A Bullet For A Rogue Harms Only Thieves

A Bullet For A Rogue Harms Only Thieves

A man is down, a man is down! But why?The truth can often land as a scandal. Few people understand such better than rogues in power and the corrupt. Punishment for truth-telling is thus a common tactic the powerful use to silence those with the audacity to speak up. 

The person born a fighter of rogues will always fight thieves, no matter the rigmarole his surrounding culture thrusts upon him. Besides bravery and intelligence, his contempt for rogues and thieves runs in his blood. No one can change his creation, that we must first settle.

In a decent world, such a man deserves respect and honours. But too many interest groups are not decent at all. The only decency they can lay claim to is whitewashing. Their way is to go to great lengths to hide their evils with grim means.

So, what was there to hide, or what story was there to break? A crime of theft and an unspeakable ghoulish ritual were committed to rob brothers and through magic bond them against their will. Imagine invoking spirits into a beast and burying it alive. It did happen but the shame and embarrassment of such a thing happening among men who claim to be educated and rational was steep. How dare you, became the source of anger not the demeaning practices.

The man suffers punishment (black spots) by his bosses for telling this truth. It is true he wrote an expose. Underneath it, his fine gems of protest and exposure opened many eyes to the extent of foul play among brothers. When James Hadley Chase wrote the novel, The Guilty Are Afraid, it was a story about a shot for a murderer. Those kinds of shots harm anyone they hit, but my man’s words harm only rogues and thieves. Such an exceptional impact requires some explanation.

We have often heard the phrase the, Pen Is Mightier Than The Gun. Trust me it’s true, all things being equal. The pen penetrates cynical facades too. And raise serious questions about their fitness to lead. And my man, an excellent captain of a regiment of rogue-catchers, only needs his pen to achieve incisive effectiveness. That’s all he needs and nothing more.

When you catch thieves out, what do they do? Salman Rushdie once said the powerful fear intellectuals or poets most. Not because truth tellers command great fortunes or armies, but because their pens can change the dominant narratives and speak truth to power. Let me ask you, what kind of narrative do thieves and rogues have, anyway, and what culture?

A man is down, a man is down! My eyes are in rainy season.

Be Good, Not Lucky

Please take a look at my musing, Black Spots and Human Rights. Cheers