Life and its General Nonsense

• My pride, My strenght, My joy

  Posted: January 4, 2008, 8:16 pm by Movie Buff

  Everyone is aware by now that our beloved country is in a crisis. For many, their lives are on pause, waiting for the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. For others, their lives and those of the ones they love have been lost.
  
  Now there are many schools of thought on how to restore peace to this country: Dialogue, forming coalition government, independent audit of the just completed polls… Now, I am not a guru and I don’t have my own solution to this matter. All I can say with conviction is that despite the façade that people are fighting for democracy, it has become abundantly clear that this boils down to greed. GREED FOR POWER. As Chris Kirubi said, there is a display of ego by the parties in question.
  As has been stated by many, all calls to an end to the violence has been done half heartedly especially by the two parties in question. It is apparent that for them, the violence is a means to an end. What end you ask? I have no idea but it does not justify it at ALL.
  An attempt by one to state that the police were being violent on the common mwananchi [Read: demonstrators] totally perplexed me. As Carol and Nyambane said this morning, what makes those hooligans think that they are more Kenyan than those who voted? If I was asked I think that the police are actually displaying a lot of restraint and were it not for them, this country would be in further distress.
  As I seat writing this, I wonder whether there is more I can do. I wonder if people are really willing to listen to reason while their eyes are blinded by the thought of power. I wonder why they are insisting on INTERNATIONAL mediators with such intent. Do these people who are fighting for the politicians think that the Kshs. 1,000 they are getting will actually help them in the long run? Are they rational beings in the first place?
  
  
  As Carol said again, We are the only ones who can help save this country because it is plainly obvious that the politicians do not care for the welfare of the citizens.
  
  Sometime last year, I read a book, “Straw Dogs” and the author said: War, like smoking, is a habit of the poor. Ponder upon that my good people.

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