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What's the issue?

What's the issue?

Author: Tomas Yoko
Date: 2014-10-17
I am so glad I live in the 20th century, or is this the 21st century. Dazed and confused. If I was living in the dark ages, where people were beheaded for political whim, like in the year 1AD, then I am sure that if people heard my story of how a vision appeared before me in my dreams and told me what I am aout to tell you, then I would have been made into a religious cult leader and probably end up burnt at the stake by the political elite who felt threatened that my hugely popular status as a social leader was a threat to their power base and that I had to be taken care of, annihilated at best.

So here I am living in the enlightened age of the year of our Lord 2014, and I can safely presume that beheading and famine are all done with. Education has taken care of that threat for me and all I need to worry about is the letter of the law and not falling fowl of it.

OOOPS! How wrong can I be? Our barbaric behaviour of beheading has snuck up on us and our even more barbaric trait of warring on our own kind seems set to drive us back into the dark ages. I mean check it out, the sixth US Naval flagship entered the Black Sea and docked in Georgia, its mission is to promote "peace and security" in the region. The fifth ship was the USS Cole, a guided missile destroyer. "Peace and security."

One person calling out for peace and security was SABC Chairperson Zandile, she would rather not have had her CV made public. So much for transparency, and that from the Chair of the SABC. Broadcasting is a big thing these days, someone ought to tell her. Anyway, a little green man with large black expressionless eyes came to me in my dreams and told me that we would never ever find out what the spy tapes on the arms deal are hiding from the people of our great nation.

He did not wink at me because his eyes were so big and he didn't have eyelids, but he seemed to imply something without expression. He may have been insinuating that the Foot Soldiers, (definitely not a racist term, please guys, everything is not racist) were going to be laughed off as effortlessly as Helen and the even more effortlessly than the people's attempts to get our money back from the President who spent it on his luxurious swimming pool.

Well the little green man left me with so many questions as he launched himself in a puff of white smoke, blitzing past the trillions of tons of space junk we have orbiting this planet, we seem so intent on destroying, and off into the nether regions of somewhere out there.

Now if this were the year of our Lord 1AD, I could have become the next best religion, but sadly it is 2014 and reality is a little more realistic.