It was the latest incident in a tumultuous campaign season in which Mr. Tsvangirai has been repeatedly detained, his party's chief strategist jailed on treason charges that many people consider bogus, and rampant state-sponsored violence has left at least 85 opposition supporters dead and thousands injured, according to tallies by doctors treating the victims.
But add in relentless media hostility, rampant Islamophobia, state surveillance and harassment of Muslim communities, and such alienation can only spread.
RAF jets were unleashed above Iraq on Saturday as Britain threw its military might behind a US-led air war against the rampant Islamic State (Isis) terror group.
But the changes could go in the other direction: back to Chernomyrdin-style governance, with (even more) rampant corruption, state meddling and red-hot printing presses at the central bank.
Set in an Orwellian future where prospective criminals are tracked by a rampant police state, Minority Report is based on a Phillip K Dick short story and stars Tom Cruise.
When corruption is so rampant, the state becomes an integral part of the problem.
"The few rules that did exist were not followed, and questionable spending was rampant," said state Controlller John Chiang.
During the following controversial election in November, passions rose high, and violence mixed with fraud were rampant; the state of affairs in New Orleans was becoming out of control.
While seeking a way to combat the Didact, Cortana reveals that she is becoming rampant, a state in AIs when their knowledge base becomes too large and they gradually go insane.
Their cause is soon revealed: Cortana's operation beyond her seven-year lifespan and her interaction with the Halo installations and the Flood have caused her to become Rampant, a state of over-knowledge that makes AIs 'think' themselves to death.
