Malawi Internet Censorship: Outing of a government on life support?

Any civilized person will be left aghast by reports to the effect that the Malawi Government will soon be using private investors like Internet Service Providers to control what Malawians and other visiting nationals will be viewing on the internet.

The extent to which, this government is prepared to stoop so low to protect people like Elloch Maotcha and Kaliati is very alarming. This multilayered crusade is not your daily enchanting and fast paced thriller. The DPP government is on a rollercoaster ride whose brakes have gone bonkers.

This government knows where our fears are buried and they derive a lot of pleasure in exhuming these fears to confound or bamboozle us. In the world of drug barons, the Mafia, and war mongering dictators: this government knows how to feed into horror-dead on!

It is immoral and very backward if government has to borrow outdated and sadistic methods from renowned dictatorships like China in order to poison people’s minds with falsehoods just because it feels that’s the only way to protect its failures and dictatorial actions.

A wasted jiffy that when Kaliati was contacted for her opinion-she had none. Her explanations in defense of this notoriety were laughable and only befitting a deranged perambulator on the streets.

Here we have a flagging government trying to hop in style when it is time for it to go to the drawing board to re-strategize its own campaign.

Those who are sympathetic to the ailing DPP flagship pretty well know that censorship in any form even ala Kamuzu Banda is the last item welcome on any party's political resume. Obviously this modus operandi does not pass muster and it will go damned into ignominy.

All true. Nobody wants to see their backside exposed when they are not ready for it. But when government lets its “vindictive political pygmies and character assassins” to runoff the turf the likes of the ebullient and mesmerizing UDF Chair, Dr. Bakili Muluzi and expect a free pass from sympathizers of these people, then somebody must be waking up on the wrong side of the stone.

I don’t think all men in this government are blazing guns and the women are awesome weapons. There is a messy bunch of nincompoops in this administration who have literally smeared this government ad libitum and leave the observer with no choice but to call to notice their embarrassing moral and intellectual frailties.

The circumstances accompanying government’s sulking on the existence of the Nyasa Times Online Publication do not in any way encourage in anyone the capacity to honor prudence—but to seek ways of putting the message across to the willing readers and followers of current affairs in our country in a manner that makes the villains regret their selfish actions and force them to gnash their teeth in the comfort of the borrowed Republic!

The writing is on the wall and these are no rumors of war but a call to reality of all those who feel threatened by the barbaric intrusions on our privacy and other civil liberties.

Internet censorship to those who don’t know is basically a practical haul over the coals to freedom of expression and the whole essence of it takes us back to the dragon and dungeon days of Dr. Akimu Kankhwala Kamuzu Hastings Banda.

By the way: the size and nature of the possible DPP defeat in 2009 is out there for people to see and it is unspeakably glaring at its architects—the senseless blind and groping DPP lampooners and pervasive strategists.

For those with skeletons in their closets this is the time to clean house and get out of town. The opposition is hungry for transparency and candor. This is what will bring to book all those miscreants and vituperative radicals that have taken over our nation.

If you think this is all hot air. Wait until you descend from the world of UFO’s you are wallowing in. Do you ever say--I didnot tell you!