"Re: UK envoy attacks graft 'gluttons'(Kenya)"

by ptaured7
Posted on The Reasoning Forum

The corruption issue in Kenya arises out of "petty" corruption typical in developing countries, where various officers demand gratuities in lieu of the robust salaries in developing countries pulled from the productive labor of its citizens through taxation.

The countries of USA, UK and Japan, pointing the finger at "corruption" are hypocritical and disingenuous pontification. The mega corruption scandals of all three countries, particularly in the areas of weapons manufacture, war making and predatory financial and energy market debacles, like ENRON, make Kenyan petty graft and corruption look like child's play.

In the case of Japan, a country I have significant knowledge base of and whose people are friends of mine, there isn't a week that goes by without a corruption scandal. A member of Kenyan ministry with his or her hand out to make ends meet hardly compares to the vast institutional corruption of Japanese government officials whose graft and corruption is institutional, affecting people around the globe.

As for the USA and U.K., well, the British are very good at stifling any form of public inquiry into the depths of their corruption through the official secrets act. The current government in the USA is not only corrupt, a good case can be made that it is, like most governments, an organized crime racket, specializing in protection.

In the case of all three governments, money was spread around with reckless abandon in countries like Kenya (particularly Japan), often promoting the weakest links in the target countries' ruling elite, actually facilitating and encouraging this "corruption". This is classic divide and conquer strategy - back the weakest side. Once the target is run into the ground, the mana from heaven is pulled back. It's not much different than any other organized crime racket scheme.

Meanwhile, continual instability and frustration of national self-determination is realized, therefore, perpetuating the easy removal of raw materials needed for the "developed" world's technocracies.

IN fairness to Japan, that country has a much better track record in trying to develop real partnership and fair trade with African countries. However, like Kenya, Japan has any number of scandals brewing over badly planned and cavalier projects that trampled on the rights of local people. But, they are certainly more redeemable than most of the other foreign mission parallel governments operating like Kenya, from the British/American/E.U. Empire.

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UK envoy attacks graft 'gluttons'(Kenya)
www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/07/15/kenya.corruption.ap/index.html