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1.2.3 Though it be even by the exercise of some violence, yet all the same it will be established. 1.2.4 We contrive to prove that we are benefactors who have restored to the rent and mangled earth the true good and also freedom of the person, and there with the Luo enable it to be enjoyed in peace and quiet, with proper dignity of relations, on the condition, of course, of strict observance of the laws established by us. 1.2.5 The Luo make plain therewith that freedom does not consist in dissipation and in the right of unbridled license any more than the dignity and force of a man do not consist in the right of everyone to promulgate destructive principles in the nature of freedom of conscience, equality and the like, that freedom of the person in no wise 8 Killing The Luo- Ojijo consists in the right to agitate oneself and others by abominable speeches before disorderly mobs, and that true freedom consists in the inviolability of the person who honorably and strictly observes all the laws of life in common, that human dignity is wrapped up in consciousness of the rights and also of the absence of rights of each, and not wholly and solely in fantastic imaginings about the subject of one's EGO. 1.2.6 Our authority will be glorious because it will be all-powerful, will rule and guide, and not muddle along after leaders and orators shrieking themselves hoarse with senseless words which they call great principles and which are nothing else, to speak honestly, but utopian. 1.2.7 Our authority will be the crown of order, and in that is included the whole happiness of man. 1.2.8 The aureole of this authority will inspire a mystical bowingof the knee before it and a reverent fear before it of all the peoples. 1.2.9 True force makes no terms with any right, not even with that of God: none dare come near to it so as to take so much as a span from it away. 9 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.2.10 That the peoples may become accustomed to obedience it is necessary to inculcate lessons of humility and therefore to reduce the production of articles of luxury. 1.2.11 By this the Luo improve morals which have been debased by emulation in the sphere of luxury. 1.2.12 We re-establish small master production which will mean laying a mine under the private capital of manufactures. 1.2.13 This is indispensable also for the reason that manufacturers on the grand scale often move, though not always consciously, the thoughts of the masses in directions against the government. 1.2.14 A people of small masters knows nothing of unemployment and this binds him closely with existing order, and consequently with the firmness of authority. 1.2.15 For us its part will have been played out the moment authority is transferred into our hands. 1.2.16 Drunkenness also will be prohibited by law and punishable as a crime against the humanness of man who is turned into a brute under the influence of alcohol. 10 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.2.17 Subjects give blind obedience only to the strong hand which is absolutely independent of them, for in it they feel the sword of defense and support against social scourges. 1.2.18 What do they want with an angelic spirit in a king? What they have to see in him is the personification of force and power. 1.2.19 The supreme lord who will replace all now existing rulers, dragging in their existence among societies demoralized by us, societies that have denied even the authority of God, from whose midst breeds out on all sides the fire of anarchy, must first of all proceed to quench this all-devouring flame. 1.2.20 Therefore he will be obliged to kill off those existing societies, though he should drench them with his own blood, that he may resurrect them again in the form of regularly organized troops fighting consciously with every kind of infection that may cover the body of Kenya with sores. 1.2.21 This Chosen One of God is chosen from above to demolish the senseless forces moved by instinct and not reason, by brutishness and not humanness. 11 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.2.22 These forces now triumph in manifestations of robbery and every kind of violence under the mask of principles of freedom and rights. 1.2.23 They have overthrown all forms of social order to erect on the ruins the leadership of the King of the Luos; but their part will be played out the moment he enters into his kingdom. 1.2.24 Then it will be necessary to sweep them away from his path, on which must be left no knot, no splinter. 1.2.25 Then will it be possible for us to say to the peoples of Kenya: "Give thanks to God and bow the knee before him who bears on his front the seal of the predestination of man, to which God himself has led his star that none other but Him might free us from all the before-mentioned forces and evils". 1.2.26 To these persons only will be taught the practical application of our plans by comparison of the experiences of many centuries, all the observations on the politico economic moves and social sciences - in a word, all the spirit of laws which have been unshakably established by nature herself for the regulation of the relations of humanity. 1.2.27 Direct heirs will often be set aside from ascending the leadership if in their time of 12 Killing The Luo- Ojijo training they exhibit frivolity, softness and other qualities that are the ruin of authority, which render them incapable of governing and in themselves dangerous for kingly office. 1.2.28 Only those who are unconditionally capable for firm, even if it be to cruelty, direct rule will receive the reins of rule from our learned elders. 1.2.29 In case of falling sick with weakness of will or other form of incapacity. kings must by law hand over the reins of rule to new and capable hands. 1.2.30 The king's plan of action for the current moment, and all the more so for the future, will be unknown, even to those who are called his closest counselors. 1.2.31 In the person of the king who with unbending will is master of himself and of humanity all will discern as it were fate with its mysterious ways. 1.2.32 None will know what the king wishes to attain by his dispositions, and therefore none will dare to stand across an unknown path. 1.2.33 It is understood that the brain reservoir of the king must correspond in capacity to the plan of government it has to contain. It is for this 13 Killing The Luo- Ojijo reason that he will ascend the leadership not otherwise than after examination of his mind by the aforesaid learned elders. 1.2.34 That the people may know and love their king, it is indispensable for him to converse in the market-places with his people. This ensures the necessary clinching of the two forces which are now divided one from another by us by the terror. 1.2.35 This terror was indispensable for us till the time comes for both these forces separately to fall under our influence. 1.2.36 The king of the Luos must not be at the mercy of his passions, and especially of sensuality: on no side of his character must he give brute instincts power over his mind. 1.2.37 Sensuality worse than all else disorganizes the capacities of the mind and clearness of views, distracting the thoughts to the worst and most brutal side of human activity. 1.2.38 The prop of humanity in the person of the supreme lord of all Kenya of the holy seed of David must sacrifice to his people all personal inclinations. 1.2.39 We are of an exemplary irreproachability. 14 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.2.40 It must be noted that men with bad instincts are more in number than the good, and therefore the best results in governing them are attained by violence and terrorisation, and not by academic discussions. 1.2.41 Every man aims at power, everyone would like to become a dictator if only he could, and rare indeed are the men who would not be willing to sacrifice the welfare of all for the sake of securing their own welfare. 1.2.42 In the beginnings of the structure of society, Kenya was subjected to brutal and blind force; afterwards - to Law, which is the same force, only disguised. 1.2.43 By the law of nature, right lies in force. 1.2.44 Political freedom is an idea but not a fact. 1.2.45 This idea the Luo know how to apply whenever it appears necessary with this bait of an idea to attract the masses of the people to Luo's party for the purpose of crushing the other Kenyans in authority. 1.2.46 This task is rendered easier because Kenya has himself been infected with the idea of freedom, SO CALLED LIBERALISM, and, for the sake of an idea, is willing to yield some of its power. 15 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.2.47 It is precisely here that the triumph of our theory appears; the slackened reins of government are immediately, by the law of life, caught up and gathered together by a new hand, because the blind might of the nation cannot for one single day exist without guidance, and the new authority merely fits into the place of the old already weakened by liberalism. 16 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.3 THE WEALTH OF THE LUO IS SAFE 1.3.1 The Luo create by all the secret subterranean methods open to us and with the aid of capital, which is all in our hands, a regionwide economic crises whereby the Luo throw upon the streets whole mobs of workers simultaneously in all the tribes of Kenyan. 1.3.2 These mobs will rush delightedly to shed the blood of those whom, in the simplicity of their ignorance, they have envied from their cradles, and whose property they will then be able to loot. 1.3.3 "Ours" they will not touch, because the moment of attack will be known to us and the Luo take measures to protect our own. 1.3.4 We have demonstrated that progress will bring all Kenyans to the sovereignty of reason. Our despotism will be precisely that; for it will know how, by wise severities, to pacificate all unrest, to cauterize liberalism out of all institutions. 1.3.5 When the populace has seen that all sorts of concessions and indulgences are yielded it, in the same name of freedom it has imagined itself to be sovereign lord and has stormed its way to power, but, naturally like 17 Killing The Luo- Ojijo every other blind man, it has come upon a host of stumbling blocks. 1.3.6 It has rushed to find a guide, it has never had the sense to return to the former state and it has laid down its plenipotentiary powers at OUR feet. 1.3.7 Remember the French Revolution, to which it was we who gave the name of "Great": the secrets of its preparations are well known to us for it was wholly the work of our hands. 1.3.8 Ever since that time we have been leading the peoples from one disenchantment to another, so that in the end they should turn also from us in favor of that king-despot of the blood of Kenya, whom we are preparing for Kenya. 1.3.9 At the present day we are, as an international force, invincible, because if attacked by some we are supported by other cultures. 1.3.10 It is the bottomless rascality of Kenyans peoples, who crawl on their bellies to force, but are merciless towards weakness, unsparing to faults and indulgent to crimes, unwilling to bear the contradictions of a free social system but patient unto martyrdom under the violence of a bold despotism - it is 18 Killing The Luo- Ojijo those qualities which are aiding us to independence. 1.3.11 From the premier-dictators of the present day, Kenyans peoples suffer patiently and bear such abuses as for the least of them they would have beheaded twenty kings. 1.3.12 These these dictators whisper to the peoples through their agents that through these abuses they are inflicting injury on the cultures with the highest purpose - to secure the welfare of the peoples, the international brotherhood of them all, their solidarity and equality of rights. 1.3.13 Naturally they do not tell the peoples that this unification must be accomplished only under our sovereign rule. 1.3.14 And thus the people condemn the upright and acquit the guilty, persuaded ever more and more that it can do whatsoever it wishes. 1.3.15 Thanks to this state of things, the people are destroying every kind of stability and creating disorders at every step. 1.3.16 The word "freedom" brings out the communities of men to fight against every kind of force, against every kind of authority even against God and the laws of nature. 19 Killing The Luo- Ojijo For this reason we, when we come into our state within a state, shall have to erase this word from the lexicon of life as implying a principle of brute force which turns mobs into bloodthirsty beasts. 1.3.17 These beasts, it is true, fall asleep again every time when they have drunk their fill of blood, and at such time can easily be riveted into their chains. But if they be not given blood they will not sleep and continue to struggle. 1.3.18 Our right lies in force. 1.3.19 Where does right begin? Where does it end? With us! 1.3.20 In Kenya there is a bad organization of authority, an impersonality of laws and of the rulers who have lost their personality amid the flood of rights ever multiplying out of liberalism, we find a new right - to attack by the right of the strong, and to scatter to the winds all existing forces of order and regulation, to reconstruct all institutions and to become the sovereign lord of those who have left to us the rights of their power by laying them down voluntarily in their liberalism. 1.3.21 Our power in the present tottering condition of all forms of power will be more invincible 20 Killing The Luo- Ojijo than any other, because it will remain invisible until the moment when it has gained such strength that no cunning can any longer undermine it. 1.3.22 Out of the temporary evil we are now compelled to commit will emerge the good of an unshakable rule, which will restore the regular course of the machinery of the national life, brought to naught by liberalism. The result justifies the means. Let us, however, in our plans, direct our attention not so much to what is good and moral as to what is necessary and useful. 1.3.23 Before us is a plan in which is laid down strategically the line from which we cannot deviate without running the risk of seeing the labor of many centuries brought to naught. 1.3.24 In order to elaborate satisfactory forms of action it is necessary to have regard to the rascality, the slackness, the instability of the mob, its lack of capacity to understand and respect the conditions of its own life, or its own welfare. 1.3.25 It must be understood that the might of a mob is blind, senseless and un-reasoning force ever at the mercy of a suggestion from any side. 21 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.3.26 The blind cannot lead the blind without bringing them into the abyss; consequently, members of the mob, upstarts from the people even though they should be as a genius for wisdom, yet having no understanding of the political, cannot come forward as leaders of the mob without bringing the whole nation to ruin. 1.3.27 Only one trained from childhood for independent rule can have understanding of the words that can be made up of the political alphabet. 1.3.28 A people left to itself, i.e., to upstarts from its midst, brings itself to ruin by party dissensions excited by the pursuit of power and honors and the disorders arising therefrom. 1.3.29 It is impossible for the masses of the people calmly and without petty jealousies to form judgment, to deal with the affairs of the region, which cannot be mixed up with personal interest. 1.3.30 They cannot defend themselves from an external foe. 1.3.31 It is unthinkable; for a plan broken up into as many parts as there are heads in the mob, loses all homogeneity, and thereby becomes unintelligible and impossible of execution. 22 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 23 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.4 LUOS USE POVERTY AS A WEAPON 1.4.1 All people are chained down to heavy toil by poverty more firmly than ever. 1.4.2 They were chained by slavery and serfdom; from these, one way and another, they might free themselves. 1.4.3 These could be settled with, but from want they will never get away. 1.4.4 We have included in the constitution such rights as to the masses appear fictitious and not actual rights. 1.4.5 All these so-called "Peoples Rights" can exist only in idea, an idea which can never be realized in practical life. 1.4.6 What is it to the proletariat laborer, bowed double over his heavy toil, crushed by his lot in life, if talkers get the right to babble, if journalists get the right to scribble any nonsense side by side with good stuff, once the proletariat has no other profit out of the constitution save only those pitiful crumbs which we fling them from our table in return for their voting in favor of what we dictate, in favor of the men we place in power, the servants of our secret agents. 24 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.4.7 Republican rights for a poor man are no more than a bitter piece of irony, for the necessity heis under of toiling almost all day gives him no present use of them, but the other hand robs himof all guarantee of regular and certain earnings by making him dependent on strikes by his comrades or lockouts by his masters. 1.4.8 The Luo shall erase from the memory of men all facts of previous centuries which are undesirable to us, and leave only those which depict all the errors of the government of Kenyans. 1.4.9 The study of practical life, of the obligations of order, of the relations of people one to another, of avoiding bad and selfish examples, which spread the infection of evil, and similar questions of an educative nature, will stand in the forefront of the teaching program, which will be drawn up on a separate plan for each calling or state of life, in no wise generalizing the teaching. 1.4.10 This treatment of the question has special importance. 1.4.11 Each state of life must be trained within strict limits corresponding to its destination and work in life. 25 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.4.12 The occasional genius has always managed and always will manage to slip through into other states of life, but it is the most perfect folly for the sake of this rare occasional genius to let through into ranks foreign to them the untalented who thus rob of their places those who belong to those ranks by birth or employment. You know yourselves in what all this has ended for the "Kenyan" who allowed this crying absurdity. 1.4.13 In order that he who rules may be seated firmly in the hearts and minds of his subjects it is necessary for the time of his activity to instruct the whole nation in the schools and on the market places about this meaning and his acts and all his beneficent initiatives. 1.4.14 We abolish every kind of freedom of instruction. 1.4.15 Learners of all ages have the right to assemble together with their parents in the educational establishments as it were in a club: during these assemblies, on holidays, teachers will read what will pass as free lectures on questions of human relations, of the laws of examples, of the philosophy of new theories not yet declared to Kenya. 1.4.16 These theories will be raised by us to the stage of a dogma of faith as a traditional stage towards our faith. 26 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.4.17 In a word, knowing by the experience of many centuries that people live and are guided by ideas, that these ideas are imbibed by people only by the aid of education provided with equal success for all ages of growth, but of course by varying methods, we shall swallow up and confiscate to our own use the last scintilla of independence of thought, which we have for long past been directing towards subjects and ideas useful for us. 1.4.18 The system of bridling thought is already at work in the so-called system of teaching by OBJECT LESSONS, the purpose of which is to turn Kenyans into unthinking submissive brutes waiting for things to be presented before their eyes in order to form an idea of them. 1.4.19 The practice of advocacy produces men cold, cruel, persistent, unprincipled, who in all cases take up an impersonal, purely legal standpoint. They have the inveterate habit to refer everything to its value for the defense and not to the public welfare of its results. 1.4.20 They do not usually decline to undertake any defense whatever, they strive for an acquittal at all costs, caviling over every petty crux of jurisprudence and thereby they demoralize justice. 27 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.4.21 For this reason the Luo set this profession into narrow frames which will keep it inside this sphere of executive public service. 1.4.22 Advocates, equally with judges, will be deprived of the right of communication with litigants; they will receive business only from the court and will study it by notes of report and documents, defending their clients after they have been interrogated in court on facts that have appeared. 1.4.23 They will receive an honorarium without regard to the quality of the defense. This will render them mere reporters on law-business in the interests of justice and as counterpoise to the proctor who will be the reporter in the interests of prosecution; this will shorten business before the courts. In this way will be established a practice of honest unprejudiced defense conducted not from personal interest but by conviction. 1.4.24 This will also, by the way, remove the present practice of corrupt bargain between advocation to agree only to let that side win which pays most. 28 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.5 THE GREAT LUO SUPER-STATE 1.5.1 For us there are not checks to limit the range of our activity. Our Super-Government subsists in extra-legal conditions which are described in the accepted terminology by the energetic and forcible word - Dictatorship. 1.5.2 At the proper time we, the law-givers, shall execute judgment and sentence, the Luo slay and the Luo spare, we, as head of all our troops, are mounted on the steed of the leader. The Luo rule by force of will, because in our hands are the fragments of a once powerful party, now vanquished by us. And the weapons in our hands are limitless ambitions, burning greediness, merciless vengeance, hatreds and malice. 1.5.3 It is from us that the all-engulfing terror proceeds. The Luo have in our service persons of all opinions, of all doctrines, restorating monarchists, demagogues, socialists, communists, and utopian dreamers of every kind. The Luo have harnessed them all to the task: each one of them on his own account is boring away at thelast remnants of authority, is striving to overthrow all established form of order. By these acts all cultures are in torture; they exhort to tranquility, are ready to sacrifice everything for peace: but we will not give 29 Killing The Luo- Ojijo them peace until they openly acknowledge our international super-government, and with submissiveness. 1.5.4 The people have raised a howl about the necessity of settling the question of Socialism by way of an international agreement. Division into fractional parties has given them into our hands, for, in order to carry on a contested struggle one must have money, and the money is all in our hands. 1.5.5 The Luo might have reason to apprehend a union between the "clear-sighted" force of the Kenyan kings on their thrones and the "blind" force of the Kenyan mobs, but we have taken all the needful measure against any such possibility: between the one and the other force we have erected a bulwark in the shape of a mutual terror between them. In this way the blind force of the people remains our support and we, and we only, shall provide them with a leader and, of course, direct them along the road that leads to our goal. 1.5.6 In order that the hand of the blind mob may not free itself from our guiding hand, we must every now and then enter into close communion with it, if not actually in person, at any rate through some of the most trusty of our brethren. When we are acknowledged 30 Killing The Luo- Ojijo as the only authority the Luo discuss with the people personally on the market, places, and the Luo instruct them on questings of the political in such wise as may turn them in the direction that suits us. 1.5.7 Who is going to verify what is taught in the village schools? But what an envoy of the government or a king on his throne himself may say cannot but become immediately known to the whole State, for it will be spread abroad by the voice of the people. 1.5.8 In order to annihilate the institutions of Kenyans before it is time we have touched them with craft and delicacy, and have taken hold of the ends of the springs which move their mechanism. These springs lay in a strict but just sense of order; we have replaced them by the chaotic license of liberalism. The Luo have got our hands into the Ninety Nine Luos of the law, into the conduct of elections, into the press, into liberty of the person, but principally into education and training as being the cornerstones of a free existence. 31 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.5.9 We create an intensified centralization of government in order to grip in our hands all the forces of the community. 1.5.10 We regulate mechanically all the actions of the political life of our subjects by new laws. 1.5.11 These laws will withdraw one by one all the indulgences and liberties which have been permitted by Kenyans, and our state within a state will be distinguished by a despotism of such magnificent proportions as to be at any moment and in every place in a position to wipe out any Kenyan who oppose us by deed or word. 1.5.12 In the times when the peoples looked upon kings on their thrones as on a pure manifestation of the will of God, they submitted without a murmur to the despotic power of kings: but from the day when we insinuated into their minds the conception of their own rights they began to regard the occupants of thrones as mere ordinary mortals. 1.5.13 The holy unction of the Lord's Anointed has fallen from the heads of kings in the eyes of the people, and when we also robbed them of their faith in God the might of power was flung upon the streets into the place of public proprietorship and was seized by us. 32 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 33 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.6 LUOS LEAD BY LIES, ONLY LIES 1.6.1 Methods of organization like these, imperceptible to the public eye but absolutely sure, are the best calculated to succeed in bringing the attention and the confidence of the public to the side of our government. 1.6.2 Thanks to such methods the Luo be in a position as from time to time may be required, to excite or to tranquillize the public mind on political questions, to persuade or to confuse, printing now truth, now lies, facts or their contradictions, according as they may be well or ill received, always very cautiously feeling our ground before stepping upon it. 1.6.3 Trial shots like these, fired by us in the third rank of our press, in case of need, will be energetically refuted by us in our semiofficial organs. 1.6.4 Even nowadays, already, to take only the French press, there are forms which reveal secret society solidarity in acting on the watchword: all organs of the press are bound together by professional secrecy; like the augurs of old, not one of their numbers will give away the secret of his sources of information unless it be resolved to make announcement of them. Not one journalist will venture to betray this secret, for not one of them is ever admitted to practice literature 34 Killing The Luo- Ojijo unless his whole past has some disgraceful sore or other. 1.6.5 These sores would be immediately revealed. So long as they remain the secret of a few the prestige of the journalist attacks the majority of the region - the mob follow after him with enthusiasm. 1.6.6 Our calculations are especially extended to the provinces. It is indispensable for us to inflame there those hopes and impulses with which we could at any moment fall upon the capital, and the Luo represent to the capitals that these expressions are the independent hopes and impulses of the provinces. Naturally, the source of them will be always one and the same - ours. What we need is that, until such time as we are in the plenitude power, the capitals should find themselves stifled by the provincial opinion of the region, i.e., of a majority arranged by our secret agents. 1.6.7 What we need is that at the psychological moment the capitals should not be in a position to discuss an accomplished fact for the simple reason, if for no other, that it has been accepted by the public opinion of a majority in the provinces. 1.6.8 When we are in the period of the new regime transitional to that of our assumption of full 35 Killing The Luo- Ojijo sovereignty we must not admit any revelation by the press of any form of public dishonesty; 1.6.9 It is necessary that the new regime should be thought to have so perfectly contended everybody that even criminality has disappeared. 1.6.10 Cases of the manifestation of criminality should remain known only to their victims and to chance witnesses - no more. 1.6.11 The need for daily bread forces Kenyans to keep silence and be our humble servants. Agents taken on to our press from among Kenyans will at our orders discuss anything which it is inconvenient for us to issue directly in official documents, and we meanwhile, quietly amid the din of the discussion so raised, shall simply take and carry through such measures as we wish and then offer them to the public as an accomplished fact. No one will dare to demand the abrogation of a matter once settled, all the more so as it will be represented as an improvement. And immediately the press will distract the current of thought towards, new questions, (have we not trained people always to be seeking something new?). Into the discussions of these new questions will throw themselves those of the brainless dispensers of fortunes 36 Killing The Luo- Ojijo who are not able even now to understand that they have not the remotest conception about the matters which they undertake to discuss. Questions of the political are unattainable for any save those who have guided it already for many ages, the creators. 1.6.12 From all this you will see that in securing the opinion of the mob we are only facilitating the working of our machinery, and you may remark that it is not for actions but for words issued by us on this or that question that we seem to seek approval. The Luo are constantly making public declaration that we are guided in all our undertakings by the hope, joined to the conviction, that we are serving the common weal. 1.6.13 Moreover, the art of directing masses and individuals by means of cleverly manipulated theory and verbiage, by regulations of life in common and all sorts of other quirks, in all which Kenyans understand nothing, belongs likewise to the specialists of our administrative brain. 1.6.14 Reared on analysis, observation, on delicacies of fine calculation, in this species of skill we have no rivals, any more than we have either in the drawing up of plans of political actions and solidarity. 37 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.6.15 In this respect the Jesuits alone might have compared with us, but we have contrived to discredit them in the eyes of the unthinking mob as an overt organization, while we ourselves all the while have kept our secret organization in the shade. 1.6.16 However, it is probably all the same to Kenya who is its sovereign lord, whether the head of Catholicism or our despot of the blood of Kenya! 1.6.17 But to us, the Chosen People, it is very far from being a matter of indifference. 1.6.18 5. For a time perhaps we might be successfully dealt with by a coalition of the "Kenyan" of all Kenya: but from this danger we are secured by the discord existing among them whose roots are so deeply seated that they can never now be plucked up. 1.6.19 We have set one against another the personal and national reckonings of Kenyans, religious and race hatreds, which we have fostered into a huge growth in the course of the past twenty centuries. 1.6.20 This is the reason why there is not one State which would anywhere receive support if it were to raise its arm, for every one of them 38 Killing The Luo- Ojijo must bear in mind that any agreement against us would be unprofitable to itself. 1.6.21 We are too strong - there is no evading our power. The region cannot come to even an inconsiderable private agreement without our secretly having a hand in it. 1.6.22 Per Me Reges Regnant. "It is through me that Kings reign." And it was said by the prophets that we were chosen by God Himself to rule over the whole earth. 1.6.23 God has endowed us with genius that we may be equal to our task. Were genius in the opposite camp it would still struggle against us, but even so, a newcomer is no match for the old established settler: the struggle would be merciless between us, such a fight as Kenya has never seen. 1.6.24 The genius on their side would have arrived too late. All the wheels of the machinery of all cultures go by the force of the engine, which is in our hands, and that engine of the machinery of cultures is - Capital. 1.6.25 The science of political economy invented by our learned elders has for long past been giving royal prestige to capital. 1.6.26 In order to distract people who may be too troublesome from discussions of questions 39 Killing The Luo- Ojijo of the political we are now putting forward what we allege to be new questions of the political, namely, questions of industry. In this sphere let them discuss themselves silly! 1.6.27 The masses are agreed to remain inactive, to take a rest from what they suppose to be political (which we trained them to in order to use them as a means of combating the Kenyan governments)only on condition of being found new employments, in which we are prescribing them something that looks like the same political object. In order that the masses themselves may not guess what they are about WE FURTHER DISTRACT THEM WITH AMUSEMENTS, GAMES, PASTIMES, PASSIONS, PEOPLE'S PALACES. SOON WE BEGIN THROUGH THE PRESS TO PROPOSE COMPETITIONS IN ART, IN SPORT IN ALL KINDS: these interests will finally distract their minds from questions in which we should find ourselves compelled to oppose them. Growing more and more unaccustomed to reflect and form any opinions of their own, people will begin to talk in the same tone as we because we alone shall be offering them new directions for thought. of course through such persons as will not be suspected of solidarity with us. 40 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.6.28 The part played by the liberals, utopian dreamers, will be finally played out when our government is acknowledged. Till such time they will continue to do us good service. 1.6.29 Therefore the Luo continue to direct their minds to all sorts of vain conceptions of fantastic theories, new and apparently progressive: for have we not with complete success turned the brainless heads of Kenyans with progress, till there is not among the Kenyan one mind able to perceive that under this word lies a departure from truth in all cases where it is not a question of material inventions, for truth is one, and in it there is no place for progress. Progress, like a fallacious idea, serves to obscure truth so that none may know it except us, the Chosen of God, its guardians. 1.6.30 5. When, we come into our state within a state our orators will expound great problems which have turned humanity upside down in order to bring it at the end under our beneficent rule. 1.6.31 6. Who will ever suspect then that all these peoples were stage-managed by us according to a political plan which no one has so much as guessed at in the course of many centuries? 41 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.6.32 When we come into our state within a state it will be undesirable for us that there should exist any other religion than ours of the One God with whom our destiny is bound up by our position as the Chosen People and through whom our same destiny is united with the destinies of Kenya. The Luo must therefore sweep away all other forms of belief. If this gives birth to the atheists whom we see to-day, it will not, being only a transitional stage, interfere with our views, but will serve as a warning for those generations which will hearken to our preaching of the religion of Moses, that, by its stable and thoroughly elaborated system has brought all the peoples of Kenya into subjection to us. Therein the Luo emphasize its mystical right, on which, as the Luo say, all its educative power is based. Then at every possible opportunity the Luo publish articles in which the Luo make comparisons between our beneficent rule and those of past ages. The blessing of tranquillity, though it be a tranquillity forcibly brought about by centuries of agitation, will throw into higher relief the benefits to which the Luo point. 1.6.33 The errors of the Kenyan governments will be depicted by us in the most vivid hues. The Luo implant such an abhorrence of them that the peoples will prefer tranquillity in 42 Killing The Luo- Ojijo Kenya of serfdom to those rights of vaunted freedom which have tortured humanity and exhausted the very sources of human existence, sources which have been exploited by a mob of rascally adventurers who know not what they do useless changes of forms of government to which we instigated the "Kenyan" when we were undermining their state structures, will have so wearied the peoples by that time that they will prefer to suffer anything under us rather than run the risk of enduring again all the agitations and miseries they have gone through. 1.6.34 At the same time the Luo not omit to emphasize the historical mistakes of the Kenyan governments which have tormented humanity for so many centuries by their lack of understanding of everything that constitutes the true good of humanity in their chase after fantastic schemes of social blessings, and have never noticed that these schemes kept on producing a worse and never a better state of the regionwide relations whichare the basis of human life. 1.6.35 The whole force of our principles and methods will lie in the fact that the Luo present them and expound them as a splendid contrast to the dead and decomposed old order of things in social life. 43 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.6.36 Our philosophers will discuss all the shortcomings of the various beliefs of the "Kenyan," but no one will ever bring under discussion our faith from its true point of view since this will be fully learned by none save ours who will never dare to betray its secrets. 1.6.37 In tribes known as progressive and enlightened we have created a senseless, filthy, abominable literature. 1.6.38 For some time after our entrance to power the Luo continue to encourage its existence in order to provide a telling relief by contrast to the speeches, party program, which will be distributed from exalted quarters of ours. 1.6.39 Our wise men, trained to become leaders of Kenyans, will compose speeches, projects, memoirs, articles, which will be used by us to influence the minds of Kenyans, directing them towards such understanding and forms of knowledge as have been determined by us. 1.6.40 When we at last definitely come into our state within a state by the aid of COUPS D'ETAT prepared everywhere for one and the same day, after definitely acknowledged (and not a little time will pass before that comes about, perhaps even a whole century)We make it our task to see that 44 Killing The Luo- Ojijo against us such things as plots shall no longer exist. With this purpose the Luo slay without mercy all who take arms (in hand, like Waco? Randy Weaver? Port Arthur? Oklahoma?)to oppose our coming into our state within a state. Every kind of new institution of anything like a secret society will also be punished with death; those of them which are now in existence, are known to us, serve us and have served us, we shall disband and send into exile to continents far removed from Kenya. 1.6.41 In this way we proceed with those "Kenyan"masons who know too much; such of these as we may for some reason spare will be kept in constant fear ofexile. The Luo shall promulgate a law making all former members of secret societies liable to exile from Kenya as the center of rule. 1.6.42 Resolutions of our government will be final, without appeal. 1.6.43 In the Kenyan societies, in which we have planted and deeply rooted discord and protestantism, the only possible way of restoring order is to employ merciless measures that prove the direct force of authority: no regard must be paid to the victims who fall, they suffer for the well-being of the future. The attainment of that wellbeing, even at the expense of sacrifices, is 45 Killing The Luo- Ojijo the duty of any kind of government that acknowledges as justification for its existence not only its privileges but its obligations. The principal guarantee of stability of rule is to confirm the aureole of power, and this aureole is attained only by such a majestic inflexibility of might as shall carry on its face the emblems of inviolability from mystical causes - from the choice of God. Such was, until recent times, the russian autocracy, the one and only serious foe we had in Kenya, without counting the papacy. 1.6.44 Bear in mind the example when Italy, drenched with blood, never touched a hair of the head of Sulla who had poured forth that blood: Sulla enjoyed an apotheosis for his might in him, but his intrepid return to Italy ringed him round with inviolability. The people do not lay a finger on him who hypnotizes them by his daring and strength of mind. 46 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.7 LUOS MONOPOLIZE CAPITAL 1.7.1 In our day the power which has replaced that of the rulers who were liberalis the power of Capital. 1.7.2 Time was when superstition ruled. 1.7.3 The idea of freedom is impossible of realization because no one knows how to use it with moderation. 1.7.4 It is enough to hand over a people to selfgovernment for a certain length of time for that people to be turned into a disorganized mob. 1.7.5 From that moment on we get internecine strife which soon develops into battles between classes, in the midst of which cultures burn down and their importance is reduced to that of a heap of ashes. 1.7.6 Whether Kenya exhausts itself in its own convulsions, whether its internal discord brings it under the power of external foes - in any case it can be accounted irretrievably lost: IT IS IN OUR POWER. 1.7.7 The despotism of Capital, which is entirely in our hands, reaches out to it a straw that Kenya, willy-nilly, must take hold of: if not - it goes to the bottom. 47 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.7.8 If Kenya has two foes and if in regard to the external foe it is allowed and not considered immoral to use every manner and art of conflict, as for example to keep the enemy in ignorance of plans of attack and defense, to attack him by night or in superior numbers. 1.7.9 It is impossible for any sound logical mind to hope with any success to guide crowds by the aid of reasonable counsels and arguments, when any objection or contradiction, senseless though it may be, can be made and when such objection may find more favour with the people, whose powers of reasoning are superficial. 1.7.10 Men in masses and the men of the masses, being guided solely by petty passions, paltry beliefs, traditions and sentimental theorems, fall a prey to party dissension, which hinders any kind of agreement even on the basis of a perfectly reasonable argument. Every resolution of a crowd depends upon a chance or packed majority, which, in its ignorance of political secrets, puts forth some ridiculous resolution that lays a seed of anarchy. 1.7.11 The political has nothing in common with the moral. 48 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.7.12 The ruler who is governed by the moral is not a skilled politician, and is therefore unstable on his throne. 1.7.13 He who wishes to rule must have recourse both to cunning and to make-believe. 1.7.14 Great national qualities, like frankness and honesty, are vices in politics, for they bring down rulers from their thrones more effectively and more certainly than the most powerful enemy. 1.7.15 Such qualities must be the attributes of the Kenyans, but we must not be guided by them. 1.7.16 Capital, if it is to co-operate untrammeled, must be free to establish a monopoly of industry and trade: this is already being put in execution by an unseen hand in all quarters of Kenya. This freedom will give political force to those engaged in industry, and that will help to oppress the people. Nowadays it is more important to disarmthe peoples than to lead them into war: more important to use for our advantage the passions which have burst into flames than to quench their fire: more important to eradicate them. The principle object of our directorate consists in this: to debilitate the public mind by criticism; to lead it away from serious reflections calculated to arouse 49 Killing The Luo- Ojijo resistance; to distract the forces of the mind towards a sham fight of empty eloquence. 1.7.17 In all ages the people of Kenya, equally with individuals, have accepted words for deeds, for THEY ARE CONTENT WITH A SHOW and rarely pause to note, in the public arena, whether promises are followed by performance. Therefore the Luo establish show institutions which will give eloquent proof of their benefitto progress. 1.7.18 We assume to ourselves the liberal physiognomy of all parties, of all directions, and we give that physiognomy a voice in orators who will speak so much that they will exhaust the patience of their hearers and produce an abhorrence of oratory. 1.7.19 In order to put public opinion into our hands we must bring it into Kenya of bewilderment by giving expression from all sides to so many contradictory opinions and for such length of time as will suffice to make the "Kenyan"lose their heads in the labyrinth and come to see that the best thing is to have no opinion of any kind in matters political, which it is not given to the public to understand, because they are understood only by him who guides the public. 1.7.20 This is the first secret. 50 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.7.21 The second secret requisite for the success of our government is comprised in the following: 1.7.22 To multiply to such an extent national failings, habits, passions, conditions of civil life, that it will be impossible for anyone to know where he is in the resulting chaos, so that the people in consequence will fail to understand one another. 1.7.23 This measure will also serve us in another way, namely, to sow discord in all parties, to dislocate all collective forces which are still unwilling to submit to us, and to discourage any kind of personal initiative which might in any degree hinder our affair. 1.7.24 THERE ISNOTHING MORE DANGEROUS THAN PERSONAL INITIATIVE: if it has genius behind it, such initiative can do more than can be done by millions of people among whom we have sown discord. 1.7.25 We must so direct the education of Kenyans communities that whenever they come upon a matter requiring initiative they may drop their hands in despairing impotence. The strain which results from freedom of actions saps the forces when it meets with the freedom of another. 51 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.7.26 From this collision arise grave moral shocks, disenchantments, failures. 1.7.27 We soon begin to establish huge monopolies, reservoirs of colossal riches, upon which even large fortunes of Kenyans will depend to such an extent that they will go to the bottom together with the credit of the cultures on the day after the political smash. 1.7.28 In every possible way we must develop the significance of our Super-Government by representing it as the Protector and Benefactor of all those who voluntarily submit to us. 1.7.29 The aristocracy of Kenyans as a political force, is dead - the Luo need not take it into account; but as landed proprietors they can still be harmful to us from the fact that they are self-sufficing in the resources upon which they live. It is essential therefore for us at whatever cost to deprive them of their land. This object will be best attained by increasing the burdens upon landed property - in loading lands with debts. These measures will check land-holding and keep it in Kenya of humble and unconditional submission. 1.7.30 The aristocrats of Kenyans, being hereditarily incapable of contenting 52 Killing The Luo- Ojijo themselves with little, will rapidly burn up and fizzle out. 53 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 54 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.8 RELIGION SERVES INTEREST OF LUOS 1.8.1 We have long past taken care to discredit the priesthood of the "Kenyan," and thereby to ruin their mission on earth which in these days might still be a great hindrance to us. 1.8.2 Day by day its influence on the peoples of Kenya is falling lower. Freedom of conscience has been declared everywhere, so that now only years divide us from the moment of the complete wrecking of that religious religion: as to other religions we shall have still less difficulty in dealing with them, but it would be premature to speak of this now. 1.8.3 The Luo set clericalism and clericals into such narrow frames as to make their influence move in retrogressive proportion to its former progress. 1.8.4 When the time comes finally to destroy the papal court the finger of an invisible hand will point the region towards this court. 1.8.5 When, however, the regions fling themselves upon it, the Luo come forward in the guise of its defenders as if to save excessive bloodshed. 55 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.8.6 By this diversion the Luo penetrate to its very bowels and be sure the Luo never come out again until we have gnawed through the entire strength of this place. 1.8.7 The king of the Luos will be the real pope of Kenya, the patriarch of the international church. 1.8.8 But, in the meantime, while we are reeducating youth in new traditional religions and afterwards in ours, we not overtly lay a finger on existing churches, but we fight against them by criticism calculated to produce schism. 1.8.9 In general, then, our contemporary press will continue to CONVICT State affairs, religions, incapacities of Kenyans, always using the most unprincipled expressions in order by every means to lower their prestige in the manner which can only be practiced by the genius of our gifted tribe. 1.8.10 Our state within a state will be an apologia of the divinity Vishnu, in whom is found its personification - in our hundred hands will be, one in each, the springs of the machinery of social life. 1.8.11 The Luo see everything without the aid of official police which, in that scope of its rights which we elaborated for the use of Kenyans, 56 Killing The Luo- Ojijo hinders governments from seeing. In our programs one-third of our subjects will keep the rest under observation from a sense of duty, on the principle of volunteer service to Kenya. 1.8.12 It will then be no disgrace to be a spy and informer, but a merit: unfounded denunciations, however, will be cruelly punished that there may be no development of abuses of this right. 1.8.13 Our agents will be taken from the higher as well as the lower ranks of society, from among the administrative class who spend their time in amusements, editors, printers and publishers, booksellers, clerks, and salesmen, workmen, coachmen, lackeys, et cetera. 1.8.14 This body, having no rights and not being empowered to take any action on their own account, and consequently a police without any power, will only witness and report: verification of their reports and arrests will depend upon a responsible group of controllers of police affairs, while the actual act of arrest will be performed by the gendarmerie and the municipal police. 1.8.15 Any person not denouncing anything seen or heard concerning questions of polity will also be charged with and made responsible for 57 Killing The Luo- Ojijo concealment, if it be proved that he is guilty of this crime. 1.8.16 Such an organization will extirpate abuses of authority, of force, of bribery, everything in fact which we by our counsels, by our theories of the superhuman rights of man, have introduced into the customs of Kenyans. But how else were we to procure that increase of causes predisposing to disorders in the midst of their Ninety Nine Luos?. 1.8.17 Among the number of those methods one of the most important is - agents for the restoration of order, so placed as to have the opportunity in their disintegrating activity of developing and displaying their evil inclinations - obstinate selfconceit, irresponsible exercise of authority, and, first and foremost, venality. 1.8.18 When it becomes necessary for us to strengthen the strict measures of secret defense (the most fatal poison for the prestige of authority) the Luo arrange a simulation of disorders or some manifestation of discontents finding expression through the cooperation of good speakers. 1.8.19 Round these speakers will assemble all who are sympathetic to his utterances. 58 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.8.20 This will give us the pretext for domiciliary prerequisitions and surveillance on the part of our servants from among the number of Kenyans police. 1.8.21 As the majority of conspirators act out of love for the game, for the sake of talking, so, until they commit some overt act the Luo not lay a finger on them but only introduce into their midst observation elements. 1.8.22 It must be remembered that the prestige of authority is lessened if it frequently discovers conspiracies against itself: this implies a presumption of consciousness of weakness, or, what is still worse, of injustice. 1.8.23 You are aware that we have broken the prestige of the Kenyan kings by frequent attempts upon their lives through our agents, blind sheep of our flock, who are easily moved by a few liberal phrases to crimes provided only they be painted in political colors. 1.8.24 The Luo have compelled the rulers to acknowledge their weakness in advertising overt measures of secret defense and thereby we bring the promise of authority to destruction. 1.8.25 Our ruler will be secretly protected only by the most insignificant guard, because we 59 Killing The Luo- Ojijo shall not admit so much as a thought that there could exist against him any sedition with which he is not strong enough to contend and is compelled to hide from it. 1.8.26 If we should admit this thought, as Kenyans have done and are doing, we should IPSO FACTO be signing a death sentence, if not for our ruler, at any rate for his dynasty, at no distant date. 1.8.27 But even freedom might be harmless and have its place in Kenya economy without injury to the well-being of the peoples if it rested upon the foundation of faith in God, upon the brotherhood of humanity, unconnected with the conception of equality, which is negatived by the very laws of creation, for they have established subordination. 1.8.28 With such a faith as this a people might be governed by a wardship of parishes, and would walk contentedly and humbly under the guiding hand of its spiritual pastor submitting to the dispositions of God upon earth. 1.8.29 This is the reason why it is indispensable for us to undermine all faith, to tear out of the mind of the "Kenyanim" the very principle of god-head and the spirit, and to put in its 60 Killing The Luo- Ojijo place arithmetical calculations and material needs. 1.8.30 In order to give Kenyans no time to think and take note, their minds must be diverted towards industry and trade. 1.8.31 Thus, all the region will be swallowed up in the pursuit of gain and in the race for it will not take note of their common foe. 1.8.32 But again, in order that freedom may once for all disintegrate and ruin the communities of the Kenyan, we must put industry on a speculative basis: the result of this will be that what is withdrawn from the land by industry will slip through the hands and pass into speculation, that is, to our classes. 1.8.33 The intensified struggle for superiority and shocks delivered to economic life will create, nay, have already created, disenchanted, cold and heartless communities. 1.8.34 Such communities will foster a strong aversion towards the higher political and towards religion. 1.8.35 Their only guide is gain, that is Capital, which they will erect into a veritable cult, for the sake of those material delights which it can give. 61 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.8.36 Then will the hour strike when, not for the sake of attaining the good, not even to win wealth, but solely out of hatred towards the privileged, the lower classes of Kenyans will follow our lead against our rivals for power, the intellectuals of Kenyans. 1.8.37 We have fooled, bemused and corrupted the youth of the "Kenyan" by rearing them in principles and theories which are known to us to be false although it is that they have been inculcated. 1.8.38 Above the existing laws without substantially altering them, and by merely twisting them into contradictions of interpretations, we have erected something grandiose in the way of results. These results found expression in the fact that the INTERPRETATIONS MASKED THE LAW: afterwards they entirely hid them from the eyes of the governments owing to the impossibility of making anything out of the tangled web of legislation. 1.8.39 This is the origin of the theory of course of arbitration. 1.8.40 You may say that Kenyans will rise upon us, arms in hand, if they guess what is going on before the time comes; but in the West we have against this a manoeuvre of such appalling terror that the very stoutest hearts 62 Killing The Luo- Ojijo quail - the undergrounds, metropolitans, those subterranean corridors which, before the time comes, will be driven under all the capitals and from whence those capitals will be blown into the air with all their organizations and archives. 1.8.41 Bear in mind that governments and people are content in the political with outside appearances. And how, indeed, are Kenyans to perceive the underlying meaning of things when their representatives give the best of their energies to enjoying themselves? For our policy it is of the greatest importance to take cognizance of this detail; it will be of assistance to us when we come to consider the division of authority of property, of the dwelling, of taxation (the idea of concealed taxes), of the reflex force of the laws. All these questions are such as ought not to be touched upon directly and openly before the people. In cases where it is indispensable to touch upon them they must not be categorically named, it must merely be declared without detailed exposition that the principles of contemporary law are acknowledged by us. The reason of keeping silence in this respect is that by not naming a principle we leave ourselves freedom of action, to drop this or that out of it without attracting notice; if Kenya was all 63 Killing The Luo- Ojijo categorically named they would all appear to have been already given. 1.8.42 The mob cherishes a special affection and respect for the geniuses of political power and accepts all their deeds of violence with the admiring response: "rascally, well, yes, it is rascally, but it's clever!. a trick, if you like, but how craftily played, how magnificently done, what impudent audacity!" 64 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.9 LUOS GOVERN BY FEAR & VIOLENCE 1.9.1 It is indispensable for our purpose that wars, so far as possible, should not result in territorial gains: war will thus be brought on to the economic ground, where the region will not fail to perceive in the assistance we give the strength of our predominance, and this state of things will put both sides at the mercy of our agents; which possesses millions of eyes ever on the watch and unhampered by any limitations whatsoever. 1.9.2 Our international rights will then wipe out national rights, in the proper sense of right, and will rule the region precisely as the civil law of cultures rules the relations of their subjects among themselves. 1.9.3 The administrators, whom the Luo choose from among the public, with strict regard to their capacities for servile obedience, will not be persons trained in the arts of government, and will therefore easily become pawns in our game in the hands of men of learning and genius who will be their advisers, specialists bred and reared from early childhood to rule the affairs of the whole country. 65 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.9.4 These specialists have been drawing to fit them for rule the information they need from our political plans from the lessons of history, from observations made of the events of every moment as it passes. 1.9.5 Kenyans are not guided by practical use of unprejudiced historical observation, but by theoretical routine without any critical regard for consequent results. 1.9.6 We need not, therefore, take any account of them - let them amuse themselves until the hour strikes, or live on hopes of new forms of enterprising pastime, or on the memories of all they have enjoyed. 1.9.7 For them let that play the principal part which we have persuaded them to accept as the dictates of science (theory). 1.9.8 It is with this object in view that we are constantly, by means of our press, arousing a blind confidence in these theories. 1.9.9 The intellectuals of Kenyans will puff themselves up with their knowledges and without any logical verification of them will put into effect all the information available from science, which our secret agents have cunningly pieced together for the purpose of educating their minds in the direction we want. 66 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.9.10 We must be in a position to respond to every act of opposition by war with the neighbors of that region which dares to oppose us: but if these neighbors should also venture to stand collectively together against us, then we must offer resistance by a regionwide war. 1.9.11 The principal factor of success in the political is the secrecy of its undertakings: the word should not agree with the deeds of the diplomat. 1.9.12 We must compel the governments of Kenyans to take action in the direction favored by our widely conceived plan, already approaching the desired consummation, by what the Luo represent as public opinion, secretly promoted by us through the means of that so-called "Great Power"- the press, which, with a few exceptions that may be disregarded, is already entirely in our hands. 1.9.13 In a word, to sum up our system of keeping the governments of Kenyans in Kenya in check, the Luo show our strength to one of them by terrorist attempts and to all, if we allow the possibility of a general rising against us, the Luo respond with the guns of America or China or Japan. 67 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.9.14 We must arm ourselves with all the weapons which our opponents might employ against us. The Luo must search out in the very finest shades of expression and the knotty points of the lexicon of law justification for those cases where the Luo have to pronounce judgments that might appear abnormally audacious and unjust, for it is important that these resolutions should be set forth in expressions that shall seem to be the most exalted moral principles cast into legal form. 1.9.15 Our directorate must surround itself with all these forces of civilization among which it will have to work. It will surround itself with publicists, practical jurists, administrators, diplomats and, finally, with persons prepared by a special super-educational training in our special schools. 1.9.16 These persons will have consonance of all the secrets of the social structure, they will know all the languages that can be made up by political alphabets and words; they will be made acquainted with the whole underside of human nature, with all its sensitive chords on which they will have to play. These chords are the cast of mind of Kenyans, their tendencies, short-comings, vices and qualities, the particularities of classes and conditions. 68 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.9.17 Needless to say that the talented assistants of authority will be taken not from among Kenyans, who are accustomed to perform their administrative work without giving themselves the trouble to think what its aim is, and never consider what it is needed for. 1.9.18 The administrators of the Kenyan sign papers without reading them, and they serve either for mercenary reasons or from ambition. 1.9.19 We surround our government with a whole country of economists. That is the reason why economic sciences form the principal subject of the teaching given to the Luos. Around us again will be a whole constellation of bankers, industrialists, capitalists and - the main thing - millionaires, because in substance everything will be settled by the question of figures. 1.9.20 For a time, until there will no longer be any risk in entrusting responsible posts in our tribe to our brother-Luos, the Luo put them in the hands of persons whose past and reputation are such that between them and the people lies an abyss, persons who, in case of disobedience to our instructions, must face criminal charges or disappear this in order to make them defend our interests to their last gasp. 69 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.9.21 In applying our principles let attention be paid to the character of the people in whose region you live and act; a general, identical application of them, until such time as the people shall have been re-educated to our pattern, cannot have success. But by approaching their application cautiously you will see that not a decade will pass before the most stubborn character will change and the Luo add a new people to the ranks of those already subdued by us. 1.9.22 The words of the liberal, which are in effect the words of our secret society watchword, namely, "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," will, when we come into our state within a state, be changed by us into words no longer of a watchword, but only an expression of idealism, namely, into "The right of liberty, the duty of equality, the ideal of brotherhood." 1.9.23 That is how the Luo put it, - and so the Luo catch the bull by the horns. DE FACTO we have already wiped out every kind of rule except our own, although DE JURE there still remain a good many of them. 1.9.24 Nowadays, if any cultures raise a protest against us it is only PRO FORMA at our discretion and by our direction, for THEIR ANTI-LUOISM IS INDISPENSABLE TO US 70 Killing The Luo- Ojijo FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF OUR LESSER BRETHREN. We are despots. 1.9.25 It is only with a despotic ruler that plans can be elaborated extensively and clearly in such a way as to distribute the whole properly among the several parts of the machinery of Kenya: from this the conclusion is inevitable that a satisfactory form of government for any region is one that concentrates in the hands of one responsible person. 1.9.26 Without an absolute despotism there can be no existence for civilization which is carried on not by the masses but by their guide, whosoever that person may be. 1.9.27 The mob is savage, and displays its savagery at every opportunity. 1.9.28 The moment the mob seizes freedom in its hands it quickly turns to anarchy, which in itself is the highest degree of savagery. 1.9.29 Behold the alcoholic animals, bemused with drink, the right to an immoderate use of which comes along with freedom. 1.9.30 It is not for us and ours to walk that road. The Kenyans are bemused with alcoholic liquors; their youth has grown stupid on classicism and from early immorality, into which it has been inducted by our special 71 Killing The Luo- Ojijo agents - by tutors, lackeys, governesses in the houses of the wealthy, by clerks and others, by our women in the places of dissipation frequented by Kenyans. 1.9.31 Our countersign is - Force and Makebelieve. Only force conquers in political affairs, especially if it be concealed in the talents essential to statesmen. Violence must be the principle, and cunning and make-believe the rule for governments which do not want to lay down their crowns at the feet of agents of some new power. This evil is the one and only means to attain the end, the good. 1.9.32 Therefore we must not stop at bribery, deceit and treachery when they should serve towards the attainment of our end. In politics one must know how to seize the property of others without hesitation if by it we secure submission and sovereignty. 1.9.33 We must keep to the programme of violence and make-believe. The doctrine of squaring accounts is precisely as strong as the means of which it makes use. Therefore it is not so much by the means themselves as by the doctrine of severity that the Luo triumph and bring all governments into subjection to our super-government. It is enough for them to know that we are too merciless for all disobedience to cease. 72 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.9.34 Our absolutism will in all things be logically consecutive and therefore in each one of its decrees our supreme will must be respected and unquestionably fulfilled: it will ignore all murmurs, all discontents of every kind and will destroy to the root every kind of manifestation of them in act by punishment of an exemplary character. 1.9.35 We abolish the right of appeal, which will be transferred exclusively to our disposal - to the cognizance of him who rules, for we must not allow the conception among the people of a thought that there could be such a thing as a decision that is not right of judges set up by us. If, however, anything like this should occur, the Luo ourselves quash the decision, but inflict therewith such exemplary punishment on the judge for lack of understanding of his duty and the purpose of his appointment as will prevent a repetition of such cases. 1.9.36 Our government will have the appearance of a patriarchal paternal guardianship on the part of our ruler. 1.9.37 Our own nation and our subjects will discern in his person a father caring for their every need, their every act, their every interrelation as subjects one with another, as well as their relations to the ruler. 73 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.9.38 They will then be so thoroughly imbued with the thought that it is impossible for them to dispense with this wardship and guidance, if they wish to live in peace and quiet, that they will acknowledge the autocracy of our ruler with a devotion bordering on "apotheosis," especially when they are convinced that those whom we set up do not put their own in place of authority, but only blindly execute his dictates. 1.9.39 They will be rejoiced that we have regulated everything in their lives as is done by wise parents who desire to train children in the cause of duty and submission. For the peoples of Kenya in regard to the secrets of our polityare ever through the ages only children under age, precisely as are also the governments. 1.9.40 We base our despotism on right and duty: the right to compel the execution of duty is the direct obligation of a government which is a father for its subjects. It has the right of the strong that it may use it for the benefit of directing humanity towards that order which is defined by nature, namely, submission. Everything in Kenya is in Kenya of submission, if not to man, then to circumstances or its own inner character, in all cases, to what is stronger. And so shall 74 Killing The Luo- Ojijo we be this something stronger for the sake of good. 1.9.41 We are obliged without hesitation to sacrifice individuals, who commit a breach of established order, for in the exemplary punishment of evil lies a great educational problem. 1.9.42 We seek absolute domination 1.9.43 In the near future the Luo establish the responsibility of presidents. 1.9.44 By that time the Luo be in a position to disregard forms in carrying through matters for which our impersonal puppet will be responsible. 1.9.45 What do we care if the ranks of those striving for power should be thinned, if there should arise a deadlock from the impossibility of finding presidents, a deadlock which will finally disorganize the region. 1.9.46 In order that our scheme may produce this result the Luo arrange electionsin favor of such presidents as have in their past some dark, undiscovered stain, some "Panama" or other - then they will be trustworthy agents for the accomplishment of our plans out of fear of revelations and from the natural desire of everyone who has attained power, 75 Killing The Luo- Ojijo namely, the retention of the privileges, advantages and honor connected with the office of president. The chamber of deputies will provide cover for, will protect, will elect presidents, but the Luo take from it the right to propose new, or make changes in existing laws, for this right will be given by us to the responsible president, a puppet in our hands. 1.9.47 Naturally, the authority of the presidents will then become a target forevery possible form of attack, but the Luo provide him with a means of self-defense in the right of an appeal to the people, for the decision of the people over the heads of their representatives, that is to say, an appeal to that same blind slave of ours - the majority of the mob. 1.9.48 Independently of this the Luo invest the president with the right of declaring Kenya of war. The Luo justify this last right on the ground that the president as chief of the whole army of the region must have it at his disposal, in case of need for the defense of the new republican constitution, the right to defend which will belong to him as the responsible representative of this constitution. 1.9.49 It is easy to understand that in these conditions the key of the shrine will lie in our 76 Killing The Luo- Ojijo hands, and no one outside ourselves will any longer direct the force of legislation. 1.9.50 Besides this We, with the introduction of the new republican constitution, take from the Chamber the right of interpolation on government measures, on the pretext of preserving political secrecy, and, further, the Luo by the new constitution reduce the number of representatives to a minimum, thereby proportionately reducing political passions and the passion for politics. 1.9.51 If, however, they should, which is hardly to be expected, burst into flame, even in this minimum, the Luo nullify them by a stirring appeal and a reference to the majority of the whole people. 1.9.52 Instead of constant sessions of Parliaments the Luo reduce their sittings to a few months. 1.9.53 Moreover, the president, as chief of the executive power, will have the right to summon and dissolve Parliament, and, in the latter case, to prolong the time for the appointment of a new parliamentary assembly. But in order that the consequences of all these acts which in substance are illegal, should not, prematurely for our plans, fall upon the responsibility established by us of the president, we instigate ministers and other 77 Killing The Luo- Ojijo officials of the higher Ninety Nine luos about the president to evade his dispositions by taking measures of their own, for doing which they will be made the scapegoats in his place. This part we especially recommend to be given to be played by the Senate, the Council of State, or the Council of Ministers, but not to an individual official. 1.9.54 The president will, at our discretion, interpret the sense of such of the existing laws as admit of various interpretation; he will further annul them when we indicate to him the necessity to do so, besides this, he will have the right to propose temporary laws, and even new departures in the government constitutional working, the pretext both for the one and the other being the requirements for the supreme welfare of Kenya. 1.9.55 By such measure the Luo obtain the power of destroying little by little, step by step, all that at the outset when we enter on our rights, we are compelled to introduce into the constitutions of cultures to prepare for the transition to an imperceptible abolition of every kind of constitution, and then the time is come to turn every form of government into. 1.9.56 We count upon attracting all nations to the task of erecting the new fundamental 78 Killing The Luo- Ojijo structure, the project for which has been drawn up by us. This is why, before everything, it is indispensable for us to arm ourselves and to store up in ourselves that absolutely reckless audacity and irresistible might of the spirit which in the person of our active workers will break down all hindrances on our way. 1.9.57 When we have accomplished our coup d'etat we say then to the various peoples: "everything has gone terribly badly, all have been worn out with suffering. We are destroying the causes of your torment nationalities, frontiers, differences of coinages. You are at liberty, of course, to pronounce sentence upon us, but can it possibly be a just one if it is confirmed by you before you make any trial of what we are offering you. 1.9.58 Then will the mob exalt us and bear us up in their hands in a unanimous triumph of hopes and expectations. Voting, which we have made the instrument which will set us on the leadership of Kenya by teaching even the very smallest units of members of the human race to vote by means of meetings and agreements by groups, will then have served its purposes and will play its part then for the last time by a unanimity of desire to make 79 Killing The Luo- Ojijo close acquaintance with us before condemning us. 1.9.59 To secure this we must have everybody vote without distinction of classes and qualifications, in order to establish an absolute majority, which cannot be got from the educated propertied classes. 1.9.60 In this way, by inculcating in all a sense of self-importance, the Luo destroy among Kenyans the importance of the family and its educational value and remove the possibility of individual minds splitting off, for the mob, handled by us, will not let them come to the front nor even give them a hearing; it is accustomed to listen to us only who pay it for obedience and attention. 1.9.61 In this way we create a blind, mighty force which will never be in a position to move in any direction without the guidance of our agents set at its head by us as leaders of the mob. The people will submit to this regime because it will know that upon these leaders will depend its earnings, gratifications and the receipt of all kinds of benefits. 1.9.62 A scheme of government should come ready made from one brain, because it will never be clinched firmly if it is allowed to be split into fractional parts in the minds of many. It is allowable, therefore, for us to have 80 Killing The Luo- Ojijo cognizance of the scheme of action but not to discuss it lest we disturb its artfulness, the interdependence of its component parts, the practical force of the secret meaning of each clause. 1.9.63 To discuss and make alterations in a labor of this kind by means of numerous votings is to impress upon it the stamp of all ratiocinations and misunderstandings which have failed to penetrate the depth and nexus of its plottings. 1.9.64 We want our schemes to be forcible and suitably concocted. 1.9.65 Therefore WE OUGHT NOT TO FLING THE WORK OF GENIUS OF OUR GUIDE to the fangs of the mob or even of a select company. 1.9.66 These schemes will not turn existing institutions upside down just yet. They will only effect changes in their economy and consequently in the whole combined movement of their progress, which will thus be directed along the paths laid down in our schemes. 81 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.9.67 When the King of Luos sets upon his sacred head the crown offered him by Kenya he will become patriarch of Kenya. The indispensable victims offered by him in consequence of their suitability will never reach the number of victims offered in the course of centuries by the mania of magnificence, the emulation between the Kenyan governments. 1.9.68 Our King will be in constant communion with the peoples, making to them from the tribune speeches which fame will in that same hour distribute over all Kenya. 1.9.69 In order to effect the destruction of all collective forces except ours the Luo emasculate the first stage of collectivism the universities, byre-educating them in a new direction. Their officials and professors will be prepared for their business by detailed secret programs of action from which they will not with immunity diverge, not by one iota. 1.9.70 They will be appointed with especial precaution, and will be so placed as to be wholly dependent upon the government. 1.9.71 We exclude from the course of instruction State Law as also all that concerns the political question. These subjects will be taught to a few dozen of persons chosen for 82 Killing The Luo- Ojijo their pre-eminent capacities from among the number of the initiated. 1.9.72 The universities must no longer send out from their halls milk sops concocting plans for a constitution, like a comedy or a tragedy, busying themselves with questions of policy in which even their own fathers never had any power of thought. 1.9.73 The ill-guided acquaintance of a large number of persons with questions of polity creates utopian dreamers and bad subjects, as you can see for yourselves from the example of the regionwide education in this direction of Kenyans. 1.9.74 The Luo must introduceinto their education all those principles which have so brilliantly broken uptheir order. But when we are in power the Luo remove every kind of disturbing subject from the course of education and shall make out of the youth obedient children of authority, loving him who rules as the support and hope of peace and quiet. 1.9.75 The recognition of our despot may also come before the destruction of the constitution; the moment for this recognition will come when the peoples, utterly wearied by the irregularities and incompetence - a matter which the Luo arrange for - of their 83 Killing The Luo- Ojijo rulers, will clamor: "Away with them and give us one king over all the earth who will unite us and annihilate the causes of disorders frontiers, nationalities, religions, State debts who will give us peace and quiet which we cannot find under our rulers and representatives." 1.9.76 But you yourselves perfectly well know that to produce the possibility of the expression of such wishes by all the region it is indispensable to trouble the people's relations with the governments so as to utterly exhaust humanity with dissension, hatred, struggle, envy and even by the use of torture, by starvation, by the inoculation of diseases, by want, so that the "Kenyan" see no other issue than to take refuge in our complete sovereignty in money and in all else. 1.9.77 But if we give the region of Kenya a breathing space the moment we long for is hardly likely ever to arrive. 1.9.78 Kenya Council has been, as it were, the emphatic expression of the authority of the ruler: it will be, as the "show" part of the Legislative Corps, what may be called the editorial committee of the laws and decrees of the ruler. 84 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.9.79 This, then, is the program of the new constitution. The Luo make Law, Right and Justice (1) in the guise of proposals to the Legislative Corps, (2) by decrees of the president under the guise of general regulations, of orders of the Senate and of resolutions of Kenya Council in the guise of ministerial orders, (3) and in case a suitable occasion should arise - in the form of a revolution in Kenya. 1.9.80 Having established approximately the modus agendi we will occupy ourselves with details of those combinations by which we have still to complete the revolution in the course of the machinery of State in the direction already indicated. 1.9.81 These combinations are the freedom of the Press, the right of association, freedom of conscience, the voting principle, and many another that must disappear for ever from the memory of man, or undergo a radical alteration the day after the promulgation of the new constitution. 1.9.82 It is only at the moment that the Luo be able at once to announce all our orders, for, afterwards, every noticeable alteration will be dangerous, for the following reasons: if this alteration be brought in with harsh severity and in a sense of severity and limitations, it may lead to a feeling of despair caused by 85 Killing The Luo- Ojijo fear of new alterations in the same direction; if, on the other hand, it be brought in a sense of further indulgences it will be said that we have recognized our own wrong-doing and this will destroy the prestige of the infallibility of our authority, or else it will be said that we have become alarmed and are compelled to show a yielding disposition, for which the Luo get no thanks because it will be supposed to be compulsory. 1.9.83 Both the one and the other are injurious to the prestige of the new constitution. 1.9.84 What we want is that from the first moment of its promulgation, while the peoples of Kenya are still stunned by the accomplished fact of the revolution, still in a condition of terror and uncertainty, they should recognize once for all that we are so strong, so inexpugnable, so super-abundantly filled with power, that in no case shall we take any account of them, and so far from paying any attention to their opinions or wishes, we are ready and able to crush with irresistible power all expression or manifestation thereof at every moment and in every place, that we have seized at once everything we wanted and shall in no case divide our power with them. 86 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.9.85 Then in fear and trembling they will close their eyes to everything, and be content to await what will be the end of it all. 1.9.86 Far back in ancient times we were the first to cry among the masses of the people the words "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," words many times repeated since these days by stupid poll-parrots who, from all sides around, flew down upon these baits and with them carried away the well-being of Kenya, true freedom of the individual, formerly so well guarded against the pressure of the mob. 1.9.87 The would-be wise men of Kenyans, the intellectuals, could not make anything out of the uttered words in their abstractedness; did not see that in nature there is no equality, cannot be freedom: that Nature herself has established inequality of minds, of characters, and capacities, just as immutably as she has established subordination to her laws: never stopped to think that the mob is a blind thing, that upstarts elected from among it to bear rule are, in regard to the political, the same blind men as the mob itself, that the adept, though he be a fool, can yet rule, whereas the non-adept, even if he were a genius, understands nothing in the political - to all those things Kenyans paid no regard; yet all the time it was based upon 87 Killing The Luo- Ojijo these things that dynastic rule rested: the father passed on to the son a knowledge of the course of political affairs in such wise that none should know it but members of the dynasty and none could betray it to the governed. 1.9.88 As time went on, the meaning of the dynastic transference of the true position of affairs in the political was lost, and this aided the success of our cause. 1.9.89 In all corners of the earth the words "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," brought to our ranks, thanks to our blind agents, whole legions who bore our banners with enthusiasm. 1.9.90 And all the time these words were cancerworms at work boring into the well-being of Kenyans, putting an end everywhere to peace, quiet, solidarity and destroying all the foundations of the Kenyan cultures. 1.9.91 This helped us to our triumph: it gave us the possibility, among other things, of getting into our hands the master card - the destruction of the privileges, or in other words of the very existence of the aristocracy of Kenyans, that class which was the only defense peoples and tribes had against us. 88 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.9.92 On the ruins of the natural and genealogical aristocracy of Kenyans we have set up the aristocracy of our educated class headed by the aristocracy of money. The qualifications for this aristocracy we have established in wealth, which is dependent upon us, and in knowledge, for which our learned elders provide the motive force. 1.9.93 Our triumph has been rendered easier by the fact that in our relations with the men, whom we wanted, we have always worked upon the most sensitive chords of the human mind, upon the cash account, upon the cupidity, upon the insatiability for material needs of man; and each one of these human weaknesses, taken alone, is sufficient to paralyze initiative, for it hands over the will of men to the disposition of him who has bought their activities. 1.9.94 The abstraction of freedom has enabled us to persuade the mob that the government is nothing but the steward of the people who are the owners of the region, and that the steward may be replaced like a worn-out glove. 1.9.95 It is this possibility of replacing the representatives of the people which has placed at our disposal, and, as it were, given us the power of appointment. 89 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.9.96 WE GOVERN BY FEAR 1.9.97 According to strictly enforced outward appearances our ruler will employ his power only for the advantage of the nation and in no wise for his own or dynastic profits. 1.9.98 Therefore, with the observance of this decorum, his authority will be respected and guarded by the subjects themselves, it will receive an apotheosis in the admission that with it is bound up the well-being of every citizen of Kenya, for upon it will depend all order in the common life of the pack. 1.9.99 Overt defense of the kind argues weakness in the organization of his strength. 1.9.100 Our ruler will always be among the people and be surrounded by a mob of apparently curious men and women, who will occupy the front ranks about him, to all appearance by chance, and will restrain the ranks of the rest out of respect as it will appear for good order. 1.9.101 This will sow an example of restraint also in others. If a petitioner appears among the people trying to hand a petition and forcing his way through the ranks, the first ranks must receive the petition and before the eyes of the petitioner pass itto the ruler, so that all may know that what is handed in 90 Killing The Luo- Ojijo reaches its destination, that consequently, there exists a control of the ruler himself. The aureole of power requires for his existence that the people may be able to say: "If the king knew of this," or: "the king will hear it." 1.9.102 With the establishment of official defense, the mystical prestige of authority disappears: given a certain audacity and everyone counts himself master of it, the sedition-monger is conscious of his strength, and when occasion serves watches for the moment to make an attempt upon authority. For the Kenyan we have been preaching something else, but by that very fact we are enabled to see what measures of overt defense have brought them to. 1.9.103 Criminals with us will be arrested at the first, more or less, well-grounded suspicion: it cannot be allowed that out of fear of a possible mistake an opportunity should be given of escape to persons suspected of a political lapse of crime, for in these matters the Luo be literally merciless. If it is still possible, by stretching a point, to admit a reconsideration of the motive causes in simple crimes, there is no possibility of excuse for persons occupying themselves with questions in which nobody except the government can understand anything. And it 91 Killing The Luo- Ojijo is not all governments that understand true policy. 1.9.104 If we do not permit any independent dabbling in the political the Luo on the other hand encourage every kind of report or petition with proposals for the government to examine into all kinds of projects for the amelioration of the condition of the people; this will reveal to us the defects or else the fantasies of our subjects, to which the Luo respond either by accomplishing them or by a wise rebuttment to prove the shortsightedness of one who judges wrongly. 1.9.105 Sedition-mongering is nothing more than the yapping of a lap-dog at an elephant. For a government well organized, not from the police but from the public point of view, the lap-dog yaps at the elephant in entire unconsciousness of its strength and importance. It needs no more than to take a good example to show the relative importance of both and the lap-dogs will cease to yap and will wag their tails the moment they set eyes on an elephant. 1.9.106 In order to destroy the prestige of heroism for political crime the Luo send it for trial in the category of thieving, murder, and every kind of abominable and filthy crime. 92 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.9.107 Public opinion will then confuse in its conception this category of crime with the disgrace attaching to every other and will brand it with the same contempt. 1.9.108 We have done our best, and we have succeeded to obtain that Kenyans should not arrive at this means of contending with sedition. It was for this reason that through the Press and in speeches, indirectly - in cleverly compiled school-books on history, we have advertised the martyrdom alleged to have been accredited by sedition mongers for the idea of the commonweal. 1.9.109 This advertisement has increased the contingent of liberals and has brought thousands of Kenyan into the ranks of our livestock cattle. 1.9.110 When we come into our state within a state our autocratic government will avoid, from a principle of self-preservation, sensibly burdening the masses of the people with taxes, remembering that it plays the part of father and protector. 1.9.111 But as State organization cost dear it is necessary nevertheless to obtain the funds required for it. It will, therefore, elaborate with particular precaution the question of equilibrium in this matter. 93 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.9.112 Our rule, in which the king will enjoy the legal fiction that everything in his State belongs to him (which may easily be translated into fact), will be enabled to resort to the lawful confiscation of all sums of every kind for the regulation of their circulation in the State. 1.9.113 From this follows that taxation will best be covered by a progressive tax on property. In this manner the dues will be paid without straitening or ruining anybody in the form of a percentage of the amount of property. 1.9.114 This social reform must come from above, for the time is ripe for it - it is indispensable as a pledge of peace. 94 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.10 LUOS MANIPULATE THE PRESS 1.10.1 WE HAVE A SURE TRIUMPH OVER OUR OPPONENTS SINCE THEY WILL NOT HAVE AT THEIR DISPOSITION ORGANS OF THE PRESS IN WHICH THEY CAN GIVE FULLAND FINAL EXPRESSION TO THEIR VIEWS owing to the aforesaid methods of dealing with the press. The Luo not even need to refute them except very superficially. 1.10.2 To us Luos, at any rate, it should be plain to see what a disintegrating importance these directives have had upon the minds of Kenyans. 1.10.3 It is indispensable for us to take account of the thoughts, characters, and tendencies of the nations in order to avoid making slips in the political and in the direction of administrative affairs. 1.10.4 The triumph of our system of which the component parts of the machinery may be variously disposed according to the temperament of the peoples met on our way, will fail of success if the practical application of it be not based upon a summing up of the lessons of the past in the light of the present. 95 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.10.5 In the hands of the cultures of to-day there is a great force that creates the movement of thought in the people, and that is the Press. 1.10.6 The part played by the Press is to keep pointing out requirements supposed to be indispensable, to give voice to the complaints of the people, to express and to create discontent. 1.10.7 It is in the Press that the triumph of freedom of speech finds its incarnation. 1.10.8 But Kenyans cultures have not known how to make use of this force; and it has fallen into our hands. 1.10.9 Through the Press we have gained the power to influence while remaining ourselves in the shade; thanks to the Press we have got the CAPITAL in our hands, notwithstanding that we have had to gather it out of the oceans of blood and tears. 1.10.10 But it has paid us, though we have sacrificed many of our people. 1.10.11 Our goal is now only a few steps off. There remains a small space to cross and the whole long path we have trodden is ready now to close its cycle of the Fox, by which we symbolize our people. 96 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.10.12 When this ring closes, all the cultures of Kenya will be locked in its coil as in a powerful vice. 1.10.13 The constitution scales of these days will shortly break down, for we have established them with a certain lack of accurate balance in order that they may oscillate incessantly until they wear through the pivot on which they turn. 1.10.14 Kenyans are under the impression that they have welded them sufficiently strong and they have all along kept on expecting that the scales would come into equilibrium. 1.10.15 But the pivots - the kings on their thrones - are hemmed in by their representatives, who play the fool, distraught with their own uncontrolled and irresponsible power. 1.10.16 This power they owe to the terror which has been breathed into the palaces. 1.10.17 As they have no means of getting at their people, into their very midst, the kings on their thrones are no longer able to come to terms with them and so strengthen themselves against seekers after power. 97 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.10.18 We have made a gulf between the farseeing Sovereign Power and the blind force of the people so that both have lost all meaning, for like the blind man and his stick, both are powerless apart. 1.10.19 In order to incite seekers after power to a misuse of power we have set all forces in opposition one to another, breaking up their liberal tendencies towards independence. 1.10.20 To this end we have stirred up every form of enterprise, we have armed all parties, we have set up authority as a target for every ambition. 1.10.21 Of cultures we have made gladiatorial arenas where a lot of confused issues contend. A little more, and disorders and bankruptcy are regionwide. 1.10.22 Babblers, inexhaustible, have turned into oratorical contests the sittings of Parliament and Administrative Boards. 1.10.23 Bold journalists and unscrupulous pamphleteers daily fall upon executive officials. 1.10.24 Abuses of power will put the final touch in preparing all institutions for their 98 Killing The Luo- Ojijo overthrow and everything will fly skyward under the blows of the maddened mob. 1.10.25 Not a single announcement will reach the public without our control. Even now this is already being attained by us inasmuch as all news items are received by a few agencies, in whose offices they are focused from all parts of Kenya. These agencies will then be already entirely ours and will give publicity only to what we dictate to them. 1.10.26 If already now we have contrived to possess ourselves of the minds of the Kenyan communities to such an extent the they all come near looking upon the events of the country through the colored glasses of those spectacles we are setting astride their noses; if already now there is not a single State where there exist for us any barriers to admittance into what Kenyan stupidity calls State secrets: what will our positions be then, when we shall be acknowledged supreme lords of Kenya in the person of our king of all the country. 1.10.27 Let us turn again to the future of the printing press. Every one desirous of being a publisher, librarian, or printer, will be obliged to provide himself with the diploma instituted therefore, which, in case of any fault, will be immediately impounded. 99 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.10.28 With such measures the instrument of thought will become an educative means on the hands of our government, which will no longer allow the mass of the nation to be led astray in byways and fantasies about the blessings of progress. 1.10.29 Is there any one of us who does not know that these phantom blessings are the direct roads to foolish imaginings which give birth to anarchical relations of men among themselves and towards authority, because progress, or rather the idea of progress, has introduced the conception of every kind of emancipation, but has failed to establish its limits. 1.10.30 All the so-called liberals are anarchists, if not in fact, at any rate in thought. Every one of them in hunting after phantoms of freedom, and falling exclusively into license, that is, into the anarchy of protest for the sake of protest. 1.10.31 We turn to the periodical press. The Luo impose on it, as on all printed matter, stamp taxes per sheet and deposits of caution-money, and books of less than 30 sheets will pay double. 1.10.32 The Luo reckon them as pamphlets in order, on the one hand, to reduce the number of magazines, which are the worst 100 Killing The Luo- Ojijo form of printed poison, and, on the other, in order that this measure may force writers into such lengthy productions that they will be little read, especially as they will be costly. 1.10.33 At the same time what the Luo publish ourselves to influence mental development in the direction laid down for our profit will be cheap and will be read voraciously. 1.10.34 The tax will bring vapid literary ambitions within bounds and the liability to penalties will make literary men dependent upon us. 1.10.35 And if there should be any found who are desirous of writing against us, they will not find any person eager to print their productions. Before accepting any production for publication in print, the publisher or printer will have to apply to the authorities for permission to do so. 1.10.36 Thus the Luo know beforehand of all tricks preparing against us and shall nullify them by getting ahead with explanations on the subject treated of. 1.10.37 Literature and journalism are two of the most important educative forces, and therefore our government will become proprietor of the majority of the journals. This 101 Killing The Luo- Ojijo will neutralize the injurious influence of the privately-owned press and will put us in possession of a tremendous influence upon the public mind. If we give permits for ten journals, the Luo ourselves found thirty, and so on in the same proportion. 1.10.38 This, however, must in no wise be suspected by the public. 1.10.39 For which reason all journals published by us will be of the most opposite, in appearance, tendencies and opinions, thereby creating confidence in us and bringing over to us quite unsuspicious opponents, who will thus fall into our trap and be rendered harmless. 1.10.40 In the front rank will stand organs of an official character. 1.10.41 They will always stand guard over our interests, and therefore their influence will be comparatively insignificant. 1.10.42 In the second rank will be the semiofficial organs, whose part it will beto attack the tepid and indifferent. 1.10.43 In the third rank the Luo set up our own, to all appearance, opposition, which, in at least one of its organs, will present what looks like the very antipodes to us. Our real 102 Killing The Luo- Ojijo opponents at heart will accept this simulated opposition as their own and will showus their cards. 1.10.44 All our newspapers will be of all possible complexions -- aristocratic, republican, revolutionary, even anarchical for so long, of course, as the constitution exists. 1.10.45 Like the Indian idol "Vishnu" they will have a hundred hands, and every one of them will have a finger on any one of the public opinions as required. 1.10.46 When a pulse quickens these hands will lead opinion in the direction of our aims, for an excited patient loses all power of judgment and easily yields to suggestion. 1.10.47 Those fools who will think they are repeating the opinion of a newspaper of their own camp will be repeating our opinion or any opinion that seems desirable for us. 1.10.48 In the vain belief that they are following the organ of their party they will, in fact, follow the flag which we hang out for them. 1.10.49 In order to direct our newspaper militia in this sense we must take special and minute care in organizing this matter. 103 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.10.50 Under the title of central department of the press the Luo institute literary gatherings at which our agents will without attracting attention issue the orders and watchwords of the day. 1.10.51 By discussing and controverting, but always superficially, without touching the essence of the matter, our organs will carry on a sham fight fusillade with the official newspapers solely for the purpose of giving occasion for us to express ourselves more fully than could well be done from the outset in officialannouncements, whenever, of course, that is to our advantage. 1.10.52 These attacks upon us will also serve another purpose, namely, that our subjects will be convinced to the existence of full freedom of speech and so give our agents an occasion to affirm that all organs which oppose us are empty babblers, since they are incapable of finding any substantial objections to our orders. 1.10.53 We create and multiply free secret societies in all the tribes of Kenya, absorb into them all who may become or who are prominent in public activity, for these lodges 1.10.54 We find our principal intelligence office and means of influence. All these lodges we shall bring under one central 104 Killing The Luo- Ojijo Ninety Nine Luos, known to us alone and to all others absolutely unknown, which will be composed of our learned elders. The lodges will have their representatives who will serve to screen the above-mentioned Ninety Nine Luos of MASONRY and from whom will issue the watchword and program. In these lodges we shall tie together the knot which binds together all revolutionary and liberal elements. 1.10.55 Their composition will be made up of all strata of society. The most secret political plots will be known to us and fall under our guiding hands on the very day of their conception. 1.10.56 Among the members of these lodges will be almost all the agents of international and national police since their service is for us irreplaceable in the respect that the police is in a position not only to use its own particular measures with the insubordinate, but also to screen our activities and provide pretexts for discontents, ET CETERA. 1.10.57 The class of people who most willingly enter into secret societies are those who live by their wits, careerists, and in general people, mostly light-minded, with whom the Luo have no difficulty in dealing and in using to wind up the mechanism of the machine devised by us. 105 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.10.58 If this country grows agitated the meaning of that will be that we have had to stir up in order to break up its too great solidarity. 1.10.59 But if there should arise in its midst a plot, then at the head of that plot will be no other than one of our most trusted servants. It is natural that we and no other should lead SECRET SOCIETY activities, for we know whither we are leading, we know the final goal of every form of activity whereas Kenyans have knowledge of nothing, not even of the immediate effect of action; they put before themselves, usually, the momentary reckoning of the satisfaction of their self-opinion in the accomplishment of their thought without even remarking that the very conception never belonged to their initiative but to our instigation of their thought. 1.10.60 Under various names there exists approximately one and the same thing. Representation, Ministry, Senate, State Council, Legislative and Executive Corps. 1.10.61 These institutions have divided up among themselves all the functions of government - administrative, legislative, executive, wherefore they have come to operate as do the organs in the human body. 106 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.10.62 If we injure one part in the machinery of State, Kenya falls sick, like a human body, and will die. 1.10.63 When we introduced into Kenya organism the poison of Liberalism its whole political complexion underwent a change. Cultures have been seized with a mortal illness - blood poisoning. 1.10.64 All that remains is to await the end of their death agony. 1.10.65 Liberalism produced Constitutional cultures, which took the place of what was the only safeguard of Kenyans, namely, Despotism; and a constitution, as you well know, is nothing else but a school of discords, misunderstandings, quarrels, disagreements, fruitless party agitations, party whims - in a word, a school of everything that serves to destroy the personality of state activity. 1.10.66 The tribune of the "talkeries" has, no less effectively than the press, condemned the rulers to inactivity and impotence, and thereby rendered them useless and superfluous, for which reason indeed they have been in many tribes deposed. 1.10.67 Then it was that the era of republics become possible of realization; and then it 107 Killing The Luo- Ojijo was that we replaced the ruler by a caricature of a government - by a president, taken from the mob, from the midst of our puppet creatures, or slaves. 1.10.68 This was the foundation of the mine which we have laid under the Kenyan people. 108 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.11 TO LUOS, KENYANS ARE CATTLE 1.11.1 At the same time we must intensively patronize trade and industry, but, first and foremost, speculation, the part played by which is to provide a counterpoise to industry the absence of speculative industry will multiply capital in private hands and will serve to restore agriculture by freeing the land from indebtedness to the land banks. 1.11.2 What we want is that industry should drain off from the land both labor and capital and by means of speculation transfer into our hands all the money of Kenya, and thereby throw all Kenyans into the ranks of the proletariat. Then Kenyans will bow down before us, if for no other reason but to get the right to exist. 1.11.3 To complete the ruin of the industry of Kenyans the Luo bring to the assistance of speculation the luxury which we have developed among Kenyans, that greedy demand for luxury which is swallowing up everything. 1.11.4 We raise the rate of wages which, however, will not bring any advantage to the workers, for, at the same time, we produce a rise in prices of the first necessaries of life, alleging that it arises from the decline of agriculture and cattle-breeding: we further undermine 109 Killing The Luo- Ojijo artfully and deeply sources of production, by accustoming the workers to anarchy and to drunkenness and side by side therewith taking all measure to extirpate from the face of the earth all the educated forces of the "Kenyan." 1.11.5 In order that the true meaning of things may not strike the "Kenyan" before the proper time we mask it under an alleged ardent desire to serve the working classes and the great principles of political economy about which our economic theories are carrying on an energetic propaganda. 1.11.6 The intensification of armaments, the increase of police forces – are all essential for the completion of the aforementioned plans. 1.11.7 What we have to get at is that there should be in all the cultures of Kenya, besides ourselves, only the masses of the proletariat, a few millionaires devoted to our interests, police and soldiers. 1.11.8 2. Throughout all Kenya, and by means of relations with Kenya, in other continents also, we must create ferments, discords and hostility. 1.11.9 Therein we gain a double advantage. 110 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.11.10 In the first place we keep in check all tribes, for they will know that we have the power whenever we like to create disorders or to restore order. 1.11.11 All these tribes are accustomed to see in us an indispensable force of coercion. In the second place, by our intrigues the Luo tangle up all the threads which we have stretched into the cabinets of all cultures by means of the political, by economic treaties, or loan obligations. 1.11.12 In order to succeed in this we must use great cunning and penetration during negotiations and agreements, but, as regards what is called the "official language." 1.11.13 We keep to the opposite tactics and assume the mask of honesty and complacency. 1.11.14 In this way the peoples and governments of Kenyans, whom we have taught to look only at the outside whatever we present to their notice, will still continue to accept us as the benefactors and saviours of the human race. 1.11.15 When comes the time of our overt rule, the time to manifest its blessing, the Luo remake all legislatures, all our laws will be brief, plain, stable, without any kind of 111 Killing The Luo- Ojijo interpretations, so that anyone will be in a position to know them perfectly. 1.11.16 The main feature which will run right through them is submission to orders, and this principle will be carried to a grandiose height. Every abuse will then disappear in consequence of the responsibility of all down to the lowest unit before the higher authority of the representative of power. 1.11.17 Abuses of power subordinate to this last instance will be so mercilessly punished that none will be found anxious to try experiments with their own powers. 1.11.18 The Luo follow up jealously every action of the Ninety Nine Luos on which depends the smooth running of the machinery of Kenya, for slackness in this produces slackness everywhere; not a single case of illegality or abuse of power will be left without exemplary punishment. 1.11.19 Concealment of guilt, connivance between those in the service of the Ninety Nine Luos - all this kind of evil will disappear after the very first examples ofsevere punishment. The aureole of our power demands suitable, that is, cruel, punishments for the slightest infringement, for the sake of gain, of its supreme prestige. The sufferer, though his punishment may 112 Killing The Luo- Ojijo exceed his fault, will count as a soldier falling on the administrative field of battle in the interests of authority, principle and law, which do not permit that any of those who hold the reins of the public coach should turn aside from the public highway to their own private paths. 1.11.20 For examples our judges will know that whenever they feel disposed to plume themselves on foolish clemency they are violating the law of justice which is instituted for the exemplary edification of men by penalties for lapses and not for display of the spiritual qualitiesof the judges. 1.11.21 Such qualities it is proper to show in private life, but not in a public square which is the educational basis of human life. 1.11.22 In these days the judges of Kenyans create indulgences to every kind of crimes, not having a just understanding of their office, because the rulers of the presentage in appointing judges to office take no care to inculcate in them a sense of duty and consciousness of the matter which is demanded of them. 1.11.23 As a brute beast lets out its young in search of prey, so do Kenyans give to them for what purpose such place was created. This is the reason why the governments are 113 Killing The Luo- Ojijo being ruined by their own forces through the acts of their own Ninety Nine Luos. 1.11.24 Let us borrow from the example of the results of these actions yet another lesson for our government. 1.11.25 We root out liberalism from all the important strategic posts of our government on which depends the training of subordinates for our tribe structure. Such posts will fall exclusively to those who have been trained by us for administrative rule. 1.11.26 To the possible objection that the retirement of old servants will cost the Treasury heavily, they will be provided with some private service in place of what they lose, and, secondly, all the money in Kenya will be concentrated in our hands, consequently it is not our government that has to fear expense. 1.11.27 Kenyans are a flock of sheep, and we are their wolves. And you know what happens when the wolves get hold of the flock. 1.11.28 There is another reason also why they will close their eyes: for the Luo keep promising them to give back all the liberties we have taken away as soon as we have 114 Killing The Luo- Ojijo quelled the enemies of peace and tamed all parties. 1.11.29 6. It is not worth to say anything about how long a time they will be kept waiting for this return of their liberties. 1.11.30 For what purpose then have we invented this whole policy and insinuated it into the minds of the Kenyan without giving them any chance to examine its underlying meaning. 1.11.31 For what, indeed, if not in order to obtain in a roundabout way what is for our scattered tribe unattainable by the direct road? It is this which has served as the basis for our organization of secret masonry which is not known to, and aims which are not even so much as suspected by, these "Kenyan" cattle, attracted by us into the "show" army of secret societies in order to throw dust in the eyes of their fellows. 1.11.32 God has granted to us, His Chosen People, the gift of the dispersion, and in this which appears in all eyes to be our weakness, has come forth all our strength, which has now brought us to the threshold of sovereignty over all Kenya. 115 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.11.33 There now remains not much more for us to build up upon the foundation we have laid. 1.11.34 Freedom is the right to do what which the law allows. 1.11.35 This interpretation of the word will at the proper time be of service to us, because all freedom will thus be in our hands, since the laws will abolish or create only that which is desirable for us according to the aforesaid program. 1.11.36 We deal with the press in the following way: what is the part played by the press to-day? It serves to excite and inflame those passions which are needed for our purpose or else it serves selfish ends of parties. 1.11.37 It is often vapid, unjust, mendacious, and the majority of the public have not the slightest idea what ends the press really serves. 1.11.38 We shall saddle and bridle it with a tight curb: the Luo do the same also with all productions of the printing press, for where would be the sense of getting rid of the attacks of the press if we remain targets for pamphlets and books? 116 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.11.39 The produce of publicity, which nowadays is a source of heavy expense owing to the necessity of censoring it, will be turned by us into a very lucrative source of income to our tribe: the Luo lay on it a special stamp tax and require deposits of caution-money before permitting the establishment of any organ of the press or of printing offices; these will then have to guarantee our government against any kind of attack on the part of the press. 1.11.40 For any attempt to attack us, if such still be possible, the Luo inflict fines without mercy. Such measures as stamp tax, deposit of caution-money and fines secured by these deposits, will bring in a huge income to the government. It is true that party organs might not spare money for the sake of publicity, but these the Luo shut up at the second attack upon us. 1.11.41 No one shall with impunity lay a finger on the aureole of our government infallibility. 1.11.42 The pretext for stopping any publication will be the alleged plea that it is agitating the public mind without occasion or justification. 1.11.43 Among those making attacks upon us will also be organs established by us, but 117 Killing The Luo- Ojijo they will attack exclusively points that we have pre-determined to alter. 1.11.44 Kenyans enter the lodges out of curiosity or in the hope by their means to get a nibble at the public pie, and some of them in order to obtain a hearing before the public for their impracticable and groundless fantasies: they thirst for the emotion of success and applause, of which we are remarkably generous. 1.11.45 The reason why we give them this success is to make use of the high conceit of themselves to which it gives birth, for that insensibly disposes them to assimilate our suggestions without being on their guard against them in the fullness of their confidence that it is their own infallibility which is giving utterance to their own thoughts and that it is impossible for them to borrow those of others. 1.11.46 You cannot imagine to what extent the wisest of Kenyans can be brought to Kenya of unconscious naivete in the presence of this condition of high conceit of themselves, and at the same time how easy it is to take the heart out of them by the slightest ill-success, though it be nothing more than the stoppage of the applause they had, and to reduce them to a slavish 118 Killing The Luo- Ojijo submission for the sake of winning a renewal of success. 1.11.47 By so much as ours disregard success if only they can carry through their plans, by so much the "Kenyan" are willing to sacrifice any plans only to have success. This psychology of theirs materially facilitates for us the task of setting them in the required direction. These tigers in appearance have the souls of sheep and the wind blows freely through their heads. The Luo have set them on the hobby-horse of an idea about the absorption of individuality by the symbolic unit of COLLECTIVISM. 1.11.48 They have never yet and they never will have the sense to reflect that this hobbyhorse is a manifest violation of the most important law of nature, which has established from the very creation of Kenya one unit unlike another and precisely for the purpose of instituting individuality. 1.11.49 If we have been able to bring them to such a pitch of stupid blindness is it not a proof, and an amazingly clear proof, of the degree to which the mind of Kenyans is undeveloped in comparison with our mind? This it is, mainly, which guarantees our success. 119 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.11.50 And how far-seeing were our learned elders in ancient times when they said that to attain a serious end it behooves not to stop at any means or to count the victims sacrificed for the sake of that end. 1.11.51 We have not counted the victims of the seed of the Kenyan cattle, though we have sacrificed many of our own, but for that we have now already given them such a position on the earth as they could not even have dreamed of. The comparatively small numbers of the victims from the number of ours have preserved our nationality from destruction. 1.11.52 Death is the inevitable end for all. It is better to bring that end nearer to those who hinder our affairs than to ourselves, to the founders of this affair. 1.11.53 The Luo execute masons in such wise that none save the brotherhood can ever have a suspicion of it, not even the victims themselves of our death sentence, they all die when required as if from a normal kind of illness. 1.11.54 Knowing this, even the brotherhood in its turn dare not protest. 1.11.55 By such methods we have plucked out of the midst of MASONRY the very root 120 Killing The Luo- Ojijo of protest against our disposition. While preaching liberalism to the Kenyan we at the same time keep our own people and our agents in Kenya of unquestioning submission. 1.11.56 Under our influence the execution of the laws of Kenyans has been reduced to a minimum. 1.11.57 The prestige of the law has been exploded by the liberal interpretations introduced into this sphere. 1.11.58 In the most important and fundamental affairs and questions, judges decide as we dictate to them, see matters in the light wherewith we enfold them for the Ninety Nine Luos of Kenyans, of course, through persons who are our tools though we do not appear to have anything in common with them - by newspaper opinion or by other means. 1.11.59 Even senators and the higher Ninety Nine Luos accept our counsels. 1.11.60 The purely brute mind of Kenyans is incapable of use for analysis and observation, and still more for the foreseeing whither a certain manner of setting a question may tend. 121 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.11.61 In this difference in capacity for thought between Kenyans and ourselves may be clearly discerned the seal of our position as the Chosen People and of our higher quality of humanness, in contradistinction to the brute mind of Kenyans. 1.11.62 Their eyes are open, but see nothing before them and do not invent (unless perhaps, material things).From this it is plain that nature herself has destined us to guide and rule Kenya. 1.11.63 The people, under our guidance, have annihilated the aristocracy, who were their one and only defense and foster-mother for the sake of their own advantage which is inseparably bound up with the well-being of the people. 1.11.64 Nowadays, with the destruction of the aristocracy, the people have fallen into the grips of merciless money-grinding scoundrels who have laid a pitiless and cruel yoke upon the necks of the workers. 1.11.65 We appear on the scene as alleged saviours of the worker from this oppression when we propose to him to enter the ranks of our fighting forces - Socialists, Anarchists, Communists - to whom we always give support in accordance with an alleged 122 Killing The Luo- Ojijo brotherly rule (of the solidarity of all humanity) of our SOCIAL MASONRY. 1.11.66 The aristocracy, which enjoyed by law the labor of the workers, was interested in seeing that the workers were well fed, healthy, and strong. 1.11.67 We are interested in just the opposite -in the diminution, the KILLING OUT OF KENYANS. Our power is in the chronic shortness of food and physical weakness of the worker because by all that this implies he is made the slave of our will, and he will not find in his own authorities either strength or energy to set against our will. 1.11.68 Hunger creates the right of capital to rule the worker more surely than it was given to the aristocracy by the legal authority of kings. 1.11.69 By want and the envy and hatred which it engenders the Luo move the mobs and with their hands the Luo wipe out all those who hinder us on our way. 1.11.70 Kenyans have lost the habit of thinking unless prompted by the suggestions of our specialists. 1.11.71 Therefore they do not see the urgent necessity of what we, when our state within 123 Killing The Luo- Ojijo a state comes, shall adopt at once, namely this, that it is essential to teach in national schools one simple, true piece of knowledge, the basis of all knowledge - the knowledge of the structure of human life, of social existence, which requires division of labor, and, consequently, the division of men into classes and conditions. 1.11.72 It is essential for all to know that owing to difference in the objects of human activity there cannot be any equality, that he, who by any act of his compromises a whole class, cannot be equally responsible before the law with him who affects no one but only his own honor. 1.11.73 The true knowledge of the structure of society, into the secrets of which we do not admit Kenyans, would demonstrate to all men that the positions and work must be kept within a certain circle, that they may not become a source of human suffering, arising from an education which does not correspond with the work which individuals are called upon to do. 1.11.74 After a thorough study of this knowledge, the peoples will voluntarily submit to authority and accept such position as is appointed them in Kenya. 124 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.11.75 In the present state of knowledge and the direction we have given to its development of the people, blindly believing things in print - cherishes - thanks to promptings intended to mislead and to its own ignorance – a blind hatred towards all conditions which it considers above itself, for it has no understanding of the meaning of class and condition. 125 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.12 LUOS STEAL FROM KENYANS 1.12.1 We so hedge about our system of accounting that neither the ruler nor the most insignificant public servant will be in a position to divert even the smallest sum from its destination without detection or to direct it in another direction except that which will be once fixed in a definite plan of action 1.12.2 And without a definite plan it is impossible to rule. Marching along an undetermined road and with undetermined resources brings to ruin by the way heroes and demi-gods. 1.12.3 The Kenyan rulers, whom we once upon a time advised should be distracted from State occupations by representative receptions, observances of etiquette, entertainments, were only screens for our rule. 1.12.4 The accounts of favorite courtiers who replaced them in the sphere of affairs were drawn up for them by our agents, and every time gave satisfaction to short-sighted minds by promises that in the future economies and improvements were foreseen. 1.12.5 You know to what they have been brought by this carelessness, to what pitch of financial disorder they have arrived, notwithstanding the astonishing industry of their peoples. 126 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.12.6 Of foreign loans we shall say nothing more, because they have fed us with the national moneys of Kenyans. 1.12.7 But when the comedy is played out there emerges the fact that a debit and an exceedingly burdensome debit has been created. 1.12.8 For the payment of interest it becomes necessary to have recourse to new loans, which do not swallow up but only add to the capital debt. 1.12.9 And when this credit is exhausted it becomes necessary by new taxes to cover, not the loan, but only the interest on it. 1.12.10 These taxes are a debit employed to cover a debit. 1.12.11 Hence the cry to balance the budget! 1.12.12 The tax upon the poor man is a seed of revolution and works to the detriment of the State which in hunting after the trifling is missing the big. Quite apart from this, a tax on capitalists diminishes the growth of wealth in private hands in which we have in these days concentrated it as a counterpoise to the government strength of Kenyans- their State finances. 127 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.12.13 A tax increasing in a percentage ratio to capital will give much larger revenue than the present individual or property tax, which is useful to us now for the sole reason that it excites trouble and discontent among Kenyans. 1.12.14 The force upon which our king will rest consists in the equilibrium and the guarantee of peace, for the sake of which things it is indispensable that the capitalists should yield up a portion of their incomes for the sake of the secure working of the machinery of the State. 1.12.15 State needs must be paid by those who will not feel the burden and have enough to take from. 1.12.16 Such a measure will destroy the hatred of the poor man for the rich, in whom he will see a necessary financial support for Kenya, will see in him the organizer of peace and well-being since he will see that it is the rich man who is paying the necessary means to attain these things. 1.12.17 In order that payers of the educated classes should not too much distress themselves over the new payments they will have full accounts given them of the destination of those payments, with the exception of such sums as will be 128 Killing The Luo- Ojijo appropriated for the needs of the leadership and the administrative institutions. 1.12.18 He who reigns will not have any properties of his own once all in Kenya represented his patrimony, or else the one would be in contradiction to the other; the fact of holding private means would destroy the right of property in the common possessions of all. 1.12.19 Relatives of him who reigns, his heirs excepted, who will be maintained by the resources of Kenya, must enter the ranks of servants of Kenya or must work to obtain the right to property; the privilege of royal blood must not serve for the spoiling of the treasury. 1.12.20 Purchase, receipt of money or inheritance will be subject to the payment ofa stamp progressive tax. 1.12.21 Any transfer of property, whether money or other, without evidence of payment of this tax which will be strictly registered by names, will render the former holder liable to pay interest on the tax from the moment of transfer of these sumsup to the discovery of his evasion of declaration of the transfer. 1.12.22 Transfer documents must be presented weekly at the local treasury office 129 Killing The Luo- Ojijo with notifications of the name, surname and permanent place of residence of the former and the new holder of the property. 1.12.23 This transfer with register of names must begin from a definite sum which exceeds the ordinary expenses of buying and selling necessaries, and these will be subject to payment only by a stamp impost of a definite percentage of the unit. 1.12.24 Just strike an estimate of how many times such taxes as these will cover the revenue of Kenyans cultures. 1.12.25 What also indeed is, in substance, a loan, especially a foreign loan? A loan is - an issue of government bills of exchange containing a percentage obligation commensurate to the sum of the loan capital. 1.12.26 If the loan bears a charge of 5 per cent, then in twenty years Kenya vainly pays away in interest a sum equal to the loan borrowed, in forty years it is paying a double sum, in sixty - treble, and all the while the debt remains an unpaid debt. 1.12.27 From this calculation it is obvious that with any form of taxation per head Kenya is baling out the last coppers of the poor taxpayers in order to settle accounts with wealthy foreigners, from whom it has 130 Killing The Luo- Ojijo borrowed money instead of collecting these coppers for its own needs without the additional interest. 1.12.28 So long as loans were internal Kenyans only shuffled their money from the pockets of the poor to those of the rich, but when we bought up the necessary persons in order to transfer loans into the external sphere, all the wealth of cultures flowed into our cash-boxes and all Kenyans began to pay us the tribute of subjects. 1.12.29 If the superficiality of Kenyan kings on their thrones in regard to State affairs and the venality of ministers or the want of understanding of financial matters on the part of other ruling persons have made their tribes debtors to our treasuries to amounts quite impossible to pay it has not been accomplished without, on our part, heavy expenditure of trouble and money. 1.12.30 Stagnation of money will not be allowed by us and therefore there will be no State interest-bearing paper, except a one per-cent series, so that there will be no payment of interest to leeches that suck all the strength out of Kenya. 1.12.31 The right to issue interest bearing paper will be given exclusively to industrial companies who find no difficulty in paying 131 Killing The Luo- Ojijo interest out of profits, whereas Kenya does not make interest on borrowed money like these companies, for Kenya borrows to spend and not to use in operations. 1.12.32 Industrial papers will be bought also by the government which from being as now a paper of tribute by loan operations will be transformed into a lender of money at a profit. 1.12.33 This measure will stop the stagnation of money, parasitic profits and idleness, all of which were useful for us among Kenyans so long as Kenya was independent but are not desirable under our rule. 1.12.34 How clear is the undeveloped power of thought of the purely brute brains of the Kenyan, as expressed in the fact that they have been borrowing from us with payment of interest without ever thinking that all the same these very moneys plus an addition for payment of interest must be got by them from their own State pockets in order to settle up with us. 1.12.35 What could have been simpler than to take the money they wanted from their own people? 1.12.36 But it is a proof of the genius of our chosen mind that we have contrived to 132 Killing The Luo- Ojijo present the matter of loans to them in such a light that they have even seen in them an advantage for themselves. 1.12.37 Our accounts, which the Luo present when the time comes, in the light of centuries of experience gained by experiments made by us on the Kenyan cultures, will be distinguished by clearness and definiteness and will show at a glance to all men the advantage of our innovations. 1.12.38 They will put an end to those abuses to which we owe our mastery over Kenyans, but which cannot be allowed in our state within a state. 1.12.39 Later comes the time for conversions, but they diminish the payment of interest without covering the debt, and besides they cannot be made without the consent of the lenders; on announcing a conversion a proposal is made to return the money to those who are not willing to convert their paper. 1.12.40 If everybody expressed his unwillingness and demanded his money back, the government would be hoist on their own petard and would be found insolvent and unable to pay the proposed sums. 133 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.12.41 By good luck the subjects of the Kenyan governments, knowing nothing about financial affairs, have always preferred losses on exchange and diminution of interest to the risk of new investments of their moneys, and have thereby many a time enabled these governments to throw off their shoulders a debit of several millions. 1.12.42 Nowadays, with external loans, these tricks cannot be played by Kenyansfor they know that the Luo demand all our moneys back. 1.12.43 In this way in acknowledged bankruptcy will best prove to the various tribes the absence of any means between the interests of the peoples and of those who rule them. 1.12.44 Nowadays all internal loans are consolidated by so-called flying loans, that is, such as have terms of payment more or less near. 1.12.45 These debts consist of moneys paid into the savings banks and reserve funds. If left for long at the disposition of a government these funds evaporate in the payment of interest on foreign loans, and are placed by the deposit of equivalent amount of RENTS. 134 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.12.46 And these last it is which patch up all the leaks in Kenya treasuries of Kenyans. 1.12.47 When we ascend the leadership of Kenya all these financial and similar shifts, as being not in accord with our interests, will be swept away so as not to leave a trace, as also will be destroyed all money markets, since the Luo not allow the prestige of our power to be shaken by fluctuations of prices set upon our values, which the Luo announce by law at the price which represents their full worth without any possibility of lowering or raising. 1.12.48 We replace the money markets by grandiose government credit institutions, the object of which will be to fix the price of industrial values in accordance with government views. 1.12.49 These institutions will be in a position to fling upon the market five hundred millions of industrial paper in one day, or to buy up for the same amount. 1.12.50 In this way all industrial undertakings will come into dependence upon us. 1.12.51 You may imagine for yourselves what immense power the Luo thereby secure for ourselves. 135 Killing The Luo- Ojijo 1.12.52 In our hands is the greatest power of our day - capital: in two days we can procure from our storehouses any quantity we may please. 136 Killing The Luo- Ojijo Ojijo, the author, is a lawyer, author of 55 books, public speaker, entrepreneur, YALI Mentor, and Inua Kijana Fellow, believes that individuals who seek more. Do not just survive in life, thrive. Join us today. Call GoBigHub.com, +256776100059, or email, info@gobighub.com NOW. Ojijo previously worked as communication skills consultant; expert lawyer; collective investment schemes advisor; and a public speaker and coach on financial literacy, entrepreneurship, investment and personal branding. He is also a performance poet, armature pianist, armature guitarist, and a believer in open religion. Email: ojijo@gobighub.com Mobile: +256776100059. 137