After being challenged about the validity of the recent “election,” a spokesman for Robert Mugabe, “president” of Zimbabwe said that any one who questioned the election could “go hang!” He followed up that simple retort with one that was more illustrative:
They can go and hang a thousand times.”
Some reporters have been puzzled as to the meaning or the need to “hang a thousand times.” After all, shouldn’t one hanging do the job? The answer is quite simple: Yes, most brutal, thug dictators would find it sufficient to silence their critics with one hanging. I believe “presidential ” spokesman George Charamba was just recognizing the obvious and trying to cover his bases. I mean if you’re a brutal, thug dictator and you can’t manage to rig an election to get 99.9% of the vote on the first try, how likely is it that you’ll be smart enough to manage to kill someone on the first hanging try?
Loading ...
Unless he was referring to asphyxiation (incomplete) by hanging slowly, one thousand times, but saving them just before they pass out each time. Which is distressingly brutal, I would think.
I wouldn’t put it past these guys.
Well, if breaking the legs of the young son (I think 6 or so) of a competitor, is any idea of the lengths this vicous thug will go to, I guess nearly killing someone 1,000 times, purposely, would not be beyond consideration for him.