War Ambazonia: When Paul Biya Confuses Fiction And Reality
Cameroon is well known for having a monarchical presidency with a "strengthened executive power" that allows the president to continue to exercise his power as he sees fit, and there is no red line for him to know when he went too far.
When this happens, as is often the case, more and more ordinary Cameroonians are deprived of their basic rights. The large contingent of political prisoners in Paul Biya's prisons, for which the CL2P is fighting relentlessly, is a blatant illustration of this.
Moreover, the CL2P is stunned and horrified every time the president uses the notion of "outrage" and all the emotions that accompany scarred corruption, widespread impunity, and the sheer indecency of a Cameroonian president obviously always above the law with his legion of perverse masochists who nonetheless support his presidential anarchy.
Reversing the trend of imperial executive power in Cameroon will not be easy. Because in the typical pattern prevailing in this country, the president who is at the head of a "monarchist institution" with an executive power strengthened at will, can in no way be constitutionally prevented from extending his power as he sees fit .
Indeed, nothing stands in the way of any form of executive expansion that leaves the president to act as he sees fit. Thus, in the face of a crisis such as the English-speaking civil war that does not dare to say its name, the deepest extensions of the executive power take place to first repress any form of political dissent, even if it involves arrests and extrajudicial executions.
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Indeed, nothing stands in the way of any form of executive expansion that leaves the president to act as he sees fit. Thus, in the face of a crisis such as the English-speaking civil war that does not dare to say its name, the deepest extensions of the executive power take place to first repress any form of political dissent, even if it involves arrests and extrajudicial executions.
This non-stop expansion of authoritarian power serves a zero-sum game where the president can have both the butter and the pie. Indeed, the policy of outrage indignation allows him to criminalize any form of dissent, especially when he considers it irreverent to his regime and / or his person.
The central fact here is that we can have, or a democracy, or an imperial presidency, but we can not have both at the same time.
The idea that we can have a painless and benevolent monarchical presidency is an insult to all Biya's political prisoners. Moreover, this authoritarian attitude towards dissent is a source of pride for the president because he "wins", at least he estimates that he has won every time for more than three decades. But these "victories" and the politics of indignation that drive them are nothing but vanity: a vanity cultivated behind the so-called "leadership" exercise.
"Plus a vanity based on fiction, where the president and the sycophants around him are the true purveyor of fiction, creating for example" adversaries "permanently, and fabricating from scratch all the results they need to make argue their erroneous and misleading arguments.
In this sense, the authoritarian and conspiratorial views of the Biya regime are now very clear. It seems and is pathologically incapable of distinguishing facts from fiction. Similarly, would the regime's propaganda machine really be unable to distinguish between what is credible and what is not, or to be well informed about what really constitutes the concept of "contempt"? in a democracy?
The addiction to absolute power? Clearly, "outrage" seems to be something the President does not like, does not really understand, and is in conflict or contradiction with one of his carefully cultivated political positions. But that has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that he was really outraged.
That is why, like Dr. Nganang, CL2P advocates and demands "responsibility" if we are to survive as an entity that can be considered to have viable "leadership", with values recognized as "worthy" of interest and respect, in order to effectively contribute to the welfare of humanity.
The central fact here is that we can have, or a democracy, or an imperial presidency, but we can not have both at the same time.
The idea that we can have a painless and benevolent monarchical presidency is an insult to all Biya's political prisoners. Moreover, this authoritarian attitude towards dissent is a source of pride for the president because he "wins", at least he estimates that he has won every time for more than three decades. But these "victories" and the politics of indignation that drive them are nothing but vanity: a vanity cultivated behind the so-called "leadership" exercise.
"Plus a vanity based on fiction, where the president and the sycophants around him are the true purveyor of fiction, creating for example" adversaries "permanently, and fabricating from scratch all the results they need to make argue their erroneous and misleading arguments.
In this sense, the authoritarian and conspiratorial views of the Biya regime are now very clear. It seems and is pathologically incapable of distinguishing facts from fiction. Similarly, would the regime's propaganda machine really be unable to distinguish between what is credible and what is not, or to be well informed about what really constitutes the concept of "contempt"? in a democracy?
The addiction to absolute power? Clearly, "outrage" seems to be something the President does not like, does not really understand, and is in conflict or contradiction with one of his carefully cultivated political positions. But that has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that he was really outraged.
That is why, like Dr. Nganang, CL2P advocates and demands "responsibility" if we are to survive as an entity that can be considered to have viable "leadership", with values recognized as "worthy" of interest and respect, in order to effectively contribute to the welfare of humanity.
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