Raila and Hitler, is it a mere coincidence?

For those of you who know how politics work, you already know that every self respecting politician has a hero who inspires them in their lifelong struggle to the top of their league.

What about Raila Amolo Odinga aka TT (Tumbili na Tinga). Raila has over the years, emulated one of the best revolutionary leaders in history. Kumbe it has been happening over the years and the trend has shown itself clearer and clearer. The famous leader he has emulated is non other than Adolf Hitler former ruler of Germany. Here is a brief comparison with more comparisons coming later.

Adolf Hitler	Raila Amolo Odinga
Born 1889; died 1945	Born 1945
Born in Austria , moved to Germany .	Born in Kenya , studied in Germany .
1919. Joined the German Workers' Party, which later transformed into the Nazi Party.	(Joined Peoples Liberation Army, which organised the coup attempt. (See below)
1923: Led coup attempt, which failed.	1982 Led coup attempt, which failed. Soldiers during the attempted coup
1923: Coup attempt claimed 16 lives.	1982: Coup attempt claimed over 1, 500 lives.
1923: Charged with treason, sentenced to 5 years in jail.	1982: Charged with treason, detained for 6 years.
1925/6: Published "Mein Kampf (My Struggle), an autobiography. (Which incidentally was originally titled "Four Years of Struggle against Lies, Stupidity, and Cowardice")	2006: Publishes, "Raila, an enigma in Kenyan politics." Admits to planning the 1982 coup.
Launched "The Big Lie," which blamed Jews for inequalities in Germany .	Endorses "The Big Lie" that blames Kikuyus for inequalities in Kenya .
Member of Weimar Republic , made up of several coalition parties.	Joined coalition government
Formed Nazi Youth party	Member of the February 18th Movement
Elected Leader of Germany	(We are working against this similarity happening!)
Formed the SS – the Secret Police that started killing Jews and all party leaders.	Is this our future? But with Fred Gumo as chairman of ODM council of elders, will Gumo's Jeshi la Mzee be a part of our future?
Ordered the killing of over 6 million Jews and other "undesirable" people.	Will you let this happen?
Legacy: Dictator and one of the largest mass-murderers in the world.	What future do you want for Kenya ?

And this is only the tip of the iceberg. According to the facts about Hitler printed on Wikipedia, you see many more similarities. Here are a couple of quotes picked directly from Wikipedia that resonate very much with Raila and his tactics. Very scary indeed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler

*These facts have been picked from wikipedia website and we thefore want to credit them for the information we have used. The only addition to them are the inserts made by the blog author.

**The notes in Red are inserts by the Author of this blog article

1. By early 1921, Hitler was becoming highly effective at speaking in front of large crowds. (This is one of Raila's traits - a very good orator we have to agree). In February, Hitler spoke before a crowd of nearly six thousand in Munich. To publicize the meeting, he sent out two truckloads of party supporters to drive around with swastikas, cause a commotion and throw out leaflets, their first use of this tactic. (Do I need to say anything here). Hitler gained notoriety outside of the party for his rowdy, polemic speeches against the Treaty of Versailles, rival politicians (including monarchists, nationalists and other non-internationalist socialists) and especially against Marxists and Jews. The DAP was centered in Munich, a hotbed of German nationalists who included Army officers determined to crush Marxism and undermine the Weimar republic. Gradually they noticed Hitler and his growing movement as a vehicle to hitch themselves to (a lot of people - such as Anyang Nyongo who was instrumental in developing and implementing the very successsful Kibaki's Economic Recovery Strategy that ODM is criticizing today - in ODM have done just this). Hitler traveled to Berlin to visit nationalist groups during the summer of 1921, and in his absence there was a revolt among the DAP leadership in Munich (Raila was nearly overthrown when he travelled to London only to find the other ODM guys led by Kalonzo about to unseat him). The party was run by an executive committee (In ODM it is the Council of Elders led by one Fred Gumo, who had selected Mudavadi as the Presidential candidate but it was leaked by the Nairobi Star-which incidentally is owned by one of Raila's biggest supporters) whose original members considered Hitler to be overbearing. They formed an alliance with a group of socialists from Augsburg. Hitler rushed back to Munich and countered them by tendering his resignation from the party on July 11, 1921 (Raila rushed back from London and gave ultimatums to the ODM leaders). When they realized the loss of Hitler would effectively mean the end of the party, he seized the moment and announced he would return on the condition that he would be given dictatorial powers (Ha! ha! ha! - won't say anything here, especially after his running mate Musalia Mudavadi called him a dictator a few months ago, remember? E-Nuf said). Infuriated committee members (including Drexler) held out at first.

2. The political turning point for Hitler came when the Great Depression hit Germany in 1930. The Weimar Republic had never been firmly rooted and was openly opposed by right-wing conservatives (including monarchists), Communists and the Nazis. As the parties loyal to the democratic, parliamentary republic found themselves unable to agree on counter-measures, their Grand Coalition broke up and was replaced by a minority cabinet (Does this sound like NARC?). The new Chancellor, Heinrich Brüning of the Roman Catholic Centre Party, lacking a majority in parliament, had to implement his measures through the president's emergency decrees. Tolerated by the majority of parties, the exception soon became the rule and paved the way for authoritarian forms of government. (Kenyans are lucky that President Kibaki turned out to be a million times better than the German Chancellor, because his - Kibaki's - economic policies worked well enough to put Kenya back on track within 3 years of Raila and his team leaving cabinet and he - Kibaki - never became authoritarian) (I am sure Raila was disappointed by this good factor of President Kibaki).

3. The Reichstag's initial opposition to Brüning's measures led to premature elections in September 1930. The republican parties lost their majority and their ability to resume the Grand Coalition, while the Nazis suddenly rose from relative obscurity to win 18.3% of the vote along with 107 seats in the Reichstag, becoming the second largest party in Germany. Brüning's* measure of budget consolidation and financial austerity brought little economic improvement and was extremely unpopular (While Kibaki's Economic Recovery Strategy has worked overall, it is still felt not to have benefited the Lower Class citizens especially those living in urban areas. This is the carrot that Raila has been swinging infront of Kenyans who feel the increase in prices of basic commodities is not because of an increase in world oil prices but because Kibaki has not reduced the prices using the ERS. Ofcourse Raila cannot correct them). Under these circumstances, Hitler appealed to the bulk of German farmers, war veterans and the middle class, who had been hard-hit by both the inflation of the 1920s and the unemployment (Damn! that word again. I have heard it so much i did not expect to hear of it 80yrs ago) of the Depression. Hitler received little response from the urban working classes and traditionally Catholic regions.

*Brüning was the new German chancellor who had just been elected a few years before.

4. Meanwhile, Papen tried to get his revenge on Schleicher by working toward the General's downfall, through forming an intrigue with the camarilla and Alfred Hugenberg, media mogul and chairman of the DNVP. Also involved were Hjalmar Schacht, Fritz Thyssen and other leading German businessmen. They financially supported the Nazi Party, which had been brought to the brink of bankruptcy by the cost of heavy campaigning (Just as has happened to ODM after it has been doing that for the last 3 years since they left gov't). The businessmen also wrote letters to Hindenburg, urging him to appoint Hitler as leader of a government (Raila and the Prime Minister post that he wanted so as to be leader of goverment, independent of the president who would be head of state) "independent from parliamentary parties" which could turn into a movement that would "enrapture millions of people."[36] Finally, the president reluctantly agreed to appoint Hitler Chancellor of a coalition government formed by the NSDAP and DNVP (Thank God Kibaki did not appoint Raila as Prime Minister and the Bomas Draft did not go through as was planned by Raila and his henchmen). Hitler and two other Nazi ministers (Frick, Göring) were to be contained by a framework of conservative cabinet ministers, most notably by Papen as Vice-Chancellor and by Hugenberg as Minister of the Economy. Papen wanted to use Hitler as a figure-head, but the Nazis had gained key positions, most notably the Ministry of the Interior. On the morning of 30 January 1933, in Hindenburg's office, Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor during what some observers later described as a brief and simple ceremony. The Nazis' seizure of power subsequently became known as the Machtergreifung. Hitler established the Reichssicherheitsdienst as his personal bodyguards (By the way, Raila's bodyguards are ex-airforce men led by the feared, notorious and brutal Col. Lumumba).

The author had put a few more points but I will stop the article there because of the article size and encourage you to visit the Wikipedia page " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler " and read the rest for yourself. Please share with all your friends!