Chicanery is not the way to gain power in any democratic state

NASA’s great talent is linguistic trickery. Using language in almost complete contradiction of the actions it puts in motion. They recall, if in milder form, the Trotskyist traditions of moralistic propaganda followed by bloody acts. Thus demonstrations are in reality riots — with the clear understanding that the latter is much more politically useful than the former.

Article 1 of the Constitution, which is clear on the people exercising their sovereignty through their elected representatives – in other words, marking Kenya as a constitutional democracy – becomes the faux-revolutionary democracy of the ‘Peoples’ Assembly’.