Obama’s right to criticize Kenya

He may be the most powerful man in the world, and the most admired, and respected, and feared; but deep inside his heart he has feelings like any other human being. He loves, hates, fears, and moans like any other human being. He has human feelings like all of us and he is lucky. He is so lucky to have the ability to express his feelings better than many living beings. Now he has expressed those feelings and he is an angry man. He hates what is happening to his father’s land and he has frankly expressed his views. The man is Barrack Obama. His father’s country is Kenya. Even as the most powerful American today, he still has Kenyan blood flowing in his veins and he has the right to express his feelings about Kenya.

His undiluted sentimental love for his fatherland Kenya has refused to be dissolved in his strong patriotism for his motherland America. In his real life as the President of USA he sees an efficient and obedient Executive that is fighting under his order and direction to improve the economy, improve the health standard of his electorate and continue to lead the world in military might and democratic rights.

In his dream world he sees Kenya, the land of his father, which has accepted him and continues to love him as his fatherland. The dream shows huge roads and modern development stretching from Nairobi to Kogelo where grandmother Sara welcomes him with love and affection . But alas, the real life reveals the undisputed certainty of an enemy who has destroyed his fatherland. An enemy called the Kibaki-Raila Executive has used a poisoned arrow of tribalism and nepotism and destroyed an ideal Executive.

Instead they have used the witchcraft of laziness and greed to establish an Executive of square pegs in round holes where the most inefficient and incompetent nincompoops sit in huge offices and drive luxurious cars through continued sucking of the blood of his father’s people. The blood of his brothers and sisters. He sees and Executive of corrupt bosses who would not give a job to his unemployed cousin, who could be any young, educated Kenyan today. An Executive of opaque underhand dealings and corruption which walks tall in open daylight official robberies and murders of his innocent distant relatives where the word transparency is a taboo and belongs to the disbanded and prohibited literature is the horrible reality that confronts Obama in bitter truth.

In his real life he is rightfully angry and bitter. He boycotts his fatherland in favour of Ghana where the emulation of his economic doctrine and political philosophy reigns supreme. The anger leads to an open attack. Attack against the enemies of his fatherland.

In his real world of America he sees proper democracy which catapults him from the ghetto of Chicago, where he worked to help his people overcome the cruelty and torture of capitalism, to the powers of the White House where his word has the strength of Executive Order. In that word he can order an end to the unjust war again the people of Iraq. In his dream world he sees his distant brothers and sisters of Kenya struggling to build democracy which establishes the Supremacy of the Legislature.

In his real world of Kenya he sees his brothers and sisters killed in hundreds while trying to exercise their right to vote for leaders of their choice. In that world he sees a rubberstamp Parliament in his fatherland where MPs gang up as tribal grabbers of peoples’ land, where so called elected leaders put up their salaries to become among the most highly paid legislators in the world. In his real world he sees dirty manipulation of the electoral process to ensure only the rich become perpetually supreme in Bunge.

In his real life he sees close relatives of his father and people who worked with his father colluding to reject all legislation that bares any remote resemblance to equitable distribution of national wealth. The result is anger in bitterness and an attack of the leadership of his fatherland. The fictitious leadership of people who survive through misleading the people into dark and abominable world of parochial nationalism and xenophobic hatred of each other makes him bitter and angry. So he attacks and attacks again in open daylight and he has every right to do so.

In his dream world he sees his fatherland following in the footsteps of his motherland where the Judiciary is independent and is dedicated in making sure that everyone is innocent until proven guilty. Where justice is not only done but is seen to be manifestly done and where justice delayed is justice denied. In his dream world he sees judges in his fatherland going through rigorous interviews by the legislators before they are appointed to the Bench.

In real life justice seems to be done in his motherland alone where even a judge called Sonia Sotomayor that he appoints to the Supreme Court of USA has to be interrogated by the Congress before she takes office. The Judiciary in his motherland is so independent that his supporter in Minnesota, Al Franken, who was about to be robbed of his senatorial seat through capitalistic intrigue that still exists there , had to be reinstated to the Senate. In the real world the independence of the Judiciary in his motherland America is not emulated in his fatherland Kenya where Judges are so corrupt that they have lost all the confidence of the people. The bitterness of this reality makes him attack and attack in defence of his fatherland.

In the real life of his motherland the mass media support his democratic right to call a spade a spade. They allowed him to spread the philosophy of change that brought him the powers he has. The freedom of expression in his motherland is guaranteed in the Constitution through what is popularly known as the First Amendment which forbids the Congress to make any laws that go against freedom of expression. In his dream world he sees a duplication of these fundamental democratic and human rights in his fatherland where there is a vibrant media. But in the real world the media in his fatherland is manipulated by the powerful in the manner that is exactly the same as they manipulate the Legislature. This makes him extremely bitter and angry so he attacks and attacks. And he has every right to do so because in his veins flows the Kenyan blood.