Asbjon,

You made very good observations,but your conclution might not be right,you
wrote:


 "The new danish
government has decided to cut the budget, and very few protested, when it
was announced that we should close our embassy in Zimbabwe."



Remeber that the new Danish govermnet came to power through a racist
anti-migrant programme.The reaction of the Danish government against Zimbabwe
is no act of principles but a heaven sent bless for the Danish government,to
expect any reaction is to hope too much.I should also say that it is happening
all over  Scandinavia,rascist anti-migrants sentiments is a very popular
rhetorics for many political parties in Europe.


For Freedom
Saiks













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>Friends,
>yes, that is maybe one answer. But there were many reactions  in the west on
>the US-precidential election. Also from leading politicians, who found it
>very embarrassing that a nation, which try comment and direct other nations
>on democratic standards ended up after several weeks to let courts and not
>the votes guide the election of the president. Here in Denmark there has
>also been comments on the result published a few months ago, that the
>recounting in Florida has shown that it was Gore who won. The critical
>comments here in Europe has mostly been like: USA should not tell other
>nations how democracy can be practised, because we can see that USA has
>nothing to blame us. But certainly no comments led to boycott or anything
>close to that.
>
>A personal comment on the ceremony in Zimbabwe.
>On TV I saw  Mugabe  sworn in for a new period, and I found it very very
>funny. There you see a man with this ridiculous artificial hair , a wig,
>which is common used in the british legal system, take the oath from the
>president. WHY ? Why not an african like ceremony. When he Mugabe blame the
>british so much, why then copy such british ridiculous ceremony. And the
>ceremony send my thoughts back to crowning ceremonies in old european
>monarchies, in feudal system days.
>I don´t think that is an african president worthy.
>
>My second thought was after listening to Mugabes speech that his hatred
>against the west, Britain, turned out very racist. To me some parts of his
>speech was like listening to white racists here in the west, white ku klux
>leaders in USA, or the white racists in apartheid - South Africa, or white
>nazi racists of today here in Scandinavia. Mugabes message was very clear,
>you could not misunderstand it, if you is white.
>I can tell you that the message was noticed here, and "fuel" for the whites
>here in europe, who has the same message to and sentiments for the blacks up
>here.
>
>I´m so sorry that things escalate like this. If Mugabe want to make the land
>reform, then do it. But why this extreme racial hatred. If we continue to
>sit in our corners and cry racist, hatred, revenge for what you did to me,
>over and over again, we will never, never come together. The new danish
>government has decided to cut the budget, and very few protested, when it
>was announced that we should close our embassy in Zimbabwe.
>So  few seconds speech from that ceremony got a lot of reaction up here.
>
>Just a comment from
>Asbjørn Nordam
>
>
>
>
>on 19/03/02 23:39, Habib Ghanim at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
>Monsieurs Fye Samateh and Emanuel Ndow,
>
>The answer to your question is simple . " why no western  country reacted
>when GEORGE BUSH WAS ANOINTED TO THE PRESIDENCY"  Daddy Sang .
>
>The answer they are all UNITED and have common economic  interests & goals ..
>We don't. simple as ABC
>
>habib
>
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