Thursday, August 7, 2008

10 Years On

Asalam aleykum, my brothers and sisters.

First of all, let’s have a moment of silence for all those who perished during the August 7, 1998 bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salam.

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Secondly, if you were wondering why us, poor little Kenyans, well, August 7 1998, marked the 8th anniversary of American soldiers landing in Saudia Arabia. Remember the early 90s movie with Ice Cube, he was a marine or something... Yeah!

Screw these selfish ass, bastards that call themselves Congress!!! Do you know that the Kenyan Government for the past 10 years has been trying to get the American Government to pay victims for their personal injuries and hospital bills, but the Congress has refused each and every time.

Well, I can’t say I believe that statement 100%, but there is some truth behind it. But I can’t still believe that these people would be so self-centred, cold and such assholes, as to refuse to compensate these poor victims, who btw, were place in harm’s way because of them in the first place!!!

It’s like I’m Uchumi, then some jerk-off decides to open a Barclays Branch in my shopping mall. Then there is a robbery where people inside the Branch and the shopping mall get injured and some lose their lives. Honestly, as much as Barclays is full of douches (no offense if any of my readers are employees of Barclays, I just have issues, they trying to rob me!!!), they wouldn’t pull a fast one like that.

Screw these bastards! No I wish I were President. Now would tell Ambassador Rannenburger to move the embassy to North Eastern and if some Somali dude wants to bomb it, that isn’t my business!!!

Militant out.

Destiny

Asalam aleykum, my brother and sisters.

Do you wonder what your destiny could be? If there is a grand plan that you are part of? For centuries, man has been fascinated by the stars. Wondering what could be out there.

You know, there are people who every morning, look at their stars, hoping to get a heads up on what their day will be like. Others just shrug it off as just some person trying to make ends meet by selling dreams to people who are desperate to hear them.

But just maybe, what if there’s some truth behind it? For centuries, many great minds have been fascinated by the starry sky. From Nostradamus, to the “primitive” Mayan people of Central America, they all were or claimed, to be able to make predictions based on alignment of the stars.

As for myself, well, I won’t shrug off some of their findings, neither am I 100% that they are true. But one thing I do know is that our destiny is great. Each and every single one human being on this planet has a part to play in the greater plan, destiny.

So I’m not going to give up, till I fulfil mine. I hope you don’t give up on yours.

Militant out.

Do The Stereotypes Define Us?

Asalam aleykum, my brothers and sisters.

Have you ever noticed in almost all movies and series out there, the hero or heroine of the story always has some interesting issue? From having a very troubled childhood, maybe being bullied as a kid, having some terminal disease, or being an orphan.

Then there’s the other angle of the hero or heroine, never being able to hook up with the person they “love”. From Spiderman to Batman, from Smallville to The Matrix, all the heroes in these stories had to almost sacrifice their life to be with the one they love.

Are we seriously that desperate to believe in love that we actually create all these impossible situations to satisfy our fantasy for the perfect love?

Must we believe that love is such an illusive experience, that we must suffer a hero’s fate to find it? Must we choose between life and death, or even sacrifice our destiny for love?

Must is be so hard to love? When’s the last time you saw a movie, where the hero was just some ordinary kid with extraordinary talent? Maybe one who already had a beautiful girlfriend, or let’s even push the envelope and say he’s gay.

Would that make his efforts less acceptable? Would it make all the good that he does null? I say screw the stereotypes. I want to meet an intelligent blonde, a white guy who won’t be scared to live in a predominantly black neighbourhood. An “African American” who has never been to prison. How about a tall Chinese person?

Do these stereotypes define us?

Militant out.

What's Right and What's Wrong

Asalam aleykum my brothers and sisters.

I was watching this movie that just came out, with Katt Williams, Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan just to mention a few. Basically, Ice Cube has to try and stop his son from moving to another state with his baby mother since, apparently, ex-convicts can’t travel out of the state or something like that.

Anyway, it got me thinking. When do you say someone’s crossed the line? A man who robs a store to feed his starving family, and a man who robs the same store to enrich himself, in the eyes of the law, is there a right or a wrong?

A few years back, there was an article in the paper, where an elderly man was convicted for robbery with violence, for stealing his neighbours chicken. So you know, in Kenya such a sentence earns you the death penalty. Despite there not being any official killings since the 1982 coup.

Personally, I don’t think the judge morally should have passed that judgment. I believe he should have been judged based on intention and not act alone. We can’t view the world in black and white; there are a lot of grey areas.

Would you blame me for crawling into your house and stealing your money, if I had family to feed? What’s if I did it to enrich myself? Think about it…

Militant out.