Hamza:

I understand this is not the best of times for you, for you are busy on some
other things, however, i want you to take a minute, look at each of the
following quotations and tell me what you think. I deliberately avoided
posting any names to them.

Here they are:

1." In any case, your opinion doesn't mean shit in this debate. You can
follow it, or you can DROP DEAD! It doesn't make one difference."

2." I think folks should avoid treating others with supposedly different
views with abject contempt and bitterness as is status quo"

3."Think about (it) folks, who in his or her right mind have the guts to
come on Gambia-L and say i'm a journalist who support and work for APRC,
openly? Who?"

4. "The level at which some members of the Gambia-L are treating some of our
compatriots who seems to profess divergent views on our varied political
tapestry is to say the least, very disgusting and intolerant."

5."You jumble ideas; your sentences run into each other, etc. You totally
confuse me. There's an elementary book called " commas and stops". Please
get something like that! There's no point in having a debate/argument when
people have to guess what you are saying half the time."

Please do understand there is nothing personal against people whose writings
are quoted here. Simply, i'm trying to drive my point home.
Nothing personal or degrading intended to anybody.

Goodnite,
Harona.

>From: Hamjatta Kanteh <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
><[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Second Quote :) Attn: Rone
>Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 18:34:24 EDT
>
>Rone,
>
>Brother, i still don't buy this idea that merely criticising views you
>don't
>agree with in an e-mail forum tantamounts to "seizing liberties". We will
>just have to agree to disagree on that and move on to other salient issues
>at
>stake. On the question of self-expression, i wholly repudiate the idea that
>only those who can eloquently express themselves in English ought to have
>the
>floor in Gambia-L debates or are likely to frighten into docility those
>that
>relatively can't express themselves in a similar manner. This is a forum
>for
>Gambia and related issues and as such, if one feels that it best serves
>them
>to transliterate whatever it is they wish to say in any language they feel
>comfortable expressing themselves in. Rest assured that if it is of
>interest
>to what i participate in here, i shall endeavour to make sense out of it
>and
>in the process enlighten myself. Gambia-L should never be for only those
>who
>can express themselves in the English language.
>
>On GRTS, i was merely making the point that if one makes a comparative
>analysis of the juxtaposition of the GRTS and Gambia-L experience, one
>cannot
>fail to see that it is the former that actually "seizes liberties" whilst
>the
>latter has become an example of how a future democratic Gambia should allow
>its citizenry to engage in discourses without gagging those who don't toe
>the
>gov't-of-the-day's line. On Tombong, need we bother ourselves about that
>man.
>Frankly, i look forward to the day when - hopefully - you shall also assume
>a
>position of influence in public broadcasting and see whether you will not
>be
>another Tombong. I hope as a future GRTS MD you will religiously work hard
>to
>ensure that all views are heard and none is gagged simply because they
>disagree with the establishment.
>
>All the best,
>
>Hamjatta Kanteh
>
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