Thanks again Hamjatta. Are you accessing your private mailbox?
KB


>From: Hamjatta Kanteh <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: The Alternative
>Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 18:57:41 GMT
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>KB,
>What makes this whole thing bizarre and ironic is that we the oppressed are
>even paying our opressors with the the hard earned moneys we pay through
>taxes! As i said earlier, we must ask ourselves as conscientious free
>beings
>whether it is not about time we question assenting the moral authority of
>of
>an illegal regime that is oppressing us each day? The contract between us
>and the State has been breached and since the basis of the contract is our
>implicit consent to being governed, then we must therefore ask in the name
>of that consent, the moral imperative to be handed back our consent. If
>this
>is resisted, we must do all within our limited powers to wrest our consent
>from the immoral regime that the gov't has become.
>Your point that the opposition should question whether to participate in
>elections if there ever is any, is a good observation. I have made that
>suggestion earlier before this crisis erupted. Another politician who
>intimated such views is Hamat Bah in an interview with the Independent
>sometime ago. The opposition should not involve in anything where the
>playing field is not level and where a player is also a referee as we saw
>in
>the 1996 presidential elections.
>Hamjatta Kanteh
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