A Police State

A Police State

Nyani Ngabu said:
What is a police state?

Per the Oxford Learner's Dictionary, a police state is a "country where people’s freedom, especially to travel and to express political opinions, is controlled by the government, with the help of the police."

Now, given what is currently going on since Magufuli's ascension to ascendancy, aren't we now a police state? If we aren't a police state, then what are we?

Everyday we wake up to [news] stories of members of opposition parties getting arrested, harassed, denied their right to peaceably assemble and all that jazz.

We wake up to stories of Joe Publics getting arrested and taken to court just because they posted some unflattering things about his Excellency on social media.

We wake up to stories of some news media outlets getting suspended and/ or fined under questionable pretexts.

We wake up to sights and sounds of members of the police force doing what they term as 'routine exercises' in full view of the public...hmm....really?

The right of free speech, freedom of expression, and to peaceably assemble are some of the most important civil liberties.

I know they are not absolute rights. They do have some restrictions. But come on now, Magufuli doesn't even want people to do politics. We should not let him infringe those rights on us. No way, no how.

He just wants people to work. What if politics is what some people do for a living? What the hell should they do? Construction or something?

Our rights are being trampled on and we all must say no. Say no to a police state.

We are Tanzania, not Kim Jong Un's North Korea.
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Your post was on 30th August, 2016

Seven months later, every single word in your post have been abundantly vindicated.

Tanzania is indeed a police state!
 
Police wanaongoza kaunyanyasaji kimtindo. Kauli ya Mh siku ile pale ikulu inafanya pole pole, lakini sioni mwisho mzuri mbele, chuki itakuwa kubwa Sana kwani hata sasa bodaboda wanaisoma namba, tigo wamekuwa kero kubwa mno (police pikipiki)
 
Sibonike said:
Your post was on 30th August, 2016

Seven months later, every single word in your post have been abundantly vindicated.

Tanzania is indeed a police state!
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I am amazed at my own prescience even though I am not a soothsayer!
 
chinchilla coat said:
Tatizo la Tanzania nadhani sio CCM, ni watanzania wenyewe, kama watanzania tutaamua wenyewe sidhani kama huu upuuzi wa kutufanya kama ng'ombe ungekuwepo, tunadanganywa mara kibao kisha tunaendelea kuogopa na kuamini uongo wao na kuchagua watu wale wale, huko mbele itakuwa ni marufuku kujadili siasa, siasa anaongea rais na CCM basi peke yake
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Well said. Siku moja tuamke na kusema MTU asikamtwe bila kosa. Kodi zitumike kujenga nchi sio kuweka mafuta gari kuwabeba wapinzani from one region to another
 
Cku hizi c wacmamia sheria au ulinzi kwa wnanchi wamekua wkusanya mapato ya sirkali
 
Nyani Ngabu said:
What is a police state?

Per the Oxford Learner's Dictionary, a police state is a "country where people’s freedom, especially to travel and to express political opinions, is controlled by the government, with the help of the police."

Now, given what is currently going on since Magufuli's ascension to ascendancy, aren't we now a police state? If we aren't a police state, then what are we?

Everyday we wake up to [news] stories of members of opposition parties getting arrested, harassed, denied their right to peaceably assemble and all that jazz.

We wake up to stories of Joe Publics getting arrested and taken to court just because they posted some unflattering things about his Excellency on social media.

We wake up to stories of some news media outlets getting suspended and/ or fined under questionable pretexts.

We wake up to sights and sounds of members of the police force doing what they term as 'routine exercises' in full view of the public...hmm....really?

The right of free speech, freedom of expression, and to peaceably assemble are some of the most important civil liberties.

I know they are not absolute rights. They do have some restrictions. But come on now, Magufuli doesn't even want people to do politics. We should not let him infringe those rights on us. No way, no how.

He just wants people to work. What if politics is what some people do for a living? What the hell should they do? Construction or something?

Our rights are being trampled on and we all must say no. Say no to a police state.

We are Tanzania, not Kim Jong Un's North Korea.
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Toka maktaba ya Ngabu.....mwezi Agosti mwaka jana [2016].
 
Nilishangaa Nape akilalamika kuhusu polisi na bunduki. Amesahau ndiyo hali ya kawaida kwa wapinzani. Mbona siku zote asitoe maoni yake kuhusu hali hiyo ka kweli ni mwenye haki.
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Nimekumbuka hii nyimbo baada ya kuona hili bandiko. ....

Artist: Dead Prez Album: Let's Get Free Song: Police State

You have the emergence in human society of this thing that's called the State What is the State? The State is this organized bureaucracy It is the po-lice department. It is the Army, the Navy It is the prison system, the courts, and what have you This is the State -- it is a repressive organization But the state -- and gee, well, you know, you've got to have the police, cause.. if there were no police, look at what you'd be doing to yourselves! You'd be killing each other if there were no police! But the reality is.. the police become necessary in human society only at that junction in human society where it is split between those who have and those who ain't got

[Dead Prez] I throw a Molotov cocktail at the precinct, you know how we think Organize the hood under I Ching banners Red, Black and Green instead of gang bandanas F.B.I. spyin on us through the radio antennas And them hidden cameras in the streetlight watchin society With no respect for the people's right to privacy I'll take a slug for the cause like Huey P. while all you fake niggaz

{*UNNNGH*} try to copy Master P I want to be free to live, able to have what I need to live Bring the power back to the street, where the people live We sick of workin for crumbs and fillin up the prisons Dyin over money and relyin on religion for help We do for self like ants in a colony Organize the wealth into a socialist economy A way of life based off the common need And all my comrades is ready, we just spreadin the seed

(Chorus: Dead Prez)

The average Black male Live a third of his life in a jail cell Cause the world is controlled by the white male And the people don't never get justice And the women don't never get respected And the problems don't never get solved And the jobs don't never pay enough So the rent always be late; can you relate? We livin in a police state

[Dead Prez] No more bondage, no more political monsters No more secret space launchers Government departments started it in the projects Material objects, thousands up in the closets Could've been invested in a future for my comrades Battle contacts, primitive weapons out in combat Many never come back Pretty niggaz be runnin with gats Rather get shot in they back than fire back We tired of that - corporations hirin blacks Denyin the facts, exploitin us all over the map That's why I write the shit I write in my raps It's documented, I meant it Every day of the week, I live in it; breathin it It's more than just fuckin believin it I'm holdin them ones, rollin up my sleeves an' shit It's cee-lo for push-ups now, many headed for one conclusion Niggaz ain't ready for revolution

(Chorus: Dead Prez) {*police siren wails*} [Fred Hampton]

I am.. a revolutionary and you're gonna have to keep on sayin that You're gonna have to say that I am a proletariat I am the people, I'm not the pig [another speaker] Guiliani you are full of shit! And anybody that's down with you! You could man-make things better for us and you cuttin the welfare Knowin damn well when you cut the welfare, a person gon' do crime..
 
Maua kilasa said:
Nilishangaa Nape akilalamika kuhusu polisi na bunduki. Amesahau ndiyo hali ya kawaida kwa wapinzani. Mbona siku zote asitoe maoni yake kuhusu hali hiyo ka kweli ni mwenye haki.
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Now the shoe is on the other foot....well...kind of....
 
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