Here’s to an attempt in understanding the mind bugging behavior of some
of our seemingly intelligent technocrats zooming into how they are
being used, abused and refused by the fascist – Jammeh - only for them
to turn around and declare their unflinching dedication to the
perpetuation of his establishment. They call it patriotism.
A tacit patriotism! That is to say a wordless, and consequentially a
thoughtless and will-less patriotism, a revolting nonsense! An absurd
dream and what is more, a wicked dream! An unworthy deception! For
their patriotism assumes that while they are in a state of not being
able to will, to think for themselves, they bound themselves and
possibly all their descendents – only by virtue of having let
themselves be abused and refused without raising a finger – into
perpetual slavery.
They all remain isolated in their newfound liberty or absolute right,
paying no attention to the moral freedom and dignity of others except
in those cases wherein such attention is dictated by their weakness and
self-centeredness – in other words, by their own imprudence and
personal interest. As we speak, egoism is the supreme law,
unfortunately, the only extant right in the Gambia. The good is
determined by success in their version of patriotism and largesse, the
bad only by failure to join the club and become perpetual slaves and
prostitutes, and justice is simply the political enthronement of
Jammehs’ wishes, however horrible, cruel, or infamous it might be.
Consequently, by good in this group of prostitutes is meant only the
greatest satisfaction given to Jammehs’ ego, which, being accomplished
upon the real sacrifice of the moral conscience of each member of the
group. This excludes form its midst, the “threats to national
security”, saboteurs, natural enemies, the vast majority of Gambians
within and outside the country. The “dogo-dogo” goes on!
The distinction between the patriot and the saboteur, according to
their twisted logic, lies in how much of the degrading abuse one can
take from Jammeh. All those who have been recognized as willing and
interested in perpetuating the fascist, regardless of the humiliation
and everything they do against a drop of moral and ethical conscience,
are declared patriots and everything contrary to that, the bad,
unpatriotic saboteurs - a “threat to national security”. Members of the
seemingly elite group of Jammeh prostitutes who entered this compact
having become what they are, having bound themselves by insatiable lust
for pleasure, recognition and quick loot, assume thereby the duty of
subordinating their moral obligations/conscience and their individual
rights for the common weal. Their ultimate duty to the society they
live in. The Gambian society. They have helped Jammeh become the most
negation, the most callously calculated and complete negation of
humanity. He rends apart the social solidarity, as we knew it, of all
Gambians, and clustered some of the most vulnerable - the seemingly
intelligent – in order to destroy, humiliate and enslave the rest in
his own way. He takes under his protection, for his protection, only
his tribesmen and he recognizes and gives respect and humanity only
within the confines of his own boundary of special friends. Since he
does not recognize any right outside of his confines, he quite
logically arrogate to himself the right to treat with the most
ferocious inhumanity all those he perceives as a threat to his
established confines. When he displays generosity or humanity towards
the rest, he does so in no case out of any sense of duty. That is
because he has no sense of duty to those he is obliged to serve as a
head of state. Think about it!
Abdoulie A. Jallow
(BambaLaye)
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