WHY AFRICAN DICTATORS ARE MENTALLY ILL – DIAGNOSTIC IN 6O SECONDS

If you watched the latest Jerry Seinfeld’s episode (aired on December 30, 2015) just for comedy, the laughter would only last 19 minutes. However, if you are a human right activist and a democracy advocate, you will conclude that 60 seconds of that interview (minute 13:40 - 14:40) might change the history of the African continent. Once Africans realize that they have been led not only by a bunch of felons, but by a bunch a crazy felons, i.e. criminals who should have been locked up into psychiatric facilities rather than being left free to insanely rule over millions, then tyranny would come to end in most of Sub-Saharan Africa. Here is the link to the full video: http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/president-barack-obama-just-tell-him-you-re-the-president.

The 60 seconds run from minute 13:40 to minute 14:40. Watch carefully and ponder on powerful words used in that 60-second segment.

Link to full Video:

http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/president-barack-obama-just-tell-him-you-re-the-president

Watch from minute 13:40 to minute 14:40.
Excerpts:
Jerry Seinfeld: How many world leaders do you think are just completely out their mind? (Translation: How many world leaders do you think are just completely crazy?)
Barack Obama: A pretty sizable percent!
Jerry Seinfeld: How many of these people you must meet, then you keep chatting and you see in the eyes, you look into the eyes and you go: "Oh this guy is gone!" (Translation: mentally ill, completely)

Barack Obama: And part of what happens is that these guys…I think the longer they stay in office, the more likely that is to happen.
Jerry Seinfeld: Of course, of course, they lose it, they lose it…
Barack Obama: And at a certain point, your feet hurt and you're having trouble peeing and you have absolute power!...
Powerful 60 seconds where privilege, money, power, and toxic effect of power on judgment are discussed.
As a new year 2016 approaches with African tyrants clinging to power and re-running for president, Africans must carefully watch these 60 seconds to build a sense of urgency to end tyranny for good and start building nations respectful of human rights and human dignity.


P.S. If the link moves in the future, you can still watch the full video at http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/31/461583459/seinfeld-and-obama-driving-a-stingray-and-getting-coffee


Other links:
https://profiles.google.com/118241085854924540090/buzz
http://projects.voanews.com/african-presidents/
http://www.voanews.com/content/obama-appears-comedian-seinfeld-web-series/3126440.html

http://www.voanews.com/content/ugandas-museveni-re-elected-president/3199595.html
http://www.voanews.com/content/president-zuma-apologizes-for-spending-scandal/3265745.html
http://www.voanews.com/content/cameroon-opposition-protest-president-biya/3267016.html
http://www.voanews.com/content/new-benin-president-talon-sworn-in-/3273132.html
http://www.voanews.com/content/african-presidents-giants-club-summit-pledge-stop-elephant-poaching/3308828.html


To find out how those "career criminals behind presidential desks" (I am the first human being to coin this expression)  have ripped off their own countries and foreign taxpayers, visit my previous blog posts where I discussed the absurdity of foreign aid. You might also want to read the Panama Papers that have flooded the Internet depicting those criminals' modus operandi to rip off their own citizens and naïve foreign taxpayers. Click below for the latest from the World Bank:  

http://www.voanews.com/content/world-bank-director-panam-papers-revelations-hurt-economies/3286249.html


(04/30/2016)
Those interested in the historical connections between the dictatorships of Rwanda, Uganda, and the two Congos and international terrorist organizations, the following links show how African tyrannies are a serious threat to world's security:


https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/12/30/digging-up-congos-dirty-gems/1cfa01f6-e23f-46d0-94f4-64d95c971517/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/911507.stm
https://www.globalwitness.org/en/archive/lebanon-diamond-imports-republic-congo-overshadow-kimberley-bid/
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/25/world/kisangani-journal-where-war-is-forever-the-diamonds-are-cheap.html

My message has always been this clear: dictators and dictocrats are the most serious threat to our civilization. The civilized world and foreign taxpayers must stop baby-sitting Africans tyrants. In light of the threats African dictators and dictocrats pose to humankind, it is time not only to degrade but eradicate tyranny across the African continent by considering all means necessary and taking concrete and targeted actions against the enemies of humanity, i.e., those career criminals behind presidential desks in Africa.

TOWARDS THE BLUEPRINT FOR DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE IN AFRICA

The people of Burkina Faso have raised the bar by setting a standard for democracy and governance in Africa:

(1) No impunity for any individual who committed a crime against the state through the seizure of power by force, rebellion, fraudulent elections, tailored constitutional changes to remain on power to avoid national and/or international prosecution, or any other means including political and financial alliances with domestic and foreign criminals to initiate or perpetuate tyranny;

(2) Individuals and political parties that promoted tyranny must be barred for life from participating in politics and holding positions in Government;

(3) Politically exposed persons and organizations, who were, have been, or are directly or indirectly affiliated with tyrannical regimes, should also be barred from politics for life;

(4) All foreign governments whose anti-money laundering laws have been violated by African dictators, tyrants, and their associates have the moral obligation to take the lead in prosecuting these corrupt individuals, even if they are still on power. Public shaming pays off and now is the right time to show support to the African people by taking and publicizing targeted actions.

P.S. I first published this opinion at the Voice of America's website on October 2, 2015

http://www.voanews.com/content/burkinabe-want-justice-after-coup-leader-surrender/2988506.html#hash=relatedInfoContainer

Other reflections on the same topic can be found at: 
http://www.voanews.com/content/democracy-activists-push-against-african-autocrats/2999997.html

http://www.voanews.com/content/burkina-faso-freezes-assets-of-failed-coup-leaders/2980356.html

http://www.voanews.com/content/burkina-faso-coup-leaders-agree-to-peace-deal/2975088.html

http://www.voanews.com/content/burkina-faso-coup-leader-president-pm-safe/2968883.html

http://www.voanews.com/content/nigerian-president-promises-to-recover-stolen-funds/2839578.html

http://www.voanews.com/content/burkina-faso-scrambles-to-pick-leader-before-deadline/2522552.html

OU ETAIENT CES PARVENUS DU POUVOIR ET OU SONT-ILS ?

 Où étaient les Kabila, père et fils, Boshab, Lambert Mende, Kengo  et compagnie et tous les autres opportunistes et parvenus du pouvoir quand je dirigeais des manifestations publiques contre le régime Mobutu à Lubumbashi en février et mars 1982 ?

Où étaient-ils quand, comme leader et à la tête de plus de 2.000 étudiants protestataires, j’affrontai en mars 1982 des centaines des militaires de Mobutu, lesquels, armés jusqu’aux dents, pouvaient à tout moment pousser sur la gâchette et causer un bain de sang au vu et au su de Nestor Mpeye Nyango, Mandungu Bula Nyati et toute la clique mobutiste de l’époque, y compris un certain Vundwawe Te Pemako, prédecesseur de M. Mpeye Nyango à l’UNILU ?

Où étaient ces parvenus du pouvoir quand je décidai de continuer le combat contre la tyrannie à Kinshasa, au fief même de Mobutu avant son auto-exil à Gbadolite? Où étaient-ils quand je m’opposai au Sénateur belge Robert Close en direct et en face des caméras de la télévision nationale et internationale contre le déploiement des missiles Pershing sur le territoire du Zaïre ? Sans aucun doute, certains de ces parvenus du pouvoir m’applaudirent au Palais du Peuple à Kinshasa, d’autres me serrèrent la main à la sortie et me félicitèrent pour mon courage et encore d’autres s’interrogèrent  comment j’osai prononcer le mot le plus banni du discours politique au Zaire et devant la télévision nationale et internationale: dictature.

Où ont-ils étés tout ce temps que je sensibilise la communauté internationale contre la criminalité transnationale organisée dont les Congolais sont victimes des mains de ces petits diables en forme humaine (« little devils in human shape ») qui dirigent le Rwanda et l’Ouganda, de ces mauvais Congolais qui sont toujours prêts à trahir leur peuple et leur nation pour quelques milliers ou pour quelques millions de dollars en pots-de-vin et de ces investisseurs hors la loi se nourrissant, comme des parasites, d’abondantes richesses du Congo ?

Où étaient ces parvenus du pouvoir à l’époque et où sont-ils actuellement?

P.S. Général Robert Close était venu à Kinshasa pour convaincre le régime Mobutu à installer les missiles Pershing. Le dictateur autorisa la réunion avec les militaires et la diffusion télévisée et en direct de la conférence au Palais du Peuple. En fait, le tyrant avait besoin de ces missiles pour prolonger son régime durant la fameuse Guerre Froide. Erreur: celle-ci s'acheminait lentement et sûrement vers sa fin!

OPEN LETTER TO WORLD LEADERS

Dear World Leaders,

Human trafficking is the tip of the iceberg of a colossal monster known as transnational organized crime. What really lies beneath is a vast corruption network that has impeded human development and denied Africans the first two basic needs in Maslow’s hierarchy.  

From the utilitarian perspective, is there any African country where the greatest number of natives have their physiological needs met and feel safe? The answer is a categorical NO. That place is hard to find for African “Hitlers” have chosen to rein terrorizing their people, violating their fundamental human rights, and posing a serious threat to world security.

It is no secret that, following the non-stop looting in the colonial era, most of Africa has fallen for the past five decades into the hands of dictators, tyrants, and career thieves, whom I often call “little devils in human shape” or “career criminals behind presidential desks”. These are the infamous street criminals who prey directly on Africans to feed invisible mafias around the world with stolen goods, dubious contracts, a wide range of other illicit goods and services, and transfers of billions of dollars every year from the countries they help loot!

Death by hundreds drowned in the Mediterranean Sea and xenophobia in South Africa are the two events that will shape forever what I dare call “Africa’s Civil Rights Movement”. They have sent a clear message to the international community that those rights will be attained only with global cooperation to degrade, dismantle, and destroy those little devils coated in human skin who have victimized millions of Africans and forced them to flee abroad to meet at least two of their basic necessities: physiological and safety needs.

Now is the time to think out of the box and act intelligently by supporting Africa’s Civil Rights Movement. Focusing on the tip of the iceberg while ignoring the root of the problem will only achieve one thing: temporarily eliminating the symptoms and not solving the real problem.

P.S. I published this article on April 22, 2015 at:

 http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/04/20/the_mediterranean_migrant_crisis_by_the_numbers/

http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/04/22/end-poverty-stifle-happiness-mdgs-mediterranean-eritrea/

AFRICANOMICS: THE PRICE TAG OF AFRICAN TYRANNIES

When the current unnamable dictators of Rwanda and Uganda invaded the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1996 to kill, rape, and loot DRC’s natural resources, nobody had a clue that the United Nations peacekeeping force sent to the DRC in 1999 would cost foreign taxpayers in the developed world 1.3 billion dollars a year and for at least the following 16 years.

Now let’s do the numbers. The United Nations have spent over 21 billion dollars in the last 16 years to run a force of 22,000  uniformed personnel and carry out a series of military operations there to stop the looting and killings sponsored by Rwanda and Uganda. If we have to put a partial price tag of these two tyrannical regimes, 1.3 billion dollars per year (roughly over 21 billion dollars inflation adjusted for the past 16 years) is the most conservative figure to start with.

Source:  http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/missions/monusco/facts.shtml)

To this initial price tag of just two African tyrannies, which by far is only a tip of the iceberg, we must add human lives lost as a result of wars sponsored by Rwanda and Uganda inside the D.R. Congo.  Again, there is no hidden secret here: those wars have caused the death of over 5.4 million Congolese, mostly in eastern Congo. Several thousands of women were raped by Rwandan troops, Ugandan troops, the DRC government troops, and rebels armed by Rwanda and Uganda. Congo’s natural resources have been systematically looted in the meantime. Organized crime at unprecedented proportions in recent world history!

The list of atrocities by these two career criminals behind the presidential desks of Rwanda and Uganda has been well documented by the United Nations and other independent sources.  Here is just a sample of what the world knows so far:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/794496.stm

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/16/world/rwanda-and-uganda-battling-to-control-key-city-in-congo.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/11/28/f-vp-macinnes-rae-congo.html?cmp=rss

http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?sum=574&p1=3&p2=3&case=116&p3=5

http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/2012/843

www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/CD/DRC_MAPPING_REPORT_FINAL_EN.pdf

No doubt, the price tag of African tyrannies is too high for foreign taxpayers and for Africans themselves. We are dealing with career criminals behind presidential desks and the civilized world can no longer afford subsidizing African tyrannies directly or via the United Nations.  

AFRICA'S PROBLEM = CAREER CRIMINALS (AKA DICTATORS) + DOMESTIC ORGANIZED CRIME + TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME

I have repeated scores of time: Africa’s organized crime dwarfs Sicily’s Mafia to the point Mafiosi look like Mediterranean pygmies. That organized crime has hijacked Africa for 55 years, impeded human development and reduced hundreds of millions to misery is no secret to anyone. Independent international organizations, including the United Nations, have published reports on the scavenging behaviors of Africa’s career criminals behind presidential desks. That species, with its corrosive stomach acid, is not ready to stop feeding on Africa’s fragile economies. Ask any African and you will hear the same response: politics is the privileged venue to become rich. Translation: if you join national organized crime via politics, chances are you will not starve! That is the source of Africa’s tragedy.

It is Africans’ sole responsibility to devise creative solutions to get rid of their career criminals behind presidential desks. The task is not an easy one given the corruption web tyrants have woven for over 55 years and the career criminals’ survival instincts. Given Africa’s limited influence on world politics and transnational organized crime, Africans must focus on the parts of the equation they have control over. In other words, it is their responsibility to (1) set clear goals, i.e., dismantle and destroy domestic organized crime and its many identifiable criminals, including those career criminals behind presidential desks; (2) devise strategies and tactics to eliminate all forms of tyranny; (3) carry out those strategies and tactics to create dictatorship-free zones across the continent; (4) built institutions that strengthen the rule of law, democracy, and human rights.

I HAVE A DREAM, TOO

I have a dream that someday my fellow Africans will finally gain their independence, for they have never been independent in the last 500 years from slavery, colonialism, neocolonialism, Cold War dictatorships, and Post-Cold War tyrannies that have sprung like deadly viruses across the African continent.

 

I have a dream that someday my fellow Africans will learn that independence and freedom go hand in hand and that an independent people is also a free people. I have a dream that my fellow Africans will keep burning the torch of liberty, teaching their posterity to always wipe any seed of tyranny from its very onset. 

I have a dream that someday my fellow Africans will break the bands of slavery, yeah, the bands of captivity and that they will free themselves from their masters, yeah, those “career criminals behind presidential desks” who confiscate power, crush opposition, plunder, murder and reduce hundreds of millions of human beings to misery.

I have a dream that, like the Hero carved in marble, my fellow Africans will chant in unison: “Free at last, free at last!”

Jean Kapenda, 01/14/2015

 

Republished on 1/19/2015 @ http://www.voanews.com/content/us-observes-martin-luther-king-jr-day/2604153.html#hash=relatedInfoContainer

REDUCING AFRICAN DICTATORS TO NOTHINGNESS: A MORAL RESPONSIBILITY

They have ruled their countries with an iron fist, scammed foreign taxpayers with billions of dollars in foreign aid, tailored their countries constitutions to fit their animalistic and primitive tendencies, enslaved hundreds of millions of human beings whose only dream is the word “freedom”. They didn’t stop there. They have deliberately killed millions, of which over 5,000,000 only in Eastern Congo, when Rwanda’s dictator Paul Kagame  and Uganda’s tyrant Yoweri Museveni sent in troops to loot, rape, and kill innocents. The United Nations spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to document those atrocities against humanity. However, nothing has happened. The evil, yes those ugly beasts and other similar creatures (aka dictators), is still walking free, unloosed.

Now, here is how we can put a leash on those African monsters and reduce them to nothingness: (1) Expand the “no-red-carpet policy for African tyrants” already in place in many industrialized nations; (2) Increase sanctions against African tyrants to include freezing assets, travel ban, and limiting or eliminating foreign aid for countries ruled by dictators; (3) Press the International Criminal Court (ICC) to charge African tyrants whose human rights violations are well-documented (Kenyatta’s  appearance at the ICC being a successful ballon d’essai that “African career criminals behind presidential desks”- a new expression I have coined-  can still be prosecuted while in office); (4) Take action on the United Nations’ reports on atrocities committed by African tyrants, intelligence reports on human rights violations by African dictators, and other well-documented findings by independent sources.

Below is just the tip of the iceberg:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/794496.stm

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/16/world/rwanda-and-uganda-battling-to-control-key-city-in-congo.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/11/28/f-vp-macinnes-rae-congo.html?cmp=rss

http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?sum=574&p1=3&p2=3&case=116&p3=5

 

http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/2012/843

www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/CD/DRC_MAPPING_REPORT_FINAL_EN.pdf

 May this 2015 be a year where most Africans will finally be given a break from tyranny and other forms of oppression by the forces of the evil!  May African tyrants be reduced to nothingness through concerted actions by individuals, groups, and governments that champion human rights and respect for human dignity!