Opinion / Columnist
MDC-T's Open Palm of Treachery
17 Aug 2011 at 14:22hrs | Views
THE waving of an open palm in a church sermon is a sign of passing a Godly message denoting peace. The open palm is used, internationally, at bus stops, airports, roadsides, and at the end of family yards to bid farewell to friends on a journey: indeed on a good journey for that matter.
An open palm in Christianity denotes submission to God, showing him our willingness and readiness to be spiritually served.
The open palm is also used for welcoming or greeting people as they shake hands and hug.
However, this symbol that denotes peace, stability and hospitality has been hijacked from places of worshiping, places of biding farewell, places of welcoming, and places of greetings to the streets of violence by the MDC-T who has tried to use it in a treacherous fashion to bid farewell to our sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity.
The open palm has been used to symbolise loss of our culture, "Unhu hwedu huri kuzvidzwa nembama yechinja."
This writer hopes that progressive churches will challenge the use of their peace and worshiping symbol for treasonous acts by MDC-T. It is not surprising that an asymmetric concept is manufactured by the American CIA and the British MI6 intelligence agencies, and transmitted through the private media.
Such media houses in Zimbabwe are said to be heavily financed by the British and Americans to advance the treacherous work of the open hand "mbama."
The private media has gone wild "kuita chimbwa mupengo chaiko."
Most of the pracademia would agree with me that there is a barrage of headlines that are interchanged by the private media as they carry out their attacks on Zimbabwe. Put all the privately-owned
newspapers together, compare, analyse, and evaluate the headlines, and you would agree that the headlines differ in wording but have the same theme and intent.
The intent is to continuously, in an asymmetric fashion, position the open palm as the merchant of democracy.
One wonders where they get the meaning of democracy, which denotes sanctions. As such, both the private media and the open palm continue to find reasons why Zimbabwe is under sanctions.
Due to the brown envelops they get to fatten their pockets; they apply asymmetric language to deceive the population.
Dear Zimbabweans, for how long are we going to be used as cannon fodder in an economic environment where the "chinja" leadership is filthy rich?
The open palm has been used to bid farewell to the good tenants of democracy.
Honestly, if the tenets of democracy are to apply, sanctions cannot be the vehicle. The same open palm is now seen as anti-indigenous and anti-empowerment.
A sad story, brothers and sisters!
The open palm that should only be used to advance godly messages is being used for satanic objectives where the sick cannot access drugs, the hungry cannot access food, and the nation cannot have a national currency as a result of sanctions.
By the way, the open palm believes, in an asymmetric fashion, that inflation, unemployment, low industrial capacity utilisation, and the poor condition of civil servants was caused by bad governance and autocratic rule.
The question to all is: Since the open palm joined the Inclusive Government (IG), what has it done to improve the economy apart from driving Mercedes Benz, boycotting government activities from time to time, or going on strike and biding farewell to national events? Zimbabweans, let's emancipate our minds and use our heads.
It's time we see the dirtiness of the open palm. It's time we understand the asymmetric language used by the open palm to sway us from defending our heritage.
The American ambassador in Harare who now can easily be assumed to be the patron of the open palm wants us to forget the past and only view the future.
A Major in the American military, he knows pretty well that to win peace you study war. The asymmetric lecture that he gave at SAPES was meant for us to forget our colonial history, forget our liberation history, and forget how we attained independence. So that we can easily be neo-colonised!
The open palm is used by the MDC-T to welcome our erstwhile colonizers. They troop in waves to go and receive instruction to use in the coming general election.
This is why the PM can address a rally at Chegutu and be reported by The Standard (August 7-13, 2011, page 4) to have said that "MDC-T youths vow to violently disrupt any election called by President Mugabe before the implementation of an election roadmap."
In the same paper on page 7, there is a long message written as a Heroes and Defence Forces day message. Here the PM seemed to demonstrate his disrespect for the functions of government and advancing issues of a parallel kitchen cabinet.
It is clear that both he and the MDC-T do not respect the Defence Forces and the Heroes Acre. The PM was right to say: "Defence Forces are sworn in to uphold the country's constitution."
However, in like manner, the PM is also sworn in to defend jealously the sovereignty of the country. But we haven't seen him campaign vigorously for the lifting of sanctions. Is it because his party called for them in the first place, as part of its regime change agenda?
Reading between the lines, one finds that the PM's Heroes and Defence Forces message was meant to paint him as a democratic philosopher.
But he is far from one; as at the end of the message he seems to suggest that our heroes liberated the country for it to be sold back through treachery.
This writer hopes that Zanu-PF MPs will move a motion in Parliament asking the PM and his MDC-T cabinet ministers to redeclare their loyalty to Zimbabwe and the constitution, and as required by the GPA, to stop treasonously rubbishing Zimbabwe on the Studio 7 radio station.
If the PM is a democrat, he should be the epicentre of the defence and protection of the people who are dying of diseases, or are unemployed as a result of the economic sanctions imposed by the EU and America at the behest of MDC-T.
This writer strongly feels that the PM must walk the talk. It is my view that before the PM talks about "international best practice", he must understand that we need to first embrace our national best practice.
We need to have a unity of purpose first. International best practise only comes after national best practice is respected. Security forces the world over do not tolerate treasonous and treacherous activities.
Thus no political party, including the Zanu-PF, should engage in treasonous and treacherous activities, such as making people suffer, industries close, and patients die as a result of sanctions.
People must understand that no amount of asymmetric warfare as contained in the PM messages can psyche Zimbabweans to forgive those who call for sanctions in the name of democracy, rule of law and human rights.
Making people to suffer through sanctions is undemocratic and a disrespect of the rule of law.
To all right-thinking Zimbabweans, I say let us be on our guard as the open palm is on an asymmetric offensive against our sovereignty.
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Panganai Kahuni is a social and political commentator.
An open palm in Christianity denotes submission to God, showing him our willingness and readiness to be spiritually served.
The open palm is also used for welcoming or greeting people as they shake hands and hug.
However, this symbol that denotes peace, stability and hospitality has been hijacked from places of worshiping, places of biding farewell, places of welcoming, and places of greetings to the streets of violence by the MDC-T who has tried to use it in a treacherous fashion to bid farewell to our sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity.
The open palm has been used to symbolise loss of our culture, "Unhu hwedu huri kuzvidzwa nembama yechinja."
This writer hopes that progressive churches will challenge the use of their peace and worshiping symbol for treasonous acts by MDC-T. It is not surprising that an asymmetric concept is manufactured by the American CIA and the British MI6 intelligence agencies, and transmitted through the private media.
Such media houses in Zimbabwe are said to be heavily financed by the British and Americans to advance the treacherous work of the open hand "mbama."
The private media has gone wild "kuita chimbwa mupengo chaiko."
Most of the pracademia would agree with me that there is a barrage of headlines that are interchanged by the private media as they carry out their attacks on Zimbabwe. Put all the privately-owned
newspapers together, compare, analyse, and evaluate the headlines, and you would agree that the headlines differ in wording but have the same theme and intent.
The intent is to continuously, in an asymmetric fashion, position the open palm as the merchant of democracy.
One wonders where they get the meaning of democracy, which denotes sanctions. As such, both the private media and the open palm continue to find reasons why Zimbabwe is under sanctions.
Due to the brown envelops they get to fatten their pockets; they apply asymmetric language to deceive the population.
Dear Zimbabweans, for how long are we going to be used as cannon fodder in an economic environment where the "chinja" leadership is filthy rich?
The open palm has been used to bid farewell to the good tenants of democracy.
Honestly, if the tenets of democracy are to apply, sanctions cannot be the vehicle. The same open palm is now seen as anti-indigenous and anti-empowerment.
A sad story, brothers and sisters!
The open palm that should only be used to advance godly messages is being used for satanic objectives where the sick cannot access drugs, the hungry cannot access food, and the nation cannot have a national currency as a result of sanctions.
By the way, the open palm believes, in an asymmetric fashion, that inflation, unemployment, low industrial capacity utilisation, and the poor condition of civil servants was caused by bad governance and autocratic rule.
The question to all is: Since the open palm joined the Inclusive Government (IG), what has it done to improve the economy apart from driving Mercedes Benz, boycotting government activities from time to time, or going on strike and biding farewell to national events? Zimbabweans, let's emancipate our minds and use our heads.
It's time we see the dirtiness of the open palm. It's time we understand the asymmetric language used by the open palm to sway us from defending our heritage.
The American ambassador in Harare who now can easily be assumed to be the patron of the open palm wants us to forget the past and only view the future.
A Major in the American military, he knows pretty well that to win peace you study war. The asymmetric lecture that he gave at SAPES was meant for us to forget our colonial history, forget our liberation history, and forget how we attained independence. So that we can easily be neo-colonised!
The open palm is used by the MDC-T to welcome our erstwhile colonizers. They troop in waves to go and receive instruction to use in the coming general election.
This is why the PM can address a rally at Chegutu and be reported by The Standard (August 7-13, 2011, page 4) to have said that "MDC-T youths vow to violently disrupt any election called by President Mugabe before the implementation of an election roadmap."
In the same paper on page 7, there is a long message written as a Heroes and Defence Forces day message. Here the PM seemed to demonstrate his disrespect for the functions of government and advancing issues of a parallel kitchen cabinet.
It is clear that both he and the MDC-T do not respect the Defence Forces and the Heroes Acre. The PM was right to say: "Defence Forces are sworn in to uphold the country's constitution."
However, in like manner, the PM is also sworn in to defend jealously the sovereignty of the country. But we haven't seen him campaign vigorously for the lifting of sanctions. Is it because his party called for them in the first place, as part of its regime change agenda?
Reading between the lines, one finds that the PM's Heroes and Defence Forces message was meant to paint him as a democratic philosopher.
But he is far from one; as at the end of the message he seems to suggest that our heroes liberated the country for it to be sold back through treachery.
This writer hopes that Zanu-PF MPs will move a motion in Parliament asking the PM and his MDC-T cabinet ministers to redeclare their loyalty to Zimbabwe and the constitution, and as required by the GPA, to stop treasonously rubbishing Zimbabwe on the Studio 7 radio station.
If the PM is a democrat, he should be the epicentre of the defence and protection of the people who are dying of diseases, or are unemployed as a result of the economic sanctions imposed by the EU and America at the behest of MDC-T.
This writer strongly feels that the PM must walk the talk. It is my view that before the PM talks about "international best practice", he must understand that we need to first embrace our national best practice.
We need to have a unity of purpose first. International best practise only comes after national best practice is respected. Security forces the world over do not tolerate treasonous and treacherous activities.
Thus no political party, including the Zanu-PF, should engage in treasonous and treacherous activities, such as making people suffer, industries close, and patients die as a result of sanctions.
People must understand that no amount of asymmetric warfare as contained in the PM messages can psyche Zimbabweans to forgive those who call for sanctions in the name of democracy, rule of law and human rights.
Making people to suffer through sanctions is undemocratic and a disrespect of the rule of law.
To all right-thinking Zimbabweans, I say let us be on our guard as the open palm is on an asymmetric offensive against our sovereignty.
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Panganai Kahuni is a social and political commentator.
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