Government vs. The people likened to fight between King Cobra and Python

Have you seen a King Cobra and Python duel? It's a fascinating scene, one in which there can only be one winner and one loser who dies a miserable death, usually ending up in the champion’s menu. The two snakes are both dangerous in their own right, and you are best advised to steer clear. The cobra has a lethal bite because of its poison while the python, which has no poison, kills by constricting its enemy in a paralysing grip. Both snakes wrap their bodies around each other. While the python tries to squeeze its enemy to death, the cobra fights to get the python's head and deliver the killer bite. It can be a lengthy affair, gripping to watch and often verging on a stalemate.

This is the situation Kenya finds itself in today, where the government has turned on its own people who are fighting to hold on to whatever little they've got left in their lives.  In scenes only resembling a nightmare drama in a fast-paced novel, the government is in a senseless looting spree, waging war against its own people and tearing apart its election promises to deliver social and economic emancipation. US statesman Thomas Jefferson’s words must come as a chilling reminder at this time. Despite a government that came  to power in his day through a resounding  popular will, Jefferson warned  that the price of liberty so dearly gained  was the maintenance of ‘eternal vigilance’  against the government because even one chosen by the people,  can easily slide into tyranny thus becoming the oppressor and  the people's worst  foe.