Questions to president Obama about Libya

Mr President, It bothers me that you honestly think that people who are well versed with world affairs can buy the reason you and your allies have given for bombing Libya. To suggest that you went in to protect civilian lives when the people that were being attacked by the government were themselves armed and fighting back, is laughable.

 

Could it be that you actually believe that people are gullible enough to believe everything you say? For your information, there are people that are aware that there has been a campaign through your controlled media to portray Gaddafi as a monster to garner support to achieve your motives. The same method was used against Saddam Hussein before he was ousted.

I suppose this is how things are done when a super power wants to get rid of one of the so called third world leaders that has gone rogue. Iraq was attacked on the basis that there were weapons of mass destruction. When that was proved a lie,  the story changed to that of ousting a dictator. Now you have gone to Libya with the excuse of protecting civilians when we know that the real motive is regime change.

Your government want to impose on the people of Libya a leader that will take care of your interests than those if its people.  Surely, if the Libyan rebellion was popular, your Western media would be parading the people support of the rebels just like it has been in Egypt , Saudi Arabia, Tunisia among such regimes.

Yet unlike these other areas, in Libya all we see are armed people fighting to oust Gaddafi. People who are begging your government  to give them more weapons to damage their own country? Mr President, try and reverse the role and make it American and see how you would like that.

Incidentally in these other places in the Middle East, the regimes have unleashed terror on unarmed civilians yet we have not heard you declare your interest to “protect civilians” while invading the countries. The most you have asked is that the government exercise restraint. I wonder why Mr. President? This is even worse because unlike Libya, these are unarmed civilians .

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Now Obama has ordered the use of armed drones in Libya

The war in Libya is slowly but surely becoming what it was intended to be from the beginning. What has happened within a week is an eye opener to those who may have doubted the motive behind the invasion of Libya.

The so called allies justified the quick invasion of Libya on the grounds that they were going to protect civilians. There were so many things that did not add up considering that similar uprisings were happening else where in the Middle east and North Africa but with different responses.

In fact in Libya the uprising was led by armed militias, unlike in other areas which were by unarmed civilians. Immediately before the allies attack on Libya, Gaddafi called for a cease fire and asked for mediation. The allies who were on their imperialistic mission and seeing an opportunity not to be missed, totally ignored Gaddafi and continued with their mission.

There are many people who supported the invasion of Libya because a reason that they could identify with was given to them. Their emotions were invoked by the media campaign to portray Gaddafi as a monster out destroy his people. In the same way, many Americans supported the Iraq war on the grounds that it was a war against terror with Iraq being portrayed as an enemy.

 

Yet people forgot that Bush had insisted that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and when that was proved a lie, he still proceeded with the war. Like in Libya, the war had been planned in advance and all Bush needed was a justification to sell the war.

The no fly zone passed by the United Nations security council was rushed and became a license to invade Libya with the USA starting the bombing campaign. On the 4th of April the USA purportedly handed over the operation control to NATO. We are still in April and yet Obama has approved the use of armed drones in Libya, thereby authorizing U.S. air strikes on ground forces for the first time.

This is interesting considering that the USA was only interested in protecting civilians in Libya. The other day Obama’s administration approved the provision of $25 million in nonlethal military assistance to the rebels in Libya. But what does “non lethal military assistance” mean? How is it that the USA government is siding with one part of an internal insurgence?

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Let Britain own up and Apologise to kenya and Kenyan Freedom Fighters, for their autrocities in Kenya

The Kenyan freedom Fighters, the Mau Mau veterans, filed a suit against the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in London for the inhumane treatment during the British colonial rule seeking an apology and compensation for damages suffered a result.

 

The British government is however trying to strike off the action on grounds “that they are not liable for the actions and omissions of the British Colonial Administration”. How convenient! To understand the basis for the claim, one needs to understand the History of Kenya’s struggle for Independence.

 

The History of Kenya, and indeed most colonized states, have for a long time been told from a Europeans perspective distorting the truth in the process. But as time goes by and a new generation hungry for truth emerges, the truth is finally being exposed. Kenya like most African countries was forcefully colonized by the British from the early part of the 19th Century.

Before colonization, Kenyan Africans had traded with Europeans without incidence until the arrival of the Imperial British East Africa company which started the process of colonisation. Kenya became British East African protectorate in 1895. The colonizers settling in brutalized Africans attacking villages with their modern weapons. They murdered Africans in groves as they stole their cattle and sheep pushing people out of their land and forcing them into reserves.

 

From early 1900, White settlers started arriving in Kenya and started forcefully occupying the highlands, then kikuyu land. These highlands became known then as the white highlands. As time went by, more and more rights of the people were taken away including forced labor and forced land tax. It is for this reasons that Africans started rising against such oppression and different movements were formed by various groups advocating for independence and clamoring for their land.

The Mau Mau movement by the Kikuyus, from the central province of kenya, greatly affected by land loss, was formed.  The movement advocated for independence from the colonial masters as well as getting back their land from the foreigners. Those involved in the movement had to take an oath of allegiance which was what bound them together.

The Mau Mau Movement

The British referred to Freedom fighters, like the Mau Mau as terrorist which goes to show that to one man a person is a terrorist while to another the person is a liberator. For along time the British version of events regarding Kenya’s struggle for Independence was what was taught in schools even after independence. In fact it is only recently that Kenya has started acknowledging and recognizing some of her freedom fighters.

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Kenyan Scientist Affirm Herb causing commotion in Tanzania, as having capabilities to Treat Drug -Resistant form of Herpes Virus

A retired pastor in the East African country of Tanzania has in the last few months attracted publicity due to his claim to have a “wonder drug” that treated many chronic ailments including Cancer and AIDS.

Due to the positive response by those who have taken the pastor’s concoction, the road to the pastors residence in a remote village of Tanzania has caused traffic commotions leading to the Government’s intervention.

The concoction known as Mugariga uses a herb which apparently local tribes in the region have previously used for various ailments. According to Rev Ambilikile Mwasapile, the Pastor behind the treatment, a single cup of Mugariga, together with special prayers, was able to cure chronic diseases such as diabetes, cancer, Tuberculosis, and AIDS.

The Tanzanian government started an investigation to establish the drug’s safety early in the month as people continued to flock the herbalist home. Laboratory tests have so far cleared it as safe for human consumption. The Government is currently investigating whether the herb does in fact cure the chronic conditions the cleric claims it does. So far the government has had over two hundred people volunteer for the study.

In the meanwhile the government has had to intervene to control the inflow of traffic towards the clerics village. According to a local news paper, as of the week ending on the 27th of March 2011, there were 24,000 ailing people and their relatives stranded in a queue of more than 4,000 vehicles that extended several kilometers.

What is of interest though is that the “magic herb” was actually identified by Kenyan Scientist four years ago as “a cure for a drug -resistant strain of a sexually transmitted disease”. Apparently the drug is one of the most common traditional cure for many disease.

The herb known as “Mtandamboo” in Swahili, has been used to treat gonorrhea among some Kenyan ethnic groups, namely the Kikuyus, Samburus and the Maasais. The Kambas on the other hand have used the herb for chest pains while the Nandi have boiled it and used to for the treatment of breast cancer, headache and chest pains.

In 2007, Kenyan scientific researchers led by a Dr. Festus M. Tolo of Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri), found that the herb could provide alternative remedy for herpes infections. The herb Scientifically known as Carrisa Edulis was reported in the journal of Ethnopharmacology to have “ exhibited remarkable anti-herpes virus activity for both wild type and drug resistant strains”.

 

The Scientific report further stated that “The mortality rate for mice treated with extract was also significantly reduced by between 70 and 90 per cent as compared with the infected untreated mice that exhibited 100 per cent mortality.” Studies have further shown that the herb contains “ingredients that make it a good diuretic”.

Diuretics are used to increase the frequency of urination to as a measure of removing excess fluid in the body as a result of medical conditions like congestive heart failure, kidney disease and live disease. Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia has also done a study of the herb and established it as powerful diuretic.

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Things about Gaddafi that the Western Media will never tell you about

The Western media has demonized Gaddafi to a point that what most people know about him is that he is a "terrorist" and a monstrous dictator. This by the way is how any leader of the so called third world countries who shows independence of thought and resist Western control of their country is treated.

This has been more so in Africa where the West has done everything to ensure that Africans do not liberate themselves from the shackles of imperialism and start focusing on their own needs than those of the imperialist. People judge Africa by what they see and on the propaganda perpetuated by the same Western media without understanding the real powers behind the events that happen in Africa.

While it is true that Gaddafi has made many mistakes during his leadership, which he should be accounted for, it is also true that Gaddafi has done a lot of good for Libya, Africa in general and even as concerns the Arab world. Those Western leaders who vilify him have done worse things for the world yet no one seems to hold them accountable for their deeds.

Gaddafi’s positives can only be appreciated by those who have been victims of the Western systems meddling in internal affairs of independent states at the expense of the common citizenry of the nations.

1) Gaddafi on getting to power adopted an independent foreign policy as well independent internal policies. This has continuously aggravated the West because they prefer puppets who can do their bid. When international issues crop up, the West always blackmail African leaders, to support their view, which most of them do as a means of survival. Gaddafi on the other hand would not succumb to such Western tactics and would act on what he felt was right without consulting the West first. If he was wrong in his decisions, at least it was his choice not some arm twisting by the West.

 

2) The Arab world and other oil nations should be thankful to Gaddafi because it as a result of him that the West pays a reasonable price for their oil. Most African countries have their resources benefiting the West than their people because of the policies that the West pushes on them. When Gaddafi took power in Libya in 1969, a barrel of oil was only 40 cents (USA currency). He went on a crusade for the Arab world to withhold selling oil to the West unless the West paid more for it. The results were that the price of oil went to about $20 a barrel. In 1973, as a result of the Arab -Israel war the oil price went up to $ 40 a barrel. Most of the puppet Arab nations opposing Gaddafi have amassed their wealth in part because of Gaddafi’s efforts to fight exploitation by the West.

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How the Western World is Entertained by the Poor of Africa

It has always bothered this writer that when the world talks about poverty, Africa is always highlighted. What is of concern though, is how this issue is portrayed and by who. It seems like there is a calculated move to ensure that the image of a begging and impoverished Africa is perpetuated.

 

There are many causes started in the western world on the basis of raising money for helping some miserable souls in Africa. This causes are always supported with pictures of dehumanized African children with flies circling around them. The images are aimed at making the person seeing them feel disgusted as well as favored and special compared to that poor African.

If indeed this money collected is aimed at Africa and gets to Africa, surely by now we would no longer have any poverty in Africa. The fact of the matter is that some of these pictures are fake and do not have any bearing to the truth or are half truths.

A young man from Uganda was shocked to see a so called non profit organization in Britain, raising money to help poor African children, using his picture. This man was a grown man and independently living in England. The photo must have been taken by some sneaky person when he was a child and without his permission.

This raises another question that is very disturbing. Most of these dehumanizing pictures are taken without the consent of the people or without explaining the reason for the pictures. This is a violation of these people’s right of privacy and would never be allowed in the Western world.

This continuous negative portrayal of Africans has made the person in the Western world view the African with disdain. Recently the British started a program where their rich celebrities were taken to one of Kenya’s slums by the name of Kibera. Kibera has become a cash cow for many non profit organizations because of how it is portrayed.

The numbers of people living in the slums were inflated to the effect that Kibera was considered the largest slum in the world. The recent Kenyan census results, however showed a very different picture. It is shameful to imagine the British on the guise of exposing celebrities to poverty are actually entertaining themselves at the expanse of the wretched of the earth

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The Hypocrisy and Double Standards of the Western Powers in Libya is laughable if not pathetic

When the uprising started in North Africa and spread to other parts of the Middle East one saw it as a people’s movement. The uprising and the determination of the people caught the regimes and their Western allies by surprise.

It will be observed that all the regimes that are  fallingapart are ones that were aligned to Western powers. They were autocratic and suppressed their people’s freedoms while the Western powers watched and enjoyed the benefits of such oppression.

Libya has followed a different path because Gaddafi has refused to surrender and has promised to fight to the end. The Western powers want him out because it gives them an opening for their occupation considering that they are fast losing control of the region due to the uprisings.

 

One cannot however not forget that Gaddafi is the only North African leader who for a long time aligned with Sub -Sahara African nations. In the early years Gaddafi funded the African National congress in South Africa at a time that the Western powers considered Nelson Mandela a Terrorist.

Gaddafi has also been vocal about the formation of a united States of Africa and has been the chairman of the African Union. Perhaps this is why Hilary Clinton on the 28th of February 2011 at the United Nations Human Rights council was quick to suggest that Gaddafi was using African mercenaries to kill his people.

There has been no evidence of such accusations, to this writers knowledge, instead what has happened is to put working African immigrant in harms way. Many have been Killed by Libyans on the guise that they were mercenaries based on Clinton’s allegations and on the color of their skin.

For a long time Gaddafi had negative relationship with Western powers and was a revolutionary at heart. In the 90’s and 20’s his leadership changed as he got involved in too many causes, some good and some not so good. He eventualy succumbed to Western powers demands and like the other falling regimes, has enjoyed amicable relationship with them.

However since the uprising in Libya started, the Western powers have adopted their normal game of acting as the good guys helping the people dismantle a dictator. As the Libyans gets divided between those fighting against Gaddafi and those supporting him we are again witnessing the hypocrisy or is it opportunism of Western powers.

Seumas Milne writing for the Guardian Newspaper so aptly says “The same western leaders who happily armed and did business with the Gaddafi regime until a fortnight ago have now slapped sanctions on the discarded autocrat and blithely referred him to the international criminal court the United States won’t recognize”.

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