archiveConfirmation That Very Violent General Elections Are ComingThis blogger has watched with alarm as the level of debate in this site has degenerated to abuses and accusations in recent days. It is discouraging when regular readers of this site know how long and hard I have worked over the years to create a platform of sober debate here, unlike what we see at other popular discussion forums on Kenyan politics.
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Also published todayJohn Gothongo's blog provides clear proof that this site and others on Kenya are increasingly being polluted by paid hands with an agendaPresident Kibaki was against opposition uniting in 2002Confidential dossier indicates that it was Gideon Moi calling the shots towards the end of Moi's ruleQuip of the day:Yesterday somebody quickly scanned through our lead article and then left a comment that clearly displayed his or her ignorance and prejudice because the article actually painted Langata MP Raila Odinga in negative light. They just didn't bother to read it before commenting. That is precisely the tragedy of political debate in Kenya today. The fact that prejudice rather that reason, ideas and consideration for one another rule. That is the Moi/Kibaki legacy to Kenyans====================================
Let me remind everybody who cares to study history that the Greeks became a world super power because of one main attribute; they showed the world for the first time that it was possible to debate issues thoroughly without somebody wanting to roll up their sleeves and settle issues physically. Anybody who slips back to the old barbaric way of doing things is clearly saying that they do not have the intellect or mental ability to debate an issue.
One of the reasons why I am still happily married to my Kikuyu beauty 20 years later and counting (
na wengi wazuri na wachanga wamenijaribu, but have failed) is because we have a policy of letting things cool down and then debating them without emotion, no matter how sensitive they are. I would be lying if I told you it always works. But the truth is that it works enough times to keep as the envy of many other married couples.
I have often been criticized for not moderating the comments in this blog and allowing abusive language and comments from either side of the political divide. My main reason for doing so will be found at the very heart of the political system we all claim to adhere to. Democracy is allowing another point of view, no matter how ill-informed and ridiculous it is, that is different from your own.
Secondly I have allowed it as a way of gauging the political mood thinking of various groupings and interests in the country. The idea was to be able to come to this blog and gauge the mood easily from the comments. Sadly this has never been achieved because too many paid hands and propagandists whose main agenda has been to ensure that they discredit this blog as much as possible have invaded this blog. Their main aim has been to reduce its' influence and traffic and many have openly threatened to ensure that they stop others from visiting this site.
I have some bad news for this group. Their strategy will have minimal impact because they are yet to understand the Internet and blogs as a whole. Close to 90 per cent of the traffic that this site receives comes directly from search engines. That is somebody searching for information keying in keywords and ending up here. This is not by accident. This blogger is a world recognized search engine optimization (SEO) expert handling clients mostly based in the US and there is a lot of SEO work that goes into this site. So despite the best efforts of some, our traffic continues to climb steeply every month.
It would be very easy for me to delete most undesirable comments here and thus keep this blog neatly in conformity with everything that I have to say. But that would defeat the whole purpose and my objective in launching this blog, which was to use this powerful new media for the good of the Kenyan people, especially the voiceless and underprivileged.
I take this opportunity to thank all my genuine critics out there who never lose an opportunity to point out errors of fact and to sharply criticize me when I am wrong. Thank you very much from the bottom of my heart. I value you very much because I know you would not criticize if you did not care. Please keep on doing what you are doing.
So my fight will continue using the truth and the tools and skills that the Almighty has placed in my hands.
One good thing that has come out of the recent crisis here of name calling and abusive language is that my thesis that the forthcoming general elections will be the most violent in history has been proved beyond doubt. If privileged Kenyans mainly in the diaspora can be reduced to abuses and name calling, what do you think will happen to the ordinary
mwananchi down there, hungry and desperate and exposed to the same critical issues facing Kenya today that I have raised here which have provoked so much emotion?
Wife cuts off husband's penis flashes it down the toilet.
The surprising real reason why more and more Kenyans are having steamy extra-marital affairs
Woman Murders Her Best Friend To Steal Her Husband As Science Proves That It Is Deadly For Women To Have Casual Sex
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