comments:I wish we could " empty Jammeh into the trash
bin of history electorally"but i doubt it.
We first need to realize what kind if person we are
dealing with here.this is someone who taken thrown at
a very early stage of his life with little or no
knowledge about leadership/politics.someone who has
done deliberate things and let it be an accident(like
the accident of the late Korro ceesay)and a lot of
things we are yet to discover(probably after when he
leaves).
So dont get me wrong i do like the idea of defeating
him in thru the ballot but i will support any other
means necessay.If someone as dumb as him could conduct
a bloodless coup,someoneelse can do it.There are a lot
of smart Gambians out there who can do it and who can
lead that great nation without such cruelty.
I thank you.mustapha
--- Hamjatta Kanteh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>  KB,
>     For a non-economist like my humble self, you
> have clearly made very
> impressive thumbnail sketch of the main thrusts of
> the issues raised.
>     Indeed you are spot on when you discerned that I
> have not exhausted the
> issue of "hot money" that is very central to many of
> the financial meltdowns
> of recent memory. However, my lack of exhaustion on
> the issue is due to my
> scepticism and lack clarity on how much control is
> necessary on these
> so-called "hot moneys". Indeed this is the same type
> of scepticism expressed
> by renowned MIT economist Paul Krugman when he
> wrote: "Well, as long as
> countries are wide open to massive movements of hot
> money--to huge inflows
> when the markets like them, then to equally large
> outflows when confidence is
> shaken for some reason--the answer is no. As long as
> capital flows freely,
> nations will be vulnerable to self-fulfilling
> speculative attacks, and
> policymakers will be forced to play the confidence
> game. And so we come to
> the question of whether capital should really be
> allowed to flow so freely.
> Of course it is not easy to limit the international
> movement of
> capital-atleast not without threatening to
> strangulate international trade as
> well."
>     But again James Tobin and Gustav Ranis has a
> suggestion worthy of mention
> here. They suggested that:
>     "To avoid attracting hot money, a Chile-type tax
> or special deposit could
> be required of inflows. In the longer run, an
> internationally negotiated tax
> on currency transactions might deserve
> consideration."
>     This suggestion could be a starting point
> towards harnessing most of the
> greedy swashbuckling speculators who have wreak so
> much havoc on financial
> systems in recent memory.
>     On the issue of Jammeh, I am afraid I wouldn't
> buy into any scheme well
> meaning as it might sound and be, this idea of the
> use of force to get rid of
> Jammeh if need be. If sceptics like me are now
> convinced that electorally
> Jammeh can be emptied into the dustbin of history,
> surely you should also go
> with the flow. Just check out the public reaction
> after the 10th. and 11th.
> April murder of school kids by Jammeh. The Gambian
> People are simply
> disgusted with this tyranny and are showing signs of
> it. April 10th. and
> 11th. might turn out to be just Jammeh's Waterloo.
>     I have to go now. Hope you join the peaceful
> efforts in emptying Jammeh
> in the trashbin of history where he deserves to be
> with his lickspittles.
> Good morning
> Hamjatta Kanteh
>
>
> hkanteh
>
>
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