Neutral Somalia

[Nur]

Somali Anarchist

 

 

The Nairobi Report

 

 

Extreme Opinions Department

 

 

After following the "Presidential" elections in Nairobi, and after analyzing the motivations of all those involved, and idea striked me like a lightening bolt,, please be careful as you read this idea, because if you are not careful and your are not a worlord you may pass out. This extreme politics, it is raw and it can get to your nerves if you have preconcieved beliefs prior to reading the whole post.

 

The man elected to power is a man who fought his way in to power after a strugle that lasted more than 30 years, jailed by the late Dictators of Somalia and Ethiopia, the man reached the wisdom of not trusting his friends, quickly learning the art of working with his enemies. His winning of the presidency is a vindication of his long march to power, unfortunately, the landscape has changed since he began his march to power.

 

In Politics, the enemy of your enemy is your friend, Ethiopia after the 1977 humiliating invasion of Somali army of Ethipia under the cover of Western Somali Liberation front, never forgot that humiliation, and since then, it became a home for all political disenters Ethiopia gave a sanctuary to use them to distablize the dictatorial regime in Mogadishu.

 

As voices of disent became louder in the early eighties, Somalia's disintegration began, first by the Northern secession movement and followed by other fronts almost all of them aided by Ethiopia.

 

There is no question of the corruption of the past governments, the last of which reached proverbial levels, however, no one ever dared to sell the national interest to foreign powers up until the collapse of the last regime.

 

After some 13 years of anarchy, and the denial of Somalis to have a government of their own without a foreign intervention, Somalis became ready for any government even some would welcome back the former Dictotor if he was alive today.

 

In light of the above, Ethiopia and Kenya who were both threatened by Somalia before, led the IGAD organization in forming the current format of agreement that reduced Somalia to the status of 1950 Italian Protectorate of Somalia. in effect, we became a nation that is governed by its past enemies.

 

IGAD being the International organization that is mandated to establish the nascent Somali Government, and whose memebers include Somalia's past enemies, worked behind doors for the past few years to fashion the type of government Somalia should have, and after weighing up the outcomes to different scenarios, came to the conclusion to put their weight on sticking with proven political allies who are expected to satisfy the stringent security requirements of Somalia's neighbors, mainly the establishment of a government who will never threaten its neighbors again.

 

Contrary to what many analysts believed, the Nairobi Presidential outcome stunned all of those who were not in the inner circle of the political game. The pros however, knew the outcome as most of the Presidential hopefuls were mere window dressing while the real king making process was happening behind closed doors.

 

Suddenly, we have a Presidential election that was very interesting, between a past General who spent half of his productive life in jails and away from home in exile, and a Career Diplomat who has never laid a foot in Somalia for more than 30 years except for holidays. The General won the votes by a decisive margin to quell all doubts, and immediately the world community declared that finally a believable government is formed for Somalis at last.

 

 

Against that colorful political background we ask, why do we have to be ruled by Proxies? because unless you are a politician you would call a spade a spade, we need to ask if the current elected government with constituents from the tribal affiliations is a genuinely a body that is working for the interest of Somalia or if they indeed are a body created by outsiders who secured their interest through this political body?

 

But as long as these mediocre politicians are in office, no dignified Somali will ever seek office thereby assuring the power transition from the current worlords to their less competent heirs.

 

 

Some of the readers may be too tired to even think about an alternative solution, but there is one, a solution by the genious of the Somali Anarchist Declaration of Somaliaonline.

 

The Propsoal

 

 

1. Somalia should declare that it will never be a military power again, just like Japan and Germany. ( This takes care of pretexts of foreign intervention on local politics )

 

2. It should confirm its respect of current borders with neighbors and sign a peace agreement with them.

 

3. It should model itself like Switzerland a neutral nation, get out of the UN, out of all world bodies, with no opinion outside of its territory.

 

3. Somalia should then call for a National reconciliation meeting by all groups represented by intellectuals who have no past history of bigotry or a criminal record.

 

4. The Country must be then be allowed to be governed and guided by committee of businessmen instead of generals, who can read balance sheets and talk development issues without an interpreter.

 

 

Note: Any statement that you do not agree with should be reported to Kofee Annan.

 

 

Reporting From Nairobi

 

This is Cag Bakayle, For The Somali Anarchist Declaration.

 

2004 i-Nuri Political Analyses

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Yes To Anarchy, No To Progress!

[NGONGE]

Heh. Out of the frying pan and straight into the fire, eh?

 

Businessmen and intellectuals are likely to wreck worse havoc in Somalia than the politicians and warlords.

 

Despite my total abhorrence of these bandits and their malicious ways, I actually believe that the recent “election†was the best ever outcome for the Somali nation. The dreamers talk about “democracyâ€, freedom and justice. I, on the other hand, believe in absolute power.

Somalis proved time and again that the best way to deal with them is if you beat them into submission. They’ve spent all their lives round those wretched goats and camels; they’ve started to pickup their characteristics!

 

As awful as my words would sound, I believe the best man for the job has finally been chosen! Give him a stick big enough and let him beat us all into total compliance. As the former UN envoy to Somalia remarked all those years ago, Somalia now is like a broken glass! Diplomacy, trade or intellectualism will not put that glass back together again (nor will the king’s horses or men). No, what’s needed is an expert glassmaker, one that will unleash his fire on all the scattered pieces and glue them all back together again.

 

Of course, amateur observers will grumble and nag at the severity of this glassmaker when trying to remould the place again! Others will be indignant at his audacity and hint gloomily on his intentions to drink that glass dry! Nonetheless, few will dare to air their grievances in his presence; they’ll all shout from a distance and lament their inability to douse his mighty flame.

 

I say let the glassmaker have his way with us. Let him rule and dictate. Let him remind us of how healthy it was to kowtow and grovel. Let him become the biggest monster of all. Let him reacquaint us with the importance of whispers. We need to be put in our place and only a wicked, red-eyed parasite can humble our rebellious natures.

 

It’s going to be a long journey full of pain, sorrow and infinite bigotry. The glassmaker’s men will oppress us, torture us, exploit us and steal our dignity.

 

It might last days, months or years. But, one day, one day we will grow tired of his relentless wickedness. We will come to life again and hunt his men around the bloodstained streets. We’ll swear our refusal to be ruled in such a way ever again. We’ll shed our blood, lose our livelihoods and homes in the names of justice, freedom, honour and dignity.

 

This time though, we better have a plan or else; we’ll have heaps of budding warlords and a brand new glassmaker.

 

PS

Mr. Annan is not picking up his phone.

[Baashi]

Mr. Annan's secretary is refering all the questions concerning Somalia to Mr. Tubman's office in Nairobi. When called his office, I was directed to call back some other time because Mr. Tubman is having an "afur" with the president.

 

 

Reactions

 

â€Maxaa la yiri†crowd murmured upon hearing the Cag Bakeyle’s pessimistic take on the state of the nation and Ngonge’s brief litany on the benevolence of dictatorship. This is not what they have been celebrating for days. In fact, the grand geo-political scheme concocted in the adjacent neighbors is not in their radar now.

 

The only thing that matters to this crowd today is a government. What sort of government is acceptable? That 's not an issue for this crowd now. How the nominal political power is distributed among tribes, clans, and sub-clans is different matter all together, however. They don’t care in these issues not because they are dump. No! They do care! The reason the enormity of the political blunder and far reaching implication of the country’s interest fell through the cracks is two reasons. First the average folks have been living in a state of anarchy where “dog eats dog†literally. The hauling and whistling “madfac†takes lives randomly at will in some corners of the country while the security of many fellas are in the hands of warlords who provoke each other in a constant struggle over territory and power.

 

The realities on the ground: the sense of personal security (without relying the might of your sub clan), the basic services that we take for granted, order, etc have become priority to them. Secondly, the matters of large concern are the domain of the so-called elites, tribal chiefs, professionals, and pseudo-politicians. The “maxaa la yiri†crowd can be blamed on many things: complacency, tribalism, illiteracy, etc. Anarchy is not something we can blame on the “maxaa la yiri†crowd. The civil war came about in part because the opposition groups who ousted the former regime didn’t think through their actions. Anarchy came about because the political and security vacuum the opposition groups created and the animosity between the clans the former regime adopted as a political tactic to perpetuate its hold on the reign.

 

What Sage Nur is forgetting is how the genuine business and the warlordism blend perfectly well on the ground today. Yes they can read the balance sheet al right! That’s what they have been doing all along by co-mingling and some instances giving aid to the very people you disdain. In some circles, they are known as financiers of the civil war.

 

Now, the recent development is the second best thing for Somalis on the ground that paid the price of the civil war. Any government is better than the civil war, the disintegration and the fiefdoms, and the total breakdown of civil institutions.

 

On a more optimistic note, the setbacks that you alluded to can be reversed, the sham that they passed as the constitution can be revised, and the system can be fixed. The only thing is who is going to put his neck on the line and step up on the plate to do something about these setbacks. Do we at least agree that the peace is a first priority. Once that is attained, the questions of large importance can be dissected in a quiet room somewhere in our beloved country peacefully without the big brother looking over!

 

Forgive me for the rambling...

 

Inna-Kaadinajaasle reporting!

[Jumatatu]

War hedhe halke nalaga so galey? The best thing about SOL political section was its simplicity, short and straight to the point. Over the last two days we are confronted to reading something similar to Party Political Manifesto. By the time you finish reading it you will wonder what the heading was and where it is leading to.

[Coloow]

Assalamu calaykum,

 

Korsigaasaan caashaqee,

Madaxweyne,

Mar i dheha...

 

The government of somalia is

a government by the warlords,

For the warlords,

 

The warlords are paid by amxaaro

Madax koraankor,

Their mission is to kill all the dhasha awliyo

Al-islaax

Al -Ixtixaad

Al-barakaat

Al-islam

 

Korsigaasaan caashaqayee

madaxweyne (chorus)

Mar i dheha

Madaxweyne,

Caqliyeri

cabiid jecel

Irhaabi ku qaraabte

 

Nurow and others check this link

http://www.hobyonet.com/Gabayada/Bacadle.htm

 

and click on the poem "xaquuqul insaanka".

[Nur]

Baashi bro

 

I've to come back to answer your post, but I am furious about how you've belittled Anarchy.

 

Anarchy gave Somalia the following:

 

5 Airlines

 

13 Telecom Companies

 

6 Major Banks

 

Many Hospitals, Schools, Universities, and the list goes on

 

The Problem is not Anarchy for you to say the absense of a government is the main problem, the problem is the interference of outside world of in our domestic ingenuity and genious, Somalis have proven to the world that governments in the old sense can be outsourced to businessmen like me.

 

 

Cag Bakayle

 

Somali Anarchist Declaration

[Oda_Nobunaga]

Yes anarchy has freed our creative and entrepernural energies but you are forgeting the

dilapidated condition of public goods, such as education and health care.

 

Our prewar educational infrastructure were of a high quality and reached a far greater number of

somalis.

The private institiutions we have today do not reach serve those numbers.

 

The challenge is to have a government small enough not to curtail free enterprise with its parasitic taxes but effective enough to limit the costs of anarchy.

[Nur]

Ngonge

 

" As awful as my words would sound, I believe the best man for the job has finally been chosen! Give him a stick big enough and let him beat us all into total compliance. As the former UN envoy to Somalia remarked all those years ago, Somalia now is like a broken glass! Diplomacy, trade or intellectualism will not put that glass back together again (nor will the king’s horses or men). No, what’s needed is an expert glassmaker, one that will unleash his fire on all the scattered pieces and glue them all back together again "

 

 

Answer:

 

This is a dangerous suggestion, you are talking totalitarianism, from pure Anarachy to pure totalitarianism is like pasteurizing Somalia, are you suggesting we are germs?

 

Bashi writes

 

" Now, the recent development is the second best thing for Somalis on the ground that paid the price of the civil war. Any government is better than the civil war, the disintegration and the fiefdoms, and the total breakdown of civil institutions "

 

Answer:

 

Bashi, take a plane to Dubai to Somali Civil Institutions, where all business disputes are settled in 5 star hotels, Somalia can be run remotely from Dubai instead of Addis, if we have to serve masters it helps to be based in oil rich nations not poor African nations, you cant get rich hanging around poor people.

 

 

Jumatatu Writes:

 

" The best thing about SOL political section was its simplicity, short and straight to the point "

 

Answer:

 

Simplicity leaves a lot to be desired, specially in the case of war torn Somalia, it is better to unearth as much worms as we can before we go to bed with thr wrong settlement.

 

Caaqil Writes:

 

" The government of somalia is a government by the warlords,For the warlords "

 

 

Answer:

 

That is obvious, but we need to figure out wher this settlementy leads in the near fututre, peace or another round of violence.

 

 

Oda-Nabunga writes:

 

" Our prewar educational infrastructure were of a high quality and reached a far greater number of somalis "

 

Answer:

 

Somali Anarchists are proud to say that the level of education of Somalis as a whole has improved, not necessarily within the borders of Somalia, but look outside, Sudan is hosting the largest concentration of Somali students in its colleges, hundreds od scholarships help many others to study in Pakistan, India, Syria, Yemen, Egypt, of course students buy these scholarships from unpaid Somali Ambassadors with money sent by refugee relatives abroad, add to this the large refugee concentration in North America , UK and the rest of the world who are pursuing state of the art education, how can you then say that the old system was better in education?, give Anarchy a break!

 

 

Cag Bakayle

 

2004 Somali Anarchist Declaration

[Nur]

Nomads

 

 

Now that you all see the e-Nuri prediction, simply put, entropy, a measure of disorder and chaos is a one way street, it will never go back to order again, so old Somalia as we have known it is gone, can we think laterally to imagine other courses out of this stalemate? I mean why not an intellectual reveloution to reclaim the political scene with bold ideas, like the e-Nuri sponsored Neutral Somalia?

 

 

Nur

[ANWAR]

Originally posted by Nur:

 

1. Somalia should declare that it will never be a military power again, just like Japan and Germany. (

This takes care of pretexts of foreign intervention on local politics

)

 

2. It should confirm its respect of current borders with neighbors and sign a peace agreement with them.

 

Yes To Anarchy, No To Progress! [/QB]

no no no no NO NO NO NO AND NOOOOOOOOOO

 

1. I WILL MEK SOMALIA A MILLTARY POWER AND I WILL ATTACK Ethiopia AND KENYA THEK BACK ****** AND THE LAND OF SOMALIA IN KENYA :mad: :mad:

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God bless Somalia and the Patriots.

 

Yours sincerely,

[ANWAR]

Originally posted by Nur:

 

1. Somalia should declare that it will never be a military power again, just like Japan and Germany. (

This takes care of pretexts of foreign intervention on local politics

)

 

2. It should confirm its respect of current borders with neighbors and sign a peace agreement with them.

 

Yes To Anarchy, No To Progress! [/QB]

no no no no NO NO NO NO AND NOOOOOOOOOO

 

1. I WILL MEK SOMALIA A MILLTARY POWER AND I WILL ATTACK Ethiopia AND KENYA THEK BACK ****** AND THE LAND OF SOMALIA IN KENYA :mad: :mad:

.........................

God bless Somalia and the Patriots.

 

Yours sincerely,

PS

Mr. Annan is not picking up his phone.

[Coloow]

Asc,

 

Inkastoo soomaalidda aay ku maahmaahdo MALAG IMAADEY MARRO MA REEBTO- haddana aniga waxaay ila tahay in soomali Quraan la saaro- afar faataxo, marrooyin and duco.

 

Waxaani waa waali ee bal aan ilaahey ka barino inuu dadkeena caafiyo. Waxaa kale oo aay ila tahay in la bilaabo dhaqdhaqaaq xagga diinta ah oo la soomo ilaa uu qof wadaad ah wadanka qabsado.

 

Si loo daawoobo, waxaa habboon in dadka culumaaudiinka, dadka aqoonta kale leh aay la dagaalamaan qabiilka. Haddii wadaad kaste uu inkiro qabiilkiisa waranle waa ka tagayaa.

[Nur]

Caaqil bro.

 

Walaal, waa runtaa, waaban illobay in Somalida Quraan la saari karo, waxaa loo yaqaan ( Al Ruqyah Al Sharciyyah). taasoo lagu akhrin jirey dadka buka, laakin, su'aasha meesha taalla waxaa weeye, halkeed ka saari?

 

Carabtu wexey tiraahdaa " Wa maa bi jurxin bi mayiting bi iilaamik"

 

Boog ku taal qof dhintay ma bogsato.

 

Waxaa se dhici kaarta iney nololi ku hadhay umadda, naxariista Alle laga ma quusto.

 

 

Nur

[Nur]

Nomads

 

Now that the ICU have consolidated power in the capital and vicinities, let us look back at the content of this article.

 

Do we really need to be part of any international body if we settle our interests internally, according to Islam, and externally with our immediate neighbors?

 

Look at Switzerland, they had a 150 year civil war, when they emerged, thet became a neutral country, and if they have succeeded with a diverse 3 nationalities and many religions, should'nt we Somalis witn a homogeneous ethnic and religious population succeed in forging a stable nation?

 

 

Nur

[Duufaan]

"Do we really need to be part of any international body if we settle our interests internally, according to Islam, and externally with our immediate neighbors?"

 

You want things remain same? I am afraid nothing stay same long time in somalia.

 

People are displaced and starving much of somalia, particularly southern part. The interanional community feed them.

We are part of world community for better or worse

 

 

We have to figure out a way, all of us will benefit. welfare for all.

 

this is how to get a healthy nation

 

1) Unconditional peace through the country

2) Justice and fairness

3) Citizenship