Joseph Stalin was a brutal dictator with a mind of his own. On one fateful day, Stalin came to Politburo meeting with a live chicken. Standing in front of his audience, He started to pluck the feathers of the live chicken off one by one. The chicken trembled in pain, blood tricking out of its pores. It gave out grievous cries, but Stalin being a cruel dictator continued without remorse plucking the feathers out until the chicken was completely naked. After which, he threw the chicken on the ground.
The naked chicken was staggering in pain. Stalin goes into his pocket and from his pockets, he took out some chicken food and started to throw it at the poor and hapless creature.
The poor chicken in pain started eating and Stalin started walking towards his seat. As he walked away, he kept dropping some feeds on the floor and the chicken followed him and sat feeding from his feet. Joseph Stalin then turned to members of his political party leadership.
He said, “This chicken represents the people. You must disempower them, brutalize them, beat them up, starve them and then leave them.
If you do this, go into your pocket and give them peanuts when they are in that helpless and desperate situation, they will blindly follow you for the rest of their lives, worshiping you. They will think you are a hero forever. They will forget that, you’re responsible for their sorrowful situation in the first place”
Now! Kindly Take a good look at all the people some of us are busy defending on social media (New Media), Electronic Media and Print Media; even on pulpits, private and public discussions. Take a look at those we call our heroes. They are the same people who plunged us into the situation we are in.
Did you see the numbers of people that throng to homes of political office holders during Christmas, Festivals and Sallah periods to go and collect peanuts?
Do you see the crowd that welcome our politicians during campaign and when they steal into the villages after elections? People kill those they should defend and defend those they should kill! Let our minds work!
