Thread by @wmnjoya

There is social democracy, and liberal democracy.

In social democracy, people actually participate in the decisions that affect them. Liberal democracy is where the people with power and money rule but provide rituals like elections to perform public consent. #Lindakatiba

What is amazing about #BBIreport is the determination to perform public consent even when the public doesn't agree. That's more worrying than the rigging of processes like signatures and referendums. Because what politicians are doing is showing us the finger. #lindakatiba

This #BBIfraud thing isn't just about the law. It's about our soul. It's about crushing us so that we don't have a leg to stand on.

That's why if the elites push this thing through, we should tell them it's theirs and we have no obligation to obey it. #lindakatiba

The Kenyan courts already established, and our foreparents already proved it, that an institution cannot be greater cannot be greater than the people. That principle remains. #BBIreport is a form of idolatry because it worships a document over the will of the people.

Politicians can force this thing through, they can send cops after us, they can enslave us with #Hudumanamba, but they will always live in fear that the people will rise and restore Katiba 2010. It's too late. The Katiba is already written. It can't disappear. #LindaKatiba

Muigai can appoint his official historian, delete the archives and write an official history of Kenya for 1000 years as #BBIreport proposes (never mind that Kenya started existing in 1895). History lives in the people and in the soil. He can't delete the past. #LindaKatiba

To adopt the words of Jesus, even if we don't sing our history, the stones will cry out.

#BBIreport is what William Lloyd Garisson said of the US slaveholding constitution. It can bureaucratically pass, but it will never morally stand. #LindaKatiba pbs.org/video/american…