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MASSOB and Obasanjo’s Napoleon’s Dogs |
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Monday, 07 June 2004 |
In George Orwell’s classic, “The Animal Farm“, which satirized a revolution gone haywire when the principles that gravitated and gave birth to it, was hijacked and overthrown by the PIG Napoleon, with his secret army of DOGs, which he conscripted, trained and armed for the purpose of usurping power, eternally latching on to it, and the bridling and crushing of every opposition that may be raised against his abuse of the principles of the revolution that was led by Old Major of Blessed memory. Napoleon was able to intimidate all opposition into fearful quiescence and slavish acquiescence, consequent on his armed force of dogs that did his bidding. This stance naturally was against the principles of the revolution for which the animals fought and died. From this stolen and entrenched position of high treason and false security, he conveniently presided over the gradual decay, unrestrained retrogression and eventual disintegration of all that the fathers of the revolution envisaged for themselves and their posterity. Napoleon debauched the grundnorm of the revolution. That all animals were equal, which was the pure basis of the revolution, was adulteratedly stretched to accommodate Napoleon’s tyrannical tendencies. Consequently some animals became more equal than the others, to the sadness of good conscience and to the glory of tyranny. Dissertations may have been written on this ageless piece by generation of scholars, but it seems that the Orwellian vision travelled far into the future to see tomorrow. This vision, in one rare moment of prophetic genius and inspiration saw Nigeria of the 1990s to 2004, and what the Napoleonic PIGs we have had as rulers would make of her, and how they would abuse the armed dogs that were the army and the police to intimidate and brutalize the psyche of Nigerians. Today. OBJ has continued the relay, where his partners in the race to destroy Nigeria handed over the baton.So much for the commentary. Suffice it to note that the prologue to our outrage, which warranted and justified this typological juxtaposition, was the report carried by Guardian online Newspapers of 3rd June 2004, in which it was reported that that the Nigerian Police arrested about 38 members of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra,(MASSOB), and that they will be charged with treasonable felony. And the Police spokesman on that occasion; the Police Public Relations officer, Mr. Fidelis Olakpe, a deputy commissioner of Police was quoted as saying the following words in connection to that. He told the press;“You will recall that in the advent of the present democratic dispensation in 1999, there was a gale of fresh air, which blew upon the psyche of Nigerians. Nigerians celebrated their new-found democracy in spectacular and diverse manners. It was not long however before some minute segments of our populace began to subject this freedom to abuse“...He noted that these groups continued to thrive because of the express support for them by their community leaders, as well as local and state governmentsI am really grateful to myself for resisting the temptation to call Mr. Olakpe a disgrace to the public relations job and an indictment to fine art of diplomacy, which characterise good public relation officers. This man in one moment of unguarded utterance betrayed himself and the conquistadorial bent of Obasanjo’s administration. This betrays the fact that the Nigerian Police has transformed itself into Obasanjo’s armed forces of dogs.This Police mouthpiece went on to list the charges against those arrested as being in possession of machetes, flags and some T-shirts with the inscription “Thank God Biafra and Massob is real“. Mr. Olakpe was reported as saying that “on interrogation, the suspects confessed to being Massob members“Dictators, tyrants, despots and kleptocrats in history have always been known to have run police states. Police states are synonymous with gagging of opposition, unrestrained tyranny, suppression of legitimate voices of reason, or dissent, the imprisonment of those who dared to disagree with the highhandedness of the despotic regime, and unleashing of the policing instrument on the populace, to detect opposition, and deal with it, with highhandedness and unemotional economy. In a police state, the leprous hands of the tyrant, represented by the policing of even the most intimate and most private actions of the populace is evident. These policing agents deploy the use of such brutal show of force that would make even Machiavelli to blush in his grave. Since tyranny commanded it, tyrants obeyed him. The chronicles of history is littered with bones of extinct clones of the Napoleonic dogs mirrored in Orwell. Hitler had his Gestapo effectively implemented the incineration of over 6 million Jews. Josef Stalin had his Stasi, Gulag archipelago as well as the cold extremities of Siberia as recompense for those who dared open their mouths in disagreement with his excesses. Over 20 million Russians had to lose their lives in Stalin’s pathologically mad orgy. Idi Amin in Uganda had his own crop of government approved marauders and murderers. The crocodiles of the River Nile would remain eternally thankful to Amin’s secret police, for once upon a time, throwing a banquets of rich human carcasses; as thousands of Ugandans were fed to these beasts under Amin the Butcher of Kampala. Thousands of people perished courtesy of the bullets of Mobutu’s secret police, Babangida’s SSS and NSC headed by Akilu and Akogun respectively were fingered in the murder of Dele Giwa. The whole world has come to know that Abacha’s secret dogs headed by Al Mustapha and peopled by government trained, equipped and approved assassins like Jabila a.k.a, Sergeant Rogers, Col Omenka and Danbaba, were the death angels that shot the life out of Kudirat Abiola, attempted same on Chief Ibru without success, attempted the murder of Oladipo Diya at the Lagos airport: all at Abacha’s instructions. These instances go to prove that wherever tyrants pontificate, the Napoleonic swine of dogs, nay the Police are unleashed on innocent civilians to intimidate them out of ventilating their legitimate angst, expressing their discontentment with contrived situations that threaten their very survival, or disturbing the gastronomic digestion of a dysfunctional and grotesquely incompetent government.When Obasanjo came to power in 1999, he promised Nigerians a banquets of democracy where we could all dine on the tables of dialogue, which equally implied and ontologically accommodates the freedom to disagree, hold and nurture a contrary viewpoint, and be free to express oneself without fear, anxiety or restrictions. But his promises had an ontological flaw. The fault lines are so great that he could never in a lifetime of his being in power succumb to democratic ideals. The thought and the fact of „Being in power“, and democracy are mutually exclusive realities. The phrase „Being in power“ ontologically contradicts democracy. The operative word here is power. And since absolute power had the ontological potentiality of absolutely corrupting its receptacle or holder. Obasanjo was corrupted. In a democracy, leaders do not come to power. It is only in a coup d’etat that such obtains. And power in this arena flows a la Mao Tse Tung, through the barrels of a gun. In a democracy, representatives of the people „come into office“. They don’t „come to power“. They can never come to power because power never belonged to them. It can never belong to them. It belongs to the people, who then decides who holds it in trust for them for a period of time. In the Nigeria of hurried military-exit; circa 1999, the ambient was ripe for all sorts of undemocratic manipulations by all kinds of social outcasts and political crooks. Many touts and thugs defrauded the people under the platform of the PDP and her weak opponents, swapped their motor park playground for the National and State Assemblies, which became a new playground of glorified thieves, incurable touts, thugs and hooligans. Also out of the valleys and death shadows of Kirikiri, came Obasanjo. Obasanjo never came to office. He came to power. In 1999, he was hoisted roughshod on Nigerians by the cabal of retired military thieves, who saw him as their Man-Friday and the right man who could protect their loot. This was because they either knew or believed he had once dipped his hands into the common till from where they all have at one time or the other stolen. To this end, they, being on the same deserted Island of Execu-thieves, must either watch each other‘s backs or perish together. In 2003, he gained enough foothold to strike out on his own. He now re-imposed himself on the people and continued in power.Since power remains the exclusive preserve and province of tyrants, they owe their citizens no explanations or answers. The people who should be the masters are forcefully enslaved and subjugated into spineless servants, who should catch cold whenever their master sneezes or farts. And to ensure effective compliance to their highhandedness, they are always ready to “ cry havoc and let loose the DOGs of War“ at the least excuse or provocation. (*For Dogs, read the police)The Nigerian Police force; that citadel of corruption, mediocrity as well as a sprawling empire of monumental inefficiency, has risen once more to play its inglorious role as the Napoleonic dogs of Mr. Olusegun Obasanjo. Obasanjo now deploys the police to hound those whose faces he does not cherish. Suffice it to note that the Police has been playing this polymorphously perverse role for a long time now, though many of us were so fluid in forgiving them due to the fact that most of these roles were actively encouraged by our donkey years of subjugation under military dictatorships. We expected a re-orientation under a democratic environment, but since habits die hard, the dog is now back to its vomit. The Police has gone back to been the instrument of the thieves in authority, instead of being the defense of the people against those who cared to do them harmOBJ’s (the Nigerian version of George Orwell’s Napoleon)most recently used the Nigerian Police Force ( the Nigerian version of Orwell’s Napoleon’s dogs). These dogs were deployed by Obj to overthrow Mr. Chris Ngige, a(n) (s)elected governor of Anambra State; in a festival of treason unparalleled in the history of Nigeria and democracy. Today again, he has deployed his dogs to hound some people that identifies with BIAFRA, a name, which frightens him into insomnia and uncontrollable diahorrea.Pertinent questions clamour for answers here. Why should the Nigeria police arrest Massob members, whose only crime despite the lies and PR stunts, being peddled by the police for effect, was the organization of environmental sanitation exercises in their localities. I wonder when keeping one’s environment clean has translated into a treasonable felony in Nigeria. Wonders shall never end! Since the government has effectively abandoned almost all of it social responsibilities to its citizens, as filth and garbage take over our streets and environment; what crime have these people committed in organizing a clean up exercise? Are they been arrested for succeeding where the government has repeated flunked it? Is this not a case of malicious prosecution? This proves to me what one friend of mine told me about competing with an African government in any sector of endeavour. He urged me never to compete with a government in Africa. For him, I should not even compete with them in something as evil as stealing. His words were; “Don’t (even) steal, African governments hate competition“. For him, African governments are pirates and buccaneers in power, who can never be outdone in negativity, and who essays assiduously to pull you down or eliminate you when you do some good that portrays their incompetence and ineptitude! I would not want to believe that this is true. But I find it very difficult to explain, when being in possession of matchet or flags and T-Shirts emblazoned with “Thank God Biafra and MASSOB is real“ started to constitute a treasonable felony in Nigeria? Am I to believe that my brother butchers in all the markets in Nigeria and the Aboki Mai Suya, in front of my house will all sooner or later be arrested or asked to submit their own cutlasses as they are even more guilty of killing something, than the MASSOB members who have never killed anything with their matchets; not even a goat or a chicken. My other brothers in Calabar, that help in the population control of dogs in their locality as well as in the gastronomic and culinary 404 delicacy issuing from, and consequent on this allied industry will sooner or later be asked to perpetually adjourn our evening meetings that use to hold over steaming bowls of 404 gear box and tombo liquor, all because OBJ has classified their instruments of operation as a new class of terrorists that must be wiped out. What about farmers and palm wine tappers for whom a matchet is an indispensable tool? This new police regime of arresting matchets and confiscating their bearers, would invariably open up another ground for extortion of the citizens by the Nigerian police. In fact, I move a motion for the arrest and detention of every Nigerian. We all have matchets in our homes or know or are related to someone that has one. So OBJ and Police, get ready to clamp all Nigerians in Jail. I know that you are blind to those who are armed with guns. They seems to have beaten your hindsight. This is because I know that you and your policemen are not afraid of them. That is why the police will always asked the citizens that fired off an SOS call for help during an armed robbery attack, to write down the names of the robbers and submit to their station or to come with their vehicles to pick them up. But MASSOB members with cutlass that has never killed chickens let alone human beings are really some fair nice game for OBJ and his Police! OBJ, Na kwa e check!On another pedestal if democracy commands the arrest of people in possession of flags, then the American government should then send the CIA, the FBI, the NSA and other law enforcement agencies in America to arrest all those who fly the confederate flag of their car fenders. Or the German government should send the Polizei to arrest all the skinheads that tattoo the Nazi Swastika on their heads and arms, and who scream obscenities at Jews and foreigners. The beauty of democracy for instance is mirrored in the fact that many American who felt some attachment whether nostalgic or physical, to the defunct Southern Confederate attempt at secession, which led to the America civil war, were not stopped or harassed from flying the flags of their defunct dream on their car fenders in 2004 during the political debates and democratic conventions. Many of them attended Presidential political conventions with them, yet no one saw that as a threat of secession. This beauty of democracy is seen equally in Germany, where the government does not even attempt to stop, sabotage or break up a demonstration by the skinheads. What the police does is to be in attendance and ensure that no one steps out of line or turn violent. But in Obasanjo’s version of democracy, when some young men disillusioned by repeated acts of government-sanctioned discrimination against them in what should be their fatherland, had flags of the dreams that government, hypocrisy, highhanded wickedness and incompetence pushed them into cherishing, OBJ’s government and his police dogs caught some constipation and felt so very threatened beyond the limits of common sense.I wonder when sporting an emblazoned T-Shirt metamorphosed into a crime, let alone a felony. The America government should then confiscate all the shirts that bore inscriptions like “I hate New York Fucking City“. A democracy is such because it has the internal dynamics to entertain and accommodate diversity of opinions, viewpoints, affinities and propensities. The Nigerian police and government is so afraid of T-shirts that they are ready to kill for it. This shows you that they are afraid of information and its dissemination. Any government that seeks to control the fundamental freedom of expression of its citizens, has lost all pretences at being democratic. OBJ should have known that his dictatorial Hyde has overshadowed his democratic Jekyll. Abacha is gradually bettering him.These are the questions on the general level of democratic principles. Now to the specific terrain of Nigerian social situation and the hypocritical stance of the Obasanjo’s government in relation to Ndigbo and their affairs in Nigeria. Why is it that only the Machetes of MASSOB members were confiscated? What is the crime in being in possession of a matchet? If these guys committed a crime by being in possession of machetes, what about the Hausa/Fulani cattle rearers who transverse the length and breadth of Nigeria perpetually armed with machetes? Couldn’t they be arrested too? Nigerian Police what are you still waiting for? If you do not arrest these cattle rearers that devastate people’s crops and fight with machetes when accosted, then you should return these machetes to MASSOB members with which to continue clearing the environment of weeds and bushes that government inefficiency has left us. What about the Hausa/Fulani jihadists? How many cutlasses have the Nigerian police confiscated from them? Yet they inflict matchet wounds on Ndigbo whenever their greed overflows its banks. Ndigbo should not be pushed to the wall again. We have sworn that Never again, shall we be slaughter like chicken or treated with disdain in Nigeria. Nigerians should know that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Ndigbo. And like the Jews, Ndigbo will never go back to anybody’s crematorium again.The report stated that on interrogation, they arrested persons confessed to being members of MASSOB. One needs not go far to see the laughable stupidity to which the uncontrollable desire to deal with an innocent man, could land one. These guys were „interrogated“. Interrogation for the Nigerian police consists of a broad cocktail of physical abuse, emotional brutalization, beatings, floggings, tear-gassing, controlled starvation, serial dehumanization, torture, verbal abuse, electric shock administration and so many other unprintables, that mimic hell in intensity and tincture. Amnesty International on the 19th of December, 2000 reported the allegations of human rights violation by the Nigerian police. The Nigerian Police is so very much hated by Nigerians that almost all Nigerian mothers, save Police officers wives, have had an occasion to counsel their sons and daughters against a career in the police force. The Nigerian police treats Nigerians like an army of occupation would. There exist no politeness or civil manners in the officers as well as the rank and file. They parade themselves with the kind of arrogant swagger that befits a race of buccaneers, and this is transplanted into their relationship with the civil population as they extort money simply to do the basic jobs they are paid to do. Their interrogation is the crudest form of primeval savagery, as anyone who has ever been to the Nigerian Police custody would testify. And those they mete this treatment on, are those that the law presumes innocent until proven guilty. It is only in Nigeria that the Police man would slap the hell out of a motorist for not redeeming his yet to be promulgated traffic offence with a crumpled 20 naira bill. This is the Police that interrogated the MASSOB members. The Nigerian Police torture strategy and “interrogations“ is so very effective that in 2 hours of a dosage of their kind of interrogation, an innocent man will confess to a crime he knew nothing of if his jaws remain intact enough for his to spit out those words.Secondly, are they been arrested for proclaiming Biafra or attempting to resuscitate, generate or fan the embers of secession in the South East of Nigeria? If that is treason, does the Nigeria Police have any right to arrest these guys? No is the answer. It is against all ethics and all sense of Justice to indict another for a crime whose guilt one shares. The Nigerian Police‘ treasonable attempt to remove Ngige from office, which stood in gross violation of the very first, primary and principal section of the 1999 constitution Section 1 sub 2, and which was rebaptised a “PDP family affair“ is no less a treason. The police is yet to arrest its members that took part in this broad daylight heist, or prosecute them, yet they are very busy arresting innocent people who are ventilating their legitimate angst against the Nigerian geopolitical hypocrisy, which essays to bludgeon them out of existence, and charging them with treason. Is this not an perfect case of the kettle calling the pot black.The same applies for the Obj government. Obasanjo is yet to tell the world why he nurtures such an aggravated case of Igbophobia. He is afraid of Ndigbo and must deploy all the forces he can command to make sure that Ndigbo do not raise their heads, let alone dreaming of seceding from this inglorious patchwork of polite strangers that spend their time together with a platonic hatred of each other, very busy pretending to be a people, in a British-cobbled geopolitical arrangement, crafted to favour their Northern vassals, for their easy and cheap plunder of Nigeria. Why should Massob members be arrested, while the 12 Northern governors, who by their introduction of Sharia in Northern Nigeria have effectively seceded their domains from the rest of Nigeria? Or is that not secession? How can a stance like the Sharia that violates a very important section of the constitution as well as the basis of Nigerian unity not be a treasonable felony? They are given a different treatment because they are Hausas and OBJ’s paymasters, and Ndigbo are not. How many of the idiots who raised the flags of Afghanistan in Yobe State have been arrested, prosecuted and convicted for treasonable felony? Fasheun and Ganiyu Adams are walking the streets free, while their OPC has been one of the bloodiest militias in Nigeria of recent times. Why then arrest those whose way have been peaceful to say the least? They are not Ndigbo and a different set of rules apply to them. How can a delicacy for the goose be contrived by xenophobia to be a luxury unaffordable to the gander? Ndigbo should be treated with high handedness whenever the issues revolves around them. This is the hypocritical policy of successive Nigerian governments that have since the end of the armed hostilities against Ndigbo in 1970, changed to other theatres to make sure that Ndigbo are completely conquered and laid prostrate in Nigeria.Even if Massob members are clamouring for a separate state for Biafra, is this not equiperable to all the calls made for the convocation of a Sovereign National Conference by so many people from so many quarters, including my humble self? The Police should then, in the spirit of this arrest of MASSOB members, fan out across the length and breadth of Nigeria and arrest, interrogate and detain any voice ever raised in support of the convocation of a Sovereign national conference. That is the only ground upon which this arrest of a non-violent movement could be justified.The police was unable to tell us the number of instances, places or areas in which MASSOB incited violence in any part of the country as was the OPC’s and the AREWA youth’s major forte? Have MASSOB ever been indicted for fomenting trouble, riots and killing of Muslims, like their Hausa counterparts do severally, while hiding under religious garbs? Massob has been more sinned against than they have ever sinned. Massob is not listed as a terrorist organization by many world governments like OPC, Egbesu and Arewa youths were. What then justifies this contrived aggression and press propaganda against them? How I wished that MASSOB was an armed organization or force. That at least would have served as a deterrence and sent concrete warnings of Igbo readiness to avenge their own, to the Nothern hooligans who delight in spilling Igbo blood in the North and looting Igbo property in the name of Allah. If MASSOB has been armed according to the official lies that the Nigerian authorities cook up against them, they would have spilled Hausa/Fulani blood in retaliation for the insatiable vampyrean taste of the Northern fanatics in the name of Amadioha, since no people or religion has a monopoly of violence. And facts of contemprorary Nigerian history has proved that if MASSOB is armed like the OBJ-controlled Nigerian police is claiming, the police would not have been able to arrest them, OBJ would have rolled out the tanks from the army barracks like he did, once upon a time in ODI, Bayelsa state, were a group showed the Nigerian police what it means to be armed. This arrest of MASSOB members, like all other actions geared towards destroying Ani-igbo like the Ngige kidnapping saga, are all teleguide from Aso Rock in Abuja. But I am emboldened by the fact that justice must always stand between Ndigbo and destruction willed for them by those who hate them.Olakpe was equally reported as saying that MASSOB is thriving because it receives support from all the community leaders, their various communities, local and state governments. It is really a proof of the bovine stupidity of those ruling Nigeria that this truth and volume of instruction, which escaped the mouth of the Police spokesman, holds no lessons for them. Logic is really an arbiter here. To his courts we come! If the community supports MASSOB, does it not stand to reason that MASSOB in so many ways carries the aspiration of the community? And had recent events in Nigeria not shown that the government has given the people a cause to be disillusioned and to fly to the refuge of movements like MASSOB, which understands their plight, embossoms their aspirations and spoke their language? Does it not tell the government that it is simply an absentee-landlord in the lives and affairs of the people? If that is the case, does it not tell the government that it has failed the people? And if a government fails, does it not stand to reason that it has lost every justification to remain in office and if it refuses to resign, is civil disobedience not justifiable in this instance, since disobedience to tyrants and tyranny is obedience to God?Arresting MASSOB members is the first logical step in the bloody disintegration of Nigeria, which Obasanjo is speedily bringing to realisation through his incompetence. If justice is to be served, Obasanjo should ask his dogs to hound all the Sharia governors, as they deserve to be serving times in jail, with life sentences on their necks for treasonably contravening Section 10 as well as Section 1 sub section 1 of the 1999 constitution. And if good judgement is to be served Obasanjo should quickly convene a sovereign National conference to address the fears being entertained by these voices. If he thinks that these guys are a bunch of thugs, and if he so very combatively deludes himself into thinking that he can never be intimidated by them. He should think twice. If he hounds them like his stupid police dogs are doing, they would go into the closets, where revolution, since time began are hatched. Let history be your teacher and enough of this double standard in relation to Ndigbo in Nigeria.OBJ and his police dogs should know that nothing: not even the force of nature can stop an idea whose time has come. Sovereign National Conference now, or the battlefields beckons once more. I am not a member of MASSOB, but I know that this organization, like all other similar organizations in history that were erected or founded on the disillusions of the people and their perceived injustice against their people can never be eliminated or intimidated out of existence. It happened with the Jews when they were making a dash for Palestine after the 1917 Balfour declaration. Menachem Begin and other Jewish fighters were labelled terrorists then, but the more they were suppressed, the more their persistence grew. The more they were denied territory, the more turf and inroad they gained in the heart of their people. They fought on and became the fathers of the State of Israel, and were recognised as such by the whole world. It is the same principle that is in operation with the Palestinian Hamas. The more the Israeli authorities suppress and kill off their leaders, the more they surge forward. The more they are bludgeoned with cudgels of highhandedness, the more cruel they become and the more inroad the make in the minds of their people. The same principle was seen at play in the French resistance during the Second World War. Almost every French man, woman or child became a potential partisan, against the Nazi occupation machine. They did everything to sabotage the Nazi war effort. They kept up the heat and made occupied France so very uncomfortable for the Nazis that their reprisals become more frequent and more desperate. That the D-Day landing of the Allied Forces in Normandy on the 6th of June,1944 succeed, was in no small measure thanks to the intelligence supplied and ground work done by the French resistance. The same principle surfaced in the war between Israel and Lebanon in 1982.Israel had to withdraw after years of presuming that it will wear down the will of a determined people. History equally saw this principle at play in Vietnam at Dhien Bien Phu against the French, in Saigon and Hanoi during the Vietnam war. The list is endless. These militias that transverse the length and breadth of Nigeria, and who have the support of the grassroots of their people is so very powerful and cannot be so easily wished away, destroyed by military tactics or intimidate out of existence by police action. These and other voices of dissent can only be managed and effectively solved by the Sovereign National Conference, where they would ventilated. This would provide an essential arena for a socio-political dialogue on the state of the union. To this end then, hounding MASSOB with Gestapo tactics or arm-twisting Ndigbo again, on the pretext that they lost a war and as a conquered people, they should endure the malodorous stench of OBJ farting is to my mind, as foolhardy as Gowon’s infantile musings that crushing Biafra would be a 48 hour Police action. Facts on the ground later taught him that save for British support and the support of other greedy countries that had an eye for Nigerian oil, Ojukwu and the will of the Biafran people would have overran him and his empty boasts in no time. Conceptual schemes such as this which seems to inform OBJ’s recent actions is akin to living in fools paradise, in a world where Bomb making techniques are hawked on the Internet for anyone who cares to make one. We are not advocating terrorism, that is why we are screaming for a sovereign national conference, but once a people are repeatedly insulted, taken for fools or pushed to the wall, survival under whatever name comes in handy, as the only option. And if this is to happen in Nigeria, “Not (even) all the Kings horses, nor all the Kings men can ever put this Humpty Dumpty (Nigeria) together again.How I wish a wise man is in office in Nigeria, who would realise that what it takes to turn a peaceful people into fearful instruments of death is just a little more shove down the middle of the highroad to their integrity, to their dreams, to their past or even something as inane as a perceived attempt on their part by someone to mortgage their posterity based on xenophobia. The oppressed people may in this case, end up singing Patrick Henry’s songs: Long live Freedom. Give us either Liberty or death.
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Posted by Robot| 12.11.2005 14:09