Jubilee and NASA guilty of instilling fear among Kenyans

Kenyans have slowly and methodically been minced into a worried lot by Jubilee and NASA. As Jubilee visits state terror on one half the citizenry, NASA is unleashing product boycotts. We are besieged. State terror is scary because it is an open and explicit display of might while sub-rosa terror is potent because of its subversive and covert nature. Either way, the net effect of the events of the last two or so months has been devastating to every Kenyan.

State terror is that which is ostensibly prompted when civil discord sprouts in various hotspots in a country. Whenever the state moves in to pacify emergent restlessness, it usually does so with ferocity intended not only to affirm its capacity to maintain law and order but also to discourage possibilities of imitative recurrence elsewhere within the boundaries.