From: XXXXXX
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 2:34 PM
To: xxxxx@bugandapost.com
Subject: Letter to baganda
Dear Writers,
Burning Of Kasubi Follows A Plan Written In 1513
I am writing to warn every Muganda and friend of Buganda that this burning of Kasubi is really part of a long-term plan to destroy Buganda which is based on a book by Niccolo Machiavelli wrote in 1513.
The history of my warning starts around 2002/2003 when Bwaana Tamale Mirundi used to translate a book about how a dictator can stay in power – from English to Luganda. The book was by called The Prince and the writer Machiavelli. By that time, Tamale Mirundi called himself Mr. Consultant and had a late night CBS Radio programme (I think Sunday) where he translated the book.
Because at that time Tamale Mirundi disliked the NRM his programme was really about explaining how Mr. Museveni was using Machiavelli’s book as his bible for ruling Ugandans forever. I think it is true that Museveni is a follower Machiavelli because he quickly saw that Tamale Mirundi could awaken Baganda so he somehow brought him to his side. We heard that Tamale was fired from CBS radio because his programmes sounded like they were praising Museveni’s brain. If that is true, then maybe Mengo made a mistake of blaming the messenger and ignoring the message. You cannot have a strong institution where people who may be a bit radical and crazy like Tamala Mirundi are fired on emotion only to be picked up by an enemy.
For me, after listening to one of Tamale’s programmes I found them very educational. I even bought a copy of The Prince and started following Mirundi’s translations on CBS because it was tough to read in English. In fact the day they burnt Kasubi tombs I immediately remembered that Mirundi told us on CBS in 2003 that “bwooba oyagala okufuga emirembe n’emirembe abantu b’obwakabaka obulina ebyaafayo nga Buganda oba Bunyoro, Machiavelli agamba nti olina okusanyaawo buli kantu konna akajjukiza abantu abo obwakabaka bwaabwe.” (“if you want to rule the people of a kingdom with history and institutions like Buganda or Bunyoro forever, Machiavelli says that you must destroy everything that makes the people remember what their kingdom was like.”)
I found my The Prince book and it took me only two minutes to find the place where Mirundi talked about destroying the kingdom. Chapter 5. I paid someone to type it for me and I have double checked every word. Please anyone read it and the notes I put in brackets and tell me if I am wrong to say that BURNING OF KASUBI FOLLOWED A PLAN WRITTEN IN 1513.
In case you don’t know, Tamale Mirundi has been Mr. Museveni’s most valued advisor at the time of Ssabaluri, Sabanyala, Kayunda Riots, Kasubi Toms, Land Bill Amendment, expanding Kampala to Mukono and Entebbe, trying to force Kabaka to negotiate, and so forth. Even when they had a dispute with Vice Gilbert Bukenya on Chogom, it is Mirundi who came on top. Baganda must wake up and remember our own saying “Okwelinda si buti” (”Keeping prepared for anything is not a sign of cowardice”). If we continue trying to please everybody then we must stop complaining when those same people treat us like rubbish for our “bampaane”.
Awangaale Ssabasajja Kabaka wa Buganda
Please do not show my name
Kawuku, Kyadondo
Buganda
MACHIAVELLI’S THE PRINCE – CHAPTER 5
HOW TO GOVERN CITIES AND PRINCIPALITIES THAT, PRIOR TO BEING OCCUPIED, LIVED UNDER THEIR OWN LAWS
WHEN a state is accustomed to live in freedom under its own laws is acquired, there are three ways of keeping it: the first is to destroy it; the second is to go to live there in person; the third is to let it continue to live under its own laws, taking tribute from it, and setting up a government composed of a few men who will keep it friendly to you. Such a government, being the creature of the prince, will be aware that it cannot survive without his friendship and support, and it will do everything to maintain his authority. A city which is used to freedom is more easily controlled by means of its own citizens than by any other, provided one chooses not to destroy it. [MY NOTE: The prince talked about here is the one who acquired Buganda and wants to permanently take it away. For sure we have had a few men in Buganda government who cannot survive without the support and friendship of the prince occupying Buganda].
Take, for example, the Spartans and the Romans. The Spartans held Athens and Thebes by setting up a government of a few men in each; nevertheless they lost both. In order to hold on to Capua, Carthage, and Numantia, the Romans destroyed them; yet they did not lose them. They hoped to hold Greece in almost the same way as the Spartans had done leaving her free under her own laws; yet they were not successful, and so they were compelled to destroy many cities of that province in order to keep possession of it.
For in truth there is no sure method of holding such cities except by destruction. Anyone who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it may expect to be destroyed by it; for such a city may always justify rebellion in the name of liberty and its ancient institutions. These are not forgotten either through passage of time or through benefits received. Despite any actions or provisions one may take, if the inhabitants are not divided and dispersed, they will not forget that name and those institutions, and they will quickly have recourse to them at every chance, as Pisa did after a hundred years of servitude under the Florentines. [MY NOTE: Were Baganda not accustomed to centuries of freedom until they were forced into Uganda in 1962? Are these schemes of Ssabaluri, Ssabanyala, Muchakamuchaka, Bibanja Association and land grabbing about dividing Baganda so that we can forget that name and those institutions?]
But when cities or provinces have been accustomed to live under a prince and his line becomes extinct, being on the one hand used to obeying and on the other deprived of their leader, they cannot agree among themselves in the selection of a new one and do not know how to live in freedom. Hence they are slower to take up arms, and a prince may more easily win them and hold them. But in republics there is greater vigor, greater hatred, greater desire for’ revenge, and the memory of earlier freedom cannot and will not let them rest. Thus, the surest procedure is either to destroy them or to live in them. [MY NOTE: Are certain officials in Mengo not always telling us to stay calm avoid making the occupiers angry? Is it wrong to believe then that burning of Kasubi could be one of many things planned to make our royal family so weak that it is as good as extinct?]
