Comrade Mugabe rewrites the Constitution

The Washington Times reports on modern day Stalinism:

Dancing and cheering, lawmakers approved sweeping constitutional changes yesterday that prominent lawyers have called the greatest challenge yet to Zimbabwean civil liberties.
Ruling-party representatives erupted into celebration after parliament voted 103-29 to endorse the constitutional overhaul that sharply restricts private-property rights and allows the government to deny passports to its critics. The 22-clause Constitutional Amendment Bill now goes to President Robert Mugabe to sign into law.
The slate of amendments, the 17th since independence from Britain in 1980, strips landowners of their right to appeal expropriation and declares that all real estate is now on a 99-year lease from the government.

As Lew Rockwell says freedom is the absence of government.