Chilling #1
From the last two paragraphs of Slate’s Today’s Papers (my elipses and emphasis):
The NYT fronts, while the WP and LAT go inside with, the increasingly desperate situation in Zimbabwe… . On Friday, Zimbabwe’s election commission finally announced the results of the presidential election, saying that although the opposition leader had won, it wasn’t by a large enough margin to avoid a runoff… . Now the ruling party seems ready to do everything it can to quiet any voices of opposition. A member of the ruling party’s leadership made it clear to a reporter working for the NYT that the party won’t be kicked out of power by the elections. “We’re giving the people of Zimbabwe another opportunity to mend their ways, to vote properly,” he said. And if the majority votes for the opposition? “Prepare to be a war correspondent.”
We could use more democracies and fewer thug dictatorships.