Birds of a Feather

The best Japanese monster movies pitted colossal beasts against each other in a climatic battle. Godzilla (especially the Japanese original--sans Raymond Burr) was enjoyable. But King Kong vs. Godzilla was better. Ditto Destroy All Monsters. And though an unwieldy title, Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack is epic. For the most part, the monsters were the good guys.

Not so in reality. When the world's monstrous men embrace, evil spreads and death follows, says Miguel Octavio:

Chavez hugs, cavorts with and embraces bloody Dicator and murderer Mugabe in Rome. Chávez praised Mugabe’s policies, saying the African leader had been “demonized” and that Venezuela was enacting similar reforms to undo “the unfair structures of colonialism.”. This picture and Chavez words are extremely offensive to me and represent the opposite of everything I believe in.. I guess it takes one to know one. Very obscene. (source: Miguel Octavio)

It gets worse. The two met at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome on its 60th anniversary where they were invited to celebrate . . . well, here's Investor's Business Daily's description:

The world body this week invited Zimbabwe's dictator, who starves his own people for political purposes, to its World Food Day — where he compared President Bush to Hitler. We kid you not.

Most of the civilized world recognizes Robert Mugabe as a brutal tyrant responsible for transforming what was once the breadbasket of the African continent into a place of destitution, and dependence on the West. . .

This is a country where government-sanctioned theft of land from white farmers has led to black starvation, and where information about the regime's grain reserves are guarded from the U.N. and the Zimbabwean people in the way terrorist states keep secret their weapons of mass destruction programs.

Someone naive to the U.N.'s ways might expect to see sanctions imposed on Mugabe's regime. Instead, Mugabe was invited to speak to the 60th anniversary of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome — in spite of a European Union ban on Mugabe's travel.

So the world was treated to the spectacle of a thug — who rules over a country where half the population is undernourished — blaming Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the "two unholy men of our millennium," for the Third World's woes.

In his speech extolling Zimbabwe's land-confiscation policy, Mugabe compared Bush and Blair's partnership in the war against terrorism to that of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in World War II. . .

Also on hand at the celebration was Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez, who used the occasion to accuse the U.S. and our allies of threatening "all life on the planet." Chavez praised Mugabe's policies, and said Venezuela was enacting similar "reforms." Mugabe and Chavez were photographed embracing happily, like the two birds of a feather they are.

On his UN-provided platform, Mugabe also:

gestured to his fellow African, FAO Director General Jacques Diouf of Senegal, saying: "I thank you for defying him. You have gone against the grain of some of Zimbabwe's enemies." . . .

At this point, Mugabe began beating his chest. "I say, small as I am, I have a soul. I have a heart. I have a conscience. And I will not allow anything that is untoward to happen to my people.

Except, of course, evicting white farmers, seizing their land, destroying the economy (70 percent unemployment), defaulting on loans, rigging elections and the constitution via bribery, demolishing city housing and businesses with bulldozers to scatter potential political opponents, and, oh yeah, rape, torture and starvation until death. The good news: Bashing Bush and Blair is a step forward--previously, Mugabe blamed the Jews.

But wait, says IBD:

There's still more to this surreal gallows humor, with black Africans the victims: the U.N.'s World Food Programme soon plans to provide rations to a third of the population of Zimbabwe, perhaps as many as 4 million in need of food. . .

The United States alone has donated nearly $300 million worth of food to Zimbabwe since 2002, and it's hard to see how a single penny of that aid did not go to waste.

Neither the UN nor the West nor Africans will intervene to stop the genocide.

Hugo Chavez also spoke and:

praised Mugabe's land reform, saying the African leader had been "demonized" and that similar reforms were being enacted in his own country.

The Venezuelan leader used his speech to rail against woes that he blamed on rich countries -- including climate change, agricultural trade barriers and debt interest payments by developing nations. He called for wealthy nations to cancel debt, or give poor countries a grace period of at least a year on the interest payments.

In July, Chavez began nationalizing private sector businesses, "136 [firms] were being examined for possible expropriation and a small number were already in the process of being taken over." Last month, Chavez started changing the language:

Broadcasting his weekly Sunday TV programme from a recently-seized farm, Mr Chavez called on ranch owners to negotiate with the government. "We are not carrying out expropriation, this belongs to the nation, to the state," he said at the Marquesena farm.

This gobbledygook fools anti-American leftists, the MSM and racial pimps. Meanwhile, ordinary Venezuelans lose their rights, their money, their property, their incentives, and their safety net. Ignored by the press, the people either suffer in poverty or, if possible, emigrate.

So what's the punch line? According to the BBC, AFP and CNN, at the UN meeting in Rome, "The verbal attacks by Chavez and Mugabe drew cheers and applause from many of the delegates." Unlike the movies, reality features dozens of monsters--all villains.

(via Publius Pundit, twice, LGF and Light Seeking Light, twice)