The American oppressors

As much as possible, I have tried to avoid commenting on the happenings in Libya. This is probably because I might come across as being in support of the suppression of the opinions of many Libyans who want Brother Leader Ghadaffi out of office. We are talking about a man who has been in office for over forty years and is believed to be grooming his children to take over from him. I believe that all men were created equal, so no man should be allowed to make another subservient to him but the harsh reality is that history has showed us otherwise. The top one percent of the rich people in America control about 70% of the resources of the country while we have so many impoverished people in the third world countries struggling to survive. The queen of England has been there for over fifty years, same with the Sultan of Brunei and many of the Arab kings. The west sees nothing wrong with these people as long as they are their allies. Mobutu Seseko was regarded by the west as the Congolese leader when he was an ally but became a dictator when they had no more business transactions to do with him. That’s the principle I love to call “the use and dump” principle.

America never ceases to amaze me. It has always been their practice to always masquerade their true intentions with some humanitarian agenda. I know very little about American history, but one thing sticks out, every war or humanitarian intervention that America has been involved in has always been for some American interest. I don’t know how America has succeeded in convincing everyone that the reason they are bombing away Libya is because of the rebels, when their real intent is the Libyan oil. I wonder if America will treat a group of Americans who go up in arms shooting police and soldiers with kid gloves. I do not support violence but I also believe that such behavior would lead to anarchy. One would have expected that the UN or the west would have intervened by mediating peace rather than sending military aircraft and personnel to attack Libya. Where was America in Rwanda when almost one million people were slaughtered like animals? Where was America in Zimbabwe? Where was America in Togo when a child born in the presidential palace declared himself president after his father’s death? They were nowhere to be found simply because these countries don’t have oil or natural resources. One thing I despise in life is double standard. How come America and its cohorts of colonialist are not blowing Yemen and Syria where every day the governments are daily killing their people? I guess it’s because they have nothing to gain from these countries. Let me underscore one fact here, I am not and would not support a government killing the very people it was meant to protect but would also not support any group that makes peaceful cohabitation impossible.

I believe that the aerial invasion of Libya under the disguise of maintaining a no fly zone is an infringement of the sovereignty of the country, which shouldn’t have been the first choice of action. When did maintaining no fly zone involve hitting targets that were not flying or used for projecting aerial attacks. The involvement of the American led coalition in Libya has only succeeded in escalating the violence and unrest in the country. I believe that the reason why the rebels are not even willing to consider the peaceful resolution proposed by the African Union is because they have the backing of the Americans and their allied murderers. I wonder how many lives need to be wasted for this conflict to be resolved. The American style resolution is obviously one that comes at the loss of lives and destruction of the country. Iraq is still there for us to see, with American companies benefiting from juicy reconstruction contracts.

The press hasn’t helped matters either. One would have thought that there would have been a balanced reporting of the situation in Libya. All I hear every day is opposition this, opposition that. The way the war in Libya is reported, you would love to be a rebel as everything they do is considered right. They are killing people, that can’t be right! I think as far as the CNNs, BBCs and Aljazeeras are concerned; the happenings in Libya constitute good contents for their stations. As Africans, we would be the ones to live with the stigma and scars of one more war that could have been averted. I’ve got a premonition that there is a second colonization of Africa in the offing and this colonization unlike the first is going to be about our natural resources. We are going to see more incursions into Africa under the disguise of conflict resolution. It is a known fact that ours is the richest continent in terms of natural resources yet the most impoverished. There is an urgent need for African leaders to get their acts right and prevent these hawks from descending on our continent. Otherwise why would America want to build a military base in Africa?

Mr. Obama, it’s amazing how easy it is to criticize people when you are not in power. Who would have thought that when Obama was shouting “Yes we can”, he actually meant “Yes we can wage more war than George Bush”. This has just gone to show that even though we are in the 21st century, it’s still a big fish eat small fish world that we live in; a world where America has nuclear weapon but any other country that has similar aspiration is considered a terrorist nation. Most likely Ghadaffi would be over powered but the question on my mind is, “who’s going to be next?” Goodluck Jonathan? This is a wakeup call for African leaders. This is the time for good governance, equity and proactive leadership to avert any political unrest that would give these goons a reason to invade our continent. A word they say is enough for the wise.

Together, we can achieve more. Cheers