SV: {UAH} Why African leaders fear their people!
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IKANO,
FEAR, yes. But it is FEAR OF differet sort- not the ordinary fear, fear.
This fear is synonymous with protection of oneself (selfdefence to stay alive). They are conditioned to it.
It is like, "YOU WANT TO STAY ALIVE: you have to hold on to power!!! THEY ARE CONDITIONED TO IT!!!!!!
How that conditioned state is triggered is another five.., another issue.
See, many African leaders do a lot of bad stuff that in the eyes of both the citizen ( and perhaps in their own eyes too) are grievously punishable by death. And the "ANIMAL IN MAN" of the African can be a real savage when it breaks loose.
So, they know that their only chances of ever staying alife is to hold on to power. The moment they step down or leave office without a sternly trustable heir, they are gone! And, their loots and that of their friends are gone too.
I guess that is my hypothesis.
They find themselves in a position where they can not quit.
Noc'l gaumoy.
"WE FORM THE CULTURE THAT FORMS US"….noc'la gaumoy.
Den lördag, 4 juni 2016 3:38 skrev Doyen Ikanos <amb.ikanos.doyen2016@gmail.com>:
Noted,
FEAR is @ the root of most evil deeds of leaders and / or
followers, including the FEAR of harm or death. The latter
fears may translate into infinate hate of one's fellow beings.
Law book is clear about this in saying that "one who
does not fear is made perfect in love" - 1 John.4:18.
Furthermore,
each one has to exit planet earth at a point and persons
so scared about the upcoming exit ought to take heart.
#1. exit could be as simple as going to sleep & suprisingly
waking up on the next plane(t), where the ancestors are.
#2. exit processes vary but the destination is one worth
preparing for now and looking forward to, vs. resenting:
Q.Q.: "I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions
and billions of years before I was born, and had
not suffered the lightest inconvenience from it"
- Mark Twain & Ikanos Doyen
- Peace, To The World.
On 6/3/16, Abbey Semuwemba <abbeysemuwemba@gmail.com> wrote:
> Created: 25 May 2016
>
> One of the most conspicuous things about African leaders is that most of
> them are very keen on their personal security, and visibly insecure before
> their people.
>
> Do you ever ask yourself why some move with close to full battalions of
> soldiers and guns mounted on top of pick-up trucks, or why they prefer
> being guarded by their children? Doesn't it puzzle you why they always have
> to move at such terrific speeds on road, and that we always have to give
> them way at all costs?
>
> If you ever make a 'mistake' of staggering onto the road before their
> convoy, you will be lucky if you live to tell what happened after. We may
> sometimes want to invite them to our events, but we fear the inconvenience.
> Ahead of their arrival, they scan and search us as though we are guilty
> until proven innocent.
> And now some speak to us through bullet-proof glass enclosures! But why are
> we treated with such suspicion and cynicism? Why are they scared of us,
> their presumed voters? To the extent that, to swear in as our leaders, they
> have to first put us at gunpoint!
>
> The biggest part of the answer is in the psychology of guilt! You see,
> leaders tend to be as free with their people in proportion to their
> imagination of how happy those people are with their leadership. We may use
> a simple analogy of a home to understand this.
>
> Where the father is a bully, he may start developing fears/paranoia that
> the wife is planning something sinister against him. He could even start
> eating outside or coming back with his own food. Indeed, a guilty
> conscience needs no accuser.
> Our leaders are not stupid. Even when their consciences die, like they
> often do, they remain with a sense of detection of what annoys their
> people. So, they can measure how angry we are for being overtaxed without
> good services in return.
>
> They know how we feel about them spending our money on luxuries as we
> languish with poor schools, high electricity tariffs, unemployment,
> deplorable health services, poor roads, and so on. They clearly understand
> how it feels for another to eat on one's behalf.
> They know how our communities treat powerless thieves, be it of property or
> elections. This way, they fear what we are capable of doing to them if they
> left their guns home.
>
> They live under perpetual suspicion that, given how much they let us
> suffer, we harbour ill feelings against them and could harm them at any
> slight opportunity. It is known to them that we see many of our miseries
> being fed by their greed. French writer François Voltaire tells us that
> every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
>
> Why else would they be insecure in countries where they 'brought peace'? We
> are not a uniquely-belligerent people to cause such fear. It is more about
> the guilt inside our leaders.
> It reminds me of Rosamund Lupton's agony: "I get up and pace the room, as
> if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly
> shadow made by myself". Suspicion always haunts the guilty party. And a
> guilty dog won't hesitate to bark at you if it feels threatened by your
> anger, even when your meat is still in its mouth.
>
> Anything scares them. That is why a genuine, unarmed protester is treated
> like a monster. They have this feeling that everyone on social media is
> inciting others against them.
>
> Talking about their wrongs is to incite violence, because they know how
> much anger their behaviour would attract from any sane person. A good
> person is either one who is praising them or one that shuts up. But even
> shutting up could be questioned: 'What is he meditating to do?'
>
> Paranoia is one of the major reasons why leaders develop dictatorial
> tendencies. Feeling or knowing that you are hated is very dangerous. If it
> is a common person with such a feeling, one probable reaction is to
> withdraw from society. But since a leader won't withdraw, paranoia often
> leads to persecution of real and perceived enemies.
>
> Henry Kyemba's book, State of Blood, shows that one of the key reasons Amin
> killed many people was his own fear – a fear that fed itself. The more he
> feared, the more he persecuted/killed. And the more he persecuted/killed,
> the more he feared that people were plotting against him for his misdeeds.
>
> Frederick Douglass, a former black slave, rightly observed that "no man can
> put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the
> other end fastened about his own neck". Guilt haunts them like an incensed
> ghost. And, as Shakespeare puts it, it spills itself in fearing to be
> spilt.
> jsssentongo@gmail.com
> The author works with the Center for African Studies, Uganda Martyrs
> University – Nkozi.
>
> "In tribute to the United Kingdom and the Republic of Uganda, two bastions
> of strength in a world filled with strife, discrimination and terrorism."
>
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FEAR is @ the root of most evil deeds of leaders and / or
followers, including the FEAR of harm or death. The latter
fears may translate into infinate hate of one's fellow beings.
Law book is clear about this in saying that "one who
does not fear is made perfect in love" - 1 John.4:18.
Furthermore,
each one has to exit planet earth at a point and persons
so scared about the upcoming exit ought to take heart.
#1. exit could be as simple as going to sleep & suprisingly
waking up on the next plane(t), where the ancestors are.
#2. exit processes vary but the destination is one worth
preparing for now and looking forward to, vs. resenting:
Q.Q.: "I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions
and billions of years before I was born, and had
not suffered the lightest inconvenience from it"
- Mark Twain & Ikanos Doyen
- Peace, To The World.
On 6/3/16, Abbey Semuwemba <abbeysemuwemba@gmail.com> wrote:
> Created: 25 May 2016
>
> One of the most conspicuous things about African leaders is that most of
> them are very keen on their personal security, and visibly insecure before
> their people.
>
> Do you ever ask yourself why some move with close to full battalions of
> soldiers and guns mounted on top of pick-up trucks, or why they prefer
> being guarded by their children? Doesn't it puzzle you why they always have
> to move at such terrific speeds on road, and that we always have to give
> them way at all costs?
>
> If you ever make a 'mistake' of staggering onto the road before their
> convoy, you will be lucky if you live to tell what happened after. We may
> sometimes want to invite them to our events, but we fear the inconvenience.
> Ahead of their arrival, they scan and search us as though we are guilty
> until proven innocent.
> And now some speak to us through bullet-proof glass enclosures! But why are
> we treated with such suspicion and cynicism? Why are they scared of us,
> their presumed voters? To the extent that, to swear in as our leaders, they
> have to first put us at gunpoint!
>
> The biggest part of the answer is in the psychology of guilt! You see,
> leaders tend to be as free with their people in proportion to their
> imagination of how happy those people are with their leadership. We may use
> a simple analogy of a home to understand this.
>
> Where the father is a bully, he may start developing fears/paranoia that
> the wife is planning something sinister against him. He could even start
> eating outside or coming back with his own food. Indeed, a guilty
> conscience needs no accuser.
> Our leaders are not stupid. Even when their consciences die, like they
> often do, they remain with a sense of detection of what annoys their
> people. So, they can measure how angry we are for being overtaxed without
> good services in return.
>
> They know how we feel about them spending our money on luxuries as we
> languish with poor schools, high electricity tariffs, unemployment,
> deplorable health services, poor roads, and so on. They clearly understand
> how it feels for another to eat on one's behalf.
> They know how our communities treat powerless thieves, be it of property or
> elections. This way, they fear what we are capable of doing to them if they
> left their guns home.
>
> They live under perpetual suspicion that, given how much they let us
> suffer, we harbour ill feelings against them and could harm them at any
> slight opportunity. It is known to them that we see many of our miseries
> being fed by their greed. French writer François Voltaire tells us that
> every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
>
> Why else would they be insecure in countries where they 'brought peace'? We
> are not a uniquely-belligerent people to cause such fear. It is more about
> the guilt inside our leaders.
> It reminds me of Rosamund Lupton's agony: "I get up and pace the room, as
> if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly
> shadow made by myself". Suspicion always haunts the guilty party. And a
> guilty dog won't hesitate to bark at you if it feels threatened by your
> anger, even when your meat is still in its mouth.
>
> Anything scares them. That is why a genuine, unarmed protester is treated
> like a monster. They have this feeling that everyone on social media is
> inciting others against them.
>
> Talking about their wrongs is to incite violence, because they know how
> much anger their behaviour would attract from any sane person. A good
> person is either one who is praising them or one that shuts up. But even
> shutting up could be questioned: 'What is he meditating to do?'
>
> Paranoia is one of the major reasons why leaders develop dictatorial
> tendencies. Feeling or knowing that you are hated is very dangerous. If it
> is a common person with such a feeling, one probable reaction is to
> withdraw from society. But since a leader won't withdraw, paranoia often
> leads to persecution of real and perceived enemies.
>
> Henry Kyemba's book, State of Blood, shows that one of the key reasons Amin
> killed many people was his own fear – a fear that fed itself. The more he
> feared, the more he persecuted/killed. And the more he persecuted/killed,
> the more he feared that people were plotting against him for his misdeeds.
>
> Frederick Douglass, a former black slave, rightly observed that "no man can
> put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the
> other end fastened about his own neck". Guilt haunts them like an incensed
> ghost. And, as Shakespeare puts it, it spills itself in fearing to be
> spilt.
> jsssentongo@gmail.com
> The author works with the Center for African Studies, Uganda Martyrs
> University – Nkozi.
>
> "In tribute to the United Kingdom and the Republic of Uganda, two bastions
> of strength in a world filled with strife, discrimination and terrorism."
>
> --
> Disclaimer:Everyone posting to this Forum bears the sole responsibility for
> any legal consequences of his or her postings, and hence statements and
> facts must be presented responsibly. Your continued membership signifies
> that you agree to this disclaimer and pledge to abide by our Rules and
> Guidelines.To unsubscribe from this group, send email to:
> ugandans-at-heart+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com
>
--
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