At the swearing in of the members of the Court of Public Opinion, only two people made it in person. The rest attended by zoom meeting but they were late to that too. The meeting began two hours later than it was supposed to begin. Soon after members had introduced themselves, most of them chose to go by ‘Anonymous’ for fear of being arrested by ‘drones’, they made their oath.
We, the members of the Court of Public Opinion, hereby solemnly declare and promise:
Our allegiance to the cause of justice, through social media jabs at opponents most especially on the lazy, idler streets of twitter
When you call us to action, make sure it is outside work hours but before happy hour
We pledge to support you in words
We shall ridicule you only if it suits us
We shall stay home when push comes to shove
We promise to be safe and not put ourselves in the line of danger
We promise to sleep through election day
And vehemently complain when the internet is still off a month later
We promise to retweet, like and share funny memes of this season
We shall always be at your beck and call
Uttering endless cowardly monologues like one Mwenda
But if you are imprisoned behind your walls
Our food shall be vague promises of street protests
We are in truth, invisible
We only exist on the world wide web.
PurplePretoria 