LOOK at the irony of “change”, which took effect in America on January 20th 2017, compared with what happened in Nigeria on May 29th 2015. Unlike Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, a former military Head of State, the newbie United States President, Donald Trump, has never occupied any governmental post before now. Donald Trump in a moment of prayers In fact, he is a thoroughbred anti-Establishmentarian. He believes that the Establishment incubated over the decades by the Republicans and Democrats is responsible for why America is no longer much of a powerhouse. He connected directly to Americans, and won the election against the groundswell of opposition from his own Grand Old Party (GOP). Unlike our President Buhari who spent six whole months before he could constitute his executive cabinet, Trump assembled his team and had most of them cleared by the Senate even before he assumed office. He started governing from Day One. He started doling out his Executive Orders, each of which brought protesters to the streets. No day has passed since Trump’s young presidency without street protests: evidence that true change has come to America. It beats me how people will protest against a leader who is merely implementing his election promises. Part of the values for which American and Western democracy is famous is respect for the outcome of elections. For the first time that I can remember, Americans are no longer behaving like Americans. The reason for this is simple: American society (like most Western societies) has, over the past forty years, become bastardised through the unguarded application of libertarian values. Certain matters that were formerly subject to values-fed control, such as the boundaries of human rights and freedoms, trade agreements, immigration and citizenship terms for foreigners, the staying power of American combat troops abroad and the place of religion in the state and society, lost their old American coloration to take in more of emerging “global” trends. The doors were flung open and a stampede of migrants from Africa, Asia and Latin American countries commenced. This also reflected in the increase in the drug malaise, gangsterism, terrorism and the influx of foreign-manufactured fake and substandard goods. If you overdo anything, you pay a price. In November 2012, I was in New York to cover the Obama second term election. I bought a bottle of Terre D’Hermes perfume in a store on Jamaica Avenue manned by an Indian. It turned out to be a fake! A friend of mine warned me never to shop without his guidance in that busy commercial street (which is much like our own Nnamdi Azikiwe Street in Idumota, Lagos) as it was a haven of cheap, fake goods brought in from Asia. The Republicans have for long agonised over the abandonment of core American values for “global” ones by Washington. The Obama era took the system to the cleaners, and Clinton’s purported victory, they feared, would have reduced America to a country without identity; an everything-goes dumping ground. This was obviously why the silent majority orthodox Americans responded to Donald Trump’s campaign messages aimed at “making America great again”. The most contentious issue right now is the order temporarily suspending visas to seven Muslim-majority countries – Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Syria, with Syrian refugees indefinitely kept away. It not only sparked off another round of protests but also a gale of lawsuits. The Acting Attorney General, Sally Yates, got fired because she ordered officials not to defend the government’s order in court. It is a great irony that this so-called “Muslim ban”, which is the first step Trump is taking in his effort to safeguard Americans from the root sources of Islamic terrorism, is being vehemently opposed even by myopic orthodox Americans who should know better. Americans have become like Nigerians: they have short memories. They have forgotten 9/11 (a foreign-plotted Islamic terror attack) and the recent various shootings and bombings carried out by Muslims who became part of America only recently. They are deaf to the stark undertaking by radical Muslim groups to see to the destruction of America and Israel and the Islamisation of Europe. I would have thought that Syrian, Iraqi, Afghan and Somali refugees would be warmly welcomed by their Muslim brothers and sisters in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and other Muslim countries which are prosperous and lie next door to them. As they are not welcome in these places, they troop to Europe and America where the people have lost grip of their sense of history, culture, identity and the founding principles of their societies. Why this rush to countries of “infidels” to settle among them? Same people who are forbidden because of their religions in your own countries? If the migration of Muslims to these Christian-founded countries were the issue alone, perhaps the locals would not feel so threatened. These newcomers maintain their allegiance to terror cells in their countries of origin. They can turn from “peaceful” to “radical” overnight and become foot soldiers for terrorist organisations in the Muslim world. It is obvious that terrorist groups are deliberately sponsoring their foot soldiers to become Americans and Europeans to destroy their systems from inside. I do not know how far Trump can go in arresting the rot inflicted on the country by decades of reckless liberalisation and importation of foreigners, many of whom have questionable commitment to America. Russia is in control of its system, and so are China, Japan and even India, while America and Europe have become international dumpsites. If Trump fails, America risks losing its superpower status within the next decade; it might even disintegrate! The people they are trying to accommodate and placate are their implacable, sworn enemies. Today, they are “vulnerable”; what will happen tomorrow when they are ready to move against America and Israel? Every country in the world is an “immigrant nation”, as nobody grew like trees from the ground. But every country has the right to protect itself from its sworn enemies. Except, perhaps, America!
by ROTMANLUV 2023-07-08, 17:34
