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A Little Too Late

Things Have Come Full Circle...

Things Have Come Full Circle

The government of the day and its functionaries have always behaved as if they’re doing us a favour, even when it becomes very glaring they are oppressing us.  At our most vulnerable moment, they are making us to tighten our belts while they are helping themselves to the difference.

The inset in this cartoon, titled the Peacemaker, was one of the Guardian cartoons portraying men in uniform behaving badly – helping themselves to the difference - that infuriated the military to the tipping point that they had to warn the Guardian of the consequences of publishing uncomplimentary cartoons of men in uniform. 

The Rituals

The expression “hit the ground running” has long ceased to exist in our lexicon. It was replaced with “hit the ground crawling”. This emboldens newly sworn in administrations and the agencies and committees they set up to always insist on their primordial entitlement of crawling before walking and running. But the tragedy is they always remain on the crawling mode for a very long time such that their attempts to take the first steps always result in falling back to crawling again. This is where they always remain until they eventually crawl out of office!