Museveni’s tyranny is the best for Uganda
By Charles Ochen Okwir
1st Nov 2010
Tyrannical rule can only be maintained by the will of all, or of the majority of the people. It is also true that only the will of all, or the majority, can destroy it. But the big question is: How can the idea of liberty be instilled into them?
I have to reply that no one has the means to produce, in a short space of time, such an effect. In countries where tyranny has been rooted for many years, it will take many more before public opinion lays it bare for all to see. While there may be no quick-fix remedies to tyrannical rule, I think there are also many other remedies that lie within easy reach all citizens; however obscure it might seem to them.
When men of fierce and “cold steel” freedom loving spirits are deeply shocked by a tyrant’s outrages against a people, they can unite at once and cause the oppressed people to change their attitudes and bring about an end to despotic rule.
Strangely enough, it is also true that the most efficacious and swift measures against tyrannical rule lie in the hands of the tyrant himself. Let me explain: The hard and bitter truth that tyrants must absorb is that tyrannical cruelty, constant injustice, plundering, and atrociously corrupt practices on the part of the tyrant himself are actually the surest remedies against a tyrannical regime.
The more villainous the tyrant is, the more he abuses his unlimited authority, the better. That will generate hope among people to resent his ways. The biggest favour a tyrant can do to the cause of liberty, justice, and democracy is to make sure the majority experience his violence, evil, and injustice.
Ordinary people need to be given grievous and undeniable proof of a tyrant’s excesses. When that happens, then the same majority will need very little persuading to rise up in defence of their freedoms. From then on, the ordinary man and woman will make it his or her business to put an end to the tyrant’s violent and irrational form of government.
So if there are any “good Ministers” still left in Museveni’s government, then the best thing they can do to help rid Uganda of despotic rule would be to advice Museveni to continue with his evil ways. In fact, they could even take it a step further and instigate him to indulge his violent nature to the fullest. That way, they will easily render Museveni’s person, authority, and atrocious excesses hateful and intolerable to everyone.
And I use the words “person” and “authority” in the above context very advisedly because a private indiscretion by the person of the tyrant will only injure the tyrant himself. A tyrant’s official authority on the other hand affects the people as a whole.
Therefore if a patriotically wicked Minister succeeds in luring Museveni into both a private indiscretion and an excessive use of his official authority, then that will bring both the tyrant and his tyrannical rule into disrepute and possibly destroy both at the same time.
Trouble is that such “good” and “patriotically wicked Ministers” of resolute character are rare to find, especially in a country like Uganda where the tyrant has successfully bullied them into selfish submission; forcing them to accept the worst excesses as normal simply because it seldom affects them as individuals!
So, for their selfishness and lack of altruism, our “good Ministers” in the tyrannical regime will prefer to allow the tyrant to become cruel and evil only insofar as to render the people wretched but never to rouse them into fury and vengeance against the tyrant.
That task, a comrade recently told me, must fall to the “good” ordinary men and women who “support” the tyrant but are outside his “eating” circles. These are the people who have no “groceries goodwill” to protect. Top among these, he said, are the poorly paid junior cadres who implement the tyrant’s election rigging plans. “…Let them give him back the 75% of the vote that he stole in 1996”, he said.
And he wasn’t done yet: “…Let us encourage them to wear his “bisanja” all day long and into bed. Let’s encourage them to sing his praise songs to his full intoxication. Like the brilliant “Kiboko Squad” patriots, let’s also encourage the army to attack those silly opposition supporters whenever they try to organise any “unpatriotic” political rally at which The Correct Line is not towed”.
To Kayihura’s militarised police force, my friend had this piece of advice too: “…If you want to get noticed and get promoted by the Ssabagabe’s chief political agent in the police force, then raise your baton high and crack some FDC heads wide open. After all, they are fools. How can they not see that the Ssabagabe and his family spend sleepless nights making “sacrifices” for them! END. Please log into www.ugandacorrespondent.com every Monday to read our top stories and anytime mid-week for our news updates.
