Thursday, January 03, 2008

Someone! Please!

We all saw this

"I saw with my own two skeptical eyes last Thursday the enormous patience and trust that the people of Kenya were willing to invest in the democratic process? I was there myself, going from polling station to polling station, to record this moment, this ridiculously awesome expression of the popular will. I saw them: the grandmothers and the dreadlocked young men, the mothers with children strapped to their backs, the guy in the wheelchair, the wide-eyes schoolkids watching their elder brothers and sisters exercise their constitutional rights. I saw them, and rejoiced..."

we did, did we not, just to get this

"the sheer bare-faced effrontery of fraud meant to thwart the popular will and carried out in naked defiance of international observers and Kenyan media"

we were all sitting infront of the TV, with our mouths wide open, tears streaming down our eyes as

" Kikuyus think we are about, saying complacently that “we” won the election when even Europeans who can count are quite able to figure out the implications of votes which add up to fifty thousand and are transmuted into seventy thousand by some mysterious Kikuyu alchemy?"

and doing this "but What on earth do the people of Central Province mean, dancing about in the streets like that with joy" and this "The drunken man in a bar in a PNU stronghold who leeringly raised his glass to me in celebration of the government being “ours as usual”.." and this dancing about in the streets like that with joy

we are still siting in front of the the TV....
But we are still scratching our head wondering.... But is it Ok for all of us, to sit back, and declare the election free and fair right as this are the basis of democracy,

"It bears repeating that biased preference is the essence of democratic right—you can vote for whoever you want to vote for, even if the cumulative effect of this democratic right in Central Province looked somewhat like the hypnotised members of a cult were voting for their messiah; nevertheless, you should be allowed to do that and live to regret it at leisure."

Is this not the reson why we are still MAD, is this not the reason the blood letting will not cease. In conflict resolution, the parties invlolved should be willing to accept that there has been a mistake done and not pull out the Victim cards.

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