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Mustapha Barrow <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 12 Feb 2001 15:36:04 -0800
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Mr. Ansumana Kujabi,

Please give us a break!. It is very hypocritical to
call for Alieu S Keita's removal while giving Mr.
Landing Jatta/Ansumana Kujabi a slap on the wrist.
You guys are soooooo Unreal...

Mustapha Barrow.



--- Ansumana Kujabi <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Honorable Momodou Camara:
>
> As per your Rule or ethical conduct on the L, and if
> FAIRNESS is to prevail
> on the L, Mr. Alieu S. Keita MUST be BANNED from the
> L forum since he
> persistently attack Ebrima Ceesay by using Ebrima's
> Father or Mother's
> name:JOGOMAI, specifically. This goes right into
> Ebrima's hearth and aimed
> at shattering him into pieces. The only reason for
> this is to unsubscribe
> him from the L voluntarily, because any time he
> opens his mails, the first
> thing he sees is his PARENT'S NAME being used as a
> point of contention. This
> is FAMILY, and family first. Why was it that most of
> you were complaining
> about BROTHER LANDING JATTA'S painful contribution
> on President Jammeh's
> Dad? It is because it is absolutely indecent and
> uncalled for. Despite
> Jammeh's evil deeds, his Parents should be off
> limits and they should be
> protected from personal attacks; and like wise
> Ebrima Ceesay and Dr. Katim
> Touray. The rule of the game should apply to every
> body equally, and not
> just to few people.
>
> Both Ebrima Ceesay and Dr. Katim Touray are very
> fine and eloquent
> contributors and decent citizens whose love for
> their country cannot be
> determined in volumes. This is why these two people
> have devoted their time,
> energy, resources, and even put their lives and the
> lives of their love ones
> at risk, just for the love for their country. And
> taking into account the
> excellent and enormous contributions both Dr. Katim
> Touray and Mr. Ebrima
> Ceesay have been furnishing the L with, I could not
> recall a single
> complaint or breach of L forum discipline, though
> their writings may be
> often controversial. Therefore, the STUNNING
> QUESTION is, Why should
> they(EBRIMA & KATIM) be subjected to such  barrages
> of personal attacks upon
> personal attacks. With human decency and fairness,
> such a mal-behavior
> should cease forthwith.
>
> So, HONORABLE CAMARA, if your vivid intention and
> wish is the re-inforce L
> rules and regulation, then YOU and YOUR FELLOW LIST
> MANAGERS must watch out
> to see whether Alieu S. Keita will again use the
> name "JOGOMAI". If he does
> again, Alieu S. Keita MUST be BANNED forthwith from
> the L forum. In turn,
> LANDING JATTA should also be seriously warned that
> he too must cease
> personal attack on President Jammeh, immediately. I
> totally agree with you
> that the L is now a forum for not only the Gambian,
> African and Diaspora,
> but also a Global forum, where even the European,
> Asian and American
> Investors all scramble to fetch hot informations
> about our Continent, which
> they use as a basis for risking their ECONOMIC
> CAPITAL. Therefore, we need
> CIVILITY and FAIRNESS on the L, and more
> fundamentally, a more succint and
> prudent interllectual discussions in terms of
> politics, economics,
> international affairs, military, scientific,
> cultural and legal
> contributions.
>
> Returning to the issue of Alieu S. Keita, my take on
> this is that President
> Jammeh's strategy is to disrupt the L's focus on him
> and leave us scrambling
> for civility and unnecessary ethical L forum rule.
> Because he saw that the
> STOVALL FIGHT slipped through his hands, and that
> was very embrassing and
> disheartening to him; and again, he is seeing
> another fight emerging: The
> Ford situation, and more important to him, his own
> planned visit to the US
> which is the pipe-line; he is planning to dismantle
> the L's determination to
> challenge his visit. But so far, Jammeh's mediocre
> strategy has paid off,
> because for two consecutive weeks, the L has lost
> focus, instead, we have
> been unnecessarily lamenting on sheer ethical
> standard and civility on the
> L, rather than rallying troops to do another
> devastating blow to his
> administration,
>
> Jammeh is using military strategy on us. In a
> Military operation, the chief
> operational strategy is to search, locate and
> destroy the Command Station of
> the enemy, for the Command Station of the enemy is
> where the brain of the
> opponent's operation is. Once that is successful,
> the operational mission
> becomes accomplished. To reframe the above scenario
> into the present
> situation prevailing on the L, President Jammeh,
> thus far, has been very
> successful in sending our his search and destroy
> team on to the L to
> tirelessly search and destroy those strong elements
> of the L who are the
> Commanders and try to destroy them, either by making
> them frustrated or try
> by all means to disorient or unsubscribe them. When
> any of those factors are
> achieved, Jammeh's mission is accomplished. In this
> case, since one of our
> PARAMOUNT MANAGERS, MOMODOU CAMARA has yielded to
> the call for forum
> civility, Jammeh's strategy has been accomplished
> thus far, because no
> further serious contributions has been undertaken.
>
> Finally, HONORABLE MOMODOU CAMARA, we should all
> hold you and your HONORABLE
> LIST MANAGERS to task on this. This is the time for
> you to show FAIRNESS,
> HONESTY, and STRONG LEADERSHIP in uniting every one
> under one umbrella. To
> that end, Honorable Camara, I wish you all the best.
>
> Ansumana Kujabi
>
>
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