Military and Police: Think Twice Be of the Politician - This is Election Year

This article is written with you in mind, Military and Police. As a former colleague, a Command Sergeant Major (RSM to be precise), think twice before associating with the dark side of Orders, a Reality many usually take for granted. Only to be caught in a rapid and spiraling current of Justice with no help from authorities. This admonition is to remind both Soldiers and Police of the incident associated with Mobilla saga. Never trust the Politician.

Beginning from the useful experiences of history we have an opportunity to keep away from what have been shed for in blood. Many a soldier or police delude themselves to have protection. As Service personnel we must understand it is not the blood of soldiers or the police that has paid the price for tyrants to cling to power. It is the blood of the innocents; it was paid for with the blood of those loyal to the tyrants.

Tyrants, like Nkrumah, Afrifa, Kutu Acheampong, Akuffo, and Rawlings have all paid for the lessons of history and must be our hope never to be repeated here in Ghana. You look at the Arab Spring; you have to wonder how this could have happened. A major part of it was the police and military going along with the social class agenda thinking they were all safe. History tells a different account.

Whoever thought Laurent Gbagbo would ever become tyrannical. If one follows the events of Ivory Coast, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and currently ongoing events in Syria, the need to learn from history is self-evident. I do not want to see my fellow citizens being stripped naked in a military barracks or the police camp to have a bullet put in the back of the head. I do not want to see mass graves or the rounding up of innocent people to be sent to the firing squad. The kind of success of this type of tyranny is dependent heavily on the Military and Police going along with the Tyrants. Devoid of us following orders, these tyrants would not have the power.

Gbagbo and his cronies, Ghadhafi held families of the Military at gunpoint hostage with the threat of execution of their families if they did not carry out these morally wrong orders. The truth is the families all the same were executed along with the soldiers once they used them for their evil purposes. Many soldiers are made scapegoats for carrying both covert and overt duties for the Tyrants only to suffer for carrying out orders. Any soldier who feels threatened; this is what I say get your families off the base and out of the neighboring town completely out of the base. Please send your spouse and children back native land away from these loyal followers of Tyrants. Do not let the tyrants use the families of the military for their evil deeds to murder people.

Many Peace Officers appreciate importance of their oath of office and will defend freedom; however, many also fail to understand the truth of defending what is right. They know very well getting into a deal with the mischievous sprite does not make them safe. It does not give them any assurance of safeguard whatsoever of being in Alliance with National Security Apparatus. This is why I say to the Military and Police; think twice before joining the dark side. It is not safe, they are better off doing what is right than just proceeding by the side of the Politician whiles getting along under false protection.

In support of those Military Commanders and Police chiefs who pay no attention to the plea of citizen to follow the Constitution and protect the people from Tyrants out there at the Presidency and the NDC, they must rethink. If these politicians think, they have a deal with Bureau of National Investigation. If they think, they are the special ones and being the willing sitting duck to go along with the tyranny. Here is what happens. Reaching a concurrence with the mischievous sprite is no deal at all. The mischievous sprite lies and deceives to get what he wants. As soon as he is over and done with using them he will get rid of them with another group of henchmen to take their place.

The duration of the Red Terror under Stalin, Lenin and Trotsky, millions of people were murdered. Also, during the “Days of 31st December Revolution” hundreds were murdered or got missing. Officers and Men used during the early days of 31st December Revolution were dispensed of on the altar of accountability and probity. No Soldier or Police is safe. You will see no one was safe under the Red Terror. Police Chiefs and the officers who went along with the Soviet Communist system where exterminated along with the downtrodden. A number of proficient professional Military and Police Officers were gotten rid off from their job, were replaced by people with criminal background or suspicious characters within the both the Military and Police under the PDC and ACDR concept. Most of these henchmen were bloodthirsty rampaging throughout all Ghana with utter impunity.

The executioners got happily festive in their disposition for stripping people down and lining them up against the wall to shoot a bullet in the back of the head. After putting to death innocent people and they take delight in their stories from one place to another in the barracks in their complacency. The next group of hoodlums would come in and surround them to kill the executioners taking their place. As the new murdering squad being deceived like the group of henchmen before they just killed were told before they were the special ones. The cycle repeats itself replacing the low IQ idiots they killed before with another set off imbeciles to do their bidding. All of them were told they were special.

The truth is no one is safe in the system. They could be BNI, Police officers and Ghana Military that go along with the system. They were told they would be able to torture, arrest, humiliate and even execute fellow Ghanaians. They are told, “They were special” and “the protected ones”. The reality is looking through history. No one is safe who works for the system; they always execute the witnesses to the crimes of tyrants.

This is intended for those who are in the Ghana government and in governance, reading this article and those inside the system. Understand that you are not safe. History will repeat itself because many fail to learn from it. As a result beware before submitting to the dark side of Orders; this is not the winning team. Tyrants die very violently and their fall is never peaceful. That police officer who out exuberance keeping under surveillance their eyes out on a power excursion to please his superior, on old women and beating up old men. Get a moment of clarity. Understand that you are a useful idiot to stir up the public in opposition to you, while the politicians telling you to do this think they will never face the anger of the people. Police officers are just like the sandbag to protect the corruption from the people.

Military and Police personnel must learn from history. I entreat you to see for yourself and reason through. The people are not the enemy. The very people accusing the citizens of being fanatics or rebels are the real threat and enemy. Ask yourself how much I make to sacrifice my life for an unworthy cause. If you take the time to learn from history, we might be able to steer clear of the destruction of this great republic. Who knows you? No one has to die for others political convenience.