JUST TOO MUCH FOR ANYONE
                      BY SANYANGBA
  Dear Pa and Friends, FELLOWS, Media
 People, Leftists, and all Bleeding Hearts Out There:

  I am angry. And I know that there are many out there who are angrier than I am for the same reason. And that reason is simple. I am sick and tired of all you guys claiming to speak for us and many Gambians. I feel like screaming every time you mouth words about fighting for our freedom and our rights, when you obviously are just thinking about yours whilst castigating and laughing at us. You tell me that the essence of democracy is providing every citizen the right to speak his or her mind and
make his or her own informed judgments, but you yourselves do not respect our silence and the choices I and many others have made.

  In other words, your concept of democracy is limited
to having your rights and your freedoms respected, at the expense of ours. I am utterly flabbergasted that you still do not get it: we already responded to your calls, and our response has been very clear - we chose not to heed to calls to go on march or to say NO to Jammeh and his People not because we do not love our country or our freedoms or our rights, but precisely because we love our country even more. Because quite frankly, we are prepared to
lose our freedoms and our rights just to move this
country forward.

You may counter with your ideological propaganda and give me all the dire warnings about the evils of our Laws, authoritarian rule, suppression of freedom, MURTHERERS OR NAME MORE; etc., but quite frankly all we see is your pathetic efforts to defend your right and the fools out here who lies hourly like BULFAALEH to continue fulminating, filibustering, and sabotaging this country wishing to wrestle power for yourselves. You tell me that you are simply protecting our freedoms and our rights, but who told you to do that? Yet you shall claim that you owe it to yourself and your people THE GAMBIAN”S. I assure you that when we feel that our rights and our freedoms are at a peril, we will stand up and fight for them ourselves; WHEN WE SEE THE NEED FOR IT, not when you tell us to do it.

You tell us that Jammeh is this and that more of he is not the right person to lead this country because he has done immoral and unforgivable acts. As someone who sees immorality being committed wantonly in many ways every day and by everyone (yes, including the ones you do)sadly none can accept your parent been insulted like the case of FJC, Neneh etc this is no Gambian Cultured Child's attitude, we may have become jaded. We may have lowered our standards about what a leader should be. 

  Guess what, Pa and Co, you lowered it yourself. YAYA JAMMEH has bent over backwards many times to accommodate you people while continuing to work hard despite all the obstacles and the brickbats you have thrown his way. From where I sit, he is the one who has been working really hard to move this country forward while all of you have been so busy with one and only one thing: to make sure he does not succeed. So forgive me if I do not want to join you in your moral pissing contest.

  Forgive me if I have chosen to see things from another perspective. You say he is the problem. I say, we are - all of us is the problem; more to the point, I think YOU are a bigger problem than he is. Taking him out may solve part of the problem, but that leaves us with a bigger problem: you. That is
right, YOU! You people are continuing to insult us everyday. YAYA has worked hard after all.


  I know you do not think that way but please spare me the hypocrisy of telling me that you do so for the sake of protecting the moral fiber of society. The real reason is because you smell blood and wants to go
for the kill. Well, I have news for you. I feel I like him in some ways yet I say it civilisely like HALIFA. I did not even vote for him. I voted for nobody. But as much as I do not like him I do not like you PEOPLE even more. I may not trust him but you know what, I do not trust you even more.

  You know why I do not trust you? Because all you do is whine and sabotage this country. You belittle every little progress we make; conveniently forgetting that it is not just JAMMEH who has been working so hard to achieve them. Every single day, we keep the faith burning in our hearts that this country will finally pull itself out of the mess and we work so hard to do
that. 
  Every little progress is the result of our collective effort, we who toil hard everyday in our jobs. Yet, you persist in one and only thing: making Jammeh look bad in the eyes of the world and making sure that this country continues to suffer to prove your sorry point. In the process, you continue to destroy
what we painstakingly try to build. So please do not be surprised that I do not share your cause. 
  Do not be surprised that we have become contemptuous of your antics. You have moved heaven and earth to destroy his credibility, you have convened all kinds of fora and hearings and all you have done is test our patience to the core. For all your efforts, you have only succeeded in dragging us further down in shame. 

I say enough. Don’t get me wrong. I am not asking that we take immorality lying down, or that we let the President get away with anything illegal. But you have tried to prove your accusations all these time and you have not succeeded, so it is time to let things be. Besides, you are doing something immoral as well if not utterly unforgivable. So please wake up and take a reality check. In the absence of true and genuine moral leadership, many of us have decided to cast our lot with the President, even if we do not like him. A flawed leader is better than scheming power hungry fools who can not even stand up for their convictions in the face of an impending arrests. 
  Your coup attempts on the base of tribalism ,ignorance and the denials that you have consequently made only underscore what we think is true: you are spineless and unreliable people who only want power but not the consequences and the sacrifices that go with the quest. 
  Your one and only defense is to cry suppression when your ruse does not work. You are nothing but BULLIES who taunt and provoke, but cry oppression when taken to task for your cruelty and would only yell afar. You call for the rule of law and respect for human rights, but so brazenly display your defiance and disrespect for authority and humanity the same things you claim to be fighting for.
  I would have respected you if you will take the consequences of your actions like real heroes: calmly and responsibly instead of kicking and screaming and making all kinds of lame excuses out in the U.S. You say you are willing to die for us, that you do all these things for the country, but you are not even willing to go to jail for us. Come on, you really think we believe that you did not want to bring down the government when THAT IS THE ONE AND ONLY ONE THING THAT YOU HAVE BEEN DESPERATELY TRYING TO DO in the last many years, and months?

We love this country and we want peace and progress. Many among us do not give a ***** who sits at State House because we will work hard and do our share to make things work. We the people will and can make it work, if only you get out of the way and let us do it. If you only do your jobs, the ones you are supposed to be doing, things would be a lot simpler and easier for all of us. The events during the past months only proved one thing. You are more dangerous and a serious threat and shame to this country than JAMMEH as you claim he is. We have seen what you are capable of doing - you are ready to burn this country and reduce everything to ashes just to prove your point as always intend in you fabricated articles. If there is something that we need protection from, IT IS PROTECTION FROM YOU.(end of the open letter)

May I add a text message that has kept my mailbox
filled over the past days? "FOR BULFAALEH: YOU CONDEMN JAMMEH FOR ALLEDGED DISHONESTY AND UNGRATEFULNESS BUT IN THE SAME BREATH YOU PRAISE THE LORD FOR NOBODY.THEN YOU QUITE STAND AS A HYPOCRITE AND LIAR. ALWAYS LOOK FOR INFORMATION IN THE RIGH WAY AND LIVE YAYA TO BE IN PEACE WITH HIS PEOPLE IN HARMONY IN KANILAI.REMEMBER YOU LYING TO THE WHOLE WORLD AND YOU SHALL ACCOUNT FOR ALL THIS SOMEDAY, FONI SHALL KEEP NOTE OF YOU SAYING AGAINST THEM; DON’T YOU FEEL ASHAME.DON'T GO INTO FAMILY FIBRIC TO IMPLANT YOUR HYPOCRICY.FIND OUT IF YOU DON'T KNOW AND NO NIA SHALL CRAWL AFTER IDIOTS LIKE YOU AM CERTAIN OF. 
  Sanyangba 
   
    
Posted on Thursday, April 27, 2006 (Archive on Tuesday, May 30, 2006)
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