It is apparent that William Ruto is spoiling for war, and reasons are best known to him. When i look at Ruto clearly, and listen to him, he has changed drastically. I see a frustrated and deeply indecisive man, he is not just fighting political wars but his own personal wars that i don't want to postulate as for now. I wont go deep in my analysis, but adept naysayers can create a direct connection between the rebellion in ODM and William Ruto. Start with the initial cabinet after the grand coalition was formed, move to the Issues of Mau, then move to recent party posts distribution in ODM where Ruto was demanding the Deputy party leader's position and now the Waki report. Is it coincidence that William Ruto and Raila Odinga have disagreed on majority of issues this year? Or is Ruto still stuck with the opposition mentality?
Let us examine this Waki thing.
I have no doubts that this is a real problem , but not just to Ruto, but for all politicians across Kenya. So why is Ruto behaving as if he is the only one who is in that list? and in the first place who said Mr. Ruto was in the envelope? Granted, i agree with folks who see beyond the facade of this Waki report. William Ruto is not just panicking about the Waki report and the consequences incase he is included, he is fighting a sectarian battle of political succession and political survival. He sees he has not been rewarded effectively, yet he could be fried for something "they did for someone else". It doesnt end there. It ends with what the community stands to gain or lose after this incriminating exercise. But what does the community stand to gain or lose? I dont see anything other that what they have already lost, politically speaking.
Paradoxically, there could be more Octogenarians on the Waki report from Ruto's political front, but that has to do with individuals, not the community. Did the community kill, maim or rape? The answer is nay. So why is Ruto dragging the entire community into his battles? I Beg to differ with by old friend Kutuny who says that they "were protesting" the bungling of votes. And this is how, did the women steal the votes and does raping them bring home the course? Did the kids, count votes, or vote for that matter? Do you protest a vote by stealing and looting other people's property? Waki says that the skirmishes were planned, that alone is reason enough to make someone go to jail. The reprisals mounted in Naivasha were post planned, and someone must go to jail, and here we agree with William, two wrongs don't make a right!
So why are the politicians panicking, yet they most probably never killed, raped or maimed?
Make your own guesses, but this is my verdict: The big fish must fry, so is the small fish. Kenya must rise above petty politics and individualism and avoid rewarding criminals as Kibaki is doing. We want reconciliation, truth and justice. In this pursuit we should apply the law indiscriminately. The business of law is to reward those who keep it, and punish those who break it; and not to act sentimental through psychological understanding. This is what it means putting an end to impunity. If we shield political criminals today, we'll have no country tomorrow. Let the octogenarians fight their own battles.
Kibaki, ECK, PNU, Raila, Including all other hired goons who played a role in the skirmishes, directly or indirectly, must ask for forgiveness, and where there is sufficiently adduced evidence, let them go to jail. Where that jail will be, i dont care, how many people have suffered worse than being in jail? Again, if jail were supposed to be lenient it wouldn't be jail, finally the perfect punishment for murder is the noose. Panic or not, maybe its just time we shouldn't allow criminals become judges in their own case, or what do you think?
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Friday, November 7, 2008
Obama party includes a naked digression
By MARIA ELENA BACA, Star Tribune
Last update: November 5, 2008 - 10:45 PM
Call it naked enthusiasm. At 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, Jason Spidle, Bobby Becker and friends were celebrating Barack Obama's victory at Spidle's place in south Minneapolis. The champagne was flowing when the two made a decision they'd regret later.
"We had finished watching Obama's acceptance speech, and we were drinking champagne and cheering, and my friend Bobby and I just randomly decided we should go streaking," Spidle said. "We invited other people, but nobody took the opportunity."
So the two men, both in their mid-20s, stripped off their clothes and ran a block to 22nd and Lyndale Avenue S. From there, they turned south and headed for 24th Street, whooping and yelling, "Obama!"
They crossed the street and gave a shout-out to patrons on the patio of Leaning Tower of Pizza. 'They cheered and hollered and gave us high-fives, and we returned home to a lot of horn-honking," Spidle said.
About 100 yards from home, they were stopped by a police officer and trundled into the back seat of his squad car while he wrote up a citation.
"He'd had 'Cops' -- the show's -- producer in his car earlier that day," Spidle said, adding that it was too bad for the show that the producer had missed them, but probably good for him and Becker.
Spidle and Becker were issued citations and sent home.
"We were still whooping it up," he said. "[The officer] gave us a horn-honk, too, I think."
Now the two have to go downtown for a court date. There will be a hearing and probably a fine. What do they have to say for themselves?
"I think Barack Obama would be pleased with our excitement," Spidle said, "but maybe not with how we decided to display our excitement."
The vast majority of Minnesota Obama supporters who poured into the streets did so fully clothed, dancing and singing in the streets, honking car horns and punctuating the night with fireworks.
Around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, Somali immigrants spilled out onto Cedar Avenue in Minneapolis to began an impromptu celebration. University students and other neighborhood residents joined in. The party went on well into Wednesday.
Across the river, cheers erupted as people spilled out of the Bob Dylan concert at Northrop Auditorium. Larry Turner of St. Paul ignited the crowd with his drum beats, which echoed for blocks around campus.
A more conventional celebration was planned for Wednesday night at New Salem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, where the Rev. Jerry McAfee extended an open invitation for prayer and gospel music.
Staff writers Allie Shah, Lora Pabst and Mary Lynn Smith contributed to this report. Maria Elena Baca • 612-673-4409
Last update: November 5, 2008 - 10:45 PM
Call it naked enthusiasm. At 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, Jason Spidle, Bobby Becker and friends were celebrating Barack Obama's victory at Spidle's place in south Minneapolis. The champagne was flowing when the two made a decision they'd regret later.
"We had finished watching Obama's acceptance speech, and we were drinking champagne and cheering, and my friend Bobby and I just randomly decided we should go streaking," Spidle said. "We invited other people, but nobody took the opportunity."
So the two men, both in their mid-20s, stripped off their clothes and ran a block to 22nd and Lyndale Avenue S. From there, they turned south and headed for 24th Street, whooping and yelling, "Obama!"
They crossed the street and gave a shout-out to patrons on the patio of Leaning Tower of Pizza. 'They cheered and hollered and gave us high-fives, and we returned home to a lot of horn-honking," Spidle said.
About 100 yards from home, they were stopped by a police officer and trundled into the back seat of his squad car while he wrote up a citation.
"He'd had 'Cops' -- the show's -- producer in his car earlier that day," Spidle said, adding that it was too bad for the show that the producer had missed them, but probably good for him and Becker.
Spidle and Becker were issued citations and sent home.
"We were still whooping it up," he said. "[The officer] gave us a horn-honk, too, I think."
Now the two have to go downtown for a court date. There will be a hearing and probably a fine. What do they have to say for themselves?
"I think Barack Obama would be pleased with our excitement," Spidle said, "but maybe not with how we decided to display our excitement."
The vast majority of Minnesota Obama supporters who poured into the streets did so fully clothed, dancing and singing in the streets, honking car horns and punctuating the night with fireworks.
Around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, Somali immigrants spilled out onto Cedar Avenue in Minneapolis to began an impromptu celebration. University students and other neighborhood residents joined in. The party went on well into Wednesday.
Across the river, cheers erupted as people spilled out of the Bob Dylan concert at Northrop Auditorium. Larry Turner of St. Paul ignited the crowd with his drum beats, which echoed for blocks around campus.
A more conventional celebration was planned for Wednesday night at New Salem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, where the Rev. Jerry McAfee extended an open invitation for prayer and gospel music.
Staff writers Allie Shah, Lora Pabst and Mary Lynn Smith contributed to this report. Maria Elena Baca • 612-673-4409
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
What is wrong with being black?: why Obama victory is resounding victory for Blacks
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” Alice Walker
Last weekend i happened to spend three quarters of my time indoors, most of that time glued on telly on GOD channel, which i must admit is not a bad place to waste off a boring weekend. A session by one evangelist going with the catch line "what is wrong with being black " caught my attention. Up to now, i am yet to find out why he used that line in the first place if he thought there was nothing wrong in being black! To put it simply, this evangelist's idea of trying to demonstrate that there is nothing wrong with being black, is itself in bad faith. It replays that intrinsic con notion that "there is something wrong with being black, but that wrong is not extensively damaging".
Thank God that Barack Obama , he the famous "that one" has disproved these theories, i thank God he is Black. And what even makes me feel that black race is a great race is the way he kept the race issue out of it. For those black Americans, who have waited forever for emancipation, the time has come, the time to realize that dream : that men will be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin.
Yet again, i see a more emboldened black race, and more inspired world, that this Obama campaign has wrought. As he put it, "your victory", i envisaged what hell it would have been for him to drive home his message without the confidence from the party supporters, from the Black and other regarded "minorities". The resounding message: You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.
It was not a mediocre campaign, but a professional, elitist, well grounded and strategical, again the message: It doesn't come on a silver platter.
I salute Obama, even if i were white or yellow, i would still salute him, he has defied the odds, and made history, am proud to be part of that history - as a Kenyan.
Long live Barack Obama, Long live America, long live Africa!
--Shujaa Mkenya - KENYA.
Poem on racism
When I born, I black
When I grow up, I black
When I go in Sun, I black
When I scared, I black
When I sick, I black
And when I die, I still black
And you white fellow
When you born, you pink
When you grow up, you white
When you go in sun, you red
When you cold, you blue
When you scared, you yellow
When you sick, you green
And when you die, you gray
And you calling me colored?
Why ???
@ This poem was nominated by UN as the best poem of 2006, Written by an “African Kid”
When I grow up, I black
When I go in Sun, I black
When I scared, I black
When I sick, I black
And when I die, I still black
And you white fellow
When you born, you pink
When you grow up, you white
When you go in sun, you red
When you cold, you blue
When you scared, you yellow
When you sick, you green
And when you die, you gray
And you calling me colored?
Why ???
@ This poem was nominated by UN as the best poem of 2006, Written by an “African Kid”
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