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 ID: 170792 Posts: 688 | Date: 2008-01-02 00:54 Happy New Year Jurgita!
Am beginning this new year requesting for everyone's prayers. While most of you
were celebrating, we Kenyans have been mourning...with people being killed,shops
vandalised n looted, houses burned, women n kids raped....and lots of other
post-election chaos.
It's scary, I must say. There isn't much you can do but you can say a short
prayer for Kenyans.
<crying> This is so hard to type, plz bear with any mistakes in the post.
May the Almighty protect us! |
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 ID: 199345 Posts: 391 | Date: 2008-01-02 05:54 HI Lucia,
Its kind of ironic to wish you Happy New Year under your present circumstances.
I didn't realise that Kenya was in turmoil. I'm so sorry to hear that. I hope
that the conflict gets resolved quickly and that you stay safe. I will be
checking the news and thinking about you.
Best wishes Mke |
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 ID: 194881 Posts: 25 | Date: 2008-01-02 08:52 thanks for bringing this to everyone's attention. you are in my thoughts. |
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 ID: 183878 Posts: 1182 | Date: 2008-01-03 10:15 The greatest curse, I've heard, is to live in interesting times. here in
Florida, when the big storms come, we are told that we should "hunker down."
That means to get in as safe a place as possible and try to survive the bad
weather.
Please, Lucia, hunker down!If I haven't been there, I'm still planning on going!
If I haven't done it, I've still got time to try! |
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 ID: 182744 Posts: 1748 | Date: 2008-01-03 14:19 Something she did not mention is that there is no place to hunker down. The
country's plight was first on National Public Radio on Sunday, hours after a
president with Kikuyu backing was reelected by a contested margin. Walls of
tenuous tribal trust built up since The United Kingdom carved out Kenya in the
1960's by dumping a bunch of tribes into non-native areas finally came tumbling
down. Another British mess.
Tribe members in a Presbyterian church were burned alive in the church. Over a
dozen people are known to have died. Kikuyu's have tried to go to other church's
hopefully for sanctuary or safe haven. Unlike the United States, Kenya has never
had a church burning in its history. So this was a shocker. NPR yesterday was
doing hourly live broadcasts from St. Patrick's Catholic Church in a western
Kenyan town where hundreds are holed up with just the pastor as a brick wall
between them and gangs that seem to be materializing out of nowhere but which
may have a Nairobi connection.
Kenya is a bright pearl in the middle of a yard of scrap. Unlike its five
neighboring countries, Kenya has seen astounding economic growth, out pacing its
neighbors with a yearly 5% economic gain. This is an outstanding increase,
unmatched actually by any other country on the planet in the last decade. There
was bound to be jealously and with Nairobi loyal to the losing presidential
candidate trouble started to brew.
It seems to have been expected at least in some part as the then upcoming Kenyan
elections received international watch dog committees attention from just after
Christmas. Public attention at least. Government briefing papers were coming in
from months ago.
It is a shame that some governments can see trouble brewing but have to stand
idly by while countries first try and settle their differences internally. Of
course, by international law, on country cannot enter another country, even to
stave off violence, without the invitation of the standing government. Unless
you declare war or send in UN peace keepers. And African nations are not too
pleased with UN Peace Keepers at the moment with hard evidence growing that UN
Peace Keepers in one African nation are entangled in both the drug and sex
trade. Who do you trust?
Most African nations are still feeling the ripple effect of fairly recent
British colonialism and the centuries long plundering of assets and natural
resources by European occupation. People were forcibly disrupted and thrown onto
bad land with property being divided up amount the UK's favorite local people
into the 1970s. Is it any wonder so many African nations are in turmoil? What
would you do if some foreign government told you to get off of your land, go
sleep in the brush, and gave your land to someone else?
In the United States you know for a fact that we would shoot the A-hole at our
door trying to take our house. And, in failing that, you know our children or
grand children would find a way, legal or otherwise, to take back what is
ours.
Unfortunately, a lot of the young people embroiled in this weeks conflict were
not born yet when the British partitioned out Kenya. It was like showing the
Arabs aside in the Mid-east to create Israel. But instead of one people, they
shove Jordanians, Iranians, Iraqis, Kuwaities, etc. into Israel with each other
and walk away.
Everyone around me seems to look at this as just another African nation self
destructing. And that is a real problem. They say 'Look at those dumb Africans
who cannot figure out how to stop killing each other'. Yet I say, Kenya has
pulled off a phenomenal miracle building a country with a long history of
cooperative trust when no other British forced nation state has remained
conflict free for so long. India could not do it. Pakistan, where the British
forced Muslim Indians to live certainly isn't doing it. The Mid East remains
embroiled almost as it was when 'Lawrence of Arabia' died tearing apart fragile
peace treaties.
Kenyans are a strong people who built their nation up to growing prosperity with
the cooperation and trust of many diverse peoples thrust from their lush
homelands. Kenya cannot falter and the industrialized world, built off of and
which continues to prosper following the plunder of Africa needs to do more than
watch and shake their heads. A proud nation, a strong people now need to hunker
down in fear. A favored member of our Jurgita team is scared witless and we do
nothing except send platitudes. Lucia shall be safe by our faith in God and
action as people, fellow human beings who cannot turn their backs on good
people. At no time is our goodwill as human beings tested so much as during
crisis. My voice and the voice of my government is small, but all of us pushing
together should move governments to act. And guns are not what is needed.
Kenya is a glorious marvel. A diamond in the rough that will survive this
turmoil and hopefully without any more loss of life. We cannot ignore our
brothers and sisters. Have faith that the universe will unfold as it should  |
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 ID: 207451 Posts: 33 | Date: 2008-01-03 14:34 This is just tragic, to see what the world has come to even on our own doorstep
let alone other places in the world is beyond anyones belief,
Christmas is ment to be a happy time but for a large majoity it is the worse
time of the year, violence, suicide, depression the list goes on. I hope people
remember that it is at this time of year when people are ment to reach out to
others in need and yet all i see is a whole lot of people being materialistic
and ignoring its true meaning i.e being together, helping one another, to allow
everybody to try and have the best possible christmas. Noone need be alone at
christmas, noone need feel left out or worthless, everybody needs somebody
you are all in my thoughts and prayers,
God bless |
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 ID: 188071 Posts: 304 | Date: 2008-01-03 16:38 Carib Goodies:
. . .
Something she did not mention is that there is no place to hunker down.
. . .with Nairobi loyal to the losing presidential candidate trouble started to
brew.
. . . Who do you trust?
Unfortunately, a lot of the young people embroiled in this weeks conflict were
not born yet when the British partitioned out Kenya. It was like showing the
Arabs aside in the Mid-east to create Israel. But instead of one people, they
shove Jordanians, Iranians, Iraqis, Kuwaities, etc. into Israel with each other
and walk away.
Kenyans are a strong people. . .
Lucia shall be safe by our faith in God and action as people, fellow human
beings who cannot turn their backs on good people. At no time is our goodwill as
human beings tested so much as during crisis. My voice and the voice of my
government is small, but all of us pushing together should move governments to
act. And guns are not what is needed.
. . .
Standing Ovation ...KARL--I couldn't agree more
...GUNS are not needed...
Roses;. MOST DEFINITELY!!!
BUT. as long as wanton lunatic leverage is loose...
& unless partial labotomy is a reward for those who instigate such horrific
trauma,
guess what's left, outside the Jack*ss-es entangling the political BOXED
ARENA?
It's time to commensurate the common need for
EHP'n'R2D
Every Human's Plight & RIGHT to DIGNITY,
by Resurrecting the Lennon PEACE theory...
with a Rite above all else, to consolidate a
WORLD WIDE IMPACT, WE NEED TO "COME TOGETHER", right now, more than ever
b4>
For the onslaught of implication chiseled by those calibrating force to obtain
mental orgasm via sadistic hedonistic advances, stemming largely from the
fluctuation of imbedded personal & political objectives, anywhere on the face of
the global plane:
The triggering of psychological & physical submission by 'detinating' the
fugitive foreplay
grenade-like source of oppression... is a monsterous way of flexing power.
Somewhere I once heard, "you can't have a war without weapons."
I said, "Every war starts by the engaging of mind clashin' & tongue bashin'--
Weapons are thus a result reflection of what is already manifest in the internal
soul's
sub-file collection. Without a root of strife, the scoffer can't roam the
rampant range to dictate the psychological knife...There's a seed inside the
chamber, however it got there--Either through superimposed imposition or
self-manufacturing that expounds the exponential X-triggers that ricochet an
external 'silver' bullet. This is where "Y" & "WHY" is no longer the permanent
positive on the upscale right placed on the relational graph."
Perhaps a pc revamp in Neurological transmittors & reduction of dopamine
elevation might pave the neuro pathway to preparation-- (a) no-H & no
COURT-i.e.-Zone--
as in detain the hostility, & disable the mark of the citizen(s) CAIN to detain
the masses through the moldy "bread of tears."
There will be a unified force birthing to support the sanctuary for those in
NEED of Solice!
HUGE Cyber HUGZzz to uplift your spirits for better DAYS ahead, LUCIA!
HOLD FAST!
luv, TEK'Hair' TODAY, (Cy)  .:. NET=---> Tomorrow!  |
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ID: 170792 Posts: 688 | Date: 2008-01-05 01:43 Yay! Lucia can afford to smile today.
Thanks to all for ya prayers! The situation is slowly getting back to normal and
am glad to be breathing
Once again...thanks alot for ur concern. May u all be blessed. |
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