EBOU,
IHAVE ONLY THIS TO SAY TO YOU AND IF YOU REALLY UNDERSTAND WOLLOF YOU WILL
NOT TAKE IT LIGHTLY " YOW DANGA NYAKA JOM, TEH AMULO NAWLEH AMULO
ANDADO....CHEM...DEMAL FAYLEH ..."
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>From: Ebou Jallow <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
><[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Not Ebou Jallow and Yaya Jammeh
>Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 13:16:15 -0800
>
>Mr. Small,
>
>Thanks for the honest inquiry. However, I believe that I also need
>to deconstruct the gist of your questions in order to establish a
>level playing field. Your "principle of public accountability" is
>essentially a political process, and that means the fundamental
>issues of judicial objectivity and impartiality are subordinate to
>passioned interests and strategem. The teleological agenda of such a
>practice is not justice but political control through opprobrium.
>Politics cannot generate neither the truth nor justice, it helps only
>in establishing the preference of one discourse over another i.e.
>everything in politics is essentially relative, their is no objective
>standard of justice or truth. Now if the Gambian people had the same
>concerns that you apparently have, then they should have voted
>President Jammeh out of office in the last elections. After all, it
>was former President Jawara who use to say that "Vox Populi, Vox
>Dei". Now the people have spoken and entrusted the state in
>President Jammeh's hands. He is the sole authority to speak on
>behalf of the Gambians, and not me or the Gambia-L. I am not a
>public servant but a private individual like you living humbly
>overseas.
>
>Finally, I want to ask you Mr. Small who shall write the "history"-
>is it you, me or G-L? History, at least as the accretion of
>evolutionary facts, is the synthesis of our individual narratives and
>and the collective discourse as a people. The last time I check
>lately, history has been so far on President Jammeh's side. We can
>either choose to collaborate and ignore our differences for the sake
>of the Gambia, or tear each other apart like little children
>wrestling for toys. The choice is ours to make and write that
>history.
>
>Thank you Sir.
>
>=====
>Ebou Jallow
>Georgetown University
>Washington, DC
>
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