Obamaism by Dr. Kevin J. Alcena

Obamaism by Dr. Kevin J. Alcena

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants." (Plato)

Obamaism has a significant role in redefining the global leadership agenda by setting new and remarkable economic, as well as political machinery with shared responsibility. It has totally discombobulated the minds of the neo-cons and nummimorous elitists, and it intoxicated the motif operandi that has caused economic havoc in our global community in an unprecedented way. Obamaism has become an antidote and has exposed the true intent of the nikhodenia leaders’ industrial machinery in regards to greed and corruption. For this reason, their acephalous have become brimeborion and a major rejectamenta. Therefore, they are angry. Their anger is based on nescience entitlement for the Presidency, and nonpulus entitlement for economic reasons. It is clear that they suffer from chremadophobia.

"Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion." (Ghandi). We are witnessing the true concept of the “Wealth of A Nation” (Adam Smith), being cognizant of the fact that President Obama’s economic policy represents a fair and justified distribution of growth in regards to the middle class benefiting strategically from their labor. As was written in an CBC News Update on Tuesday, 5 December 2006, “40% of world's wealth owned by 1% of population…..It took more than $500,000 US to be among the richest one per cent of adults in the world, according to the report. The richest 10 per cent of adults needed $61,000 US in assets.”

The 1% of the world’s population who feel entitled to wealth without having a shared responsibility has been exposed by Obama’s saxicolus, comprehensive and exclusive plan to share economic responsibility for the middle class citizens. Obamaism is not about race, nor is it about class! It is simply about redefining and leveling the playing field on global economic shared responsibility for all human races. Like Plato once said, "Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge."

Oligarchy and elitism are branches of the same tree and jettisons us backwards to the days of classism. Instead of the principle “one for all” and “all for one”, Romney’s idea is an antipode which cuts the principle in its vital parts making it an “all for one” palimpsest. In the words of John Adams “All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation." President Obama’s plan has no insidious hidden agenda or any “all-for-me” syndrome in regards to wealth. Wealth has now been bradykinetically redefined in regards to distribution, compensation and the possibility that ALL Americans as well as global citizens can equally share in the opportunities and responsibility of strategically growth with a comprehensive economic agenda for all American citizens in making the American dream even more possible to benefit the global community in a very transparent way. Under President Obama’s leadership this is what is happening. This has never happened before.

“Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion."(Aristotle) What manner of man is Obama? His manner and political style has no equal and his presidential mien is more radiant than any who have gone before or any who shall come behind. President Obama stands as an atlas among political equals and has a future face upon Mt. Rushmore fearing no man as he stands with his God.

"It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought." (Aristotle)

To conclude, President Obama is about to engage in a political debate and no doubt he will win. He is one of the worlds greatest and on time diamantiferous luminary leaders this world has ever seen. He is offensive, global minded and Presidential in every way. He understands human suffering and needs and knows exactly how to combat the ultracrepidarian agenda of unprecedented greed put forth by the neo-cons. He carefully picked his team like a very wise bel esprit and continues to be effective as the President of a great nation, so the critics are very myopic and unasinous in their judgment and thinking. Obamaism is a ubiquity that encompasses a global spectrum of both the spirituality and materiality of essence of mankind.

"A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men” (Plato).



ATribute To A Great Bahamian Luminary Mr. Paul Adderley by Dr. Kevin J. Alcena

A Great Legend Has Passed - ATribute To A Great Bahamian Luminary Mr. Paul Adderley by Dr. Kevin J. Alcena

“...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.” (Voltaire)

The autocthon bel esprit and iconic former Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Paul Adderley redefined Bahamas’ position in the global community. He was a friend, and a luminary mentor who encouraged me to pursue my PHD in Development Economics and articulated my intellectual mandate for national building. Mr. Adderley was the one who encouraged me to abandon ICS and establish McHari when he was the Minister of education. He was a patriot who wanted everything to originate from the Bahamas!

He was a rare zeitgeist is so many ways. He was our Bahamian Socrates and Plato combined. As an avid photographer I was able to view his art exhibits at Central Bank. He always admonished me to love my country because we have so much to enjoy in this great Bahamaland. I was honored to watch this artisan at work taking Junkanoo photographs that capture the intrinsic moments of life as they occurred.

“The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.” (Socrates)

The Honorable Paul Adderley that I can remember mentored and nurtured others like myself to be self-reliance with excellence as our driving force. He was very kind in giving legal advice and encouraged me to go back to law school as well as read and understand the constitution. He was a regional constitutional scholar who had an open-door policy when he as the Attorney General. He had no tolerance for mediocrity. I can recall him saying to me one day on Parliament Square, “Talk young man, I want to hear you! Don’t mutter! Speak up! I want to hear what’s on your mind!” That’s the kind of man I remember him to be. He had an incredible and unique laugh that was bigger than life.

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. (Socrates)

Mr. Adderley transcended the Bahamian order of intellects. He was a great historian and avid reader of ancient and modern history but detested colonialism. He always said to me, “You should read at least 5 books per month and make sure to write about them.” That is how I became the author of my first book in 1988 and many years after that. It was a result of Mr. Paul Adderley himself. He always critiqued on my articles and encouraged me to continue to write. He was a man who had zero tolerance for corruption and stood for principle. I can still hear that laughter in his voice that he often times ended his conversations with. I can remember clearly one day when he was walking to his car on Frederick Street when he was told he parked illegally he laughed and said, “I do not want to be perceived as breaking the law" and he humbly moved his car with words of gratitude. He was a great Bahamian debater and had a very common touch. There are very few people who leave indelible impressions on the lives of others. Mr. Adderley created and left behind a legacy in our Foreign Affairs National Policy. It is my opinion that the new airport road should be named after him.

“The soul of man is immortal and imperishable”. (Plato)

He was my friend whom I loved and a friend to all Bahamians especially those of the Junkanoo, legal society and global community. His friends will miss him dearly! The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.(Socrates) You’ve done your part in this journey called life, now sleep on my dear friend and take your well deserved rest! We will miss the Honorable Paul Adderley whom we loved so dearly!

My Condolences to his family!



Pope Francis I

Pope Francis I is a man of the poor. He loves the poor, he is sympathetic to the poor and downtrodden. He will probably do things with the property of the church such as selling it off to help the poor. The hierarchy of the church will resent this and there will be those to disparage his papacy to resign or be smeared and become ineffective. God bless the Pope. However we are confident that God is on this Pope's side and will cause him to survive and conquer all for he is the head and not the tail and at the end of the day he will be victorious. No weapons formed against him will prosper. Victori sunt spolia - to the victor belong the spoils! At the end of the day this good Pope will have the spoils of glory (spolia gloria) on his side. He will rise to the occasion, for he is truly a man of God.

Jack Johnson

Both the House and the Senate of the United States of America have passed a measure to pardon the late great Jack Johnson, the greatest heavy weight champion the world has ever known. At the height of his career, he was charged with an offense against the Mann Act even before the Mann Act came into being. This was done because of the Jim Crowe Laws and rank discrimination that went on in the USA together with a distaste by the white population for Jack Johnson's preference for the white woman. As a result, his career was cut short and he had to flee the country until he finally decided to return when he was put in jail and served out the time illegally. Before this time senators and congressmen tried to seek a pardon for Jack Johnson but to no avail. To date congress and senate have passed a pardon overwhelmingly to pardon this great man. This Bill is presently on the President's desk awaiting his signature. No doubt, the President will sign that measure as his failure to sign it before may have been an act of concern for his political future. Since this is his final term in office he has no need to be concerned about his future political career. Moreover, presidents usually wait for their last term to pardon persons illegally charged with offenses or those whom they feel should be pardoned. This would be a relief, not only to Jack Johnson's family, who might be now alive but will also indicate that acts of justice in America are still alive and well and miscarriages of justice will never prevail. The fact that this effort to pardon Jack Johnson was a bipartisan one indicates that all are concerned with seeing that justice not only be done but that it be seen to be done. Jack Johnson was not only a boxer, but a very brilliant man but he also patented a modified wrench No. 1413121 to help tighten and loosen fastening devices. He spent time in jail unjustly and upon his being pardoned his family should be justly compensated for false imprisonment. He was a law abiding citizen concerned only with following the Bill of Rights in pursuing life, liberty and happiness in a country where he was born and he helped to make great. May God bless this great man and may those blessings from the patent and the damages that his family would receive shine greatly upon them. As the great, late Dr. Martin Luther King would say let justice fall down rain and righteousness like a mighty stream.

North Korea

North Korea is not stupid , if the attempt any nuclear weapons on American soil , the US will nuke them bake. Their threat will not be ignored , but let them be warned do not play with the eagle, the United States!

THE CUBAN STORY (Part One)

The Cuban story is a beleaguered one since the United States got enmeshed taking sides on the political and ideological perspectives of the Island's choice of existence. The nature and level of the United States hegemonic and unacceptable involvement in the affairs of Cuba smacks and confirms the inherent suspicion of their interest to influence, control and dictate the life and existence of the people of Cuba.

The Cuban people deserve to be respected for what they stand for, their intellectualism, and resilience to excel in the midst of the long-standing provocative and unbecoming imperialistic economic sanctions. The sanction is a self-ingratiating and self-centered ploy used to attempt to coerce the good people of Cuba into being subservient according to the whims and caprice of the USA. It is laughable and somewhat discombobulating and equally the height of hypocrisy when one realizes the negative rhetoric against the President of the Republic of Cuba, Dr. Fidel Castro. In fact, there is a Cuban-American terrorist group that operates from the US who has the most racist imperialistic agenda against the Republic of Cuba and has been responsible for murdering thousands of innocent and responsible Cuban citizens, and yet the Organization of American States (OAS), United States, United Nations and Caricom say nothing about it. Furthermore, these Cuban-American terrorists claim to be attempting to liberate Cuba with their racist, fascist agenda. It is clear that the selected international organization that is controlled by the US practice a form of selective discrimination against Cuba that leaves one in a state of shock.

According to Randy Alonso, the attempted United States hegemony pushed by the neo-fascist leadership that today rules the United States has a concrete expression in the attempt at cultural hegemony which the United States wants to impose on the rest of the world.

The continued detention of the five Cuban citizens (Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo; Ramón Labańino Salazar; Antonio Guerrero Rodriguez; Fernando Gonzalez; and Rene Gonzalez Sechwrert) is against international law. The imprisonment of these men is a clear example of how unjust the US system is and how they like to play games with people's lives. All these men were doing was trying to prevent terrorist attacks against their country. Why are the Cuban-American terrorists, who killed thousands of innocent Cubans, not in jail? According to Julio Garcia Espinosa, the relationship between Cuba and the United States has been one of “…aggression, all kinds of States terrorism ranging from blowing up airplanes in mid air, to funding attempts to assassinate President Fidel, publicly and officially stated, to funding an invasion of our country”.

Happily, President Fidel Castro has been able to stand up to these evil plots and has given hope and succor to the people of Cuba, and has achieved a deserved hero of the progressive world. The strength of President Fidel is in every Cuban, even those who do not like him. He has given his people strength, respect, dignity and honor against all the evil forces upon this earth. He is a testimony to tenacity. His formidable strength has made his adversaries rethink their mendacious propaganda in a very complex, ambiguous way. His enduring revolution is to constantly discern and destroy the mercurial face of evil so wicked in its deception that only President Fidel, a warrior of vision, could shield his country and his people from it. We must, and only we, who are true to the understanding of development and economic equality salute President Fidel Castro. He has defined what is good and noble in the human heart.

It is time the Americans come to accept just like the Cubans have accepted and embraced the enigma and intensity of the ideological conflagration embodied in Castro’s fight to bequeath an enduring and indelible legacy to the Cuban people: a legacy of a high level of literacy, egalitarianism, equal opportunity, self-restraint and chastity of the westerly perverted idiosyncrasy.

The Cuban story is a story that we and the progressive and the ever changing world must recognize the iniquity and unjust atrocities brought against the people of Cuba by the US just because they refuse to cooperate and allow foreign control of their destiny. We must learn from Cuba and understand that we are all victims of this global co-dependent neo-fascist agenda. The neo-fascist agenda is to subjugate us to a new sophisticated form of slavery and they have co-opted all of our law enforcement agencies. Hundreds of thousands of Caribbean men before they are 21 years old will have police records because we have adapted the neo-fascist criminal code system. We have been, in essence, criminalizing the Caribbean society for the interest of the imperialistic wolves. Our society is manufacturing criminals while in Cuba they are educating their citizens with dignity and nationalistic purposes.

Our society has gone into moral decadence orchestrated by the neo-fascist global agenda. We have been subjected and manipulated to a capitalistic, mercantile economic structure that has relegated our society to a glorified shopping center, while Cuba is a progressive and developing self-reliant nation that can truly attest that they are independent.

There is no solace and sanctuary in the US, especially looking at crime statistics one will be alarmed particularly in respect of the black and Hispanic males, in which 6 out of every 10 ends up in jail: this is wicked and something is wrong. The irony is that most of these crimes are committed by the Caucasians with only 20% ending up in jail. This same Black/Hispanic phenomenon that is played in the US is being instigated and modeled across the Caribbean in a vociferous manner, yet our leaders lackadaisically just sit back and do nothing. Caribbean law enforcement agencies have adapted one of the most vicious forms of criminalizing citizens through conspiracy, entrapment and evidence planting: an imperialistic modus operandi inherited from the US.

It is clear in the region that we are headed to a moral and economic chaos. So let us adapt the Cuban story as a model to revamp our country and region from the continued economic and social decadence.

April 11, 2009
Kevin Alcena is a former police officer turned economist and educator.