ODM-K Vs NARC-K TODAY:OF WOLVES AND FOXES:BY GEOFFREY MAKEKE

Hello Members, Today I break my rather long silence and make my contributions to the raging debates on the wolf or the fox theories as advanced by my friend and comrade Fwamba. It’s not only Ted’s appointment to the NARK K Election Board that is supposed to galvanize our fellow youths to support this outfit of self seekers. To respond to this, ODM K has the largest amount of young people who hold even more strategic positions than the one held by Ted. A few examples are here, Mr. Mwange Kiganda, a current masters finalist student at the UON represents the Youth constituency in the powerful ODM K election board, Jakakimba, Obura, Mbara, among many other comrades who we know are involved in manning the ODM K secretariat. However, it is both lazy and unimaginative to assume that since the above group of youths has found favour in the eyes of the different personalities within the wolf and fox kingdoms, then our interests as youths with political interests are automatically catered for. Rather, we need to identify the ideological pivot of both parties and ask our selves whether this political directions would suit the interests of us the youths and in essence the general citizenry. This issue would bring us to the fundamental flaws that have existed within the political fabric of this country. In then analyzing the entire political debacle and the subsequent monotonies of apparent economic growth by the corrupt regime of Kibaki, one would objectively decide whether to choose the political wing of political monarchs who at least have an agenda for change or for the current ruling elites who will use all their might to preserve status quo. Karl Marx made very interesting observations on revolutions and how they are sustained. I beg to share this principles with you: When the political systems of a given regime become strictly tyrannical and oppressive to the larger majority of the citizenry, the masses always revolt. They vehemently refuse to be used, and decide to take the power upon themselves, since they are the sovereign owners of any power. This leads to the isolation of the bourgeoisie by the socialist labourers, poor peasants, pauperized vendors and the hugely marginalized classes of the citizenry. These groups then merge with the middle income earners whom Marx calls the proletariats and with sheer determination begin to plan for the eventual revolution/liberati on. The usual tragedy here is that a section of the bourgeoisie on sensing the looming danger rush towards the reformists and now act as the new donors to the reform movement, hence ironically, due to the fact that revolutions are very expensive affairs, this group of elites are accorded golden treatment and together a formidable team is created to finalize the liberation. Hence to this end, revolutions are usually corrupted when the rich are sucked into the reform agenda. But still the revolution occurs and when the ululations and celebrations begin, these groups of the rich are the ones funding even the celebration parties. But the reform agenda will continue, with sections of the rich being active ingredients to the process. This is the role of the ODM Kenya in the current struggle for fresh political orientations in the country. We would have liked to support Fwamba`s theory of being party to the fox politics, but this would be agreeing to conform to the selfish and centrist political dispensation of Kibaki’s regime. NO, this country deserves better, and no reason whatsoever can be used to convince me that Kibaki is a better risk. For all we know, he is bent on preserving the status quo position. Reforms can only be advocated by the socialist class, fueled by the power-hungry section of the elitist monarchist politicians that Fwamba has decided to disparage. The monarchist leaders could well be the devil incarnate, but they will appeal to the rebellious attitude within the masses tired of being fed on endless political rhetoric of deceit and hate. Thus it is clearly evident that to sustain any economic development, the Orange movement is the best bet for any serious reformist in Kenya today. The masses will make their final verdict, and all the proponents of status quo will be ghastly thrown asunder. Orange is the ultimate prize of the next liberation, and Raila is central in this scheme of things.

OF WOLVES AND FOXES:BY EDGAR SELEBWA

I totally support Sudi on the analysis he gave. I appreciate Fwamba fo the thougts he propagated, but i beg to disagree with him. Fwamba has used very many words to tell us two simple things, 1. He has Moi phobia 2. Anyone who has the potential and ability to lead should suppress it as long as is a son or daugter to a leader! here I pause and laugh. Fwamba should get this right eeh, Kenya is not suffering from being associated with Moi but from MOISM. Kibaki and those crop of leaders he's urging us to support suffer from Moism. Take the example of the min. for unconstitutional affairs and injustices when she was in opposition she commented that " am ready to work past midnight untill the IPPG recommendations are passed" but we see she is the 1st to defend the President when he went against the same reccomendations in appointing commissioners to ECK. The point that I want to drive home at this juncture is,it all depend which foot the shoe is whether you suffer from MOISM or being associated with Moi. All in all biblically I will prefer a PAUL(SAUL) than a JUDAH. yesteryears heroes are todays villains because they achieved what they wanted read getting to power and the (nimefika mentality) set in . So my dear friends lets look at the unfolding political terrian with caution b4 we make one sided judgements. If Fwamba is using Tedy Munovu as an example of NARC-K then I dont need to join it since I can vividly remember what Teddy did when he was the Chair of SONU, fleecing the students money with Impunity, giving themselves allowances they didn't deserve. Fwamba we have come of age to elect such crooks to be our leaders.

OF WOLVES AND FOXES:BY EDWIN SUDI

I agree with you in toto Mr. Fwamba, at least to the extend of your classifying NARC-K and ODM-K as fox and wolf respectively. But i find myself dutybound to dissent to your analysis and eventual verdict. With all due respect to your intellect and historical aptitude, i beg to disagree that by going the NARC-K way is the only way to ensure that real reformists get to power. Not if you were old enough since the eve to the 2002 elections and awake up to date. To quote the likes of Kivutha, Martha Karua... as the true reformists to me is shooting oneself in the mouth. I can only excuse you if you confess not to understand the inside story on these two, especially on commission on human rights appointments and the judiciary generally. I stand to be corrected but i believe that the judiciary ranks among the most important institutions in any government and tampering with it a tantamount to playing with your last dime next to an open deep hole. You clearly pointed out names like Kibaki, Michuki, Karume and in your wisdom decided that they are going to be out of power, perfect reasoning. Only try to refresh your memory, what was your hope in 2002? That this bunch of old guards would give way come 2007? So what is this turnaround? What reason have you to think that the said old guards shall not want to have there sons and daughters (by blood or by ideology) in power before they leave office? Why have you decided to so blatantly lose memory of the fact that all the old guards you mentioned were in KANU at some point? And who told you that the moment all KANU blood is cleared from politics then we shall be home and dry? With the likes of Mukhisa Kituyi who has been so eloquent in international trade summits yet he has done nothing to help the poor Bukusu sugar farmers prepare for the liberalization of trade by COMESA? So he shall become saved, see the light and become very concious to the plight of his people all of a sudden immediately we support NARC-K? By the way, i may agree with you that the sons of the several leaders you have mentioned should not be allowed anywhere near the seat of power, but then i disagree with your mentioning the most inconsistent of your so called 'reformists' as the best. I would rather you mentioned somebody like Paul Muite, Maoka Maore, Joseph Nyaga who have refused to be opportunists in the Kibaki Government, where they would be voted in without much campaigning, for the sake of integrity! I am sick of the Kikuyu brainwashing that is slowly gripping kenya. Are we going to allow ourselves to create a Kikuyu colony? Where all the relevant offices are held by the kikuyu - Min of defense, Internal Security, Finance, KRA, major parastatals - and the rest of the crap is used to hoodwink the rest of the gullible tribes to support them - clearing Aganyanya and Nambuye of corruption.. . so timely! Lying to Kituyi that he might be made VP (not that it would add an ounce of ugali to luyia plate - not if it is the Mukhisa you and i know!) Let me be candid with you Fwamba, when we talk of regional balance, we are talking of some sort of not necessarily constitutionalized rotational basis of helmsmanship. We erred to have a Kikuyu take over after Moi, we are not going to repeat the mistake to give him or another kikuyu another chance! Talk of creating a monarchy, what is worse than making Kikuyus think they are the royal family? who said a luo, a luyia, a kamba, a taita...cannot lead? Have you tried them? Ok, maybe they are equally bad, well let us have another tribe plundering us! Pliz Fwamba, let us not give this country in the hands of a bunch of old men who know that they have no business coming back again after five years. They will loot with impunity, create there own sons to take over and continue ruling us through proxies. Let us root them out before they have time to do this. It was through such delay that the Uhuru Kenyatta you are complaining about was created by Moi. Efula selichanga kusala khabili ta!

THE RAGE OF SILENT VOICES:BY FWAMBA NC FWAMBA

The mystery of Lee Harvey Oswald Look at Lee Harvey Oswald, and you see a loser -- a scrawny young man with a receding hairline, a poor student who joined the Marines and was court-martialed twice, a potential Soviet spy who couldn't shoot straight, operate a shortwave radio, or load a camera, a failed suicide, a failed husband, somebody who knew what the insides of an unemployment office looked like, an accused presidential assassin captured a mere 75 minutes after his crime, a despised murder victim whose pallbearers were the reporters at his funeral. Look more closely, and you see this -- a man of intelligence who spoke Russian and could hold his own on radio debates, someone who had the nerve to defect to the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, a loving father of two young daughters, the nephew-in-law of a Soviet official, a U.S. citizen who professed that the Kennedys were "interesting" people. And, just as intriguing as his life, was Oswald's death -- a cold execution by a petty hoodlum on live national television as millions watched, only two days after President Kennedy's assassination. The killer, Jack Ruby, claimed he was grief-stricken and wanted to spare Jacqueline Kennedy the agony of a trial. But had Ruby really been ordered to silence Oswald as part of a conspiracy? The Warren Commission said no. Appointed by President Johnson, it concluded in 1964 that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in assassinating President Kennedy. Any number of conspiracy theorists disagree, however. What is surprising, though, is how often the figure of Lee Harvey Oswald emerges in many of these conspiracy theories. Some who cast suspicion on the CIA say Oswald was recruited as the hit man. Believers in a KGB link suggest that Oswald may have been trained to be a sort of Manchurian Candidate programmed killer, or that he was set up by the Soviets, or that he was a Soviet spy. Supporters of a mob theory bring up the organized crime connections of members of Oswald's family in New Orleans. For those who ascribe to a Cuban connection, there is the story of the man identifying himself as Oswald who visited the Cuban embassy in Mexico City to obtain a visa. On the flip side of the Cuba question, theorists have Oswald, who tried to infiltrate the anti-Castro movement, as either its patsy or its hit man, an agent of a plan to kill the president who had betrayed Cuban exiles at the Bay of Pigs. Perhaps most intriguing is the idea that there was not one Oswald, but two, that long before the shots in Dealey Plaza rang out, a secret organization -- maybe the CIA, maybe the KGB, maybe the FBI -- had recruited a look-alike to live a life parallel to Oswald's. Indeed, on various official records, ranging from Oswald's Marines examinations to his autopsy report, the suspect's height fluctuates from 5 feet 8 inches in 1956, 5 feet 11 inches in 1959 and 5 feet, 9 inches in 1963. Surely Oswald could have grown, but did he shrink? A simple possibility is that doctors or other officials measured Oswald wrong. But critics also point to photographs taken of Oswald while he lived in Minsk in the Soviet Union. They show a man with a thicker face, thicker hair and a broader chin than the "real" Oswald. In another picture, Oswald stands next to his wife, who was supposed to have been 5 foot, 3 inches tall. Yet Oswald appears to be only a little taller than she. Had the "real" Oswald, the one born in New Orleans and the one who died at 24 in Dallas, been recruited to go underground while another American, a skilled agent of intelligence, was sent to Moscow in his place? After all, despite his status as a defector, Oswald returned to the United States in 1962 with little ado. In another variation of the two-Oswalds theory, English author Michael Eddowes suggested in The Oswald File that Kennedy had been killed by a Soviet agent posing as Oswald. Yet when the body buried in Oswald's grave was exhumed in 1981, dental comparisons showed that the remains were those of the "historical" Oswald. Further complicating matters is that, in the days before the assassination, Oswald look-alikes popped up all over the Dallas area. One, who identified himself as Lee Oswald and said he was in the market for a used car, took a vehicle on a lively spin, the speeds of which reached 70 miles per hour. The only trouble was, Lee Harvey Oswald was at home -- and he didn't know how to drive. Some acquaintances even said he was too uncoordinated to do so. After all, this was a man so clumsy he had accidentally shot himself in the arm. There were also Oswald sightings at a barber's and in a furniture store and in a gun shop. A grocer said he cashed a $189 check -- a bigger one than Oswald was ever known to have had -- made out to "Harvey Oswald." On all these occasions, Oswald was known to have been somewhere else. Yet the witnesses said they were positive it had been him. Was someone setting up Oswald? Yet might not Oswald have been the lone killer? His behavior after the assassination is certainly curious: Seen 90 seconds after the assassination by a police officer and the building supervisor, Oswald appeared cool and collected. He left the building unhurriedly, by the farthest exit. He first boarded a bus heading back to the Texas School Book Depository, got off, then hailed a cab that he was prepared to yield to an elderly woman. Getting out of the cab a few blocks from his boarding house, he is there only a few minutes; while he is inside, a police car pulls up, honks its horn, then drives away. Forty minutes later, police arrest an angry and defiant Oswald in a theater. Had he gone there to hide, to meet someone, or simply because he wanted to watch War Is Hell, starring Van Heflin? In his 1993 book Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK, Gerald Posner claims that Oswald was indeed Kennedy's assassin -- and one who acted alone. He says that understanding Oswald is the key to understanding what happened on Nov. 22, 1963. Posner portrays an Oswald who is a solitary, cold-blooded master of his emotions, a man "driven by his own twisted and impenetrable furies" who thirsted for attention and a place in history. A Dallas police officer described Oswald as "a man who enjoyed the situation immensely and was enjoying the publicity and everything that was coming his way." Dallas Detective Jim Leavell recalled: "I never saw him raise his voice, and he seemed to answer questions easily. He had a smile a lot of the time, kind of a smirk, really, sort of like he knew something you didn't." Posner also related this incident: After his arrest, Oswald was questioned about two plastic ID cards that had been in his billfold, one bearing the name Lee Harvey Oswald, the other Alek Hidell. "Which one are you?" a detective asked. With a smirk, Oswald coolly replied: "You figure it out." George de Mohrenschildt, a member of the tiny Russian community in Dallas, whom Posner described as Oswald 's only friend, said Oswald wanted people to be interested in him. De Mohrenschildt also called Oswald a "semi-educated hillbilly" whom no government "would be stupid enough to trust with anything important." During a 1993 visit to Houston, Posner described Oswald to the Chronicle: "This was not a man fixated on Kennedy or who had a personal dislike of Kennedy. He hates the system. He hates the Soviet system, and he hates the American system. . . . Kennedy is strictly a target of opportunity. "He realizes he has an opportunity to strike out, to throw a (wrench) in the machinery of the system. The Oswald I understand from my work could have been in a sixth-floor window shooting Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow." In his extensive Oswald's Tale, Norman Mailer doesn't seem sure whether Oswald did indeed kill the president, but he suggests he could have. Surely, he gives the young man who died before 20 million people more credit than others have: Correcting Oswald's writings of the atrocious spelling errors that Mailer says were the result of dyslexia, the writer reveals a man of intelligence. But perhaps never to be resolved is the question of whether more than one kind of intelligence was involved in the mystery of Lee Harvey Oswald. fwamba nc fwamba