The Supermercado Project

Retro Rant
August, 2001

Let's celebrate the fall of Hussein with this 'cancelled due to potential legal problems' rant from a couple of years back.

5 Murderous Regimes

Iraq
Since coming to power in 1979 Saddam Hussein and his gang of madmen have killed dissidents, Kurds, Kuwaiti’s, US Soldiers, Shi’ites, Iranians, dissenting family members and anyone else they could get their hands on. Most of his original allies are now dead, more often than not on the orders of the President himself.

Achieved a record breaking 100% votes in the last Presidential election, not a great surprise considering he was the only candidate on the ballot and the voting was conducted at gun point.

China

Punished for their oppression of Tibet, crushing of dissidents with tanks and continued aggression towards Taiwan by winning the 2008 Olympic Games for Beijing.

While the IOC continually push the line that the games will open Western-style democracy to the Chinese people their leaders are currently celebrating this great coup by murdering members of harmless religious groups and executing car thieves by the thousands. Not to mention stealing American spy-planes. What bastards!

North Korea

According to the official party line President Kim Jong Il was born somewhere on the Chinese border, where - "At the time of his birth there were flashes of lightning and thunder, the iceberg in the pond on Mount Paekdu emitted a mysterious sound as it broke, and bright double rainbows rose up." This isn’t the stupidest thing you’ll hear from a man whose refusal to deal with western democracy or Chinese dicatatorship has plunged his country into one of the world’s worst food shortages. Designated to succeed his father, who was equally nutty but had far less impressive hair, in 1980 but didn’t ascend to the top job until 1997, three years after Kim Il Sung’s death.

Zimbabwe

The up and coming stars of international dictatorship. President Mugabe has oppressed gays, rigged elections, killed his political opponents and given so-called 'war veterans' the green light to occupy and take over white owner farms. Still treated like royalty by dozens of the insignificant countries that make up the Commonwealth.

Phillip Morris

No, we didn’t say that - really.