Ebou,
I very ardently share your hopes in this regard!
Omar Joof.

>From: Ebou Jallow <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: [>-<] Spinning Liberty
>Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:06:45 -0800 (PST)
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>I find myself  on line with the idea argued by Jurgen Habermas that
>modernity is an unfinished project and postmodernism is an offshoot if not
>a perversion of history after the Enlightenment.  This sensation dawned on
>me yesterday whilst listening to Pres. Bush’s inaugural address at the
>Mall.  Americans love to believe in a Heavenly Father who endows mankind
>with inalienable rights.  A commendable act of faith indeed but the
>foundation of that creed is misplaced.  America is born during the
>Enlightenment…an explosive epoch during the history of human that reverses
>the excesses of the religious clergy and reinstates humanism as understood
>from the ancient Greeks.
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>The three spinning Goddesses of Fate, Moirae in white robes are ancient
>deities that even the Zeus feared.  I found myself entertaining the notion
>that even the White House is purposively painted white in sanctification of
>the Goddesses of Destiny.   Ever since the presidency of James Madison
>there has been a national feeling of a moral crusade towards liberty as
>John O’Sullivan in 1845, once wrote that "it was the nation's manifest
>destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which
>Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of
>liberty and federated self-government entrusted to us."  The spinning of
>liberty has been the business of America as Americans understand
>themselves, and an ongoing project as President Bush eloquently
>demonstrated yesterday before the world:
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>“All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know the United States will
>not ignore your oppression or excuse your oppressors,” President George
>Walker Bush
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>President Bush’s new found crusade against tyranny and for a world wide
>experimental democracy is a reconciliation of noble American intentions and
>interests…a synthesis that has never been before in modern human history.
>Lady Liberty is on the march again, and hopefully she shall tear down all
>the garrisons of oppression around the globe.   So the Yaya Jammehs of this
>world beware because Uncle Sam has had enough.  And for the oppressed
>Gambian people, America has made a pledge:
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>"When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you” Pres. Bush
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>Almost half a century ago President Woodrow Wilson helped end colonialism
>and European imperialism with his 14 point address at the League of
>Nations.  Let us also hope that President Bush’s second inaugural address
>shall motivate heroic spirits and freedom fighters to end autocracy,
>tyranny and all types of oppression.  President Bush has promised to spin
>the thread of liberty, and I pray it reaches all dark corners of the globe.
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>Ebou Jallow
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