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institutions as acts of violence.
It is sickening to note that acts of illegal demonstration by students of uncouth behaviour in some learning institutions are treacherously and shamelessly attributed as a perpetration of violence in Zimbabwe.
What boggles the mind is the fact that violence is falsely given a legal meaning by a political party whose secretary general Tendai Biti, party spokesperson Douglas Mwonzora and the party’s legal attorney Beatrice Mtetwa are legal pundits who have been in legal practice for donkey years.
One wonders whether it is the propensity of practicing puppetry and treasonous acts that makes legal men behave in a buffoonish manner as evidenced by Biti, Mwonzora, and Mtetwa. The questions that arise from such treacherous acts are: do these legal pundits understand the functions of the police? Are they not deliberately and inanely taking Zimbabweans for a ride? Do they not understand how to separate political idiocy from opposition politics?
What is their understanding of Sadc and emergency summit on Zimbabwe which Timba globe trotted calling for? Do they ever view Sadc with the revolutionary respect it deserves or they view it in light of their puppetry ventures they are involved in? The anarchist MDC-T is advised to read the works of Thomas Hobbes on the nature of political power and obligation. In his classic text, “Leviathan”, Thomas Hobbes was not “optimistic about man’s ability to rub along nicely with each other in the absence of a visible power to set as a restraint on man’s natural passions”. The MDC-T’s passion for anarchy cannot be tolerated.
Thus, governance institutions such as the police, in a sovereign country, just like Zimbabwe, act as the visible power to set as a restraint on man’s ego of causing anarchy. Hobbes further states that in the absence of state governing institutions such as the police, “there will be war of all against all”. What this means is that a state needs security institutions in order to enforce its governance processes.
Once an electoral process has voted individuals into executive power, those individuals are mandated through a constitution to make sure that peace and stability prevails and they must be respected by everyone regardless of their political persuasion. No country in the world would allow the situation of warlords such as happened in Somalia to be tolerated.
It is Hobbes’s claim that “we are also predisposed to fear death which means necessarily we want to avoid a war of all against all” that seems to be a mantra for the MDC-T. John Locke, in his classic work on the nature of a government asks “whether men are so foolish that they take care to avoid what mischief may be done them by polecats or foxes, but are content, nay think its safety, to be devoured by lions.”
In this writers’ understanding John Locke makes people to appreciate the outcomes of their intended actions before involving themselves in such actions. One wonders whether the MDC-T does a critical analysis of whatever they intend to treacherous do and appreciates the damage that comes with such doings. Most of the legion of European Union embassies in Zimbabwe seem to have given nod to the MDC-T dossier paper and its diplomatic crusade that it recently took within the Sadc region. The questions that arise are:
How did the EU, if what is rumoured that the MDC-T diplomatic crusade got their blessings, view the Sadc’s political and intellectual standing in regard to this treacherous MDC-T venture? Was it not foolhardy of the EU to allow such a diplomatic stillbirth to happen: even in the interest of wanting to reclaim what they term lost EU interests in Zimbabwe using the MDC-T? Fellow citizens, diplomacy in simple terms is meant to create good relationships among nations. It is also, in simple terms, meant to mend sour relationships between nations and allow any adversaries to re-establish cordial relationships.
The questions that arise are; is the EU creating any of the above through the avalanche of its embassies in Zimbabwe? How does the EU expect to foster good relationships with Zimbabwe when most of its embassies side with one political party in the GPA? Is there any good claim that the EU is the champion of democracy when they exhibit clear and undisputable unfair democratic practices?
Fellow Zimbabweans, the whole facade explains why institutions such as the Law Society of Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights were both quiet about the scandalous behaviour of their fellow. One would have thought that these legal institutions would have sanctioned its learned lawyers from tarnishing the image of these institutions.
Where on earth has a lawyer gone to the scene of an incident and started behaving like a police officer by unlawfully and nicodemusly giving instructions to the police? Is it the application of law that lawyers now give direct command to the police? When all this happens in the eyes and ears of the LSZ and ZLHR would one be wrong to question their integrity and objectivity? It seems to have become common knowledge that the ZLHR only speaks out when actions have been taken against persons viewed to have committed offences that violates the interests of Zimbabwe. Examples of such outbursts happened when the police arrested members of an NGO for possessing fake voter’s roll.
Another example is when the Director of ZPP (J Mukoko) was charged by the police for illegally importing radios and for evading payment of customs taxes for the same radios as required by law.
Panganai Kahuni is a political socio-economic commentator
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