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T. LIVINUS ACHA (TLA)

AWAKE CAMEROONIANS

Cameroonians awake and make good use of your eyes
You are sleeping in a midst of a war
And the enemy will soon capture you.
The evil leaves with us but we pretend not to know about it.
Creating awareness is good but its better action is put in place.
The society can be free from evil if we wish so
Like true patriots lets fight against such evil.

GOD BLESS YOU MR EMMANUEL KONDE.

Asafor valentine

Dear comrade all have been said but nothing is being done to keep the blood suckers from milking the country. The epitap of cameroon has been written over and over must we keep on writing?. Youths what is the way forward? somthing must be done, it must start somewhere. Let the Revolution begins.

Valentine Eben

Mr. Konde writes “The term, civil society, was coined to designate the powerless-knowledgeable who have been systematically excluded from power and who, desirous of political power, strategically posit themselves as advocates for the marginalized masses.” I say, how about you take some time and read a few post modernist books on the subject. You may want to start with Perlas, Nicolas, Shaping Globalization - Civil Society, Cultural Power and Threefolding.
DON’T IMAGINE THINGS AND WRITE THEM FOR PEOPLE TO READ AS POLTICAL SCIENCE.


Mr. Konde writes :
My purpose is to demonstrate how developing countries can achieve social consensus without going through the upheavals that some contemporary mature democracies experienced because of the recalcitrance of their now defunct ruling elite. Power is never granted but taken.[Don’t you see any contradiction in the above?] However, society has moved far-beyond the Maoist notion of all power comes from the barrel of gun. Today, political power can be negotiated. [Yet, you don’t seem to have a single example to give for this voodoo political science argument].

Mr. Konde continues:
The unmistakable political instrument that gives vent to these eruptions is election. Formerly employed as a ritual by the old power classes to revitalize and prolong their illegitimate rule, recent developments in Kenya, Zimbabwe, and now Iran are suggestive of a new trend that would eventually engulf the entire developing world. [I guess when anyone who knows that at the core of Kenya’s conflict was British efforts to deprive those that fought for independence access to power and hence real democracy from the onset. That Zimbabwe’s problems could be laid squarely at the doors of Downing Street. That international observers certified most of the elections in Zimbabwe except the very last as free and fair, but Britain, the EU and most of your so-called “first world countries” insisted on maintaining an illegal embargo against the country to blackmail its citizens to voting Britain’s choice as president. As for Iran, that the United States destroyed democracy in that country by organizing the overthrow of that country’s democratically elected PM Mosadek. The lack of democracy in those countries have had to do with disruptions from those so-called first world countries of yours. By the way Mr. Konde, I don’t know were you studies your political science but anyone who studies the history of social upheavals in the 60s or the 90s will be shock by your “suggestive of a new trend that would eventually engulf the entire developing world” line. ]
Mr. Konde :
Confusing is the assumption that the mere ritual of election, expertly employed by many dictatorial regimes, is in itself an exercise in democracy. Missing in this equation is the knowledge base of the electors, which the vast majority of citizens in the developing world lack. Although election is an integral part of democratic political process, more important than the act of electing is knowledge about what democracy entails. Unless an electorate understands what democracy is, the act of voting is rendered a practice that is manipulated by the few in power and the few who wish to win power. [NO Mr. Konde. Confusing is your assumption that what is happening in the third world is that people are being fooled to vote for the wrong candidate. NO Sir. Elections are being rigged with the aid of some of those your so-called first world countries e.g. French elections rigging experts from the Paris 16th district ran election rigging schemes in Cameroon, Chad, CAR, both Congos and in and attempt to stop democratic change subjected Rwandans to psych war and eventually to genocide.]


Mr. Konde Write:
Many of our contemporary mature democracies [you have even forgotten that you are Cameroonian, one of the third world countries] had long settled this conflict over political power between the old and new power classes through violent revolutions. This is the route that England, the United States, and France adopted in their march toward social consensus and democracy. England’s struggle was resolved in a series of revolutions that spanned nearly half a century beginning in 1640 and culminating with the Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 [No Sir. You have to read about cotemporary social struggles in the UK by people like Andrew Gamble and George Galloway (British MP)] . The struggle of the United States was settled by the American Revolution (1775 to 1783) [That is if your forget the civil war and the civil rights movements of the 60s. Read Howard Zinn “A peoples history of America” and Norm Chomsky “Manufacturing consent” ]. France likewise resolved her internal struggle with the French Revolution (1789–1799)[read about the 1968 uprisings and the fall of the 4th republic] .

VA Boy

BY KONDE EMMANUEL


Deceptive "Herd Mentality" as Graffi Intellectualism

We begin by posting this disclaimer: not all Graffi are the same. Some are refined and others are unrefined. We acknowledge and affirm that while the majority is unrefined, crude, and uncouth like the vociferous ones who vomit filth on camnet, there are a few refined Graffi who are presently ashamed of their unrefined brethren. But, as long as the refined Graffi remain silent and conspicuously refrain from reining in their unrefined brethren because of some outdated custom and tradition so ordain, we should not be held responsible for the truths we present in exposing the unrefined. For the silence of the refined is license to the unrefined. To rupture this deafening silence, we present below five cardinal truths about the unrefined Graffi noise-makers. These truths reveal the unrefined Graffi for what they actually are in a rather graphic manner, pristine, without their pretentious garbs. Here are the raw details of the unrefined Graffi.

Truth No. 1.
We all know the unrefined Graffi, the misfits, who invariably have some kind of defect. It is either their socks, under wear, or some body part that oozes. Of such are the distinguishing characteristics of the unrefined Graffi.. Beyond this deficiency in hygiene, lies and pretentiousness are their stock in trade. Mishe Fon says that he received veiled threatening calls; that some of those whose names appeared on a CPDM-USA Committees' list called him to disavow the party. Challenged to investigate the sources of the calls and to reveal the names of those who called him, the man instantly becomes mute and his false testimony fizzles….

Then, the Reverend Pastor Jonathan Awasom, an ignoramus among the ignorant and unrefined Graffi, mounts the stage. He puts on a false presence of importance, invokes United States law, and promises to report CPDM-USA militants to the U.S. Government. Konde nudges him forward to report him and him alone. We are waiting for Awasom to report Konde. But please, Pastor Awasom, cease and desist from sending Konde private emails.
In order not to be outdone, none other than Kenneth Fru Ndeh enters the fray to participate in the Graffi choir. Thus, he sings or quips: “BO SUNG aka Pa Njakri, Keep on pointing out stultifying prose when you see it.. I thank you for delineating the parts which are paralogistic. Emmanuel Konde's thought patterns are specious and casual readers can easily be deceived. REASONING Vs Pseudo-REASONING. This is CAMNETWORK at it's best.” Indeed, Graffi intellectualism, configured around deception, lies, and the drowning of dissenting opinions, according to Fru Ndeh, has raised camnetwork to its very best. It is a wondrous story that only the unrefined Graffi are admitted as choristers in this Choir of the Uncouth. More wondrous is the fact that these irrational ones claim to be the “reasoning” type and Konde and other non-Graffi the “pseudo-reasoning” people.

Somewhere in the United Kingdom , another unrefined Graffi emerges. He calls himself Rexon Nting. Because he is uninformed and went through the motions of schooling but failed to cultivate the requisite niceties of an educated person, this Nting person writes his name and title as Dr. Rexon Nting, Ph.D. Nting does not know that one cannot use both the prefix "Dr." and the suffix "Ph.D." in a single swoop. And thus we have a Graffi unrefined lettered man who calls himself "Dr.- Ph.D.", that is “Doctor-Doctor of Philosophy”. How strange!

Truth No. 2 "Kondeism" is the new mantra of Graffi intellectualism as articulated by one Jayson Tita.. To cover up their rawness, the unrefined Graffi have unleashed a spate of invective(s) against the Venerable Konde in order to drown him. They have learned that science of politics has to do with making the loudest noise. This, they have carried into the realm of intellectualism. . Having concocted a unique brand of Graffi intellectualism, they have aspired to make it operational
as follows: One unrefined Graffi man writes, another coarse Graffi man sings his praise, and the merry-go-round of "herd-mentality" perpetuates and reproduces itself. Accordingly, they plunge camnet into a new Age of Graffi intellectualism that finds its expression in herd-mentality. It is primitivity at its best, this Graffi intellectualism. The purveyors are crude, uncouth and bold in their crudity. Subjects of despotic fons that they are, they pretend to discuss democracy and freedom when they are themselves are undemocratic and without freedom.

It is hard to distinguish the one from the other. Is it Mishe Fon, Jonathan Awasom, Jayson Tita, or Bo Sung? It is as if this quartet has but one head and a single lousy brain that is suspended by multiple bodies. What one writes, the other repeats, and the same idea is echoed over and over again. From all apparent indications, these men with one head/brain, by virtue of the fact that they are exchanging banter for Konde’s ideas, and for the simple fact that this event is actually taking place on a global scale, feel that they have reached the apex of their lives—something, nay, a great achievement, they never imagined possible. And so they write and write and write, and, as no response seems forthcoming, they get agitated and excited.

Truth No. 3
In their rapture of ultimate fulfillment, of that which was but a fleeting dream, their excitement builds up to a boiling point. Breathing hard and wondering why Konde is not responding, they write again, and another kinsman sings the same old primitive song. And then a chorus of Graffi praise song ensues and the excitement brews to a higher pitch, a higher level of expectation. “At last, at last,” these primitive ones proclaim, “we have arrived.” Foolhardily, they think they have entered the realm of civilization. But, in their haste to appropriate the ways and mannerisms of the civilized that are foreign to them, they jump into a cesspool of their own creation.

Now, rewind and count how many versions of "Kondeism" have been written by these scumbags. And one wonders how Foncha "trounced" the highly cultured and cosmopolitan Endeley? Think again, and think of what befell Southern Cameroons . The same tactics that the fons employed herding their ignorant subjects to the polls like cattle, and instructing them on how and for whom to vote, some primitive Graffi are likewise deploying on camnet. Give them an inch and they seek a foot; give them a foot and it is a pole that they set their sights….

Truth No. 4
Beware of these insatiable people who eat with both sides of the mouth. Some of these are CPDM by day and SDF at night. In the dark of the night, they consort and hatch diabolical plans against other Cameroonians. Cone daylight and these people smile and hug their avowed enemies. They never put all their eggs in one basket. Instead, they spread them into CPDM basket, SDF basket, UPC basket, etc., etc. Masters of deception that they are, they have fooled nearly every Cameroonian group from the days of Southern Cameroons, the Federal Republic , the United Republic , to the current Republic of Cameroon .
It is from among the Graffi that one Gorji-Dinka who claims to be President of some place called Ambazonia hails. He was President of the Cameroon Bar for six years and during his tenure he never mentioned the fictive nation of Ambazonia. No sooner was he replaced than he began to invent ideas that might propel him to grandeur. These people like titles. Just like Foncha who thought the title of Prime Minister was not big enough and wanted something bigger--Vice President, Gorji-Dinka could not settle for anything less than president. Thus, he created his Republic of Ambazonia which he rules, like his fondom in Widekum, in absentia from the United Kingdom.

Truth No. 5
Their method of operation is simply based on a double standard: one for the Graffi and the other for the rest. Consequetly, they criticize and insult President Paul Biya but never Prime Minister Philemon Yang. They criticize CPDM corruption but never SDF; they call President Biya a dictator but their fons, the ultimte despots, are projected as untouchable divinities. Even Mr. John Fru Ndi, the life-dictator of SDF, is held beyond reproach. Graffi objectivity, indeed!

We submit to you, fellow Cameroonians of goodwill, the machinations of these unrefined Graffi must be contained and contained now. How can "subjects" aspire to dominate "citizens"? How can you allow this effrontery from a backward and primitive lot that has no sense of proportion? They shout the loudest but are least informed. They employ intimidation against their betters. How can the shoulders ever rise above the head?

Master Jayson Tita has written so many "Kondeism" pieces that he might end up sending them to his friends, family members, and acquaintances as his magnum opus. And there the multiple bodies supporting one head are glued to their keyboards and computer screens waiting for salvation from Konde by way of a reply to their banter. Here comes the reply. Enjoy

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