Posted on 11/14/2023 6:25:32 AM PST by lowbridge
An unprincipled village chief has been severely reprimanded by his people for stealing the money meant for the construction of wells in his village.
According to sources, an NGO donated a huge sum of money to the village for the construction of wells.
But this dishonourable chief saw it as an avenue to steal the money and spend it on his own personal pieces of stuff.
(Excerpt) Read more at ghpage.com ...
I think this might be a good solution for the empty promises coming out of Washington.
When and where? What tribe?
I’d like to see stocks on the public square for this sort of thing.
We need to look at this more closely and reproduce it here...............
Strange—— they never left a mark.
Oh well.
I wonder what Dean Koontz would say about “compassionate” trillion dollar 10% Biden.
Author Dean Koontz (18 books adapted to film w/ top stars) worked for the 1960’s era Appalachian Poverty Program, a federally funded initiative designed to help poor children.
In 1996 he said that while the program sounded “very noble and wonderful, ... in reality, it was a dumping ground for violent children ... and most of the federal funding ended up ‘disappearing somewhere.’
This greatly shaped Koontz’s political outlook. In his book, The Dean Koontz Companion, he recalled that he “... realized that most of these federal programs are not meant to help anyone, merely to control people and make them dependent.”
” I was forced to reconsider everything I’d once believed. I developed a profound distrust of government regardless of the philosophy of the people in power. I remained a liberal on civil-rights issues, became a conservative on defense, and a semi-libertarian on all other matters.”
Seeing the Catholic faith as a contrast to the chaos in his troubled family life, Koontz converted in college because faith provided existential answers for life. He admired Catholicism’s “intellectual rigor,” saying it permitted a view of life that saw mystery and wonder in all things.
He sees Catholicism as English writer and Catholic convert G. K. Chesterton did: that it encourages a “joy about the gift of life”. Koontz says that spirituality has always been part of his books, as are grace and our struggle as fallen souls, but he “never get[s] on a soapbox”.
After thousands of years of civilization sub Saharan Africans still don’t know how to dig their own wells.
If we engaged in this kind of justified street justice there would be whip shortage.
Chief needs to consult American elected officials who do this crap routinely. OR, we need to utilize similar methods to discipline our own.
Note it does not say former village chief.
Amazing isn’t it? It is also amazing that after thousands of years the majority of Africa has not advanced much at all and in many areas it has devolved to less than it once was. I wonder why? Why is it that the “cradle of civilization” is so backward after having a head start on all the rest of us?
The term “cradle of civilization” refers to Mesopotamia.
Just so you know.
I wish we could do something like this to our own village chiefs that steal from us.
Yep, like most of us, they have to hire someone to dig their wells.
Governance and politics pretty much the same everywhere.
Typical. Let’s dump a wad of money on the “chief”, just as has been done with hamas, isis, iran, iraq, assyria,bashar assad, (need I go on?).
About forty years ago I saw a program on NOVA, a PBS program on well drilling in Africa.
Wells were drilled in remote villages using mechanical pumps to bring water to the tribe. When the pumps broke the men refused to fix them as THEY WERE WARRIORS and not workers. So the women of the tribes had to be trained on how to repair the well pumps as it was beneith the dignity of the men to do it.
I figure it is the same today.
Another story on the folly of helping Africans.
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