Evan Mawarire meeting Blinken: Impetus for the Patriotic Act!
Nevanji Munyaradzi Chiondegwa
The granting of too many freedoms and liberalisation of almost everything by the Second Republic has led people to think now they can even roast mealies at No 1 Chancellor Avenue or maybe at the doors of Parliament.
Freedom without responsibility is dangerous and unfortunately we have seen the freedoms being abused left, right and centre, with people even engaging foreign governments to lobby for all sorts of things against Harare.
It all started with Nelson Chamisa, now the leader of some yellow-wearing cult traversing Europe to call for tightening of measures, blockades and embargoes against Zimbabwe for personal agrindisement as he openly boasted of “Kusunga one kusunga dozen” a language used by draught/checkers players meaning they have their opponents’ backs against the wall.
Tendai Biti and Chamisa had also travelled to meet with The Senate Committee for Foreign Relations in the USA where they lobbied for an extension of sanctions on Zimbabwe.
We can travel further back to the late Morgan Tsvangirai also having made a similar journey to same committee for similar purposes.
The latest to make such a journey to trash Zimbabwe with foreign powers especially the United States of America, is the so-called Pastor Evan Mawarire who was so detached from OUR NATIONAL FLAG that he simply called it “this flag” and started a movement which like in the days of Theudas in the Bible drew some followers but just like the Theudas movement got scattered the moment Evan Mawarire got to ‘eat’.
Talking of Evan Mawarire, he has now reached that level self actualisation level of puppetry.
He recently met with United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken. According to Mawarire himself, he “Met with US Secretary of State Blinken today. Highlighted suppression of freedom in Zimbabwe. Discussed draconian laws-PVO and Patriotic Bill, arrest of Job Sikhala and others, abuse of opposition, journalists like Hopewell Chin’ono and others.Spoke about my work at Renew Democracy, more to follow”
Well, is Evan Mawarire aware that the US says it is Zimbabwe’s ADVERSARY besides the FACT that the US has placed Zimbabwe under an array of Unilateral Coercive Measures otherwise simply called sanctions?
Is he aware that the Executive Orders used to enact these unilateral coercive measures is similar to those used to declare wwar on foreign nations by the American Presidents?
Given the fact that is was Secretary Blinken who openly called Zimbabwe an adversary, could Mawarire’s meeting with Blinken not be construed as aiding and abetting OUR ADVERSARY or enemy State?
As a nation, we continue allowing citizens to go and trash our country without punishment yet the countries they go to trash our nations in would not tolerate their citizens doing the same with our country.
Firstly, let me remind Evan Maawarire who calls The PVO law draconian that the Americans have an Act of Congress or law that is called:The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA.
The Act says, “The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) was enacted in 1938. FARA is a disclosure statute that requires persons acting as agents of foreign principals in a political or quasi-political capacity to make periodic public disclosure of their relationship with the foreign principal, as well as activities, receipts and disbursements in support of those activities.
Disclosure of the required information facilitates evaluation by the government and the American people of the statements and activities of such persons in light of their function as foreign agents. The FARA Registration Unit of the Counter-intelligence and Export Control Section (CES) in the National Security Division (NSD) is responsible for the administration and enforcement of the Act.”
This law has been in existence in America for 84 years. It is 42 years older than Zimbabwe. In fact, before Zimbabwe was even fully settled by white people, FARA, an equivalent of the PVO that Mawarire calls draconian while talking to the No. 1 American diplomat, had been in existence. The USA had long seen the dangers of Private Voluntary Organisations and required that they fully disclose their information and funding.
In fact, their intelligence security or CIA, then OSS oversaw the execution of FARA. Blinken must have laughed his lungs out as Mawarire had walked out.
Now I will go to the Patriotic Bill!
Mawarire must look up what is called The Logan Act! It is another American Law passed by America in, wait for it, 1799! The Americans are like 223 years ahead of us in that department.
Before even Mzilikazi formed a nation or led the Khumalo, before Shaka, the son of Senzangakhona and Nandi moulded the Zulu Nation, before Charwe, the woman we now know as Mbuya Nehanda was even born, there was the Logan Act.
Fifty four years before a man named Cecil John Rhodes, who would later form Rhodesia which became Zimbabwe was born, the American Congress had already enacted a law which prohibited citizens engaging foreign governments who are hostile to America.
The Logan Act says, “Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.”
So my question to Evan Mawarire is: Is he aware that under American Law, he was committing treason? Is he aware that under British law, his engaging of Blinken goes in the name of the UK without due authority, then:— in peacetime he would be charged with various (or several) offences for fraud, misrepresentation, deception, etc, by the Director of Public Prosecutions in consultation with the Attorney-General and in wartime( which technically we are with the USA) he would have been charged with the Treason Act 1351 (25 Edw 3 st. 5 c. 2) being made applicable anyway by the Director of Public Prosecutions in consultation with the Attorney-General, who will consult with the Prime Minister?
Is Evan Mawarire aware that on 21 March the USA Department of Justice asked Congress for the ability to ask the Chief Justice to detain people indefinitely without trial during emergencies and also to lift the statute of limitation for criminal offences?
Has he head of Yaser Hamdi and Jose Padilla who were detained without any trial and for over two years without any legal counsel under the guise of being labelled ‘enemy combatants’?
I do not know where he was in between September 11 2001 and 2011 when USA was basically kidnapping foreigners and citizens and holding them in detention centres and subjecting them to the most horrendous of torture!
I am not sure which Zimbabwean he represents nor if he told Secretary Blinken that Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole were not just arrested for being members of the opposition but for organising violence that led to damage and loss of property in Nyatsime.
I do not know whether he told Blinken of the loss to property that occurred during the violent insurrection-like actions organised by the two. Maybe he should ask Sec.
Blinken what the USA does to people who perpetuate acts of terror in the USA. Maybe he should ask what the law on bail for repeat offenders in the USA is.
I do not know what other things he speaks of but he should be aware that if one finds a law unjust, they must go to the Constitutional Court to challenge the law not violate it willy-nilly!
Meanwhile is he aware that him discussing anything with sanctions renewers and extenders knowing his family is a safe from the effects is treachery of the highest order?
Is he aware that it is treasonous to fight against the progress of Zimbabwe? Is he aware that had he been American talking as he had done to Fredrick Shava, Treason, he would have had to debrief in America’s equivalent of Chikurubi Maximum Prison or worse?
PLEASE PARLIAMENT OF ZIMBABWE, WHAT OTHER REASON DO YOU NEED TO EXPEDITE THE PASSAGE OF THE PATRIOTIC ACT THAN EVAN MAWARIRE MEETING SECRETARY BLINKEN??
We need the Patriotic Act NOW!
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