.Big Brother is watching you .! Somebody said the world is a village, and somebody else said the world is flat: I sincerely believe them both. If you dont, pick a computer that is connected to the Internet and check out
something called Google Earth at http:/earth.google.com. If you dont change your mind, then youd better be wary of that mind of yours. Yes, because it could be like that one of this fellow we were in college together, who used to be so dense that we could hear it whenever he tried to change his mind! Anyway, Google Earth: it brings pictures and maps so live under your eyes that you can visit any part of the world and feel that you are physically there at any time, while in the comfort of your office, home or local internet café. From high up in the sky, you soar down slowly onto our ball of earth, pass continents and oceans and zoom in onto your country or, if you want, bring your city bursting up into your face. Double click at your mouse and the Kacyiru-Kimihurura roundabout slowly swells into view: green gardens, converging pathways, our woman-statue and her son, fountains and all. Maybe your office is under a bamboo bush, and so you tell yourself that this
Google thing cannot look at your window: wrong, because you can tilt and rotate the satellite pictures anyway you want, and may even catch a glimpse of yourself at your coveted desk! That, unfortunately, will reveal an ugly reality to you that you will hate to confront: there is nowhere to hide on this earth. The American watchful eye is everywhere, and it is a wonder that Sadam Hussein of Iraq was able to hide in his spider hole for as long as he did. It is an even bigger wonder that Osama bin Laden is able to elude the Americans to-date, despite being holed up in a bare, nude desert. When I remember the way Jonas Savimbi was picked out of his hiding like a sitting duck, I now understand. If you dont remember him how time flies, for the gone! Jonas Savimbi was the powerful American-backed Angolan rebel leader who had held forte for close to 36 years before he fell out of favour (and usefulness) of the American leadership, and found himself dying alone, like
a chicken thief. You remember how he dismissed another group of rebels as non-starters at one time when they decided to make a tactical retreat despite being a stone throw from their destination: that group was known as the Rwandese Patriotic Army, and Shyorongi, a suburb of the capital city, Kigali, was at their fingertips when they decided on a retreat. He would have used their advice, but that was then. And talking about advice, lets hope that one friend from the north, Libyan leader Muamar Khadaffi, has given some advice to a friend from the south, Hugo Chavez Frias, leader of the South American country of Venezuela. For I fear that if he does not stop his chest thumping at the Americans, Hugo Chavez may not be lucky a second time, after surviving an American instigated coup attempt. The man who hosted him only recently, Muamar Khadaffi, should know, after also surviving by a hairbreadth a bombing that took his stepdaughter. It is said that the Americans
showed Khadaffi photos of him in his exact location at the time of the bombing and explained that he was as easy a target to them as a camel in the desert, only they had not wished to take him.
The fiery revolutionary of yesteryears has now mellowed into a chummy ally of the Americans, and Khadaffi is now ready to pay compensation for any plane bombing, or name an ambassador to any mission, that the Americans may desire. And so, whence our aging but steady and sturdy soldier of the pointed caps and Cuban cigars? Fidel Castro of Cuba is still sticking it out, in defiance of Big Brother to his north, and we can only hope that the battle-hardened warrior will continue to survive the onslaught of the American satellite glare. As it is, the said Khadaffis Venezuelan visitor of a few days ago is not doing too badly, pulling into his stable a number of revolutionary thoroughbreds from around his turf, South America, to join the diehard lone ranger, Fidel Castro.
Only problem is, if the dinosaur to their north feels any pinch of threat of the rising number of revolutionaries, it may awaken in haste and trample them underfoot to stop them from blossoming. Beware, ye braves, the Ides of March! And so, this Canadian lady thinker and researcher, Jackie Jura, is right: George Orwells predicted fiction was spot on the mark, and Big Brother is truly here with us. George Orwell, born Eric Blair, was the English writer whom you might probably know more for Animal Farm than for any of his other novels. Animal Farm is a political satire that presents animals as revolutionaries whose fundamental change turns out to be just hot air, not unlike that of our good old friend, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. In a later novel that George Orwell called 1984, the writer imagines a government that watches the citizens every movement and action, much as was the case in the defunct communist bloc. It is in recognition of this watchful eye,
this time not of communism but of the powerful countries and individuals of the capitalist West, that Jackie Jura has founded her website, www.orwelltoday.com. And she is an avowed sister of the Rwandans, to her born-marrow. You may have noticed her amazingly thorough knowledge of Rwanda, a country she has not yet visited (until next July), as she has often appeared in your dear daily, The New Times. And if you did not read your daily of Friday the 19th this month, then you missed her captivating account of how she met our living legend. Luckily for you, if you have not read Jackie Juras stories, you can catch up with them on her website. Take heed of her warning, that open eye on her website is real: if you think there is a nook on this earth in which you are not being seen or out of which you cannot be smoked with ease, then visit Google Earth and youll change your mind if it is not too heavy to be changed! Whatever the case, . BIG BROTHER IS
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