They say even death cannot cure idiocy . Why do Kenyans like lying to themselves? Are we just hopelessly idiotic? Picketing, Strikes, demonstrations or whatever you want to call it, is actually guaranteed in the "new"constitution.
Whatever Cord is doing at the moment is none of the above.
How many times have teachers held demos around the country for better pay?
How many times have nurses and doctors held strikes and picketed for better pay and better working conditions.
How many times have rights groups held demos over various human rights issues. The list is endless. How many of such have ended with scenes like we are witnessing? Few and far apart if any.

Is is more than obvious the demonstrations have nothing to do with picketing or whatever nice name you want to call it. Its plain violence being meted out on innocent Kenyans. Then we act all surprised and start taking sides on who is right and who was wrong when police brutally carry out extrajudicial punishments and/or killings, when women get raped in the preceding melee, when shops are looted and so on and so forth.

The reason we have institutions and laws is so that we can abide by them no matter how aggrieved we feel whether rightly or wrongly. If tomorrow other "leaders" woke up and decided that all judges must be forcefully removed from office because of a case which they lost and uses their influence among the population then what next. Seemingly barbarism is not limited to our neanderthal ancestors. When you start putting aside the constitution to please someone so that you can be guaranteed "peace" then you are equally to blame because the cycle will forever be endless.
2007 is coming as we pretend to take moral sides instead of nicking it the bud. Anyway what do I know!