Mr SLB,
I beg you not to lose heart to continue with your pro-Jammeh stance in the
present discourse untill you are convinced or you are abled to convince the
rest of us. Dont tell us to be pro-Jammeh, instead go ahead and tell us why
we should be pro-Jammeh; dont tell us not to be anti-Jammeh, instead go
ahead and tell us why we should not be anti-Jammeh.
Some of us have consistently argued that we are not anti-Jammeh, but we are
against the brutal and corrupt system that brother of ours presides over. It
is sad to note how some of you make opposition to banditry, brutality and
crimininality so synonymous with anti-Yaya Jammeh that you unconsciously
make a devil of a person you are purported to love. When you love your
brother, you should be the first person to dis-associate with him when he
blunders; if you dont, through support, you merely entrench him in his
errors and multiply the fold of his opponents .
You should not expect all of us put Yaya before our beloved motherland. He
is just one of us, and has limited potentials and capacity. He is here today
and I would not be wrong to say he would not be here in two hundred years
time. Yaya Jammeh is therefore not indispensable to the Gambia. You guys
dont have to allow yourselves to behave like the people who used to say that
they could not imagine a Gambia without Sir Dawda Jawara. He is gone with
his D.K. " SABAREY".  Some day in the future, Yaya A. J.J.J. Jammeh and his
"AFINJANG" would also be gone. This may not even be because some of us are
anti-Jammeh; but simply because the only permanent thing in life is change.
Perhaps you are witnessing the introduction of another regime change in the
Gambia, and this is being manifested by the majority of contributors on this
forum appearing anti-Jammeh to you.
Do you remember, " The voice of the people; is the voice of God"?
Omar Joof.



>From: Seedou lamin Bajinka <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: DEMOCRACY IS NOT ONLY ANTI PRES JAMMEH
>Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 03:11:37 EST
>
>I thought this forum is really established to foster mutual understanding
>among folks and also to debate one another's opinions.But i found that it
>is the
>opposite.It looks to me like this forum is all about ANTI YAHYA JAMMEH and
>APRC.For example if my  brother MINTEH comes up with anything,it is only
>one or
>two people in the whole forum who going to challenge him and rest of the
>people
>will go ahead with his story.It is very sad that  people who talk about
>DEMOCRACY in this forum mostly are the very people who will jump on you if
>you try
>to challenge MINTEH  or anything against PRES JAMMEH.So folks can anyone
>tell
>me what kind of DEMOCRACY MOSTLY OF U WANT.DEMOCRACY,where PRES JAMMEH is
>ALWAYS wrong???
>DEMOCRACY where MINTEH and ALL THE ANTI-JAMMEH'S ARE RIGHT and not to be
>chaallenge???Well if that is the case,the dream of this FORUM WILL NEVER
>be realised.
>Democracy is a doctrine which some people used to legalise their selfish
>actions and cause trouble.Democracy can never be used by anybody to just
>gain your
>personal interest or because you hate someone in power,so you wanted  to
>hide
>behind the umbralla to insight people to voilence.No country or state on
>earth will ever tolerate any individual or group of individuals to use
>democracy
>to cause trouble and blame it on the GOVERNMENT. Even here in the USA
>DEMOCRACY
>is limited and cannot be abuse like some of the folks wanted it to be in
>GAMBIA.It is impossible to be preaching democracy when you yourself cannot
>be
>democratic in your actions and deeds just like my brother MINTEH.
>Brother MINTEH where were you  when your BOSS CHONGAN led the COMMANDO UNIT
>OF THE THEN GENDERMERIE to attack the innocent people of BRIKAMA???
>The people of BRIKAMA just went out to show their disgust against the
>SELLING
>OF WATER in  their distict,and this was a peaceful demonstation but how
>many
>people were beating,wounded and arrested???People were arrested and
>detained
>for days if not weeks without being charge,some of the people didn't even
>take
>part in the demonstration.People were chased all the way inside the BRIKAMA
>LIBRARY beating physically and drag to the waiting police or TSG TRUCKS and
>taken to the e station.So come on MINTEH and FOLKS,was that a good
>democracy????Brother let us not be bias in our judgment to maintain PEACE
>and ORDER.If we
>want truth to prevail in gambia,we need to play the card both ways not only
>ANTI
>JAMMEH.
>
>NOTE FOR MBARROW,i just want to let you know that i am not receiving a dime
>from PRES JAMMEH,may be you receiving some money from anti jammeh people
>               GOOD DAY TO ALL
>                    SLB
>
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