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From: camnetwork@yahoogroups.com [mailto:camnetwork@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2014 5:20 AM
To: cameroon_politics@yahoogroups.com; camnetwork@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [camnetwork] Thanks To Cameroon's Lions - Cameroon Finally Exposed

Folks,

We can swear all we want against the Lions, curse them all we want, wish them ill luck all we want, disparage then all we want, despise them all we want and what have you. But the Lions have done what no politician, be they opposition or pro-government, has ever done since Cameroon achieved so-called independence. Cameroon is a country that has been using football to inadvertently hide its deeply rooted cancerous malaises since it got that so-called independence from the French - the French who have never actually left Cameroon, whether politically or economically.

Cameroon has been presenting a deceptive face of itself as a country where everything were okay at least on the average. Every single Cameroon president took advantage of one thing and one thing only, football, to placate the entire world as per what has been actually going in that very sick nation. Cameroon is one of the most corrupt countries in Africa. Corruption is the accepted way of life in Cameroon and the world doesn't have a full idea about that because one of the greatest passions of all ages has been used so effectively and very craftily to shield the stinking rottenness of the banana republic that Cameroon has become.

O yes! That passion is football and the Lions team has been the effective tool for that deception since the time of Ahidjo. Despite all the canker worm eating the fabric of the Cameroon society in terms of instituted corruption, political skullduggery and economic stagnation, the successes of the Lions on many a football pitch across the globe became a powerful PR tool to deceive the world that everything was alright in Cameroon. The successes of Lions smoked screen our fragile unity, our political banditry and the instituted corruption that have reduced Cameroonians to sub humans in terms of human rights abuse. A hardworking people transformed into zombies by the powers-that-be.

Cameroonians, unknown to the world, are a politically maligned people, an economically depraved people, a despondent people, a lost people without a future, suffering masses, an abused people, alcohol addicts, disillusioned people, potential Bushfallers and above all, a very angry people. But in the heat of things, all these malaises were relegated to the back burner by the incredible successes of the Lions on the international scene.

Football successes put a stop on everything including real politics. All it took was one simple win on the pitch by the Lions to cause the Cameroon society to overlook and forget one political maneuver after the other by the inept regime in place. Football successes shielded the deep tribalism that's being made worse by the regime in place for divide-and-rule end goals. The successes of the Lions gave a false sense of unity - even separatists threw their cause through the window and became Cameroonians for 24 hours after every Lions' win or success. Every quarrel between Cameroonians ceased when the Lions were on the pitch and forgotten when the Lions brought home victory.

The only way the world could find out that Cameroon's a banana republic was not through a coup d'etat, not even the arrival of a new president as in the case of Biya when he came to power. Not even via a radical uprising like the Ghost Towns in the early 1990's that fell short because of many reasons amongst which was the very fact that the Lions had just come out of a huge and successful parade in the worldcup series in Italy with the incredible performances of wonderboy Roger Milla.

So, it was incumbent on the same Lions that had been used as a cover-up for all Cameroon's malaises to expose the very nature of our banana republic of a nation called Cameroon,. And the Lions found the opportunity and the right venue to expose Cameroon and its people as a very unsatisfied and angry lot. That venue, as we all can see, is the on-going worldcup competition in Brazil with billions of people watching closely.

What manner of people would go to a worldcup series and not only earn a red card for senselessly and physically attacking an adversary but would fight amongst themselves? Yes, a player with the Lions hit a Croatian player unprovoked and as if that were not enough, two of our players engaged in a physical fight minutes later - to show the world that beneath the successes that the Lions had been known for existed some very angry people. The Lions showed the world that Cameroonians were not the happy people that had been portrayed over the years by their soccer successes. That they came from an enclave whose people have been subjected to all types of human abuses, dire corruption, economic depravity and stage 4 political malignancy.

Instead of doing some instropection, some Cameroonians did not waste time to lay the blames on the foot of the Lions. Who too? What did they expect from a team that nearly missed its flight to Brazil because of bureaucratic bottlemecks and corruption? How come the players and football officials were still talking about players benefits just hours before the competition would start? Was it last mpnth that those officials knew that Cameroon was qualified for the worldcup? Football players are always psychologically prepared for important competitions like this many months earlier. Things like players benefits would have been discussed and closed many months before the competition but hell no,

Not with the corrupt members of the cabal called FECAFOOT. They represent every aspect of the rotten Cameroon society. 20 years ago, players reportedly had to agree to share their benefits with officials for them to be listed in major competitions. A few years ago, it was outright robbery of monies meant to pay the players when a suitcase containing players' monies reportedly fell from the aircraft over the atlantic ocean. Four years ago, some players went home after South Africa without a dime - consequence, the recent strike by the Lions not to board the plane to Brazil until they are paid. Who to blame? Yet some Cameroonians are not getting the message.

For several decades years, football successes by the Lions rendered the Cameroonian people jaundice on all important national issues. But with the latest exposure by the Lions, I believe it is about time that Cameroonians started reflecting on national issues that really mattered. I am happy for the Lions for the great work they have done in exposing what a bunch of unsatisfied and angry people we are. And they did so on the best platform when more than a billion people were watching. Never more will a Cameroonian go around the globe using football as a national pride whereas his country is a banana republic. Cameroonians will henceforth have to find a different thing to say about their country other than football. Maybe it's time for Cameroonians to say who they are - a bunch of abused and angry people.

Now that our greatest distraction, football, has come to an end and now that we have been exposed as angry men, can the Cameroonian people use that hidden anger in them as portrayed by their fellow countrymen on the field of soccer to demand for political change? Can the people of Cameroon use that same anger we saw on that world cup field in faraway Brazil exhibited by their compatriots to stand up to the cabal ruining their future? Can the angry people of Cameroon now come together as they have been doing over several decades for football; but this time to chase the inept regime we have in place with their French masters? It's time and the time is now. We all are very angry now. Let's put that anger into positive use. Enough of this footbal distraction. Let's turn our football commentaries into talking points memos to send a clear message to the regime. No calls for bloodshed. Words are more powerful than the sword. Can we?

NB: By extension, the attendant anger in Cameroonians is depicted by the amount of time they spend on Internet forums arguing and quarreling amongst themselves over nothing. So battered are Cameroonians that they have lost focus on where to direct their anger and would accuse the next person for all their problems while ignoring the fact that their real problems lie at the foot of the cabal that has taken their country hostage for the past 50+ years. So badly beaten are Cameroonians to the point that many have found it normal to praise their persecutors. As someone in here would say "God bless Cameroon". For a change, could it be "God bless Cameroonians"?

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