Our president is God, says state radio
Well, it could be worse, I suppose. Nguema could be killing his countrymen wholesale (Idi Amin), or he could be starving them for his own self-aggrandizement (Kim Jong-il). He could be using them for his own pleasure (Saddam Hussein), or executing them for insufficient fealty (Ayatollah Khomeini). No, by most accounts, Nguema is a relatively benign self-appointed deity (Is that an oxymoron?).
MALABO - State radio in the tiny West African state of Equatorial Guinea has hailed the nation's leader as "the country's God" and declared that he is in permanent contact with the Almighty.
In a programme dealing with "peace, tranquillity and the order reigning in the country", it declared that President Teodoro Obiang Nguema was "like God in heaven. He has all power over men and things.
"He can decide to kill without anyone calling him to account and without going to hell because it is God himself, with whom he is in permanent contact, who gives him this strength."
The radio warned against any attempt to disrupt the peace and order which, it said, had reigned since Obiang, 61, took power in a coup 23 years ago. He was re-elected in December for a third seven-year term.
The remarks were made in a weekly programme presented by a presidential aide and broadcast in Fang, the language used by the majority ethnic group.
So, Nguema first appointed himself as Diety-in-Chief, and then endowed himself with the power to kill with impunity? And any attempt to "disrupt" the peace and order that reigns throughout the realm is a crime? Not only that, but Nguema has a hotline to God? This in a country where running water and consistently available electrical power is a major accomplishment? Apparently, Nguema is Almightily Lazy.
I'm not in the habit of giving DUMASS AWARDS to God, but it would seem that this God has taken the easy way out. Besides, everyone knows that Tiger Woods is God....
