Terrorism

I want us to look at this virus as the highest form of terrorism.

I have written elsewhere about terrorism and so will not repeat much. But I will just pose a few questions.

What is the purpose of terrorism? What is the end game of terrorism?

Like I have posed elsewhere, the whole purpose of terrorism is control. Terror happens so that people can of their own volition relinquish their rights to some other idiots. Sadly, they also cede their brains in the process.

I have said, and you know that death and destruction are not the real purpose of terror. Fear is.

Death is the tool used to cause the fear that makes one’s brain go soft. But it is not so much death as it could backfire as nothing is as bad as desperation as it means that there will be nothing to lose. Being cornered leaves people with the only option of fighting.

Terrorism causes just enough damage to arouse fear; a paralyzing fear. Then we will be in a position to listen to everything we are told after allowing the ones we think are more in control to guide us without questioning them.

But it does something else. It causes us to fear challenging things that we could even know are wrong for fear of arousing the ire of the cause of terror.

That is why we see even church leaders defending Islam after a terror attack.

And this is why even the media is scared of researching on all the truths and untruths we are fed with in a terror season.

Sadly, this virus falls flush on these scenarios.

It creates that rare chance of ‘it could be me’ even where the chances are very few.

That is why terrorists will never say what their next target is as it will take away the aspect of surprise.

They will therefore kill two people and negotiate as if they have two million people in captivity. And that single attack plus a few misfires will convince a government and its people that their crazy demands must be met.

Do you realize that corona has effectively killed terrorism around the world? In short, corona is a terrorist to whom other terrorists are submitted to.

Sadly, corona is behaving as if it is reading from that same script word for word. Or probably I should say the people in charge of the narrative are treating us like that. Worse still is that they are taking us for fools.

But some governments are doing even worse because they are using the pretext of the virus, not only to settle old and new political and business scores, they are using it to steal from the populace. And our government exemplifies this.

The other day they demolished a slum in this rain against a court order. And word circulating is that a leader wants to use that land.

How do you throw people out in the rain when the same government has frozen infrastructure development finances? How do you kick out six thousand plus families and still want us to believe you are fighting the virus? How will those families practice distancing as they huddle in the rain?

Hot on the heels of that demolition they still demolish another estate where people bought land legally and the same government had promised to offer them alternative land to move to as the government needs to use that land. Sadly, even that demolition was done against a court order. And the people were not even refusing to move as they were just waiting to be shown where to move to.

People who had built very good houses have now to sleep in the rain with their little ones.

And the leadership is offended when people doubt their narrative on this virus!

How do you lock down a city and expect people to cooperate when you do it at a whim? You do not care what people will eat, or even if they will eat. And your government sells to those who have the food meant for those who do not have and you do not care.

How do you fight succession political wars when your people are displaced and starving? Why do you prohibit meetings yet hold one to make changes in a parliament so that it only serves your interests, a parliament that could be dead for all we care?

Who between the government and the virus is the actual terrorist?

How do you kill enterprise and expect respect? How do you stop the small man from looking for food and expect him to listen to you as you lecture him on, to him, idiotic and unworkable, directives?

Sadly, only the law abiding are suffering for compliance as even the police you place on those barricades do not believe you and they need that extra coin. And it is not even much money required to break those rules. People are crossing almost daily since they must make a living. It is therefore those who seek to obey that are restricted. Yet there are families that have been torn apart by these on the spur restrictions.

Some have been converted to beggars, and some even worse.

Imagine this person who was travelling from the Coast to Western Kenya caught in Nairobi where they have nobody they know. Or this person who had come to shop for stock to travel by night bus then Nairobi is closed up yet they had exhausted all their monies getting stock. How do they convince someone they have only communicated on phone to host them for two months especially since they have no way to repay as they can’t trade?

How many marriages will break (probably are already broken) because a woman was thrown to the dogs by this cessation of movements without prior notice because they had to get somewhere to stay and there is nothing for free? And what will men in such situations do?

How many children are starving because their breadwinner was locked away from their livelihood?

I know many are shouting I should be sharing spiritual things. But tell me how spiritual you can become when you have nothing to eat for days. How spiritual can you be when you know that you are unable to provide for your children because you are unable to get to them or even fend for yourself in a land nobody knows you? How spiritual can you be if you are boiling stones to give your children hope as they sleep like the mother covered by the media?

We must preach the Gospel. We will preach the Gospel.

But the Gospel does not exist in a vacuum. Jesus fed people as He preached. He healed as He preached.

We must call out an insensitive leadership that is only focused on their stomach, their own issues. Otherwise we will be judged for not doing so and have their judgment transferred to us.

They must know that God is angry with the way they are treating their subjects (that is how they call us though they are not kings) even as they munch our taxes even as they ask us to tighten our belts.

God has put us in the grassroots to be able to know the experiences of the vulnerable and not just so that we can pray and intervene in their situations, but so that we can share their plight with those God has entrusted their welfare to. And it is because He will hold them accountable for the way they run that trust God gave them.

An insensitive leadership will be judged. And it is incumbent on Christ’s ministers to tell them so.

A leadership that uses the terror of a virus to terrorize those they swore to lead must repent or they are judged.

Let us call out on the world to return to God beginning with the leaders.

Of course I am assuming the spiritual leadership has learnt and responded as God would have it do since that is the only way to manage all these people who are flocking to God’s saving grace in Christ.

Otherwise we could be creating a different crisis of people coming to Christ and having no one to usher them into the Christian faith. Then we will be having an avalanche of cults and other undesirable outcomes from those who receive Christ.

Yet we have enough of a problem with believers who are in the wilderness as their superstars have been emasculated by the closure of churches yet they really had no personal theology to talk about as they were only good at parroting what their spiritual leaders were saying.

Spiritual leaders must be willing and ready to cede their power and authority to those under them as Christ did. They must be ready to teach everything Christ taught as the Great Commission commands. Then they can without blemish be able to confront evil with the other leadership.

That is the only thing that can counter all forms of terror being visited on the believer from all fronts.