Gbagbo slips shackles, sheds white man's burden

If you read up on the International Criminal Court, you will find that it has since 2002 been in the business of prosecuting the international crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.

One of the problems critics of the ICC have consistently pointed out is that this "international" court can only ever find genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes in Africa. See for instance my very cleverly titled Bwana still wields the whip in Africa.

As I pointed out in 2013, and also in the previous ICC batting .500 in Negro League, this Afrocentric approach to international criminality is a distinct hangover from the colonial era. What good is our ongoing (and forget all that claptrap about post-colonialism - it has never ended) civilizing mission to the Dark Continent without some enforcement mechanism? As we all know, the Nations of (white) Virtue have well-functioning judicial systems and are well-equipped to root out their own war criminals, and the fact they never find any after exhaustively investigating themselves just underscores the efficacy of this system.

The Africans are another story. African elites have a dismal record of investigating themselves, which is why they get so much international assistance in these matters. It was French commandos from the colonial mother ship who whisked Laurent Gbagbo off to The Hague over ten years ago.

After a ten year plus roller-coaster of trial-conviction-appeal-acquittal, Gbagbo is once again a free man and back home in Ivory Coast, preparing a political comeback.

I wish him every success. It is my hope that he and other African leaders will join forces and establish an African Criminal Court, the remit of which would be to abduct non-Africans from Europe and America and bring them to trial for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. 

There are ample suspects to choose from.

"First World" already meddling in 2015 Ivory Coast election

The national newspaper of record (no, that is not ever going to be the National Post) today had a story for me penned by none other than former Canadian PM Joe Clark.

Follow Mandela's example in Ivory Coast.

Jolly Joe scored a trip to Ivory Coast courtesy of the National Democratic Institute. His mission is to check the temperature on the ground to see if those black folks are ready for democracy.

Throw Mandela's name at me and I'll read anything, at least for awhile.

I was doing OK till I happened upon this manure pile;

The NDI was invited by President Alassane Ouattara to send a neutral international panel to speak and listen to the leaders of parties, religious groups, civil society...

Excuse me?

The National Democratic Institute is a neutral international panel?

No, Joe, the NDI is 100% a creation of the US government! How far would your head have to be up your ass to call that "neutral?"

And by the way, Joe, Ouattara is an IMF bumboy installed at the pleasure of the USA, while the guy who should be president of the Cote d'Ivoire is languishing among the naughty niggers in the holding cells at ICC HQ in The Hague.

Have you noticed yet that the ICC can only find BLACK criminals?

The fact that two years out we get anti-Gbagbo propaganda delivered via mainstream media platforms tells you who has been anointed to win the next election.

That's democracy?

Bwana still wields the whip in Africa

Seems more than a little untoward that we are once again seeing Africans being dragged off to Europe in chains to be judged before a tribunal of white men.

That was the spectacle at the International Criminal Court at The Hague today as judicial hearings began that will determine whether former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo should be tried for crimes against humanity.

Gbagbo was removed from office and from Ivory Coast by French forces after a disputed election in 2010. That paved the way for France's and the West's pick for the Presidency, Alassane Ouattara, to take the reins. Ouattara is a former IMF functionary and knows how the game is to be played.

What would be gratifying is to see African commandos swoop down on Paris or London or Lisbon and spirit some of their former colonial masters back to Africa to account for their crimes.