I had a feeling it would not last. For a moment I thought I was having an out-of-body experience. The Monitor was experimenting with a section for readers’ comments, and it was a jungle out there. Angry citizens came out of the woods and poured scorn on the regime of Museveni. And Museveni and his kind did not disappoint us with all kinds of depraved headlines. Even an imbecile can see that this is not how a sustainable country is run. Like all good things, it had to come to an end—the Monitor readers’ comment feature, that is. Museveni or Mbabazi called the Riot Act on the Monitor, and the section was kaput. Thank you, Monitor—at least we had a taste of the future when leaders will not be scared by words.
The NSSF saga would not go away. Last week Mbabazi and Museveni made pre-emptive strikes designed to influence the outcome of the probe report. They met with the NRM members on the committee. Can you imagine the brazenness? They were putting pressures on these people in broad daylight. What arrogance! How cynical and disrespectful of the citizens of this tortured country.
And now we start the week with Brig. Tumukunde being given a gift from the Supreme Court. This is a man who had a Faustian pact with Museveni and was the face behind past election harassments. One was tempted to have a Schadenfreude feeling when he got into shit, but we are a Christian nation—we don’t have those feelings, do we? Whatever; it is in my DNA to root for the little guy—the underdog—against the bully.
The week also comes on the heel of Mao being splashed with accolades by DP’s who-is-who. Supposedly they see an Obama in Mao. May be, may be not. First, he should stop playing multiple personalities and Clintonian triangulations for me to take him seriously. Take the idea he posited about uniting the party which he then took it away by dissing those born before 1962; what was that all about?
And then comes Beti Kamya, all decked up in green and white, symbolically shouting to the whole world that she is an FDC all but in name only. Why not be a true revolutionary, resign, and contest in a by-election under another banner? In the US of A there is a Joe Lieberman--who behaves similarly--, a one-time Democrat turned Independent playing very complicated acts of being in the Democratic caucus but was nearly named by the "maverick" McCain for VP. If you understand politicians, then you are ahead of me.
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While you are here, pop in at these developing sites--they maybe sites for office breaks or just entertainment centers in the future:
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