According to Ecclesiastes, the thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
Sometimes we feel quite clever when we do something new to perfection. But according to mhubiri 1:9 above, we cheat ourselves. Nothing is new.
John Lennon was a popular American musician. When he started associating with the radical political activist Jerry Rubin, President Richard Nixon feared Lennon would use his influence and resources to sway young voters away from him (Nixon). He did not like that. So he enlisted FBI director J. Edgar Hoover to deport Lennon.
J. Edgar Hoover was not new to this kind of intrigue. In the early 1920s, Hoover as the director of FBI had made note of Charlie Chaplin’s alliances with alleged dissident minds. Labelled a communist he hatched a plan to deport Charlie Chaplin. He did not have to. Chaplin flew to London for a premiere of Limelight movie. On his return, the Britain-born Chaplin found Hoover had made the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) revoke the actor’s re-entry visa. Chaplin remained exiled from America for two decades. In 1972, America apologised, he was recognised as an American and given an honorary Oscar award.
Despite the embarrassment of the Charlie Chaplin fiasco, Hoover tried to pull the wembe ni ule ule on John Lenon. It backfired. But not without casualties. One of his supporters was a TV host Dick Cavett. Not long after Lennon’s appearances on Dick Cavett talk show, the dreaded Internal Revenue Service (IRS) audited Cavett’s entire staff.
Other similar reports would be heard of Nixon illegally wielding the IRS as a weapon
Such then was my mirth to hear the Jubilee apologist and cheerleaders congratulating themselves for their ingenuity after the Miguna Miguna fiasco. In Early 2018, the Jubilee administration tried to deport a city lawyer Miguna Miguna. Although the lawyer had been born in Kenya, schooled in Kenya, gone to the pre-university NYS punishment for the wrongs he would do at the university, received a government HELB loan for his university education, practiced Law in Kenya and even been cleared to stand for election for a senior political seat, the Jubilee administration saw no contradiction in declaring him a foreigner and deporting him.
Similarly, some judges who found that the Jubilee mandarins had not worn fairly in the presidential elections of 2017, are having a hard time convincing the Income Tax Department that they have paid all their taxes.
Silent and boundless,
Standing along without change,
Yet pervading all without fail,
It may be regarded as the Mother of the world.
I do not know its name;
I call it “Tao”;
– Lao Tzu
