Somali refugees in Daadab: Cause of Kenya`s insecurity or innocent asylum seekers?

Following the long period of turmoil and political mayhem in Somalia under the reign of Siad Barre, the country disintegrated into Islands of violence perpetrated by clan warlords. The country no longer claimed its empirical statehood and its juridical statehood silently weathered under the heat of decayed governance. What followed were two-and-a-half decades of intolerance, hunger, death and unending rivalry in the name of clan war, a war of its own kind never witnessed in the horn of Africa before. Torn by war and hunger, a banana republic was born in the horn of Africa. Over 350,000 civilians died and more than 80% of the population was starving. The situation was catastrophic and there was dire need for humanitarian assistance. On 9^th of December, 1992, the first troop of Marines arrived in Mogadishu and in a period of less than a month, close to 30,000 US soldiers were in Somalia. The US attempted to intervene in a conflict fueled by inter-clan animosities knowing very well this was not the war it could win. 

The situation went from bad to worse and the violence intensified especially with the presence of armed kaffir foreigners. Presence of US forces awakened an age-old hatred for America and the West at large.  This was a sign of the imperialism the holy prophet had preached against and which the good book had called all to fight against. A section of the people especially pro-government regions were happy because the forces protected relief food which they needed dearly. Rebels and war lords united against the US forces and successfully drove them out. For the first time, the powerful political hegemon was brought to its knees by hardened jungle-trained militants. A cloud of triumph enveloped Somalia and most of them were happy to bid the “white skins” goodbye.

The old sadness crept back when the civil war resumed this time in full glare. Civilians had nowhere to hide and rebels took control of relief food centers. Many families retreated towards the Kenyan border while others fled to Ethiopia. This was the beginning of more than two-and-a-half decades stay in a foreign country. The international community offered humanitarian assistance to refugees in Kenya through the UNHCR and camps were established to host them. Kenya had a responsibility to protect, an obligation it acquired on acceding to the 1951 UN Convention on refugees and its subsequent 1967 protocol on refugees. Close to two decades later, Kenya acceded to the 1969 OAU convention on refugees and in 2006, the 1951 UN Convention was domesticated in the 2006 Refugee Act. To affirm its commitment, a Department of refugee Affairs was established following the enactment of the Refugee Act. Kenya became host to a growing number of refugees evading the bloody civil war in Somalia. The war showed no signs of ending and most of the refugees found a home in the Daadab camp. By early 2016, the UNHCR reported that Kenya was host to more than 600,000 refugees. A previous report by UNHCR in 2010 indicated that close to 50,000 refugees were living in Nairobi. 

Surprisingly, crime rate soared in Eastleigh area of Nairobi. Asylum seekers had now integrated with the population. Through the Gulf of Aden, shipments of armaments flowed into Somalia and spread to the great lakes region .Eastleigh became a hub for human trafficking and a market for small arms.It also became the transit point for Somalis destined to South Africa. Illegal passports, Identity cards, birth certificates and quick visas could now be obtained much easier. Corrupt government officers and police facilitated crime by protecting the ring of clandestine operators who planned the movement of refugees from the border to Eastleigh in return for a fee. Day in day out, Somalis flocked into Nairobi and others left the country to South Africa. Some were trafficked for cheap labor in construction and plantations in South Africa. Countries in the Gulf region showed preference for Muslim domestic workers and therefore scrupulous recruitment agencies which existed only in fake papers preyed on the increasing number of frustrated, desperate  and hungry Somali refugees and facilitated their travel to Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman ,Kuwait, Bahrain and other countries. Whether the refugees benefitted from these dubious briefcase agencies and indeed got genuine employment is not the essence of this article. Eastleigh also became a market for goods imported from the Middle East and a booming economy ensued. The statement “If you need anything, of whatever kind, that you can’t find anywhere else for an affordable price go to Eastleigh” describes the variety and diversity of the trades in the place. It’s not in the author’s intention to portray all businesses in Eastleigh as unlawful.

Was the increasing number of unregistered refugees the cause of increased crime rate in Nairobi?Should the taxpayer blame refugees for the increasing terror activities in the country? It’s no doubt that acts of terror such as the Garrisa University the Westgate attacks have claimed lives in this country. Who is to blame? The fragility of the Kenyan government is a product of many factors. 

One of these factors is corruption. Corruption has buttress roots in the public service which spread from Ministries to the police force. Its long tentacles further stream from high public officers in the bureaucracy to the lowest ranks. The chain runs through the system and this has undermined the states capacity to secure its citizenry and the nation. Organized crime in Eastleigh and other areas has not survived without support from hungry, underpaid, extortionist police officers. With reinforced capacity in the police force in form of vehicles and armament, there doesn’t seem to be a good reason why crime in this area has escaped the hawk-eye surveillance of the police force. Instead, police officers turned Eastleigh and other areas of Eastland such as Mathare, Korogocho, and Kariokor into money-wells. All they do is to tow behind a land cruiser, occasionally brandishing their rifles and adjusting their protruding bellies as they do their rounds for dues from criminals who facilitate smuggling, trafficking and also operate offices where forged documents are made. This kind of tolerance has propelled crime to higher levels. Criminals are only in trouble if they are arrested because they might reveal the circus the police are engaged in. 

Secondly, the fragmentation of political identity and the deliberate creation of a fractured society in Kenya have weakened the protective capacity of the state. Ethnicity, tribalism and nepotism reduce social trust and disintegrate national cohesion. The Northerners especially those in Moyale, Garissa and other areas have been victims of exclusive politics. Needless to say, patriotism has disintegrated and today citizen loyalty is highly divided. With politics of exclusion, national resources have been exploited and shared out unequally and a huge population has been marginalized. As such, the question of insecurity should be expanded to include factors that undermine the unity of the state. Factors that from a glance appear isolated from insecurity. Security analysts have generically linked insecurity with increase in illegal firearms the often-repeated “porous border” argument. They have deliberately or unconsciously ignored latent factors such as poverty, unemployment and the disintegration of national cohesion which are major factors in strengthening a country`s human security.

The tenuous nature of political regimes and short term planning has also highly contributed to insecurity in Kenya. Kenya has always pursued short term goals aimed at quelling emergent issues but there has not been strong focus on long term plans to combat insecurity. Security is beefed up along borders and internally whenever there has been an attack. Heavily armed patrols were common after grenade attacks in Nairobi and after the Westgate and Garissa attacks. Eventually, things return to an “artificial normalcy” and the state relaxes its reins. Most of the plans in place including those geared towards economic development are basically tied to political interests .Opportunists use security issues to amplify their political agenda yet security is a crucial matter that should never be politicized. One wonders why for instance the Somali refugee issue has arisen just a year to the general election. Could this be perfect timing for the Jubilee government to demonstrate its attempts to secure the state or it’s just coincidental? 

International law on refugees in one way has been a challenge to states seeking to secure themselves from intruders. Article 31 of the 1951 convention regarding refugees who enter a state unlawfully states that contracting states shall not impose penalties to illegal refugees on account of their illegal entry or presence. This means that refugees escaping hostile situations in their country of origin can simply slip between borders whenever possible and enter other states territory without fear of arrest or detention. Kenyan authorities may argue that they did not open their doors to Somali refugees willingly and therefore argue that its within the state`s right to expel them but this will definitely contravene international law and the Convention.

Is the government genuine in blaming Somali refugees as the major cause of Kenya`s insecurity? The answer is definitely no. The Kenyan government should start by addressing internal factors that contribute to insecurity. How about cleaning-up the police force and the bureaucracy? By reducing the level of corruption amongst the police, illegal immigrants will be controlled. Secondly, systemic change is required so as to incorporate all individuals within the state in national development and growth. This will completely erase the existing feeling of alienation among the Northerners and a change in attitude amongst them will raise the level of allegiance to the state or patriotism. Only secluded individuals with no sense of belonging will at any time be used to attack citizens of their own state. This step is essential especially now that terrorism has shifted its dynamics. Today, terrorists can be of any origin as opposed to the past when it was majorly correlated with individuals of Arab or Somali origin. 

Should Kenya repatriate Somali refugees? This question can be approached from a moral perspective and also a legal perspective. I will address the latter because it constitutes a basis for decision making. Kenya acceded to the 1951 UN convention and the OAU protocol of 1969. Kenya has complied with the requirements of the Convention and has granted Somali asylum seekers a home for over 25 years. The principle of non-refoulement (spelled out in Article 33 of the Convention) is embedded in international law and it states that a refugee shall not be forced to return to his/her country of origin where he/she fears attack on her life or a threat to freedom. However, Article 33(2) clearly states that on grounds of state security where a refugee is considered a threat to the security of a country and its citizens, the host state has a right to expel or return the refugee to country of origin irrespective of the prevailing situation in that country. Kenya cited insecurity among other issues such as economic strain as major reasons for seeking to repatriate Somali refugees. Grounds for insecurity must be established to execute the repatriation plan in a transparent manner. The insecurity argument forwarded by Michael Kibicho is shaky and lacks supportive evidence. The argument that Somalia is settled and that refugees will be at peace in Somalia is highly debatable. Finally, sobriety may have resumed in some areas but militia is still in control of vast areas and the banana republic in Somalia is yet to gain empirical statehood especially with bandits and militants still revolting against it.

There will never be a "Wetangula-for-president" without Raila

Recent events in the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD)have left a number of questions unanswered. Is there a rift in the coalition? The media has continued its endless misguided speculations regarding the so called "CORD principles" and social media fanatics have further magnified the caricature of creative journalistic imaginations. Not once have I felt the need to dismantle the often repeated irony of "CORD principals" and the perceived status of "equal principals" in the coalition.

To begin with, Kalonzo Musyoka, the ever-ambitious diplomat-turned politician and a one-time vice president has once again shelved his eternal aspirations of rising to presidency. His recent declaration of support to either of the other two pricipals was an intelligent if not a foxy decision. He was never a candidate for the presidency and attempts to defy his position as the redundant Wiper party leader whose political ambition has stagnated would be futile and catastrophic. The establishment of "Maendeleo Chap Chap" movement in Kalonzo`s perceived stronghold and its affiliation with one Alfred Mutua ,the Governor Machakos county has indeed ignited a political wave which has further drawn apart the disparaged segments of the Akamba nation .Though Mutua denies defecting from Wiper Party ,his expression of discontent in the party is evident. With weakening support, Wiper party has continued to disintegrate and its significance has been overshadowed by a “movement”. It was prudent for Kalonzo Musyoka to abandon his exaggerated fantasy for the presidency. The numbers in his bargaining basket have continued dwindling day by day.

Wetangula the lawyer-turned politician and a perceived CORD principal continues peddling his false intentions of running for presidency. In the launching of his manufactured bid for presidency, there was the staged absence of CORD leader Raila Odinga. Notably, Wetangula has continued to pacify his followers and the Western voting block with his presidency agenda which Raila Odinga has vowed to support upon successful nomination. I have asked myself who   Wetangula could be without CORD a number of times and the recurring answer is interesting. He will never amount to anything much. As such, he will finally lose strategically to Raila Odinga during the nominations. His legitimacy as a "principal" in the coalition is conditioned by the existence of Raila Odinga.

The structure of the CORD coalition depicts the gaping absence of popular-driven ideology and in its place stands an aggregate of individual tendencies founded on the age-old custom of ethnic numbers. By virtue of popular legitimacy, there is only one principal in CORD and he is the only individual from the Coalition who will be in the ballot. Raila Odinga poses unrivaled candidacy and the other two have been aware all through that neither of them , even in a fair open challenge will defeat him for the grand ticket come 2017.The strategy is a "show of democracy" which in real sense exists in the dreams of the multitude of unconscious CORD followers . Wetangula and Kalonzo do not have the preference of choice. Defecting from the coalition will be politically suicidal. Holding on to their straws is a lesser evil compared to defecting.

Experience and observation in the progress of ODM politics clearly indicates that there is no CORD without Raila Odinga but there can be a "new CORD" without either of the other principals. Neither Wetangula nor Kalonzo has absolute control over his "bargaining basket" in their respective backyards but Raila Odinga continues enjoying a rare legitimacy of charismatic nature across the Western, Coastal and Nyanza regions. There won`t be a Wetangula-for-president come 2017 but a Raila for President. There has never been a rift in CORD either.

"Kenya has never had a true political party"

In Kenya, cocoons of tribesmen and ethnic puppets have registered affiliations which continue to be refereed to as political parties. These are associations of tribal chiefs,ethno-preneurs and  peripheral bourgeoisie who have control over various population segments. In Kenya, all parties share one manifesto initially established by K.A.N.U, the legit "mother of all parties".

 It has always been a trade where negotiation and transactions count on the weight of the segment one controls. Its is beyond doubt that even coalitions created have always been along ethnic lines. I have contemplated the meaning of a "national outlook" which should characterize political parties. It will take a few more decades for civilized individuals to unite based on national interests other than the ethnic selfishness that has characterized national politics.

 This party will have a manifesto different from all others. The party will be defined by its ideology not composition. It will have a philosophy that binds the various nations within Kenya.It will genuinely transcend ethnic identities and class.Perhaps then Kenya will have a political party.Until then, the pigs will continue seeking more opportunities to squander your tax. Infact, they are arming themselves as I write preparing to "kill it" this time. They will bring with them a bit of what they`ve stolen from you. You will vote them in again like you always do.

Why Laikipia needs more than Kagwanja`s philosopher King in the senate

An ever enthusiastic Professor Kagwanja recently spilled his litany of envy and admiration praising veteran politician G.G. Kariuki on achieving his Doctor of philosophy from the University of Nairobi. In the article titled, “Why Kenya needs a Philosopher King”, Kagwanja referred to Plato`s monumental work, the Republic   and equated Senator Kariuki with Plato`s philosopher Kings who were fit to govern based on their rich knowledge background. Further, he went on to narrate proudly how Kariuki has been a dominant figure since the Lancaster conference of 1960 and how he has served the four post-independence regimes beginning with Kenyatta, Moi, Kibaki and now Kenyatta. Honestly, Senator Kariuki deserves a pat on the shoulder for his effort at his age. That is not a mean achievement especially for professionals in his line of duty in service to the Kenyan citizenry.

It would be mean not to praise Professor Kagwanja for his choice of decorative diction in his comparison of G.G. Kariuki to a philosopher King. What professor Kagwanja deliberately ignored is the intangible legacy that Senator Kariuki has firmly built in his more-than-fifty years of perceived heroic public service. In issues of development, Senator Kariuki has indeed been a real philosopher whose philosophical wisdom remains trapped under his shoes since he spilled it. His knowledge has not been of much benefit to the people of Laikipia especially the West where he served as an MP. Laikipia West is the highly underdeveloped backyard that Dr. G.G. Kariuki calls home. Kariuki did little to change the dry, dusty face of Nyahururu town that greets you coldly on arrival. Cobwebs crowd his legacy as you move to the interior parts of Laikipia West. Here, most of the areas are yet to be connected to piped water and dirt roads which are impassable during rainy seasons are a common feature. Even with his perceived influence, his access to government resources and his long-serving experience, Kariuki has no record of a youth project he started to address the ever-rising unemployment in the suburbs of Laikipia.  His legacy is his vast arable lands which range in thousands where he plants maize and hay. Why would a wise man elegantly paint the outside of his mansion with a smiley magenta gloss and then stock rotten carrions perforated by scathing, slimy worms for his interior decoration?  To appease the taxpayer, like his bed-fellows in the legislature during his time, Kariuki would occasionally send an excavator to align the road surfaces and of course he has contributed immensely in various harambees to keep his chin afloat.

What exactly should a philosopher King be? Today’s philosopher King should be able to translate knowledge into practice and development. In Kenya we have aged political elites who have done nothing more than amass immeasurable volumes of wealth.  A philosopher King represents the golden class that is poor in wealth but rich in knowledge. The philosopher king allows the silver class of the citizenry to rise gradually into leadership. How can one be a philosopher King and still hold onto the reins of power and mantles of political leadership for over fifty years? How comes the elderly philosopher kings who can barely walk for a kilometer without propping their armpits with a walking stick and who claim to possess solomonic wisdom do not know when it’s time to pass on the sword and spear to  a younger, vigorous and more enthusiastic generation? It is unforgivable for professor Kagwanja to associate or equate such individuals whose prints in development are only theoretical to Plato`s philosopher King. Laikipians should not be misled to remain in the shadows of darkness even in this age. Of what use is a philosopher king whose foothold is a rubble-hill from which poverty oozes and streams down , yet he rests smiling comfortably at its apex?

The Political Intricacies of Africa: Why the individual and not the government is the u...

The Political Intricacies of Africa: Why the individual and not the government is the u...:  The most common feature in theories of state formation expounded by political philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes in his works Leviathan , ...

Why the individual and not the government is the ultimate guardian of human dignity

 The most common feature in theories of state formation expounded by political philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes in his works Leviathan, John Locke in his two Treatises on government and Jean Jacques Rousseau in The social Contract, is the concept of human nature & law of nature. The three theorists begin from a point in the state of nature where relations were governed majorly by law of nature rooted in human nature. For Hobbes, human nature is characterized by selfishness, greed, lust for power and lack of empathy and as such, it is a state of anarchy. Here, “every man is an enemy to every man” Man seeks to dominate others and there is no morality. To bring societal order, man created a government to which he submitted his sovereign rights to self-preservation in absoluteness. On the other hand, for Locke, the state of nature is one where man is naturally free and where human beings are not enemies of their own kind. It is a state of true liberty though not of license. Locke posits two contracts, the first being between the people themselves culminating into the creation of a society and the second one being between the people as a body politic and the rulers. Locke’s second contract creates a government limited by a constitution and founded on the people’s sovereign authority. Three things were lacking in Locke’s state of nature; a judge, a written code of laws and an enforcer of the law. Individuals are however conscious of the law of nature and as such they relate in a harmonious way guided by that law with the exception of a few deviants. The need for government arose to suffice the desire to install a system of law and justice. The formation of a government is a secondary transaction and its dissolution doesn’t lead to destruction of society. Rousseau claims that men are naturally equal, self-sufficient and contented. It is due to inequalities that arose following the emergence of private property and the subsequent division of labor that necessitated government formation. Government therefore for him is a necessary evil whose existence is only warranted by the existence of inequalities which in essence are a creation of human beings. The contract is between the individuals in their personal capacity and the individuals in a corporate capacity and as such individuals pool their particular interests into the general will which is executed by governments. 

Building on the above, one can argue that recognition and acknowledgement of human dignity emanates from inward morality that exists in each individual. Further, it is only when individuals have values such as compassion and empathy that human dignity can be contextualized and be realized. The individual has a duty to his kind, to protect their lives and to ensure he coexists in peace and harmony with them. It is the individual and not the government that can distinguish between right and evil and as such, the individual is the ultimate judge in matters of injustice and justice. Government is only necessary due to the existence of deviants who defy their conscience and seek to pursue selfish interests without putting into consideration the rights and privileges of the rest of humanity. 

 Further, it is beyond doubt that the individual should know his/her rights so as to preserve his/her dignity. Without knowing that he/she is the sovereign authority and not the government, that he alone with the support of others should form the general will representing the good of all which the government must execute, the individual will live in servitude and he will know no dignity. The government should be accountable to the body politic that formed it and therefore has no ultimate authority to inflict harm on humanity or demean law-abiding citizenry. If a government doesn’t create a platform for expansion of human dignity and civil liberty, then that government deserves to be replaced with one that holds close to its heart the interests of its citizenry. The individual must therefore seek to safeguard and expand his/her dignity by contributing to the policy making process , being part of the civil society, presenting individual-sponsored bills and joining policy debates which in a nut shell instill and expand the ethos of civil libertarianism. The citizenry are responsible for their economic and socio-political well-being and it is critical that they elect into office a government that expresses the society`s general will which aims at achieving the greater good for all.

Party Oligarchies:

The Invisible party oligarchies in African Democracies: The case of Uganda

Abstract

The proverbial voter apathy in African “Democracies” can never surpass the attention of an ardent observer of African political cycles. A keen observer of African government regimes must have noted at one point or another disgusting manifestations of a rule by the irresponsible multitudes in the name of Democracies. Occurrences across the globe have indeed proved beyond doubt that Democracies are not only governments founded on mob-psychology but also a mere organization of opinion and propaganda which hides from the people their deficiencies and lures them into a false sense of equality. In the book “Money, Power and Politics”, Bryce would probably have included the Corruption dilemma in Kenya as one of the abuses of democracy as it is evident that bureaucracies in democracies are indeed an avenue for illicit gain and undue extravagance. However, it is not prudent to dwell on the known evils of democracy. This article examines Party politics in Africa, using a demonstrative case of Uganda. The case of Uganda as far as this subject is concerned is transferable to Kenya, Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, and South Africa just to name a few states. This article points to the harsh reality of Oligarchic Governments masked behind the veil of `ideal` Democracies through Political Parties.

In the paper(Upcoming)- Find out a critical analysis of National Resistance Movement(NRM-Uganda), African National Congress(ANC-S.Africa),Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM-Tanzania) , Rwandan Patriotic Front and Kenyas (KANU& TNA ) .

The Feminist War On Women

By

Lisette Muntslag

“The most awful thing that can happen to a person, is being uprooted from their natural habitat and considered less than an animal in a strange land.”

Feminists cry war on women. They advocate sex without responsibility. Anything and everything goes. If it feels good do it, if something goes wrong blame it on men? Under the guise of “a woman’s right to choose” feminists justify the killing of the unborn as a human right. Feminists demand equality for LGBT’s but government dependency for women with children. Feminists want to be free from oppression but they engage in the oppression of others.

I ran away from the social welfare system of Amsterdam, the Netherlands that had hijacked my life. I left without my daughter because I didn’t want to expose her to the uncertainty. After four years of living in the shadows in New York City, I was introduced to this ugly reality when I turned to Amsterdam. During my New York stint I was able to make my own decisions, be self-reliant and function normally. For the sake of my daughter, I decided to return but I ended right back in cruel clutches of this system of dependency. A bunch of tormenters employed by the government again tried to dictate my life. This time, I came up-close and personal with women who despised women with children.

Making my own decisions was out of the question, I had to be re-educated on how things worked in the Netherlands. That’s when I became aware that the “single women with children had to be in the kitchen” dependent on the government from the cradle to the grave was the milestone of Dutch feminism. I had already debunked the false notion that I was incapable of living my life without being dependent on the welfare system. Women from Suriname in the Netherlands, accepted this oppression and social exclusion as normal but to me it was not. Things began to unravel slowly but surely because I defied the authority these women who tried to dictate my life. My defiance resistance to this oppression turned me into persona-non-grata.

When I complaint about the abuse the city Ombudsman, Jewish feminist and member of the Dutch labor Party (PVDA) asserted that, “women in my position had no choice, I had to put up, shut up, accept my condition and be thankful that I had enough to eat, no other government in the world took such good care of people.” Feminist Hedy D’Ancona who was Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport for the same party ignored my complaint and did nothing. PVDA Minister of Interior Ien Dales , forwarded my complaint to Hugo Fernandes Mendes the director of “minority affairs” at that, but who again didn’t do a thing. They all belonged to the same party and call themselves Social Democrats.

Hell broke loose when I filed a sexual harassment complaint against a male feminist was covered up and exposed the hypocrisy of the female feminists.  They took the lead to intimidate and prevent me from taking this misconduct and violence against my person to the public. According to them “I didn’t have the right to jeopardize their financial interest, and nobody would believe a Surinamese woman like me, my life would never be safe if I appeared on national television  .” Like the said I had to put-up and shut-up. 

A couple of years later Angela Davis was invited to Amsterdam. I attended two of the meetings to listen to the black feminist perspective on women’s issues. When the women’s organizations representatives in attendance were asked about the position of women in the Netherlands, I was expecting to hear from the experts but the only thing that came out of their mouth was, “we want to attend the U.N. Conference on Women in Beijing but we don’t have the money.” Their silence about the condition of women in the Netherlands was very telling.

In the Netherlands, Philomena Essed who wrote Everyday Racism and  Gloria Wekker whose Politics of Passion in which she glorifies lesbianism as part of Afro-Surinamese culture, perpetuating the age old stereotype of women of African descent in the diaspora as one-dimensional brainless creatures and published by Columbia University press, are considered experts on women’s issues. Like Angela Davies these two experts share the same political ideology as their white counter parts, which influences government policy and wreaks havoc on the lives of other women who are not feminist.

Since I very busy in the private sector, I really missed what was happening in women’s movement in the United States the first time I was in exile. When I came back to New York in 1999, however, I began paying attention what was governing the land of the free and home of the brave. The incestuous and elitist atmosphere at the events I, attended during the U.N. "Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century" in New York City, made me very uncomfortable. I didn’t know what to make of it but soon after I applied for political asylum I began to detect things that were familiar. It was a very nerve wrecking time but I couldn’t turn back the clock.

When Pim Fortuyn broke the conspiracy of silence and challenged the multicultural apartheid and radicalization of Muslims in the Netherlands, he automatically put those women in the spotlight….the Social Democrats and feminist cadre immediately went into damage control mode. They used Hirsi Ali as their poster child to look good and discredit Pim Fortuyn, who in essence challenged the liberal establishment for using the welfare system as a means to enslave women with children. Calling Pim Fortuyn, a racist, sexist, anti-immigrant, right-wing extremist, fascist, Dutch Hitler and danger to minorities was very disturbing as I watched the drama unfold from a distance. But this article The liberal as oppressor and victim by Dutch author Bart Croughs enabled me to get a grasp on this dynamic that I was still trying to understand.

“The liberals play different roles at the same time. Some only play the role of victim: a black lesbian woman in a wheelchair for instance is a fourfold victim. Others only play the role of oppressor: a healthy white heterosexual male is a fourfold oppressor. Many liberals play both roles. A white woman for instance: as a woman she plays the role of victim, and as a white she plays the role of oppressor. Here we see two souls living in the same chest.” “There are also people who don't wish to play their predetermined role: they refuse to play the game. The man who is predetermined to play the role of oppressor, but refuses to play his part, is banned from the intellectual community. He is called 'reactionary' or 'fascist'.” “For instance: a white homosexual man who as a homosexual plays the role of victim, but refuses as a white male to play the role of oppressor. He is half good, half reactionary. The liberal gets very confused by this kind of person: they don't fit into his system.” “But the liberal gets really scared by the people who are predetermined to play the role of victim, but bluntly refuse to do so.”

Pim Fortuyn was assassinated in the Netherlands on May 6, 2002 because of his political opinion and 6 months later my appeal for asylum in the United States was sabotaged for the same reason. He challenged the oppression of minority women in the Netherlands and I applied for political asylum in the United States to be free from that oppression. Christina Hoff-Sommers Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women, gave me insight into the women’s movement in the United States….very creepy. The 2004 March for Women’s Lives in Washington D.C. brought me face-to-face with the extremism of women in the US. The hatred for women with children was on full display….protesters told me to my face that they didn’t want to be run over by women with children. “There were no violent incidents, despite the Washington Post's Hank Steuver referring to it as "aggressive and even occasionally, almost delightfully, profane."

This 2005 New York Times article, was a continuation of the damage control after the unconscionable betrayal of Pim Fortuyn. The article glorifies Hirsi Ali who became a Dutch citizen by asylum fraud because of the special rights the sexual organ obsessed feminists put place for their favorite “victim” group….if this “Migrants from the former Dutch colony of Suriname were the problem immigrants of the 1970's, with high crime levels. Now they are classed among the success stories of Dutch immigration”, was true I would not be running away from the party, come to the United State and suffer the same indignities. Hirsi Ali who became a Dutch citizen by fraud had more legal protection in the Netherlands than I did thanks to the Social Democrats and the feminist cadre. She received her green card in a private ceremony months after Department of Homeland Security (USCIS) declared me to be a fugitive from the law who was evading sentencing. She became a U.S. citizen a week after (ICE) New York, threatened me with deportation. Confirming once again that in liberal democracy some lives are worth more than others and that freedom and liberty is only for some.

The Western world enabled Feminism to flourish into a corrupt and murderous cult, only interested in power and privileges for some women at the expense of others.

*The United Nations declared the Netherlands the number one country for gender equality in Europe.

* Hillary Clinton called “equal rights for women and girls the “great unfinished business of the 21st century.”  Who are the women and girls she is talking about? In the United States Hillary Clinton is considered the number one person to step up and advocate for the expansion of the unsustainable European style welfare state as explained in Uncle Sam’s Plantation by Star Parker that is already enslaving black women with children. In The Decline of Males, Lionel Tiger, posits the troubling paradigm which he labels “bureaugamy. A new trinity: a woman, a child, and a bureaucrat.”

As a mother of a beautiful daughter I am pro-family, in honor of the woman who brought me into this world. Since feminism doesn’t have my human dignity and well-being at heart, I should not be forced to pledge allegiance to this foreign and deviant agent of death and destruction. The slogan women’s right are human rights, is a hype to disguise the dictatorial women who pose as liberators of women while advocating everything that is adverse and detrimental to women who are not feminist.

Economic exploitation, oppression and enslavement through to the might of the government is the feminist war on women….!

 T

Contribution From My Readers: Gender Feminism Defined by Lisette Muntslag

"We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men." -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The origin of feminism can be traced back to the social changes in England and America in the 1800’s. Women who joined the first wave of feminism sought equal treatment and opportunity—to be recognized as human beings—not as property. In addition to seeking the vote, they campaigned against prostitution, child labor and the exploitation of the poor. This developing movement also contained a radical element that did not share a devotion to biblical principles. Feminists, such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, saw the Bible and Christianity as the real cause of women's oppression. Despite the early support of African American men such as Fredrick Douglass, suffragists like Stanton could not stomach the idea that black men might get the right to vote ahead of white women.

Stanton didn’t hesitate to voice her opinion that white women were superior to black men, and thus more deserving of the vote. “….the white women who led this movement came to trade upon their privilege as thedaughters (sisters, wives, and mothers) of powerful white men in order to gain for themselves some share of the political power those men possessed. They did not adequately identify ways in which that political power would not be accessible to poor women, immigrant women, and black women.” Yet despite the blatant racism and class bias of the women’s suffrage movement, black women, discouraged and betrayed, continued to work for their right to vote, both as blacks and as women, through their own suffrage organizations.”

The theories that white women were both the same as and different than white men opened up new social and political roles for white women as “civilizers” of the race, strengthening longstanding beliefs in (white) women’s moral superiority. The effort to establish the United States as an empire, both domestically and abroad, fundamentally influenced the direction and content of white feminist thought in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These twisted views marginalized the radicals from the women's movement—but their ideas did not die.

"Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice." -- Ti-Grace Atkinson

The 1960s spawned the second wave of feminism and a return to radical ideas—that targeted marriage and the traditional family. Women were told that domestic roles were inferior and restrictive; raising children was domestic oppression. Betty Friedan, a former revolutionary-turned housewife, beckoned women to a brave new world outside the home. Her message found a receptive audience in a generation infatuated with freedom and discarding traditional values.

“The nuclear family must be destroyed….Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process.” — Linda Gordon

Besides gender, white women also used the concept of ‘race and racism’as the weapon of choice to wage a more potent and successful ideological war against their societies. In 1969, Gloria Steinempublished an article, "After Black Power, Women's Liberation," which brought her to national fame as a feminist leader: "Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!" Gloria Steinem. Bringing the “black power”women into the plot the radical feminists could eliminate some opposition and achieve their goals.

“Right at the start, it is important to realize that both terms “race” and “racism” are social designations with no factual bases. Genetically, humanity is from one common gene pool. Respect for the inherent dignity and well-being of each member of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world. This important principle is enshrined in the United Nations Charter(1945), the Universal Declaration of Human Rights(1948), inspired by the Constitution of the United States. “Psychologically, the practice of grouping people and ascribing its members with certain attributes is a form of generalization.”

By applying generalization, the person/radical feminist/ Marxist, liberal progressive dictator avoids the tedious and practically impossible task of treating each person individually. “Racism is the misuse of generalization that some human groups employ to their advantage, even with the full knowledge of its unjust and EVIL nature.” The Radical Feminist cabal wants me to believe that this trait is typical of the “White Christian Male.” The widely accepted buzz words are racist, poor,  black people hating, conservative, right-wing extremist, fascist or Nazi.

Searching for the truth led to amazing discoveries about this fraud perpetrated against humanity and taught me that your enemy is the one who asserts moral superiority by constantly telling you who your enemy is.

As Catharine A. MacKinnon prominent legal feminist scholar,University of Michigan, & Yale, said: “Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.”

Marxism gave birth to the sinister collection of –isms that are now wreaking havoc on society and innocent human life worldwide. Radical gender feminism is pitting women against men at the detriment of women. The demands for equality and stop the violence against women campaigns arefocused on ‘white males’ as the main perpetrators of violence against women, while the obvious and insidious psychological violence against women and men by this perverted and tyrannical ideology is ignored….who is Hillary Clinton talking about when she say’s “Women Rights Are Human Rights”?....she is talking about white women because feminism is about the rights of, as Elizabeth Cady Stanton said ‘the superior sex’….white women! 

The media propaganda wants the unsuspecting public to accept today’s “feminism” as some moral and harmless women’s movement but "The totalitarian mind can reappear in some new and unexpected and seemingly innocuous and indeed virtuous form. [¶]... [I]t ... will [probably] put itself forward under the cover of a generous doctrine, humanitarian, inspired by a concern for giving the disadvantaged their fair share.” Jean Francois Revel, Democracy Against Itself (The Free Press 1993) pp. 250-251.

When we understand the demonic influence behind radical feminism, it is not surprising why the U.N. Conference on Women in Beijing (which promoted abortion, prostitution, child sex and pagan goddess worship) has been called" the most radical atheistic, anti-family crusade in the history of the world" (O'Leary, p. 173).

The above takes us into the mindset of radical feminists, since they are blatant in their extremism and quest for power nobody can claim “ wir haben es nicht gewusst”….we didn’t know about these  holier than thou predators of the “poor anddisadvantaged”….liberal progressive, double talking, racist anti-racist, equality demanding, thought policing, multicultural apartheid advocating, poverty pimping, race-hustling, dictatorial, charlatans posing as liberators…..

Notes:

·        Elizabeth Cady Stanton saw the bible and Christianity as the real cause of (white) women’s oppression?

·        She didn’t like the idea that“black men” would get the right to vote in advance of white women?

·        White women are the civilizers of their race and therefore ‘morally superior’ to all.

·        In their quest for power and more privileges white feminist wage an ideological war against the ‘powerful men’ who are in fact their sons, brothers, husbands, Fathers.

·        Gender Feminism reduced men and women to a penis and vagina in name of political ideology.

·        Both men and women are equal because human dignity knows no gender, but the collectivist nature of feminism does not respect the inherent dignity of the individual.

(Kindly Note This is unedited response from Lisette- I am soliciting your opinion. Find out more about lisset on https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisettem)