PUNTLAND: FEDERALIST OR QUASI-SECESSIONIST?
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Just some nutjob from Awdal citing random US court cases to fit his anti Puntland agenda.Cabsiye?
Is that a nickname for a drunk person.
Where to begin. Unfortunately, the author sees distant, if accidental coincidences, from which he concludes congruence, which is not there, which has a term in clinical psychology, but let us not dwell on that, and examine his arguments: i) Accidental similarities appealing to the intellectually lazy mind, and ii) U.S case laws as regards to fruits re: Fed vs State.
He asserts that PL styles itself after SL, which hinges upon a number of falsehoods induced by intellectual laziness: it looks like, therefore it must be. In engineering, that is dismissed as inconsequential, but I shall indulge him for posterity.
Let us remind him some of the notable dissimilarities:
a) People of PL were the first to have rebelled against oppression under the military regime. As documented, military officers carrying out oppression, in the form of death, torture, rape, false imprisonment, poisoning water wells, burning down villages, uprooting nomads etc., in Mudug & Nugaal were of Isaq extraction. This belies a popular assertion among secessionists.
b) Regions in PL were the first to have formed an armed opposition against oppression. This was primarily due to unjustified killings, unwarranted imprisonments, civilian uprooting etc., carried by State institutions, on the grounds of clan identity. Some of the longest serving prisoners, never charged, but arrested under the heinous National Security doctrine, were from these regions.
c) PL was the first to have adopted, implemented, and promoted Federalism without seeking secession. To date, it is regarded as the sole vanguard, and protector of Federalism in Somalia. While Federalism is gaining momentum elsewhere with other FMSs taking shape, if unable to self-govern, or operate independent of the Fed. govβt in Xamar. It must be noted successive leaders of the Fed. govβt have shown anti-federalist inclinations, instead favouring the disastrous unitary system.
d) Thus far, PL is the only Federal State to have pursued a citizenry policy, where every Somali could call PL home, work, vote, and be elected, regardless of his / her clan affiliation. Pilot district elections have shown IDPs not only voting, but being elected to mayoral posts. As further shown in the ongoing voter registration, many IDPs, and recent settlers from other regions of the Somali peninsula have as equal rights as the locals with no differentiation along regional, or clan lines. I recall having tea with a mechanic in Galkacyo, originally from Afgoye, in reflecting on his earnings and social status, where he noted that he is regarded as a member of the Diaspora when he travels back to Afgoye.
To the contrary, for the first time in its recent recorded history, Somalis, women and children had been deported from Burco & Hargeysa, with others fleeing the war in Yemen refused entry, or to dismount boats on Somali soil at Berbera. Those had been later rerouted to Bosaso, where they have been received as fellow citizens.
e) On a lighter note, SL notably adopted a soft, if deadly strategy of espionage deploying its fine ladies to disarm, if seduce Harti fellas with βsuqaarβ, and βbra wavingβ activities whereas no such events had been recorded on the PL side.
I could go on.
Now, on those grounds alone, could one be as bold as to come upon similarities between the two entities? I think not, unless one is suffering from a severe case of βdaafβ, or untreated astigmatism condition. It would appear had the author been observant, or privy to the said facts, he would have abandoned those flawed arguments.
Let us further review his other arguments:
He argues that Federalism was created by the U.S, an incorrect assertion, historically speaking. Let us do him a favour to remind him of Montesquieuβs magnus opus, in which Montesquieu discussed a three tier system of governance with checks and balance, and freedom of enquiry at its heart, which Americaβs founding fathers plagarised in its entirety less one chapter. I will not even mention how the Umayad & Abbasid Caliphates governed the Muslim world, with Amirs governing their autonomous Emirates across the Islamic world with Emirates coming under the rule of the Grand Amir al Muβminin, of which forms of governance Montesquieu himself studied in his research, and travels through Asia, in search of an alternative system to the popularly oligarchic, and monarchical systems, prevalent at he time in Europe. So much for the learnt class of the Muslims.
Iβll come back to explain the trajectory, and timeline of the U.S. federal system, which is 250 years old, is much different in 2020 from that of 1787, and how it could hardly be comparable to that of Somalia of today.
I'll reflect on the 8 years of the Confederacy in the U.S prior to Federalism being adopted, where each of the client colonies were being governed by warlords.
Iβll explain how Somalia is yet to recover from the civil war, is still healing the scars of the war, with Xamar no longer recognised as the de facto capital city of the nation.
Iβll reflect on his legal arguments relating to avocados, Supreme clause, and will further explain a major principle in Federalism: co-existence of laws: Federal and State.
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bidenkulaha
GalYare
Donβt insult my uncles.Cabsiye?
Is that a nickname for a drunk person.
