{UAH} Stop beating the drums of War

Paul, 

He is warming elites against beating war drums yet his group is busy recruiting and arming potential fighters. 

Gen. Elly Tumwine the security minister was addressing "intaharamwe" disguised as youth that want to counter those trying to create violence. 

What a regime! What is the work of all the security groups we have - police, army, ISO, ESO, VISO, PISO, DISO, LDU, SFC, and now youth counter fighters? 

Must every disagreement be resolved militarily? 

Peter Simon 

On Tuesday, November 24, 2020, Paul Ssemaluulu <ssemaluulu@gmail.com> wrote:

What does the Constitution say?

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 20:15 'william Ekwelu' via Ugandans at Heart (UAH) Community <ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Some of our political class and elite have lately taken to the senseless repetition of the refrain "Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, etc – are coming to Uganda"! What they mean is that they hope and pray that there will be a kind of "Arab Spring" or popular uprising or insurrection – to overthrow the Government of Uganda.

There are two major and fundamental problems with this reckless and wild dream. First, this group exhibits total and blissful ignorance of what some would call the Uganda "problematique", the Ugandan national specifics. Let us put it this way. A doctor has a patient in front of him or her. The patient has a high temperature. Is the patient suffering from malaria? Or typhoid? Or indeed, COVID-19? In other words, is the diagnosis of the illness accurate? And, if the diagnosis is accurate, what treatment is prescribed? If the malady is malaria, what treatment destroys the plasmodia that give us malaria? Is it palliatives – which help keep the temperature down? Prayers? Or anti-malarial drugs?

Our political class and elite live in utter disregard of our existence as an enclave economy on the periphery of global capitalism – which has been in the ascendency for the last 600 years. To expect this group to exert themselves to study this reality in its sheer complexity and all its ramifications, is to hope for the impossible. This group subsist in utter oblivion of the long inevitable historical processes and exigencies of the evolution and consolidation of a national statehood … They live in "supreme abstraction" of the totality of our reality. Their discussions of "governance", "democracy", etc – are curtailed by unmitigated ideological bankruptcy.

The upshot of all this, unfortunately, is that these pretenders to the leadership of wananchi cannot look beyond knee jerk and instant coffee type of "solutions" to our "problematique" … Ask them, what is the problem of Uganda? Their quick answer is, "Yoweri Museveni"! Ask them, what is the solution? Their quick answer is, "Get rid of Museveni and enter State House"! This is how they get themselves locked into looking for "men and women of good will" – to deal with our extremely complex structural and trans-regime challenges. At their best, they erroneously hope that "good intentions" are sufficient in themselves to generate societal transformation!

https://nilepost.co.ug/2020/11/24/opinion-stop-beating-the-drums-of-war/

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