Rank: Member Joined: 9/23/2011 Posts: 175 Location: Nairobi
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bigbossman wrote:funnyguy wrote:I am a scared Kenyan. Recent arguments and counter-arguments on Wazua remind me of the heated 'discussions' on Stockskenya circa 2007. I hope history won't repeat itself come 2013.
Please, I beg us to remember that Ruto, Raila, Kenyatta. . .the whole lot of the political class would want us to believe that they do what they do for YOUR good as a Kalenjin, Luo, Kikuyu. . . We often forget that they have one common goal that unites them all and that goal is not necessarily your well-being. Their goal is to obtain and maintain POWER to protect THEIR financial and social interests. But I stand to be corrected. I personally believe that you and I are just pawns in this intricate game called politics. Most of these guys are multi-millionaires (in USD) with thousands of acres of land and flourishing business interests. When was the last time you heard any of them offering up land to the thousands that are homeless? Food and shelter for the starving Kenyans? How many have actually made any meaningful and sustainable contributions to their own communities out of their own personal initiatives? What does any political party in Kenya currently stand for? Or do they only "stand for" what politician X says? Which parties can be considered liberal or conservative? Or does a 'conservative' party denote a party that only has membership from one community while a 'liberal' party draws membership from MPESA agents' records?
By all means, let us participate in the political process but let us do that soberly. At the end of the day, we'll only have two distinctions; the have's and the have-nots. . .no tribe. Many are keen to condemn Ocampo and the ICC, but what alternative have we offered as a vehicle for justice to the thousands victims of injustice? Here's a quick quiz; how many perpetrators of grand corruption have been brought to book in Kenya? Nevertheless, we are quick to shout 'Neo-colonialism' at the top of our voices yet we've allowed ourselves to be 'governed' by foreigners. We passed a constitution that assimilates International Laws and Treaties into our justice system, yet we are quick to fault the ICC process. I guess we're only human, we want to have our cake and eat it too. Yes, we are weak enough to be part of some international treaty that's shoved down our throats by the jungu's in the pretext that it's a noble international cause and we are this from a disadvantaged position. We are also foolish enough to imagine the jungu's aims are for a better world since they are part of this treaties but we forget that when it comes to worse, the laws will only be fit for fixing the Africans and the rest who are like them. They never intended the laws to apply to them(the jungu's) and being part of the treaties is just a charade: their real intention was to fix the lesser mortals in this world. We should start believing in ourselves. That way we would be able to deal with cases of crimes against humanity and the IDP problem ourselves. Or better still-we can believe in ourselves to a point that we are at the same standing as the West. That way the ICC can never be used to tame us and it would work to ensure justice across the board.
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