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Allen, who calls the law “welfare for politicians,” says funding Clean Elections takes money away from vital state services and calls Clean Elections advocates overly optimistic about the law’s potential to reform the campaign finance system...
Other countries in southern Africa have their own forms of land reform, some of them with less violence. Progress there is generally slow and unsteady, however, because the participation of white farmers is voluntary. South Africa, which has only expropriated one farm, expects to transfer 30 percent of the farmland to black farmers by 2015. But this reform is not only too slow and too small, it is also plagued by white farmers who inflate the value of their land to make a profit...
...white farmers in Zimbabwe who now demand a peaceful and orderly land reform were content to do nothing through much of the first two decades of Zimbabwe’s nationhood. And Mugabe himself was not particularly concerned with land reform until it became politically expedient. But just because land reform was politically motivated does not mean that Western governments can take the high ground in their condemnation of Mugabe. For all the nations that criticize Mugabe, none has advanced a feasible and timely plan for reform. Britain, in particular, failed by not providing Zimbabwe with the money needed...
...taking land reform seriously, the West allows a corrupt man like Mugabe to come off as a hero. Unless our response to land redistribution changes, Mugabe will continue to attract support from Barron and millions of others around the world who are justifiably eager to see the end of the legacy of colonization and racism...
Eliot J. Rushovich ’03, who spent part of last summer driving the “Reich Reform Express,” the campaign’s bus, will be among those riding a yellow school bus up to New Hampshire this weekend...