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Spartacus R.
The editor of Global Africa Pocket News and author of "Violation" and "The Maãt Mystery" takes another look at the world.

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Nurturing The Habit

If I say to you that there is a program in operation right now which is designed to create billions of voluntary, self-motivated intravenous junkies, you may think: "The man has lost his marbles." But would you have gambled on the idea that billions of people could be programmed to buy trillions of tons of a product that is of no apparent use or value to them, for no other purpose than to burn it, and, in the process, kill themselves? Well, you would have won yourself a lot of money - like the tobacco companies did.

If you grew up in the fifties, sixties or even the seventies, you may remember buying these small packets of cigarette sweets (candy) and trying to outdo peers with your style of pretend smoking. Of course, though we did not realise it then, our fun and games were all part of the programming process employed by these giant tobacco companies in their extremely successful bid to virtually print their own money.

When I saw what my ten year old son, Akiiki, was playing with just a few days ago, it brought painfully to mind a memory of me as a child, proudly practising for many long and chesty hours, the art of becoming a nicotine addict. Yes, I did practise as much as every other child but, for one reason or another, I failed miserably with the project and ended up as a "stuffy" non-smoker. Fortunately, I was not the only person on whom the plan failed. But judging by the visible evidence of the tobacco companies' super profits and the number of friends, colleagues and family members who succeeded in achieving "fashionable" assisted-suicide status, practice did make a difference.

In this vicious and deadly global war that is being waged against us, not a single opportunity to maximise their profits is missed by these Global European conglomerates while we continue killing ourselves. We watch helplessly as many of our youths murder each other, sucking the wealth out of our community in order to purchase overpriced and undervalued brand-named products such as designer clothes, shoes and other fashion accessories.

With the proliferation of killer drugs such as crack cocaine and heroine within the Global African community as a replacement for the less dangerous, less controllable and less profitable weed after just a few years of the high-profile "War on Drugs" campaign in which the Cocaine Import Agency (CIA) literally eliminated or took control of all competitive suppliers, we have more and more of our children being born junkies.

In line with the prison-building explosion, we saw recently, people in California selling prison uniforms to our youngsters as fashion garments, with the objective of preparing them for the role of acquiescent jailbirds. As if that is not enough, we now have one woman (some call her a 'Sister'), marketing replica slave shackles and leg chains as jewellery, saying that we should wear these things proudly as part of our Global African heritage, because slavery was not as bad as some of us think. Some people just enjoy their mental enslavement too much to think.

Putting all of that into perspective, imagine how I felt when I saw Akiiki playing with a pen made to look and feel like a syringe, complete with bloody coloured liquid (see photo). I am not saying that a fake syringe pen alone can turn you or anyone else into an intravenous junkie. I am saying, however, that those who become hooked on self-destructive drugs do so because of something in their characters which predetermine the addiction. And if character is shaped primarily by experience, especially the experiences of a young child in learning mode, future generations can be programmed from an early age to become so familiar with the syringe needle that they see it as a friendly object. They would then be less likely to refuse its contents when presented - regardless how deadly.

The European retailer who sold the "pen" declared that it was "just a harmless novelty toy" which he never sold to children. However he refused to disclose the identity of the manufacturer or the distributor. Why would they want to hide themselves if they were unaware that they were doing something wrong?

Clearly we must be vigilant and pay closer attention to our children, their toys, their games, everything they do. If we wait until most of our children are carrying one of these "pens" or whatever other guise the syringe may appear, we may find it impossible to stop the massacre. But if we act now, while the program has not yet taken root, we can have a positive effect on our future. We can make the difference. We have the power, let's make use of it.