUT then, if we are eliminated, how would you  feel? 'If only we knew how bad it really was we could have helped in some  way'.
[I know we chose to stay here and that some feel we deserve  what's coming to us]
For now,--- we ourselves have food, shelter, a  little fuel and a bit of money for the next meal - but what is going to happen  next? Will they start on our houses? All property is going to belong to the  State now. I want to send out my Title Deeds to one of you because if they get  a hold of those, I can't fight for my rights.
Censorship!----We no  longer have SW radio [which told us everything that was happening] because the  Government jammed it out of existence - we don't have any reporters, and no  one is allowed to photograph. If we had reporters here, they would have an  absolute field day. Even the pro-Government Herald has written that people are  shocked, stunned, bewildered and blown mindless by the wanton destruction of  many folks homes, which are supposed to be 'illegal' but for which a huge  percentage actually do have licenses.
Please! - do have some compassion  and HELP by sending out the articles and personal reports so that something  can/may be done.
'I am one. I cannot do everything, ---but I can do  something.. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the  something that I can do. What I can do, I should do. And what I should do, by  the grace of God,
I will do.'
 Edward Everett  Hale
Please send this on to everyone in your address book.  We  send jokes out without blinking an eyelid.  We don't get told this on the  news in South Africa , we only get told what they want us to hear.  We  all have a chance to do something, even though the something is by pressing  forward to as many people as possible.  Let's stop talking and let's  start doing!  There is power in prayer, there is also power in more  people knowing about this than you in my address book.  This is going to  America , Dubai , Australia , France , South Africans all over South Africa ,  the UK .  By forwarding this to all in my address book I have done  something.  The world needs to know what is going on. "
 
 

