Death of a dictator

President Uhuru Kenyatta announced the death, at Nairobi Hospital, without giving a cause. He declared a period of national mourning and said Mr. Moi would receive a state funeral.



After leaving office in December 2002, Moi lived in retirement, largely shunned by the political establishment. However, he still retained some popularity with the masses, and his presence never failed to gather a crowd. He spoke out against a proposal for a new constitution in 2005; according to Moi, the document was contrary to the aspirations of the Kenyan people. After the proposal was defeated in a November 2005 constitutional referendum, President Kibaki called President Moi to arrange for a meeting to discuss the way forward.



Half-hearted inquiries that began at the request of foreign aid donors never amounted to anything substantial during Moi's presidency.[30][31] Although it appears that the peaceful transfer of power to Mwai Kibaki may have involved an understanding that Moi would not stand trial for offences committed during his presidency, foreign aid donors reiterated their requests, and Kibaki reopened the inquiry. As the inquiry has progressed, Moi, his two sons, Philip and Gideon (now a Senator), and his daughter, June, as well as a host of high-ranking Kenyans, have been implicated. In testimony delivered in late July 2003, Treasury Permanent Secretary Joseph Magari recounted that, in 1991, Moi ordered him to pay Ksh34.5 million ($460,000) to Goldenberg, contrary to the laws then in force.[32]

As with President Jomo Kenyatta, many government projects, buildings were named after Moi, and his face adorned the country’s currency and coins. Kenyans voted for a new constitution that was implemented in 2010 and made provisions to bar personality cults.



Official corruption, abuse of power and a deteriorating economy exploded in 1982 in an attempted coup by low-ranking air force officers. But army loyalists crushed the uprising, and Mr. Moi ordered the arrest of the entire 2,100-member air force. Hundreds were imprisoned or executed, and the service’s ranks were replaced. He also ordered all civil servants to join the ruling political party, of which he was president.

Daniel arap Moi married the late Lena Moi (born Helena Bommet) in 1950, but they separated in 1974, before his presidency. Lena died in 2004. Moi had eight children, five sons and three daughters.

3. That as an expression of public sorrow, the flag of the Republic of Kenya shall be flown at half-mast at State House, state lodges, all public buildings and public grounds, all military bases, posts and stations, on all Naval vessels of the Republic of Kenya, and however elsewhere throughout the Republic of Kenya; from dawn on 4th February 2020 until sunset on the day of the Burial.

When Jomo Kenyatta died on 22 August 1978, Moi became acting president. Per the Constitution, a special presidential election for the balance of Kenyatta's term was to be held on 8 November, 90 days later. That never happened as the Cabinet held a Special Cabinet meeting without Moi and decided that no one else was interested and went around the country campaigning for him to be declared elected unopposed. He was therefore sworn in as the second President of Kenya on 14 October 1978.[16][17]

In 1955 Moi entered politics when he was elected Member of the Legislative Council for Rift Valley. He was the chosen replacement of Dr. John ole Tameno, the former representative who had had to quit due to heavy drinking and suspected connections to the freedom movement.[10] In 1957 Moi was re-elected Member of the Legislative Council for Rift Valley. Moi was part of the Kenyan delegation at the Lancaster House Conferences in London, which drafted the country's first post-independence constitution, and in 1961 became Minister of Education in the pre-independence government.[11]

CHRISTIANITY IS A HOAX

When most Christians talk about a “worldview”, they’re really talking about the set of assumptions that they start with when they try to make sense of the world. For many fundamentalists, they assume that the world is 6000 years old, and that the Bible is an accurate history book. They also assume that there is something called the “supernatural” and that it has the ability to influence our world in strange ways, even though the concept is piss-poorly defined. I think that the vast majority of the assumptions they hold are unjustified, and because of that they end up reaching strange conclusion, all while weaving an intricate just-so story.



Yes, they seem to think that there is only Aristotelian/Thomist metaphysics. I think it would be interesting to get into discussion of, say, some aspects of Peter van Imwagen’s book Metaphysics or the underlying metaphysical assumptions for Bell’s inequalities and how this would be formulated in A/T terminology. One thing that Ameribear was singularly unable to do was to formulate a simple chemical reaction in A/T terms.



I haven’t heard a single, rational reason yet for Catholicism Neither have I and I was educated by catholics. so I can’t say if they’re lacking or not. You can say that so far, they’re lacking. At a certain point they’ll ban you for pointing that out or abandon the discussion (when they’re not in a place where they can ban you) for pointing it out. They still haven’t provided one. Their great intellectual resource is “A/T metaphysics” which is based on thirteenth century philosophy when no one understood what Newton understood or Einstein or anything since then. What they will do is put Thomas’s concepts derived from Aristotle on anything that has been figured out about how reality works and claim it hasn’t been disproven. They ignore that it has become (no fault to Aristotle or Aquinas, neither of whom had access to the discoveries that have been made since they tried to figure things out) false, or at the very least, mostly useless. . They will call it “metaphysics”. Which means, no matter what disciplined methodologies discover about the universe, A/T “metaphysics” saw it coming and gets to claim it for its own. And it can also claim an unmoved mover is necessary. All to prop up belief in Yahweh, Jesus, Yahwehjesus, demons, angels, heaven, hell and whatever the RCC proclaims is true. It doesn’t but when they refer to an “intellectual” or “rational” leg, that is what they mean. That is, if they can even explain it themselves. Most of them can’t. All this to prop up the claim that an immaterial omnibeing exists who spent a few decades in a backwater of history, courtesy of a virgin birth and a magic star. So, back to your origninal point. I can’t say if they’re lacking or not. Do they acknowledge their burden and support it? Not so far. They spend most of their time claiming it without supporting it and the rest of their time accusing people who don’t accept it of leading with their head, not their heart. When that doesn’t work, of not understanding the sophisticated, intellectual support that exists. You will encounter the same strategies if you tackle the mormons, the scientologists, any sort of muslim or jew. They just dismiss those guys. They live by claiming there are “two sides” and accusing us of all manner of unsavory things (like Jim accused us a while back of praying for innocent humans to be massacred, and then withdrew, when called on it.) Note that he’ll spend all (or most) of his time here, pretending to miss the point about “I don’t believe you.” If you dig deep enough, he’ll produce a PRATT. When you explain that the PRATT is a PRATT, he’ll sneak in something about your character.