Response to Muniini in Living_under_fear_of_the_state

Muniini in Living_under_fear_of_the_state

This is from a man who holds the view that Museveni's bush war was ordained by God and was, therefore, a necessary evil that deserved the lives of several hundreds of thousands. If anything, there was at the time still an opportunity for a gradual evolution instead of the terrorist shock and awe that characterized the NRA's, aka Museveni's revolution. Just maybe Uganda could have cured the Zeitgeist of fear in our times as the world was changing at the dawn of the so-called New World Order.

Now, just when countries like Argentina, Chile, Brazil, and Kenya to name a few, have overcome their dark days of state fear, Uganda's has become more virulent--all because we let a pyscho get away with murder and emboldened him--courtesies of the Muninis of this world and the peasant Lumpenproletariat. The genie is out. Can it be controlled in space and time? That is the challenge of our time. Not Wall Street—although Uganda gets a glancing swish from the upper-cut punch. Not whether American empire is on a downward spiral vis-a-vis China to which my village aunt doesn't give a hoot—and there are many such aunts in the hinterland of Uganda.

So, as one great American said: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. And the beat goes on—the march towards a perfect union to which we all have responsibility. It will not come from the so-called “development partners” holding their purse string, because they will not. It will not come from the Ogre himself stopping behaving as if he were a foreigner, as one political wonk plaintively pleaded. He will not, because he is a man on a mission for himself above all else.