This thread brings many thoughts: How the West murdered Muammar al-Gaddafi because he was a man who could give real traction to greater Pan-African unity (i.e., posed a genuine threat to the West’s boot on the neck of Africa); the way in which Washington, desperate & reeling from in America the Babylon’s crumbling influence, has gone absolutely 'sanctions happy' using economic warfare in all direction without restraint against any nation or entity that dares to disobey it; the futility of trying to get inside a system founded & rooted in evil to try to convert it to Righteous.
I&i an old Rasta whose career is spent, but i'll add my two cents anyway. i spent my career working as an environmental scientist inside of the ["suit and tie"] Babylon System in the global heart & nerve center of Babylon (i.e., the USA). This entailed constant interaction with not just the science and engineering community, of which i was a part, but with very "influential" (and VERY white) governmental (i.e., political and regulatory), mega-corporate and legal power-brokers. After decades of personally witnessing first-hand (inside of boardrooms, legislative hearing chambers, and courtrooms) so much corruption, nefariousness and outright foolishness, even in the face of wisdom and sound scientific findings, I&i understood quite clearly that we are never going to accomplish the goals of RastafarI by trying to work from within to reform a system that is built upon a rotten foundation of deception, greed, amorality and worship of the mammon. We cannot expect to destroy the Babylon System and replace it with a Righteous polity by adapting like chameleons and mimicking its ways. Its power to corrupt is simply too enticing as it induces/seduces us to, little by little, "compromise" our values & principles for the sake of our cause's advancement or progress until we realize that we have changed nothing while becoming what we despised.
From within the System, a person CAN do Righteousness that can have direct positive impacts on the lives of the people around them and create all kinds of good, but it will not alter one iota the fundamentally rotten nature of the Babylon System’s foundation.
Our movement has to be built upon the Truth and a solid foundation of JAH Love, and until there is a political party of JAH Love whose openly stated mission is to tear down every shred of Babylon's iniquitous and amoral structure and replace it with one built upon the Righteousness of His Majesty, we will be de facto "outsiders" who place our faith, and rightfully so, in His Majesty's Power - a Power which Babylon surely underestimates and against which it has but primitive or no countermeasures.
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