"To fulfill the sacred task of rebuilding our independence, our sovereignty; for without justice there is no dignity and without Independence there are no free men."
"Neither brutal assaults, nor cruel mistreatment, nor torture has ever led me to beg for mercy, for I prefer to die with my head held high, unshakable faith, and the greatest confidence in the destiny of my country rather than live in slavery and contempt for sacred principles."
"Throughout my struggle for the independence of my country, I have never doubted for a single instant that the sacred cause to which my comrades and I have dedicated our entire lives would triumph in the end."
"But what we wanted for our country for our country - its right to a honorable life, to perfect dignity, to independence with no restrictions - was never wanted by Belgian colonialism and its western allies, who found direct and indirect, intentional and unintentional support among certain high officials of the United Nations, that body which we placed all our trust when we called on it for help."
"They have corrupted some of our countrymen: they have bought others; they have done their part to distort the truth and defile our independence."
"What is important is the Congo, our poor people whose independence has been turned into a cage, with people looking at us from outside the bars, sometimes with charitable compassion, sometimes with glee and delight."
"I know and feel in my very heart of hearts that sooner or later my people will rid themselves of all their enemies, foreign and domestic, that they will rise up as one to say no to the shame and degradation of colonialism and regain the dignity in the pure light of day."
"We are not alone. Africa, Asia and the free and liberated peoples in every corner of the globe will ever remain at the side of the millions of Congolese who will not abandon the struggle until the day when there will be no more of their mercenaries in our country."
Patrice Lumumba, the first legally elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) He was assassinated, on 17 January, 1961. This heinous crime was a culmination of two inter-related assassination plots by American and Belgian governments, which used Congolese accomplices and a Belgian execution squad to carry out the deed.
"History will one day have its say; it will not be the history taught in the United Nations, Washington, Paris, or Brussels, however, but the history taught in the countries that have rid themselves of colonialism and its puppets."
"Africa will write its own history and both north and south of the Sahara it will be a history full of glory and dignity."
"Do not weep for me, my companion; I know that my country, now suffering so much, will be able to defend its independence and its freedom. Long Live the Congo! Long Live Africa!"
“The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them.” .
“As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt reminded us: “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.”
"When we stand together there is nothing, nothing, nothing we cannot accomplish.”
“We don't want to see our kids and grandchildren be the first generation in the modern history of America to have a lower standard of living than their parents.”
“We are living in a nation which worships wealth rather than caring for the poor. I don’t think that is the nation we should be living in.”
“Change comes, even in the face of overwhelming odds. And the recognition of the changes we have already made, of what we have won, inspires us to fight even harder. When”
How Bernie Sanders was Denied the Presidency in 2016?
The presidential election of 2016 was filled with denial, tampering, hacking and suppression all in the bid to get Donald Trump elected. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were complicit in denying Bernie Sanders the Presidency in 2016. A plan was put in place and this is how it happened:
The political establishment was very afraid of change, as we can attest to the 8 years of the Obama Administration. Bernie Sanders recognized this problem and set up his platform to challenge the inept system in which we call a Democracy (Republic). As an Independent Democrat, Sanders was poised to break the norm of not electing a Democrat to a 3rd presidential term.
The Sanders Platform called for political change within a system that wanted to conduct business as usual with the political candidates from both parties. So, the Republicans needed a candidate, who can shake up the norm within the Republican Party and with the help of Hillary Clinton they could deny Sanders the Presidency. Donald Trump was to be that candidate.
The strategy to run Donald Trump was designed as a two-pronged approach. The two-pronged approach was to play off his arrogance, polarize white voters, steal the nomination from established Republicans and render the Tea Party null and void. His birth certificate issue with President Obama set the stage for his presidential run. White voters saw Donald Trump as their savior, as he was the only one to question President Obama’s place of birth.
In Trumps’ Arrogance, he polarized a portion of white America by telling them to he would make America great again. This statement was telling white voters that President Obama squandered their way of life to blacks, Latinos, Arabs, Muslims and Asians. Trump looked to white support by telling them he would build a wall on the southern border to prevent illegal immigration from Latinos that were stealing white jobs.
He polarized white voters by blaming President Obama as being soft on terrorism by stating he would keep open Guantanamo Bay. He focused on false information that Obama might secretly be a Muslim, who allowed too many Muslims in to the country. Trump proposed a registration act of all Muslims in the country to polarize white voters. We also are aware about the birth certificate issue as well.
In Trump’s unorthodox campaign rhetoric, he was able to attack all the presidential candidates within the Republican Party to the point of low poll numbers and dropping out of the race. A portion of those candidates were Tea Party loyalist, such as Rubio, Cruz and Paul. Trump was able to marginalize these candidates by focusing on issues not in line with the Tea Party.
Trump was able to marginalize some of the other candidates, such as Huckabee, Perry, Kasich and Kristie, as their established Republican credentials prevented them from running an unorthodox campaign. The reforms Trump used in his campaign and in the presidential debates prevented the established Republican candidates from speaking from the same tongue. The rest of the Republican candidates do not even warrant a name recognition in this article, as Trump was able to eliminate them quickly.
Hillary Clinton set herself up to become the nominee of the Democratic Party to replace a term limited President Obama, but Clinton had an issue(s) that was going to haunt her during the electoral process. Benghazi and the emails never hurt her as much her collusion with the Republicans and the Trump campaign to deny Bernie Sanders the Democratic nomination, as well as the Presidency.
The old guard of politicians and political machine were afraid of the platform that Bernie Sanders put forth to the nation. Sanders discussion of reforms put everyone on notice and most agreed that Clinton and Trump could be the ones to deny Sanders the Oval Office.
Clinton, as a Democrat could block Sanders (Independent Democrat) the nomination in states that had closed Democratic primaries. Sanders, as an Independent Democrat could not properly secure his nomination in states with closed primaries. Hillary could win outright or keep the voting close in states that had open democratic primaries, thus splitting the nomination votes. Is it possible that voter tampering may have taken place in some of the states?
By talking reforms similar to the Bernie Platform, Trump marginalized Independent voters in voting for other Republican candidates in limited open Republican primaries. Trump was able to secure his nomination within the closed Republican primaries by catering to white arrogance. Trump’s reform platform and make America great again was set in stone for his nomination.
Once Clinton and Trump secured the nomination within their respective parties, the stage was set on who was to become the next President of the United States. All the polls showed Sanders beating Hillary and Trump. In the end most voters believed Trump could not be President and Clinton should not be President!
In watching the incoming election results, I came to this conclusion that Bernie Sanders was denied the Presidency by all the so-called red states voting for Trump. But, there was another issue taking place in the election results. Early projections in Florida had Hillary Clinton with a huge lead over Donald Trump. Is it possible of voter suppression or voter tampering in Florida?
The late election returns in Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin led me to believe voter suppression and voter tampering had taken place in these states. The above states have always reported their elections no later than midnight. On this day in particular, their elections returns came in well after 3:30 AM in the morning. If to be true, Hillary Clinton won these four states and possibly Florida and she was also denied the Presidency. An honorable mention goes out to Wisconsin for its new Voter ID Law that removed 300,000 potential voters.
To save face in their collusion, Democrats and Republicans blamed Russian hacking to misdirect from the public, the notion that five states were undemocratic in their principles by denying Hillary Clinton her due right victory over Donald Trump! The Clinton emails were not enough to deny her the Presidency? It was her collusion with the Republicans to deny Bernie Sanders that denied her the Office of the President of the United States.
Sanders had the right message to the people and should have been the President of the United States!