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Post by kalapapla on May 7, 2012 19:59:03 GMT 3
ARISE! OH COMBATANTS OF THE THIRD LIBERATION!This is why a foreign degree carries such weight in Kenya (even if it is only from a football college in America where brain-damaged blacks from the ghettos pretend to be literate!) Jakaswanga, This probably has little to do with the object of what you have written, which I tend to agree with, but I take great exception to your statement above. It belongs in some KKK blogsphere...
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Post by nalinali on May 7, 2012 20:45:58 GMT 3
ARISE! OH COMBATANTS OF THE THIRD LIBERATION!This is why a foreign degree carries such weight in Kenya (even if it is only from a football college in America where brain-damaged blacks from the ghettos pretend to be literate!) Jakaswanga, This probably has little to do with the object of what you have written, which I tend to agree with, but I take great exception to your statement above. It belongs in some KKK blogsphere... Jakaswanga I have to agree with Kalapapla that your statement above undercuts the sense of neat-handedness you have displayed in some of you arguments in other threads. But neat-handednnes should never be captive to a sleight that betrays a serious lack of knowledge of history (and its intellectually empowering endowment) especially when it implicates slavery and racism. It betrays a sense of chilling shallowness that can only be associated with the cardboard cast of Mwalimumkuu etc.
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Post by merlin on May 7, 2012 22:04:23 GMT 3
Jakaswanga,The world does not look that hopeless. It is your expectation of progress which darkens your world. Progress never comes without a fight or pains and we see a lot of this happening. The second liberation is not still born. If you put your ear to it you can hear the crying and clatter of fighting. Liberation is works in progress.Progress is like the growth of children; every day they look the same though growth is happening. You will become aware of their growth when you daily measure their weight and size. Progress can be slowed down though cannot be stopped and be realistic; we are leaping forward. Just curious Merlin, how do you explain the different rates of progress in different countries? I mean it is a work in progress everywhere, but others go about a similar phase in one decade whereas others need half a century for it? I got reason to be impatient! JakaswangaI have no answer for this. I can see factors who could contribute to these differences like the progress in America. The driving force could have been the immigrants from Europe and other countries. Immigrants are often people with progressive views sometimes driven out of their own countries. The same did happen to countries in Europe like the Netherlands who received many immigrants from Portugal and Huguenots from France. In countries with closed doors, windows and culture, progression goes much slower and often burst open through revolutions. So what is the migration rate in Africa, how open are the doors, windows and the culture? How open are tribes to accept people with their culture from other tribes? Progressive people often emigrate from Africa to further developed countries and become the driving force in these countries contributing to the progress of these countries. People in the Diaspora discuss with us on JUKWAA, they send money back home though they are not here to drive the progression.
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Post by jakaswanga on May 7, 2012 22:04:57 GMT 3
jakaswanga first i don't necessarily think that there is an "end time" (t2 as you call it) it may exist as a discrete event/time or it may just be something fading into oblivion over a long indeterminate time period. also the end of one time does not necessarily mark the beginning of the next phase. they may overlap and in some cases have significant gaps When we are talking historical time-frames, then indeed there can be a long indeterminate period of transition! [In pharaonic, ancient egypt, some of them count centuries!). But you have to agree that in most history books you have seen, historians are pressurized to indicate the t1..... t10s! When one says in a class, that the transition period lasted probably 200 years, it often sounds like one means nothing! So the ts are to make an otherwise abstract thing, definate --with the likely consequence of oversimplification of course. anyhow 1st liberation - as you correctly noted is that for freedom from the colonials 2nd liberation - started when patriots realised that frauds masquerading as independence and freedom fighters (whereas they were actually homeguards and collaborators) had simply stepped into the gap left by the colonials and proceeded to milk the country dry what you describe in your 3rd liberation are the continuing struggles for the patriots to contain these "executhieves" Am I right to understand you then, that the import of your reasoning is that the 2nd liberation must end with the POLITICAL defeat of the post-colonial regime of the homegaurds and collaborators? I am a bit hesitant in describing what I would mean by productive liberation and economic democratization. Which I essentially think is the logical process of the third liberation. i think the 3rd liberation should step away from liberation 1 and 2 and be a technology/economic liberation which takes kenya into competing with other world economies, showcasing technology and economic agility and/or other skills. already our athletes continue to do us proud, this is something that any other country would have invested heavily in, but guess what, we still use this as a marketing tool to get tourists to the parks (eeeiiiishhh) That agenda looks like, in summary: industrialization. This one we will have to keep returning to, because in the light of vision 2030 --(which otishotish ever ridicules with eloquent passion], the question arises if we are in anyway, as a nation, currently putting into place any of the instruments necessary. An educational carriculum [bent towards research] is an example such an instrument. anyway, my point is getting stuck in the struggles against the oligarchy does not make a case to call it 3rd liberation. even if successful its all about musical chairs, i.e replacing the colonials with homeguards, with leeches, with parasites, with patriots etc. we need to move on from there We need to move on from there! Now, tnk, that, meseems, is a real call for a real liberation!
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Post by jakaswanga on May 7, 2012 22:29:09 GMT 3
Jakaswanga, This probably has little to do with the object of what you have written, which I tend to agree with, but I take great exception to your statement above. It belongs in some KKK blogsphere... Jakaswanga I have to agree with Kalapapla that your statement above undercuts the sense of neat-handedness you have displayed in some of you arguments in other threads. But neat-handednnes should never be captive to a sleight that betrays a serious lack of knowledge of history (and its intellectually empowering endowment) especially when it implicates slavery and racism. It betrays a sense of chilling shallowness that can only be associated with the cardboard cast of Mwalimumkuu etc. nalinali, kalapapla,I have taken your points in, thought about them, and will ask you -- nyikwa jokama, to come back with considered rejoinders after reading the following powerblast! I think there should be several of those reports commissioned by the institute of the surgeon general --(and also other interested health insurance companies), which reported that a significant percentage of those college footballers, walked around with various degrees of 'brain shock', as a hazard of their profession [this is also true for ice-hockey players I surmise, but brainscans of heavyweight boxers have shown similar graphics upto 2 weeks after a long fight]. Now brain shock is already impaired judgement, and if one is repeatedly subjected to the same shock experience every week in the field, I think it is safe to talk about 'permanent' brain damage!
Now you go about having them in your class and see if their hands are steady, or all mild tremors! Our literature teacher, Omollosingh, used to call the school football team the sheep-11! He did not believe anybody with a use for his brains could try to stop a hot-shot with his head, as is usual in soccer! Ilokori rombo! He would say!
Follow up researches on the after-sports-life of some of these footballers, are not always published! But I have a rough idea from the tabloid reviews I have read.
AMERICAN CULTURAL CRITICISM: .
You will be aware of the radical artistic criticism in the USA which talks of these men as gladiators, dressed in steel cages, majorly huge blacks in violent battle for the intertainment, and enrichment of whites. Kept especially dumb in substandard education! A new york writer --I think his name could be Miller (the late), once talked of a latent homo-erotic glee amongst whitemen watching the muscular ferocity of the negroes in display, and their white wives in similar glee, but heterosexual.
This animalistic sexual objectification of the negro, is what sells american football to whites! the freedom to phantasize with the stupendous gladiatorial physic of the beasts! This intertaining ferocity can only be achieved by keeping them [blacks] in dread ghettos, from where they must be desperate and do anything --the whites want-- to escape! Intertaining us (whites) is their easiest way to the american dream!
And that we call those things they attend colleges and universities? well, you and i did not go there, did we, I think we met at Yale, and the rest of the ivy leagues! --Tinda adong adong arom gi bao man kanera!
Now I will accept any exceptions you take from that comment I made! I do not just throw sentences around, nalinali!
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Post by adongo23456 on May 7, 2012 23:45:11 GMT 3
Folks,
From the little I know, at least from experience, liberations are not events. They are processes. They actually never end. Kenya is where it is today because of so many battles big and small that Kenyans have engaged in to better their country.
One thing I know for a fact is that we would have achieved nothing if we just sat down and cried and threw our hands up in despair. That just doesn't work. It never did then and it won't now. Our battles and achievements as a nation fighting for its soul and social justice are very well documented. We have actually achieved a lot in a very short time. There is a whole lot more to be done by all of us. I see no problem with that.
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Post by mank on May 12, 2012 5:05:09 GMT 3
I could not retrace the thread where we were talking about the Provincial Administration and what Kenyans had blindly allowed the government to do about it.
As I anticipated in that thread, the President, exploiting Section 17 of the Sixth Schedule of the Transitional Clauses, has handpicked District Commissioners. In the spirit of the new constitution he's calling them County Commissioners.
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Post by jakaswanga on May 13, 2012 22:00:01 GMT 3
One of the fascinating questions about politics is always whether the masses can really be fooled. In ancient Rome, sometimes a mad emperor would get it into his head that he was a top gladiator, and feeling jealous and inadequate at the honour bestowed upon these lot of standing dead, he would insist on challenging one. But, his handlers would of course know the emperor had no chance against even a lowly gladiator, but at the same time, calling the show off would only further madden the god-man, and send him into an uncontrollable fit of court-clearing anger. So it was that the chief tactician to the court had to design a plan in which the emperor faced a reputable gladiator and won. To every deity his fantasy then! It meant the gladiator receiving a cut while in chains, and coming in the arena under the spell of a poison, a shadow of himself. The emperor would then win the fixed match to much jubilation and acclaim by the citizens, and the cynical nods of the senators!
Now the question was, who really was fooling who in these episodes!? Opinion was this was high drama where everybody knew the script and his or her part in it. Even the culprit gladiators before the poison hit, grinned a death grin at this fellow gladiators: farewell guys! my debtors please pay my hos!
Now, as we approach the next elections in Kenya, are we all in a script where we know our parts in the act? even as we aim to cheer the great elections in 2013, while we know it is all bullshit!
The candidates are kind of you know ...; the IEBC, the body meant to midwife the whole process is kind of you know ...; the transition chapter in the new constitution is well ...; the incumbent and his prefered successor and their security appointees are running a parallel state; I have quite a list of etc etc! ... things one has to overlook to be optimistic.
Are we like the cynical roman crowd entertaining themselves with their own corruption? waiting for an act of God to resolve the drama?? a deus ex machina? But in reality instinctively recognizing it wont end well?
I want to be the archetypal good general who goes for victory, but prepares for defeat just incase. So I believe the elections will be fine, but I am peparing for chaos anyhow. I have an idea I aint the only guy in town doing that!
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Post by jakaswanga on May 20, 2012 15:12:29 GMT 3
A roman politician once told his intern and protege: integrity, honesty and ethics: no one who takes them seriously will ever get rich, and that, dear kurutu, is the purpose of politics. Rome must get rich, and us senators along with her! Rome robs other peoples by war, we the senators rob the citizens by law! The purpose of law can therefore not be social justice! It would be our doom! ----A clarity of mind which disarms with her DARK 'honesty', and shows what freedom of expression really is. But in that statement too are the seeds of Rome's doom. The ingrained thwarting of social justice by a ruling class. This is a similarity I wish to draw a parallel to. In Motherland Kenya. One of the greatest problems of Kenya is the much sung corruption. It derails everything, and leads to a financial loss which is a huge % of the GDP. It is an institutionalized system by which the political elite enrich themselves and their cronies, effect a transfer of public goodies to their private fiefdoms, that is, rob the citizens. T The new constitution, attempting to fix this, had to, under public pressure, come up with an integrity clause. An integrity clause is an attempt by citizens to curtail the excesses of their cannibalistic ruling class. It is an attempt to [RE} introduce ethics, to introduce manners and decency into a caste of the amoral. A peaceful attempt. {though peace is not the only historical option by which mandatory changes are effected in society]. But now take a look at this proposal by Gachoka MP Mutava Musyimi, and guaranteed to sail through. www.nation.co.ke/News/politics/MPs+plot+to+change+law+on+party+hopping+/-/1064/1409424/-/642enl/-/index.htmlQUOTE DN: In his proposal that is being fine-tuned by Parliament’s legal team, Mr Musyimi is pushing for the suspension of sub-sections 4, 5 and 7 of Section 14 of the Political Parties Act that regulate membership of parties. The sections say that members of a political party will lose their membership – and by extension their seats – if they form, join or participate in the formation of another party. [END QUOTE] The POLItICAL PARTIES ACT, is an attempt to bring some hygiene into the political behaviour of MPigs. Note that Jaramogi Odinga, Bildag Kaggia, Kungu Karumba, had this hygienic level in the 60s, and of late, only Raila has been of that level. Now parliament is set to TOTALLY REVERSE the constitutional gain which would have embedded this morality into the body politic of the land. They are set to steal the fire from the thunderbolt. To restore IMPUNITY, back to the old, and KILL the NEW gain within the first year of her promulgation. Oloo Jukwaa --[what will we do when the other Oloo joins Jukwaa and insists on the handle OO? ;D]-- talked of elite pacting. Wanjiku thought to ban it. The pacters hit back. The bill is guaranteed cross house majority support. Let us note who votes for this amendment, and seek to bar them from holding public office, because they would have shown themselves incapable of being defenders of the constitution they swore to uphold. We can also hold all corrective options open naturally.
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 12, 2013 23:22:40 GMT 3
Willy Mutunga has been billed as the moral pillar of rejuvenation in the once rotten judiciary. His mandate is reform, and a top watchdog, or guardian-angel over the new constitution, and its spirit if any. Now, I do not see him resigning in the near future, so I work from the premise it is him who shall swear in Uhuruto. I call that eating dung. Mutunga must prepare to eat dung. Metaphorically or not.
Now eating dung is not such a disaster in the rule. Moi ate a lot of dung under Kenyatta Senior; Kibaki ate a lot of dung under Arap Moi, and all soldiered on to become multi-term presidents of the republic of Kenya. Therefore as Willy Mutunga gears up to savor Uhuruto's dung in a public show of ritual humiliation scripted by the Kenyan electorate, it could be the start of a political career, all the way later to a Minister of Justice, MoJ.
The results of this election are in my opinion a game-changer. And a mentality changer too. Ordinary Kenyans have smoked out their elite on their hypocrisy. The so-called most modernist constitution in Africa, the gem, or wonder of the continent, with its integrity clause et al, meant usher only the saints ;D to top jobs, will further be promulgated by ICC indictees. And the man who shall swear them in, is none other than the renowned scholar of reform and modern jurisprudence, he who was vetted to mid-wife a new era of civilisation. Anointed to beget a good sleek kingdom of integrity, responsibility and a clean judiciary, not to mention politics! But His first great act of public performance will be to swear in ICC indictees... [forget the land case of Ruto for the moment].
Integrity! what integrity, fumes the Kenyan voter. It is the same old sh!t and we know it. No pretense. No room to lie.
Because Mutunga can not swear in ICC indictees and still claim he knows the meaning of integrity, and is its custodian, his other option would be to resign rather than officiate the freak-show, or to invoke conscience-driven abstention's, which would effectively sack him, for activism: So he has to eat dung. The body language will be great as he swears them in. The total victory of impunity over the new constitution. Mutunga will just be another dog on a chain, the chain of power, and not the last of the Mohicans.
And he has said his court is ready for the CORD petition? with lawyers like Orengo? the same fellows who were the architects of the rigging in the ODM primaries? or those ones do not count in law? coz primary riggings are too unimportant to be considered by the mighty mind of the CJ and his reformed judiciary?
To be continued.
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Post by b6k on Mar 13, 2013 1:37:07 GMT 3
Hehehehe. Jakaswanga, you incorrigible rogue, you tell it like it is. Allow me to share a poem (actually lyrics of a song) by The Who....
"We'll be fighting in the streets With our children at our feet And the morals that they worship will be gone And the men who spurred us on Sit in judgment of all wrong They decide and the shotgun sings the song
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution Take a bow for the new revolution Smile and grin at the change all around me Pick up my guitar and play Just like yesterday And I'll get on my knees and pray We don't get fooled again Don't get fooled again
Change it had to come We knew it all along We were liberated from the fall that's all But the world looks just the same And history ain't changed 'Cause the banners, they all flown in the last war
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution Take a bow for the new revolution Smile and grin at the change all around me Pick up my guitar and play Just like yesterday And I'll get on my knees and pray We don't get fooled again No, no!
I'll move myself and my family aside If we happen to be left half alive I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky For I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?
There's nothing in the street Looks any different to me And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye And the parting on the left Is now the parting on the right And the beards have all grown longer overnight
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution Take a bow for the new revolution Smile and grin at the change all around me Pick up my guitar and play Just like yesterday Then I'll get on my knees and pray We don't get fooled again Don't get fooled again No, no!
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Meet the new boss Same as the old boss"
So Jakaswanga, for the idealists amongst us, let us brace ourselves for the third liberation. For the realists, status quo will always rule.....
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 17, 2013 13:29:48 GMT 3
THE OTHER COUP: THE EMERGENCE OF UHURU KENYATTA AS A NEW DAWN IN MOUNT KENYA.
THE OLD GIKUYU OLIGARCHS SENT INTO RETIREMENT: A NEW GENERATION RALLIED BEHIND UHURU KENYATTA EMERGES
Critically speaking, ideologically speaking, I think there is now a concurrence that the seizure of the state by Uhuruto, even before we argue the nature of the last elections, is a return of the state to the monopoly of the genuine Moi orphans. They are a conservative Old Capital group, and aristocratic, in the sense that they reach back to the primitive accumulation of Jomo Kenyatta. But their political wit, and no-nonsense game plan, that has allowed them to flat foot would-be progressive alliance, [before we argue the fakeness of CORD as such], was established in their recruitment of a professionally very competent class of young technocrats to their cause, and let them do the things they do best. Aka digital age.
The stalemate and inertia of the Raila-Kibaki led GCG with the temporary euphoria with the new constitution, is now broken. The situation is clear. There is no nusu-mkate. There is no doubt where state power now lies. It is there for all to see except the blind.
Elsewhere, we saw that this hardened breed of usurpers had the necessary ideological bravery to instruct Uhuru Kenyatta three important tenets.
1. Without risk, no life. They say as an ICC indictee your goose is cooked. Well, lets us go and cook the ICC' goose instead. And dare the West do their worst. Bravado and bluff poker. But you do not play, you do not win. And you play, you don't always need loose. 2. A Kikuyu succeed Kibaki, depending on his running mate and game. Let us try Raila first ;D, on fail, let us work out A WINNING NUMBERS COALITION, AND A DEAFENING TURN-OUT %tage. 3. How much money to you have? so that we can always buy, if not those we need to buy, then always the best we need in any faculty.
In the above three summaries, I have sketched as 'radical' a [mentality] transformation as can happen within a most conservative wing of comprador bourgeoisie. It is a hint at rebellion, a fight for more space from their historical bosses in the West, who continue to hold them in a suffocating embrace, even as the world widens elsewhere, with glaring new opportunities, and allies. Historically, this iron grip has seen our nyaparas traditionally safeguard the Geo-political interests of the West, on whose behalf they have always run Kenya as a dictatorial, vassal state, abusing her people by exploitation, in exchange for tremendous personal financial rewards, and the necessary political and para-state [international] commercial patronage. [So Kenya became this economic powerhouse so to speak, the pride of Afrika!]
Instinctively then, this rebellion by minds well-versed with the West and who understand her current historical Achilles heel --historical vulnerability, could be sold locally as an anti-imperialist stand. In the beginning a very high risk indeed, a gimmick, because the ICC was [at above 60%] immensely popular amongst ordinary Kenyans across the divide, but in the long run, in tune with continent wide feelings.
The intimations of this petit rebellion led by adolescent think-tanks ---that Uhuru must run and was pre-eminent amongst his peers, let the sanctions come if he wins, we dare the West to do their worst,--- was of course to the aging oligarchical 'stable low-risk safe pair-of-hands' around Kibaki, a perfect nightmare scenario. Young reckless Uhuru the son of Jomo was plotting to spoil all the work painstakingly done. The West could reduce them to paupers, and hunted global residues. The young Gikuyu rogue had to be stopped from this foolish madness. Old wisdom told.
And indeed he was stopped. Temporarily. But the Muthamaki dynamic had already taken its own legend. The son of the Jomo who fought for Independence, now facing the same fate as his father for standing up for his people: once more the White bloody man comes calling for a son from the same tree, may be at the behest of the damn Luo Raila.
His his fellow princelings, inheritors to Kenyatta-I dynasties, possesed of a new understanding of the new world, felt this was a moment to come out on their own, have their own generational coup, throw off their aging dads, and ascend in their own right to the pinnacle. Tough, young, mean, ruthless and ambitious in their own right. No longer daddies's boys. But their own men. Coming of age.
Famoulsy Uhuru lost his nerve ;D, but was immediately re-steeled and re-styled. Kicked back to historical mission. I doubt he will dare loose his nerve again and earn permanently Kibaki's earlier title, General ....
Mudavadi the national laughing stock the safest bet? really? Is it not so, that for Kenyans below a certain age, Mudavadi is a contemptible, gutless politician. Gone. A no sell, except as somebody's sewer-lid. A bandage for a scratch. The role UK now has assigned him, with his cooperation deal for the new parliament.
An opponent of Uhuru myself, I have nevertheless appreciated his use of technically very skilled people in his personal crusade, whether ICC or Presidency. [When it comes to Wanjiku's crusade, in office, the son of Jomo suffers a mental stroke and employs only minions and simpletons, like those who repeatedly make ksh.10 bn errors in accounting books at the treasury. This un-unified mind-set when handling public affairs will fail his political career. In the sense of just being the latest tropical gangster to occupy an Ikulu in Sub-Sahara]
It would appear the EU mission in Nairobi, always a moral watchdog, did not know what hit them this time. Could they explain when it was the last time the EU took public issue with the Americans torture chamber Guantanamo? Were they ready to discuss the indictment or not of Tony Blair publicly? ... No? then they would be shutting up about Uhuru Kenyatta. Just like that Johny Carson who issues threats after being fed drink by Raila's kin in the USA. While the USA is no signatory to that ICC court.
'If you Europeans do not treat us with the respect and discretionary silence, as in your deference to Americans, then you leave us no choice but to drive home your unacceptable hypocrisy in public. You will be taking your patronage elsewhere.'
And there they sat, the esteemed white ambassadors from Europe. What a new World! When Prime Minister designate Patrick Lumumba asserted Congolese dignity, and decried white patronage in the presence of the Belgian King in Kinshasha in the early sixties, it was his death warrant he was signing. 50 years later, the son of Jomo echoes Lumumba, even if he is from the other side of the political divide, and the white ambassadors do not walk out immediately, fuming no ni-ggah gives them a dress-down.
This psychological turning of tables played well to a gallery of African nationalism. Both local and external. Ready made all the way from Egypt --where NEW secretary of state John Kerry was welcomed with cow dung and fecal missiles; Nigeria, where shocked bloggers said shiiiiiiiiieeeeet, a Kenyan with balls, amazing; to South Africa, whose president Jaob Zuma, still smarting from a humiliation during his trip to negotiate a ceasefire in Libya [NATO allegedly bombed Tripoli when Zuma was still at the airport there!!], put his thumbs up on the double.
And so the son of Jomo straddles the limelight, believing his own destiny is set. But it is a polarised country, nervous and volatile, and his victory is pinned thin, therefore he enters a crown of thorns, and without a radical economic transformation program, he will be a nothing president even if he completes his tenure.
The right wing conservative, radical economic program of rejuvenation is, historically, fascist --totalitarian. But does the job of mopping up excess labour that is confined by standard capitalism to rot in inhuman subsistence in reserves [ghetos, favellas]. This radical thesis, is the enduring charm of Mussolini in Italy. The nation is mobilised to the last cripple. Everybody doing something planned to build the country, which is more or less transformed into a labour concentration camp: ---unemployed youth mobilised, chiseling out railway tunnels by hand-tools through mountains, cutting out rocks from mountains for houses, transporting those rocks by donkey or on head like African women fetching water, swaggering kokoto [aggregate] wheelbarrow after wheelbarrow in a 9-hour work-day organised like a school time-table, transporting the kokoto to construction sites eg dams, clearing forests for roads with machetes .... it is a war-like mobilisation. And the women are dedicated to growing food large scale plantations, processing, and delivering it. For, if you mobilise 10 million young men to do 9 hour day heavy labour everyday years on end, if you want them to stay healthy and not cause a riot because of conditions, you will be feeding them like the American army feeds her marines. With a great health-care system as pudding. Because deadly accidents will be happening everyday.
Any other economic theory which a conservative petit bourgeoisie can come up with that can handle a 40% unemployment rate amongst young men in 4 years, I will be glad to know of. And its historical precedent if any.
But relax: Uhuru Kenyatta and his band of PR-savvy classmates are just that. New Kids. They do not have the ideological grit to run a fascist economic theory that mobilises 12 million school drop outs into trebling national productivity. That would be revolution. And you never know who a revolution might consume! You are conservative.
I will be back.
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Post by furaha on Mar 17, 2013 21:55:14 GMT 3
THE OTHER COUP: THE EMERGENCE OF UHURU KENYATTA AS A NEW DAWN IN MOUNT KENYA. THE OLD GIKUYU OLIGARCHS SENT INTO RETIREMENT: A NEW GENERATION RALLIED BEHIND UHURU KENYATTA EMERGES In the above three summaries, I have sketched as 'radical' a [mentality] transformation as can happen within a most conservative wing of comprador bourgeoisie. It is a hint at rebellion, a fight for more space from their historical bosses in the West, who continue to hold them in a suffocating embrace, even as the world widens elsewhere, with glaring new opportunities, and allies. Historically, this iron grip has seen our nyaparas traditionally safeguard the Geo-political interests of the West, on whose behalf they have always run Kenya as a dictatorial, vassal state, abusing her people by exploitation, in exchange for tremendous personal financial rewards, and the necessary political and para-state [international] commercial patronage. [So Kenya became this economic powerhouse so to speak, the pride of Afrika!] The intimations of this petit rebellion led by adolescent think-tanks ---that Uhuru must run and was pre-eminent amongst his peers, let the sanctions come if he wins, we dare the West to do their worst,--- was of course to the aging oligarchical 'stable low-risk safe pair-of-hands' around Kibaki, a perfect nightmare scenario. t the behest of the damn Luo Raila. His his fellow princelings, inheritors to Kenyatta-I dynasties, possesed of a new understanding of the new world, felt this was a moment to come out on their own, have their own generational coup, throw off their aging dads, and ascend in their own right to the pinnacle. Tough, young, mean, ruthless and ambitious in their own right. No longer daddies's boys. But their own men. An opponent of Uhuru myself, I have nevertheless appreciated his use of technically very skilled people in his personal crusade, whether ICC or Presidency. And so the son of Jomo straddles the limelight, believing his own destiny is set. But it is a polarised country, nervous and volatile, and his victory is pinned thin, therefore he enters a crown of thorns, and without a radical economic transformation program, he will be a nothing president even if he completes his tenure. Jakaswanga, Thanks for that interesting perspective. Two points: 1. I guess over the next few weeks we may get more hints about whether or not the 'princelings' as you call them or the members of the "petit rebellion led by adolescent think-tanks" will make their way into the centre of power. I am not yet sure the reign of the elder Rasputins behind the throne is over. You see, I think that perhaps Uhuru and some others hold each other in a deadly embrace. Even if Uhuru's case is dropped or dismissed by the ICC, crimes were committed. That is a fact that will not merely go away. And both Uhuru and the powers behind the throne know who did what, who attended those infamous State House meetings and so on. Two giants are dead, Michuki and Karume. Saitoti, who was not a giant but nevertheless a useful tool, has also returned to his maker. But there are others who were in key positions in late 2007 and early 2008. Maybe some can be sidelined by Uhuru but not all. They all have to band together and they will probably be reluctant to lose sight of each other. A deadly embrace? So will the king be able to surround himself with only princelings? Let's wait and see. I don't think the old guard will sail into retirement soon. Not yet. 2. The loathed West... I wish it were as easy as people sometimes think. As the world becomes smaller, economic, trade and business practices become more and more aligned. Predictability, standardization and effective legal redress are far more important now than they were ten years ago. The same applies to political stability. From 1992 onwards every election year has been accompanied by a decline in economic growth. And yes, it always bounces back but more often than not that takes a lot of time and meanwhile people suffer. Of course the Chinese, the Arab sovereign wealth funds and a few others are loaded with money. But their governments are not in business for purposes of charity. Increasingly they also want stable political conditions and predictability. Qatar has bought up huge chunks of property in Paris and London, fairly stable places they seem to think. Investment in Africa still largely focuses on the extractive industries and not on manufacturing which is really key for sustained growth, employment and development. The West itself, still the biggest economic power, does not control its private sector companies. These companies make their own investment decisions. And as far as Kenya is concerned they have been sitting on the fence, waiting what the elections will bring. The election of ICC indictees appears to worry them. It would be strange if it did not. After all, they look at their bottom line and there may have better opportunities elsewhere. Lesson: close yourself off from any part of the world at your peril, be it east, west, north or south. Furaha
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Post by mank on Mar 18, 2013 0:18:07 GMT 3
Jakaswanga,
Thanks for that interesting perspective. Two points:
.... Even if Uhuru's case is dropped or dismissed by the ICC, crimes were committed. That is a fact that will not merely go away. And both Uhuru and the powers behind the throne know who did what, who attended those infamous State House meetings and so on. .... Furaha... and whether the infamous meetings were plotting violence. The only witness who alleged such plotting turns out not to have been who he alleged be, and, also, turns out not to have been anywhere close to the meeting venue to attend as alleged. So there is a lot publicized about those meetings that should not be taken as facts - were there meetings indeed, and if so, what about?
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Post by furaha on Mar 18, 2013 1:03:22 GMT 3
Jakaswanga,
Thanks for that interesting perspective. Two points:
.... Even if Uhuru's case is dropped or dismissed by the ICC, crimes were committed. That is a fact that will not merely go away. And both Uhuru and the powers behind the throne know who did what, who attended those infamous State House meetings and so on. .... Furaha... and whether the infamous meetings were plotting violence. The only witness who alleged such plotting turns out not to have been who he alleged be, and, also, turns out not to have been anywhere close to the meeting venue to attend as alleged. So there is a lot publicized about those meetings that should not be taken as facts - were there meetings indeed, and if so, what about? Good. You got the point. No, we do not know exactly what happened but something did happen and it resulted in heinous crimes, the planning of which required quite a number of people. And it is these people I was referring to. They know who they are and they will have to be able to count on each other's loyalty to the group to keep secrets secret. That is why they will band together.
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Post by OtishOtish on Mar 18, 2013 4:11:08 GMT 3
Jakaswanga, Thanks for that interesting perspective. Two points: 1. I guess over the next few weeks we may get more hints about whether or not the 'princelings' as you call them or the members of the "petit rebellion led by adolescent think-tanks" will make their way into the centre of power. I am not yet sure the reign of the elder Rasputins behind the throne is over. You see, I think that perhaps Uhuru and some others hold each other in a deadly embrace. Even if Uhuru's case is dropped or dismissed by the ICC, crimes were committed. That is a fact that will not merely go away. And both Uhuru and the powers behind the throne know who did what, who attended those infamous State House meetings and so on. Two giants are dead, Michuki and Karume. Saitoti, who was not a giant but nevertheless a useful tool, has also returned to his maker. But there are others who were in key positions in late 2007 and early 2008. Maybe some can be sidelined by Uhuru but not all. They all have to band together and they will probably be reluctant to lose sight of each other. A deadly embrace? So will the king be able to surround himself with only princelings? Let's wait and see. I don't think the old guard will sail into retirement soon. Not yet. 2. The loathed West... I wish it were as easy as people sometimes think. As the world becomes smaller, economic, trade and business practices become more and more aligned. Predictability, standardization and effective legal redress are far more important now than they were ten years ago. The same applies to political stability. From 1992 onwards every election year has been accompanied by a decline in economic growth. And yes, it always bounces back but more often than not that takes a lot of time and meanwhile people suffer. Of course the Chinese, the Arab sovereign wealth funds and a few others are loaded with money. But their governments are not in business for purposes of charity. Increasingly they also want stable political conditions and predictability. Qatar has bought up huge chunks of property in Paris and London, fairly stable places they seem to think. Investment in Africa still largely focuses on the extractive industries and not on manufacturing which is really key for sustained growth, employment and development. The West itself, still the biggest economic power, does not control its private sector companies. These companies make their own investment decisions. And as far as Kenya is concerned they have been sitting on the fence, waiting what the elections will bring. The election of ICC indictees appears to worry them. It would be strange if it did not. After all, they look at their bottom line and there may have better opportunities elsewhere. Lesson: close yourself off from any part of the world at your peril, be it east, west, north or south. Furaha By way of legal disclaimer: In some places if you wish to renounce your citizenship, you must show up at the local embassy or whatever, with at least two witnesses to swear that you are of sound mind, fill in a bunch of forms, etc. And then that's it. Kenya doesn't bother with any of that. I have been told that all I need to do is fill in a form and send a banker's cheque for about $450. While we argue about why I should pay and as I try to raise the needed, here am I. (Jakaswanga, kindly note that I am still Kenyan, until Jukwaa holds a fundraising.) So, then .. East vs. West: No need to revisit all the details of the so-called Cold War. We had "leaders" who thought they were clever and would play the "I will just go West!"/"I will just go East!" game. In the end, they had the Cold War, we had the Hot War on their behalf, and we are still paying for it. So, where are the Toughest of Africa's Tough Ones today? The Colonel is no longer with us. But at the ICC legal arguments about Libyan law have boiled down to fine points of Italian law, because, apparently, the Colonel didn't think enough of other legal systems to make changes. Down south, Heroic Comrade Bob still rallies against the West, but his currency is Uncle Sam's US$.Jakaswanga is a historian, so he will know about the oil embargoes of the early 1970s. At the UN, we Africans gave all our votes to the Mid-East, but when they decided to fwack the world, we didn't get any slack. And that's how it's been ever since. We never see any of those petro-dollars. Not even when we have to beg for yellow maize from America. Those who believe we'll just "turn East" and all will be well need to revisit history. China replaces the old USSR. What's new? And there is another thing that we didn't have with the USSR: China is leading the destruction of our wildlife. I was in Beijing and Shanghai about two months ago, and I was completely floored by what China is doing to our wildlife. (But who cares about a bunch of wild animals when "our man must get to State House" and "it's our turn to eat".) The whole business deserves a lengthy article that I hope to do in the next month or so. In the meantime, having borrowed money from all over the place to pay for cheap Chinese labour---roads etc.---some of us think we are getting something from China. In the "first war" between East and West, which war we foolishly decided to fight for them, by proxy, those who lost in Africa are the ones who "turned East". What has changed since then? The West does have its hypocrisies, but there are also certain fundamental beliefs (human rights etc.) that people take seriously and increasingly try to adhere to. A few weeks ago, I decided to kill time by studying global migration patterns---who is trying to leave home, who is succeeding, etc. The answer: No. 1 is the well-educated, wealthy Chinese (for their children). Their number one reason: freedom, human rights, sensible education, enviromental awareness, etc. etc. etc. I mention all this, because I see that while the West might "extract", it will also "put in something". By contrast, the East is purely "extractive". Those who they they are clever and have some to gain in playing a West-v-East game need to revisit history. I have spent a great deal of my adult life in the East. I am always astonished when I hear about dreams of what "turning East" will supposeldy do for us. As far as I can tell, for the most part, such beliefs and corresponding behaviour on our part only confirm the very worst that they think of us. And in the end, we are the ones who will bear the cost. East v. West. Cold War Redux. And the Africans choose to be the suckers. Why?
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Post by mank on Mar 18, 2013 7:04:36 GMT 3
By way of legal disclaimer: In some places if you wish to renounce your citizenship, you must show up at the local embassy or whatever, with at least two witnesses to swear that you are of sound mind, fill in a bunch of forms, etc. And then that's it. Kenya doesn't bother with any of that. I have been told that all I need to do is fill in a form and send a banker's cheque for about $450. While we argue about why I should pay and as I try to raise the needed, here am I. .. .. What a pity! Sounds like you have no option but to remain Kenyan against your wish. If I was interested in disowning my citizenship I would actually prefer the Kenyan procedure you describe above - Just fill a form, pay a fee, and you are done. To have to drag two individuals from whatever they do all the way to an embassy for such a silly mission would be very frustrating. Just pay the $450 if you are serious about it.
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Post by podp on Mar 18, 2013 18:09:51 GMT 3
Jakaswanga,The world does not look that hopeless. It is your expectation of progress which darkens your world. Progress never comes without a fight or pains and we see a lot of this happening. The second liberation is not still born. If you put your ear to it you can hear the crying and clatter of fighting. Liberation is works in progress.We do make progress. People did come together and designed a new constitution overcoming many forces against it. It is still the biggest achievement of the last 10 years or so. Surely it looks like words on paper though there is commitment behind it. We also have to acknowledge that our society has people who can bring forward such an inspiring document. However the forces against are still here though their manoeuvring space is getting less. They still try their old gimmicks though the results getting further away of what they expect. They are running in vain to their old friends to construct a dam against the flood wave of justice coming. Justice is coming and cannot be stopped as society is globalising. The space to manipulate Justice is closing as Kenya is part of the world and although local justice can be manipulated by the Masters of Impunity (MOI) they cannot manipulate the world.We should recognise the gains we made; acknowledge them and make them visible to others. This will strengthen our conviction to fight for a better future. Elections can be won by forcing people in voting blocs and voting blocs can be made by fear though change happens when you can convince individuals - one by one - to change their habits and strive with you for this better society. So keep writing and talking to people around you and make them aware of this better society which is makeable. Progress is like the growth of children; every day they look the same though growth is happening. You will become aware of their growth when you daily measure their weight and size. Progress can be slowed down though cannot be stopped and be realistic; we are leaping forward. good hope reminds me of an old song by Steve "I Just Called To Say I Love You" No New Year's Day to celebrate No chocolate covered candy hearts to give away No first of spring No song to sing In fact here's just another ordinary day No April rain No flowers bloom No wedding Saturday within the month of June But what it is, is something true Made up of these three words that I must say to you so when we have two ICC indictees to be our PORK and deputy PORK telling us we pray for peace to get prosperity is the 2nd liberation still born? Anyway, as I was saying, we did not vote for you – some of us. I trust that you will not take it out on us, or will you? The way I understand it, you did not defeat us, we elected you. But if the thinking is that you “defeated us” then you should also let us know. This will help us to know what to make of your new tour of duty. For now, congratulations. And there are some things we expect of you. First, is that you will not discriminate against us. But if you discriminate against us, we shall also discriminate against you. You have a tall one there. You have to make all of us feel like we belong to you and that you belong to us. If you do not, we shall say, “Their government. Their President.” I am sure you don’t want that. You can begin winning us over by celebrating your forthcoming inauguration with a measure of humility, charity and restraint. Celebrate softly. Those who think, “We lost” are hurting. Some are even suspicious of you. Others are afraid of you. Win them over. For a start, you need an inclusive council. The present arrangement is depressing. Seven of the eight topmost chiefs organising your inauguration are from one ridge. Such things erode goodwill. They destroy trust, across the country. Mzee Jomo failed this test – badly kwanza. Mzee Moi did not do well, either. As for Mzee Kibaki, the test of nationhood has been a total disaster. It derogates all the other good things that he did. www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000079424&story_title=Kenya--Lessons-for-President-elect-Uhuru-Kenyatta-as-he-prepares-to-take-office
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 18, 2013 19:41:52 GMT 3
Jakaswanga,
Thanks for that interesting perspective. Two points:
.... Even if Uhuru's case is dropped or dismissed by the ICC, crimes were committed. That is a fact that will not merely go away. And both Uhuru and the powers behind the throne know who did what, who attended those infamous State House meetings and so on. .... Furaha... and whether the infamous meetings were plotting violence. The only witness who alleged such plotting turns out not to have been who he alleged be, and, also, turns out not to have been anywhere close to the meeting venue to attend as alleged. So there is a lot publicized about those meetings that should not be taken as facts - were there meetings indeed, and if so, what about?[/This is the problem when the intelligence service has been acting coy. Their data could shed a lot of light. And lay these matters to rest or speedy end. As Furaha says, Mank, crimes were committed, and it is curious not any local investigative organ, has shed light, enough to prosecute the REAL organisers and perpetrators, if otherwise. This could have expunged the name of the accused. Then the collected stories from Naivasha. My people who were victims there, maintain it was not 'their kikuyus' who set upon them --not their neighbours nor Naivashans. They were 'imported foreign kikuyus'. That indicates transported from elsewhere, organised and facilitated: by who?
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 18, 2013 19:57:57 GMT 3
2. The loathed West... I wish it were as easy as people sometimes think. As the world becomes smaller, economic, trade and business practices become more and more aligned. Predictability, standardization and effective legal redress are far more important now than they were ten years ago. The same applies to political stability. From 1992 onwards every election year has been accompanied by a decline in economic growth. And yes, it always bounces back but more often than not that takes a lot of time and meanwhile people suffer. Of course the Chinese, the Arab sovereign wealth funds and a few others are loaded with money. But their governments are not in business for purposes of charity. Increasingly they also want stable political conditions and predictability. Qatar has bought up huge chunks of property in Paris and London, fairly stable places they seem to think. Investment in Africa still largely focuses on the extractive industries and not on manufacturing which is really key for sustained growth, employment and development. Furaha Furaha,You are so very right in this particular aspect of what investment [capital] looks for. Global standardisation. I could add some more, because the London Stock Market has been looking for partners in Afrika, and the man holding the brief is a Nigerian ---no not the usual thieves, this one is a tough proven distinguished executive--- and he has been a lot in the media of late. Pumping this message with messianic determination. And he was explaining the same things you are saying. May be you work in the same office? ;D You hit the nail on the head with this: effective legal redress! Or Dispute resolutions mechanism. --Functional independent courts, and judicial system, whose arbitration warrants trust in the hearts of both litigants. And an investigative system [police] whose corruption index is acceptable. Investment money for stock markets in Africa is not really the problem he claimed. What the fear is, is these are politically volatile areas where tomorrow is a 'coin toss in the air!' [This is high risk and attracts a different kind of investor: the cowboys, short-term, and once referred to as 'locust capitalists' by Oscar Lafontein --former [SDP] Social democratic party prominent in Germany. [migratory big parasites that eat you to the bone then quit: locusts] It reminded me of a deadly moment when Mwangi, CEO equity bank, was expanding to Rwanda and went on a global TV station for an interview, probably soliciting for investors. The financial journalist, an American, looked at him wolfishly and asked: 'Paul Kagame keeps a close hand on things in that country. You think the CEO of your bank in Rwanda would defy him if their interests clashed?' They call that a trick-bottom question. And Mwangi couldn't help but reveal himself inadvertently. He hesitated for some seconds, valuable seconds which any American wanting to invest his money in Equity in Rwanda, would have thought long and deep and hard about its meaning. What kind of security would they need.
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Post by mank on Mar 18, 2013 20:47:00 GMT 3
... and whether the infamous meetings were plotting violence. The only witness who alleged such plotting turns out not to have been who he alleged be, and, also, turns out not to have been anywhere close to the meeting venue to attend as alleged. So there is a lot publicized about those meetings that should not be taken as facts - were there meetings indeed, and if so, what about? This is the problem when the intelligence service has been acting coy. Their data could shed a lot of light. And lay these matters to rest or speedy end.
As Furaha says, Mank, crimes were committed, and it is curious not any local investigative organ, has shed light, enough to prosecute the REAL organisers and perpetrators, if otherwise. This could have expunged the name of the accused.
Then the collected stories from Naivasha. My people who were victims there, maintain it was not 'their kikuyus' who set upon them --not their neighbours nor Naivashans. They were 'imported foreign kikuyus'. That indicates transported from elsewhere, organised and facilitated: by who?True! Anyone would be crazy to claim that crimes were not committed. But I find people to be crazy too, when they assume that a lying witness only gives part lies, the rest being truth. My point is you can't assume the truth includes anything a fake witness said. So investigations should be done with an open mind. I am not persuaded that any meetings at statehouse were to plot chaos, but conivers presented them as such. That's all I was saying. The agenda of any meetings at statehouse need to be investigated, not to be assumed established through the mouth of a fraud!
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Post by OtishOtish on Mar 18, 2013 21:03:29 GMT 3
As Furaha says, Mank, crimes were committed, and it is curious not any local investigative organ, has shed light, enough to prosecute the REAL organisers and perpetrators, if otherwise. This could have expunged the name of the accused? As a historian, you know how the USSR would periodically go through books and official records to "update" past events. They would even go as far as old official photographs "deleting" or "inserting" face, according to which way the winds were blowing! History was changed just like that. In Kenya, so far we know that over a thousand people were killed, tens of thousands were injured and many will be badly mutilated for the rest of their lives, women were raped in large numbers, hundreds of thousands were made homeless. With that level of crime, you'd imagine there must have been quite a few people involved. But how many has Kenya managed to deal with? It might not be long before we hear that the 2007-2008 PEV never happened. Perhaps it just a "routine tribal clash" that was blown out of proportion by pesky activists and those meddling foreigners (whom we just taught lesson by electing ICC indictees).
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 18, 2013 23:17:46 GMT 3
But I find people to be crazy too, when they assume that a lying witness only gives part lies, the rest being truth. Man-K, I think formally, when a witness is found to lie, even in ONLY 10% of his testimony, his credibility becomes rated at zero, and all his testimony is forfeited as far as that case is concerned. Because reasonable doubt now arises in all his words, and can be successfully argued. Definitely Mank! Open mind required. Otherwise we talking prejudice, preconceived notions, and pre-determined facts. A miscarriage of justice would be the result. Investigations must thus be thorough. Only problem, I and you being Kenyans, when is the last time you saw a thorough investigation in Kenya? especially when the state and her controllers is allegedly involved in murder? Case closed. Even Newman Tobiko has no open files on these things. They never happened. Mere rumours then!
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Post by OtishOtish on Mar 18, 2013 23:23:27 GMT 3
I am not persuaded that any meetings at statehouse were to plot chaos, but conivers presented them as such.! Not too long ago, some fellow said this to me: "The ICC case is bogus! How could there be a meeting at State House on 26 Nov 2007 to plan the PEV even before the elections?".My response: Here are the OTP's sumbissions. Can you show me where they claim the purpose of that meeting was to plan that?
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 30, 2013 10:40:02 GMT 3
The struggle for the future of Kenya is alive and hard. It may occasionally assume hazy, obfuscated forms that seek to remove the key decisions from Wanjiku's hand, but it always comes to the same naked thing: The state turns against Wanjiku and Wanjiku perceives it, and she then has no options but to develop and invent new, adequate means to cope and respond to her ongoing oppression. Aluta Continua. On March 4th 2013, Wanjiku and family trooped to the polling centers in numbers that un-nerve established democracies where the turn-out is usually less than 55%, unless compulsory by law. Some zeal seems to have possessed the Kenyan voter, and fired by patriotism to do civic duty or not, the citizens did their part, and after that, left the process to their elite to manage further.And, predictably, no sooner had the last Wanjiku gone home and the polls closed, than the tools of trade ----chicanery, incompetence, willful sabotage, treacherous impunity---- which are the hallmarks of the political class, start in full blaze and lead to another national gasp of near national convulsion. Mara a bug was multiplying figures, mara this was that, mara x was y and z was = t. The expensive BVR kits failed, and the digital age of the IEBC reverted not to monologue, but manual mode. Granted, the population of Kenya was only about 6 million in 1963 when, under the last colonial governor, the last smooth, non numerically controversial elections were conducted in Kenya, and infra-structure was stone-age in that period. But 2013 with its computer technology, choppers on the campaign trail, Thika super-highways, and the level of education of Kenyans, surely has no excuse other than deliberate sabotage, to explain the fiasco. --Sabotage by the class in charge of the process. Under captain Hassan Isack. Remember diaspora voting had already been abandoned as too complex to organise, though it had been factored, in the budgetary allocation. The refund to Wanjiku's purse is pending still. So once again then, with Kenyans managing their own affairs, the PRESIDENTIAL result was as inconclusive to be disputed, forcing the nation into a week of tension where peace was preached as if it was the Nyayo days: Peace love and Unity! Kenyans have a special attachment to the presidential outcome. We evidently eat our nerves over it. The new constitution was suppose to help that some. Anyway it apparently has not; so, scared sh!t-less, peace became the magic word that held the nation together during this trial. It is not a magic wand that can be waved to save the nation from implosion forever. That word peace. Institutions with the mandate to mediate the conflict in Kenya, in whatever form conflict shows its sharp edges, have continuously misfired in their competence. Parliament, under the GCG was a kraal of MPigs. Mutilating the constitution, as is much evidenced elsewhere. The IEBC, the GCG cabinet, the Courts --whether handling the vetting or the integrity clause, have been in comical mode. Not a single Solomon rising to the task. The police and army, whether in Baragoi or Garissa, revealed only the rot within themselves, and when they did us Proud in Somalia, the NATO and the USA ran the show, otherwise no doubt it would have been a Quixotic nightmare ---Like Baragoi. This weekend then, it is them courts, the Supreme Court of Kenya to be specific, that has the task of ruling on who the president is, according to the last electoral process. The Kriegler sit on the fence verdict of yonder --impossible to tell who won, isn't passing this time .This SCoK then has arrogated herself the power to determine our next President!? The court has usurped Wanjiku's historical mandate. This coup power, it appears, is vested upon this court by the constitution 2010 . But these constitutional powers, do not mandate the court to find out the truth of the process. The court only considers the evidence technically within the parameters of the law. That law has technical deadlines like the period within which evidence is tabled. ---- So if you unearth all your truths about rigging, and can prove them, but you arrive late at the court, you are time barred.TIME BARRED! Some Judge of some Court not yet emerged from the reputation of being one of the most corrupt judiciaries in the world, disbars the truth and rules on the future of the nation ---ati it is the law and the constitution! No, that is the seed of social despondency. I call it bandia court like Raila, and Uhuru Kenyatta was emotionally right when he called them some six people who think they are God. Heof course has to apologise like Raila also did with his bandia quip, but they are politicians beholden to the hypocritical protocols of their rotten politics. I on the other hand, has no motive to enjoin myself to the circus of defrauding Wanjiku. Only a few weeks ago, a bench of these courts, constituted by the mighty CJ Mutunga, returned a verdict of self-disqualification, faced with the audacious, but nationally/constitutionally necessary task, of ruling on the integrity of leading candidates. Bandia people! Now the same courts have developed balls, or brains, or legal vigour, to rule on the outcome of the election, without fear nor favour? Even as they meet respondents in the dark, and write speedy detention letters on those who spied them out! These are the courts Kibaki ignored routinely, and most famously on the issue of County secretaries. A good precedent I think. I mean if the ruling goes against UK, then with Jubilee holding majority in both houses, they just fiddle a bit with the constitution --like Githu Muigai later did to legalise Kibaki's illegal directives. I do not out-rule the verdict being an MOU. Between CORD and JUbilee Moguls in the background, this time underwritten by a vested super-power. The USA will bribe and coerce the political elite, in exchange for them abiding with the MOU ruling.Abiding with the ruling means they will collectively support state terror on any public show of dissent. That is CORD will underwrite Kimaiyo's dictatorial bans on their supporters, and if need be, JUBILEE will do the same. The political class unites to present one face to Wanjiku. The ruling class stays intact [the MOU is a share of goodies], Wanjiku kept at bay. And peace love and unity reigns, as has been all along. But, it is politics, and the conflict between oppressor and the oppressed, is a dynamic whose resolution is indeterminate in the short-run. Otherwise folks would be sleeping easy. But as it is now, the security apparatus are on their nerves. Alert and ready. They know a coup has to be enforced. POLICE BAN DEMOS www.nation.co.ke/News/politics/Police-ban-demos-ahead-of-courts-ruling/-/1064/1733860/-/ptnemv/-/index.htmlThe tension heightens. MUTUNGA will deliver his ruling in a court surrounded by police armour! Long ago we used to announce coups in radio studios ringed by yes, military armour! That armour, is the law, not what these people have been practicing in that pantomime court!
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