80th Anniversary Celebration of the Nation of Islam

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Dear Brothers,

I am mindful about saying what’s on my mind, but increasingly the reality of our condition as a community in the UK, presses on my mind bringing me to this critical juncture in my short life, where the necessity for change is forcing me to speak up.

I remember whilst growing up seeing a picture of my now deceased father, gathered together with several men and a calendar at the bottom, hanging on our living room wall. I discovered that my father was a member of several organisations interested in working for the progression and development of Nigeria. Many of our parents were members of the Marcus Garvey Organisation, knew of Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X, supported the aims of the Black Panthers and in some way participated in a progressive organisation of sorts.

My parents and your parents were of the first generation that came here in 1950’s and 1960’s and whilst their primary motivation ‘to help King and Country’ or to find ‘greener pastures’ was their motivation for coming to the UK, they were kept busy trying to deal with ‘no Blacks,  no dogs, no Irish’, endemic and outright racism, hostility and struggling hard to put food on the table for their spouses and children.

Our parents came here not with the motivation to establish business, schools, hospitals and employment for the masses of our people. They were forced into survival mode. We all see that other communities have established clearly defined areas in the UK, along with successful business entrepreneurs, and most importantly many of the businesses they create, cater specifically for the needs of their people, which in so doing, they are able to take care of their women and children and provide or organise the needs of their community.

The key businesses being operated by these communities provide ‘food, clothing and shelter’ and can be found in myriad business arenas enhancing and developing the wealth of their community in collective unison.

Well, probably like me, you are of the second generation of Black men born in the UK – 1960’s and as a generation I look and see that we are not respected as men by the host community, by our beautiful Black Women or by our children because we have not ‘Accepted The Responsibility To Build Our Own Community.’

If you look down the numerous high streets, where are the shops run and managed by US that cater for our people? None, or very few, I dare say! Where once the local corner shop was owned and operated by our fellow Indian ‘brother’, Tesco and Sainsbury Local have encroached on their niche – not without a fight though – for out of the ashes, we now see the brand name ‘Nisa’ dotted on the high streets of the UK.

In my limited view, the state of being ‘alive’ is clearly apparent in those communities. In Harlesden I recently saw a new shop open by Indian men, and the name of the shop on its front hoarding is ‘African-Caribbean’ Food. I felt so ashamed. Now, before the criticism comes flowing, this is not an attack on the Indian Community. They are to be applauded for seeing a business opportunity and exploiting it, when the very people who should be providing for their own people refuse to ‘get up and do something for themselves.’

I recall a statement; ‘In every generation something of great value has been achieved to propel them forward’, which then begs the question what are we to do about this parlous state, that we find ourselves in? We know the reality of racism, unemployment, discrimination, the concrete ceiling, poverty, poor housing, etc, etc. Some of us have not experienced any of the above. But I ask the question, of what use is our individual success when the masses of our people  are in and experience one of the above conditions? Have we forgotten that no one individual can rise above the condition of his/her people?

Our youth are suffering for the lack of seeing a successful Black Community that takes care of the needs of its people. Need I say anything on what our Women are experiencing! Where there is no vision the people perish. Are we to continue relying on our host to provide employment for ourselves and the children we produce, when they can’t even provide these realities for themselves and their own people? Must we lay out the statistics for all to see?

I say my brothers we have a responsibility to come together in whatever organisation; church, mosque, African Organisations and others, and begin to discuss, plan and implement an agenda for ourselves before we are consigned to the pages of history as having not contributed anything to the development and onward progress of our people.

Well we don’t agree on your view, your faith, ideology and any other reality or the concept of Black people coming together. Hey, you’re being racist, I hear you say. Perhaps we should call the Indians in Southall, Birmingham, Bradford racist. Perhaps we should call the Chinese who have a china town in practically every major city in the UK racist. Maybe we should call the Portuguese, the Jews of Highgate, North London, Manchester, racist for daring to provide for their own and establishing their identity in the UK. What about us?

The disparate organisations where we go must begin to agree to put aside our differences and begin to see the collective picture. Perhaps a model such as the ‘Millions More Movement’ in America is such an example that we could implement. Where Black people of all faiths and persuasions have come together and established ‘Ministries’ in many of the States of America and, which have begun to take care of the needs of Black people, especially after seeing the reality of Hurricane Katrina and the response of the American Government.

Our success as brothers, in my limited view, will only come about  when we agree as MEN to come together for some real ‘brothatalk’ that deals with the onward march of our people so that now and into the eons of time to come, our women and children will look up at us, with respect, love and admiration, knowing that we took on the mantle to do something for ourselves, our wives, parents and children.

Can we accept the challenge to ‘Accept Our Responsibility To Build Our Own Community.’

Peace.
Olusola O. Muhammad
Your Brother & Servant

PS: I stand to be corrected on any errors, wrong thought or views.

Know Thy Enemy

Under the UK’s fifty=year (50) declassification of information policy, information has since been released detailing how the ‘Allies’ in their War against Japan conceived of a plan to create a bomb that would trigger a Tsuami and have the effect of killing entrenched Japanese Soldiers in the Pacific Islands which they had captured from Western Powers. Any modern day coincidence with the ‘Boxing Day’ Tsuami is highly speculative considered against the modern day improvement in relation to HAARP!

‘Mankind’ thinks, envisions, plans and implements.

Tsuami Bomb

The Righteous Warrior
Keeping you Enlightened & Informed

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Science all around us

Have you ever noticed how basic and observed phenomena is translated and manifested into reality? What do I mean. Okay, on a simple level we have the mobile phone, which replaces the human ability to communicate using telepathy, same with the telephone. Then we have the basic gaseous exchange in the human body and then ‘Mankind’ manifests a most rudimentary form of rocket propulsion, after all we only gave ‘them’ one book of maths.

Now I recently came across two articles which sparked my thinking process and one of them has helped me further in trying to understand the mechanics of the ‘Mothership’ and the ‘Baby Planes’.  We know that the Mothership uses Hydrogen as a fuel, which she sucks up into storage tanks on a 6-monthly basis.

But what about those ‘Baby Planes?’ Well, reading the article ‘GOCE satellite views Earth’s gravity in high definition‘ may give us a hint of their power source, as the satellite uses ‘xenon ions’ as part of its propulsion system (Ion Thruster).

Earlier I made the point about the manifestation of observed phenomena, so reading the article about the GOCE satellite made me appreciate one of those phenomena that we take for granted and which once thoroughly researched can be put to use for man’s social and economic benefit.

That observed phenomena is called ‘static’, that annoying electric ‘repulsive’ shock we experience when we come into contact with it. Now, I am not a scientist and I don’t understand the science of ‘static’ but what I do understand is that for several years, whenever I get out of my car and touch the door I get a strong static repulsive force that causes me to move my hand away from the door with such force – causing immense pain in my arm muscles – because of experiencing an electric shock. It seems that an electrical force in my body which meets the naturally occurring latent electrical energy in the metal of the car door are not compatable.

Its clear then that all around us is electricity in one form or another. When you see lightening and the electrical charge it manifests we are seeing the collision of negative and positive electrical charges, much less the static in our clothes when it comes out of a hot dryer and you hear the sparks or the electricity that can be generated from the force of water cascading down cliff edges.

Reading the article Ion Thruster, has helped me further appreciate how such a painful static shock in my arm and hands and its repulsive effect can be translated into propulsion systems and maybe the basis of the magnificent speeds at which those ‘Baby Planes’ are capable of traveling, from point zero speed to speeds in excess of Mach 12.

Just wanted to share my thoughts, so I hope you enjoyed it.

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In the latter summer months of August 2007 I recall seeing numerous Indian Women in a field in Slough, harvesting food they had grown. The field was and is quite extensive in size and is at the top end of Stoke Poges Lane, in Slough.

The Land belongs to members of the Asian Community and what I appreciated most about seeing these women harvesting their own crops, is that they took into their own hands, the responsibility to grow and produce food for themselves.

Food is one of the basic needs of human life, without which, after a certain period of time, we would become seriously malnourished and be heading towards a long-term relationship with the soil.

Is it that difficult for us to come together in communities, all over this country, acquire land and grow our own food, buy up the homes in those areas, establish shops and schools and police our own Community?

Fortunately, I have worked for several years as a Housing Officer and had the fortune to work for a number of housing associations in the Berkshire and Oxfordshire areas. In the latter area I was struck by the expanse of land, the farms, the greenery and serenity of the area in general.

With land of our own there is so much that we can do, especially for growing food in a time that may soon afflict this nation, when food prices skyrocket, and food imports from the ‘East’, South America, India and Africa come to an end!

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
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The history of the European Race is depicted in films such as the following:

1. ‘The Clan of The Cave Bear’
2. Flintstones – 1960′s version
3. One Million Years B.C.
4. Quest For Fire
5. The History of Mankind
6. Air Force One:

‘Airforce One’ Quote: “I’m twelve years old dad, and in the Cave man days I’d be having children of my own…..”

Enjoy watching the films, and remember the Native Indian said of the white man, “…he speaks with forked tongue“, so be mindful as you watch teh film, as you will not be told by him that its his history… he just makes the film, but the wise who know, know what the film is all about! And the beauty of the Teachings of The Honourable Elijah Muhammad is that you get to know the truth about the ‘History of The White Race’.

Enjoy.’

Air Force One’: Video Clip Air Force One

Nation of Islam 80th Anniversary Celebration

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In the name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful.

Whenever a section of humanity is blessed to be the recipients of ‘Divine Revelation’, those people have been chosen by God to be of Service to their own people first, and then to the rest of humanity. Such a people of the past six-thousand years who were recipients of such revelation have been the Jews (European Ashkenazi’s) and the Arabs living in The Holy City Mecca, on the Arabian peninsula, which we now know to be The ‘Root of Civilization’.

The blessing of divine revelation is such that its recipients are blessed with knowledge, wisdom and understanding which was hitherto unknown before.

Four-thousand years B.C. (Before Christ), prophet Moses (Musa) was sent to the Caucasian Race, whilst they were living in the Hills and Caves of Europe and taught them – those who call themselves today, Jews – a particular knowledge, which has allowed them to become masters in most fields of learning, giving them insight into the unknown, and then applying that knowledge via observation, research and the manifestation of their thoughts into civilization and products.

Then at the beginning of the last two thousand years prophet, Jesus (Isa) was raised by Allah (God) and sent into the Roman Empire, as their last Warner and Guide, but as he began his ministry he realised that he was two thousand years early and sacrificed his life and left us with the prophecy, that ‘one would come after him’ at the End of European Civilization, to complete the prophetic work in the Bible. The Jews of that day, refused to accept Jesus as a prophet and are still of that mind today. Whether they took any of the principles and wisdom espoused in the prophetical announcements of the ‘New Testament’ is up for debate.

One-thousand four-hundred (1400) years ago the Arabs of Arabia were also recipients of Divine Revelation, from the prophet, Muhammad; peace be upon him. Thus with the knowledge and way of Muhammad, together  with the Holy Qur’an, which is the Scriptures of the Muslims, they were able to introduce to the world higher forms of mathematics, science, knowledge and understanding.

Greater though, than the knowledge, information and wisdom imparted to the ‘Ashkenazi (European) Jews’ and the Arabs, during the past Six Thousands years was the moral fibre, character and human development that both people received, thus improving their moral rectitude, family stability, educational achievement and business achievements.

But is such revelation, exclusive to the Jews and Arabs only, especially given the condition of Black people, globally being at the bottom of the pile in the realm of national, economic, social and technological development? Would the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth reveal knowledge and wisdom to Black people, to help us out of our wretched condition? Can we rise up into the Unseen realms of knowledge without the help and blessing of the Creator?

In nineteen ninety-three I attended a meeting in Shepherds Bush at the ‘Village Hall’ and heard the Teachings of The Honourable Elijah Muhammad as taught by his representatives here in the UK. Since that day, the knowledge, wisdom and understanding acquired has been phenomenal, opening up neural pathways of perception and understanding to realities that I never knew existed or had previously entertained the thought of.

The ‘base‘ of the teachings is so fundamental, that if having attended that meeting and learning all that I have learnt thus far, with more to come, and the Teachings of Elijah Muhammad are not Divine Revelation, then everything Allah (God) has blessed me to understand, see, know and learn, I might as well throw it all into the bin, go back to eating pork, living an immoral life, continue seeking to work for others without any desire to see my people free and liberated from the shackles of mental slavery, wont and hunger, and then turn, consciously, to loving this ‘world’ of crookedness, polytheism, vanity, lying, stealing and conceit.

Of the numerous benefits of divine revelation is the blessing of Insight. Oh I wish the Internet was as developed in 1995 as it is today, for back then the ideas, thoughts and inspiration I was blessed with, so much of what was written down, I did not know what to do with it. My approach to The Times newspaper at that time was politely turned down. Applications to study Journalism at Vauxhall College and NoSweat were refused. And an application to Channel 4′s Trainee Journalism Program was turned down. But I never stopped writing.

On the 30th March 2000 I wrote an article entitled ‘Sound‘ arising from my thoughts and musings of a reality observed about its reality. I  did not have the benefit of studying science or physics in school and since writing that article, wireless technology has advanced, and even before I was born much of the science written about was known to some degree. Lacking the means of expression at the time and with no finance to research and plumb the depths of it further the information remained on paper.

Today, those of us who are blessed to know and understand the knowledge, wisdom and understand we have been blessed to be recipients of must share that knowledge and thus become the true bearers of light to the world, which is progressively heading into the pit of oblivion.

See the rest of my ‘Inspired articles’ page. Not all articles have been uploaded yet.

Enjoy.

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
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By Olusola O. Muhammad
written 30 March 2000.

Sound, that intangible reality that allows us to speak, transmit our thoughts on airwaves then decoded by the ear may be one of the great mysteries of God’s Creations, yet without it “modern” communication would be impossible.

Disciples of The Most Honourable Elijah Muhammad, under his student the Honourable Minister Louis Farrakhan have been blessed to partake of knowledge, wisdom and understanding that the world of science and technology only yesterday knew nothing about.

Therefore, in their Lessons, sound is revealed as travelling at the rate of one thousand, one hundred twenty feet per second (1,120 ft per second).

The knowledge of this before and after the Industrial Revolution maybe known, but it had no practical application as we see today, that we can say manifests the knowledge and use of it.

However since the 1950’s, Europeans have made many advances in science and they have now made great leaps in the fields of Telecommunications, Aeronautics, Space Travel, Electrical & Sound Engineering, Satellite Communications, Astronomy, Oceanography and other fields of human endeavour.

Before, the fifteenth Century Europeans would not traverse the breadth of the oceans for fear of falling off the distant horizon and believing without comprehensive knowledge that the earth was flat.  Yet, archaeological evidence and profound objects are littered across the earth which show that Africans developed great civilisations in South America, Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland, the European mainland, Australia, China and in the Islands of the Pacific.

During the t the fifteenth Century Enlightenment period, Islamic scholarship and learning gave the West the ability to navigate the oceans and the use of the Islamic numbering system of ‘one to ten’ including the number zero.  The chapters of the twentieth Century are now closed and one speculates how the West has been able to develop technologically?

Research of their textbooks from the early nineteenth Century, one is unable to locate in “lay” textbooks the distance of the earth from the sun.  On closer inspection of textbooks in the late twentieth Century, lay textbooks now reveal that the earth is ninety-three million miles from the sun.

The ability to speak and hear is comparable to the modern day telephone system that allows us to telephone and speak to people over great distance.  Therefore our ability to speak and hear, translate sound waves and the brain interpret everything said, in the language spoken, is a smaller process but greater still when considered that Tele-communications is mirrored on this process.

This process happens in time-periods that take less than a second does and could be a hundredth, thousandth, millionth, billionth, trillionth or quadrillionth of a second.  A billionth of a second is a nanosecond.

Africa’s inability to research, fund and develop this simple technology thwarts her ability to improve relationships by the great Art of Communication.

We hear sound from computers if a receiving receptacle similar to the ear is available to receive, interpret and transmit sound waves.   Likewise the human ear receives sound waves, interprets, calculates and translates sound into language the brain understands that is then spoken from the mouth.  Thus, we are able to communicate with each other.

Africa’s inability to develop and produce her own technological and communications industry is easily resolved by overcoming the rationale that she must develop like the West and apply the same technological solutions.

The principles of the technology are the same and this Africa must understand and harness for the benefit of her people and nation.

Sound waves travel without fibres, or cables to enable a recipient to hear. Logically the ability to utilise this simple process is a solution to increasing Africa’s technological expertise without having like the West to take 50 years to develop instead of the Asian Tiger economies ten-year development history.

The earth’s atmosphere, computers and satellite dishes in telecommunications mirror human speech, the ear and the brain, and are used to show man’s potential to harness God’s gift for the benefit of self, community and nation.

Peace.

80th Anniversary Celebration of The Nation of Islam

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Look In The Mirror and You Will See Yourself

Since the 1960′s there have been four generations of Black people in the UK: 60′s, 70′s/80′s and the 90′s generations.

Between these generations the physical differences are clear, but what about the spiritual, cultural and social differences? I am of the view that the current generation, whom we seem to want to write off; hoodies, so-called-gang members, etc, are the best generation that we have produced in the UK and it is our inability to see them as the best generation, that will cause us to demand Police intervention, when in reality they are the way they are for a Divine purpose.

My generation was the first to enter into the school education system and our parents had no idea of what we were going through, except that our teachers were always right, the consequence of which was a severe reprimand in myriad forms.

Our rebellion and hatred of the system manifested in the Riots that took place in London, Toxteth, Bristol and in other places up and down the UK and in so many other forms; clothes, raving (blues dance – sneaking out), relationships before we had any sense, etc, etc.

What was this a sign of? Rebellion. We then produced a generation who are even more rebellious than we are, not to mention the generation that has now sprung from the 80′s children. So what is this all a sign of and does it justify the appellation, Black Youth: A Generation of Fulfillment? In Mathematics 1 + 1 + 1 = 3, therefore the maths should not be that difficult for us to understand the present generation we seem to have condemned when in reality they are our very own reflection.

A few years ago on completion of the Millennium Bridge it began wobbling, proving to us that this civilization was now on its way out. For when Maths, which underpins the foundation of any civilization begins to fail, the end of that civilization is at hand.

Correlating the failing bridge with their maths that has failed, and our children who are now so rebellious that they do not submit to the education, church and social systems, that have enslaved the minds of our parents and our generation and which has lulled us to sleep, thinking that ‘I’m alright Jack’, we can see a clear mathematical equation as aforementioned.

All our Youth need is the RIGHT TEACHER with the RIGHT WORD to steer them into the path that they are destined for. Our children have been born not to comply and conform with this world. All they know at present is just how to destroy everything in their path, including themselves.

Is God’s hand over this? Perhaps ‘as the Spirit of God (His energy/essence in man & woman) moves across the waters’ (people) has He taken charge of our Youth so that they are not be spoiled and ruined by the UK education system or by their PARENTS.

Remember it was the youth who took on the Giants in the Promised Land, because the Elders (us) were too afraid to stand up like Men and Women and challenge the status quo. Are we willing to remain in the ‘Wilderness’ (ignominy, poverty, death) of not standing up and doing something for ourselves in this god-forsaken country called the UK?

Will ‘The Real Muggers Please Stand Up’

By Olusola O. Muhammad
23/03/2002 15:50:00

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Whilst the British media focuses on its typical stereotyping of Black youth as ‘mobile phone muggers,’ a cursory glance into the history books of this ‘great’ technological and economic Nation will show the greatest and most heinous ‘mugging’ that has ever taken place – the enslavement of African people by Great Britain and her baby nation, America.

As muggers go, on the other side of the Atlantic a ‘Corporate Mugging’ of epic financial proportions is being examined by Congressional Hearings, into Enron, once the 7th largest company in Corporate America, and which filed for bankruptcy on 2nd December 2001, with losses totalling $55 billion. Could this become President George W. Bush’s ‘Watergate,’ who has been linked to the Enron Company’s financial scandal?

C laiming victory for the western ‘free world’ in the ‘War Against Terrorism,’ “President Bush and his administration are entwined in a story of corporate greed and political manipulation involving energy giant Enron, now the target of a double criminal investigation” into its financial irregularities.

On the 2nd December 2001, Enron, America’s 7th largest Company declared itself bankrupt with losses totaling $55 billion resulting in America’s biggest bankruptcy filing in American history. “Enron is a Houston-based utility trading company that sells energy to industrial and domestic consumers.” “It is one of the biggest firms of its kinds in the world, a standing it owes in small part to Bush’s governorship in Texas,” The Observer 13/1/02 – [The Enron Scandal].

Exposed to full view

Back in August 2001, an explosion that killed three people occurred at its Teesside power plant in the UK, and ever since a ‘can-of-worms’ has been opened into the financial irregularities of Enron, its auditors and internal governing board.

Until that unfortunate event “the public profile in this country of the US energy company was pretty low,” www.independent.co.uk 10/8/01. During that period, “The former Conservative Energy Secretary Lord Wakeman… in 1990 helped to privatise the UK’s Electricity industry and gave consent for Enron to build Britain’s largest private power plant on Teesside.” Ironically, when Labour came to power it vowed, “…not to allow any more new private gas-fired power stations.”

Enron also owns Wessex water, employs 21,000 staff in more than 40 countries and in just 15 years, from humble beginnings grew to become America’s 7th largest company. In India “…despite enormous public hostility, it was the driving force behind plans for a massive power station that was built at Dabhol, near Bombay.”

Enron’s business tentacles reached as far as the Cayman Islands, Turks & Caicos, Mauritius, Bermuda: where subsidiary companies were established for the purpose of avoiding paying tax. These companies were also used to hide the enormous losses of the company; some say over $600 million, whilst the company continued trading and those in the know made huge profits before the company collapsed.

The financial collapse of “Enron was just the kind of scandal a war would hide,” which went unreported to the employee’s and the public for several months. Many employees invested their savings in the company stock (shares) – some their life savings – but “The ethical – maybe criminal – core of the scandal is that Enron trapped its employees into a ‘stock-lock-, whereby they were not allowed to sell” their shares. “When the company collapsed, they lost everything.”

Dirty Insider Trading

Meanwhile top executives of the company – aware of Enron’s dire financial situation were “…blessed by inside information and foresight – made a killing by scrambling to sell shares,” and “…cashed in stock and stock options for up to $1 billion (£700m)” before the company collapsed. They were in fact “amassing personal fortunes.” www.observer.co.uk 13/1/02.

Ordinary people working for Enron are the real victims of this scandal of which “It has long being reported how the Bush…family…” has its fingers neatly interwoven in the Enron scandal with political favours being granted during Bush Senior and Bush Juniors presidency’s.

People like Pat Betteridge of an Enron subsidiary company invested $300,000 to buy 3,500 shares has now seen his shares become worthless. A retired Wallis Hoffarth, a colleague of Betteridge’s, saw his $120,000 of shares also become worthless

In London, according to the BBC News web site, “The Company’s administrators, PricewaterhousCoopers, said 1,100 staff had been made redundant across the UK.”  UK banks are also affected with “Enron’s UK subsidiaries owing millions of pounds to banks including Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland and Abbey National.” “National Australia bank, which owns Yorkshire Bank and Clydesdale Bank in the UK” could potentially lose £141 million.

President George W. Bush

President George Bush’s personal gain from Enron has been “nearly $2 million,” since 1993, which was given to him by Enron executives. “Kenneth Lay also donated $326,000 in soft money to the Republican Party over the three years prior to Bush’s presidential bid.”

In 1997 when Enron wanted to expand into “Pennsylvania, one of America’s biggest energy markets…” the chairman of Enron, Kenneth Lay, who referred to George W. Bush as ‘Kenny boy’ approached him for help. “Bush called the then state governor, Tom Ridge, to pitch for Enron, whose bid duly succeeded.” After the 11th September 2001, Tom Ridge was made “Secretary of Homeland security.”

With the political favours granted by Bush Senior and Junior, Enron payments to President Bush, the funding of George W. Bush’s election campaign in the year-2000 election, the meeting of Enron executives to discuss the nations energy plan, one is left to question the role of government and the undue influence the private sector has over national policy.

Government Responsibility

Governments are duly constituted to implement and carry out policy for the benefit of the citizens and to vigorously rebuff any undue influence that would require it to concede benefits in return for financial gain.

Whilst fingers are pointed at African nations for their level of corruption here we find, not only that the highest office in the land – The President’s – has been corrupted in order to effect policy on behalf of one section of the nation, to the extent that citizens lose their life savings and jobs, mugging people of their pensions.

Corporate Probity

Robert Maxwell’s plundering of the pension funds of his employees demonstrates a propensity to criminality and corruption by corporate owners. Likewise the Enron scandal with debts owed by the company being hidden in order to boost its profits and the resulting loss of pension funds of its employees, highlights glaring weaknesses in corporate management and the institutions deployed to ensure the highest standards of financial management in the society.

President George W. Bush’s involvement in this scandal along with members of his government will unravel as the days and months pass by, but the true lesson is for you and I to reconsider how much trust can we put in companies whose executives connive and inveigle how to make more and more profit at our expense. When will we learn?