Bamba Lye, thanks for the fruitful and mature polemics. I hope we shall more
issues to discuss in the mean time I will take a pause bevause my wife had a
baby on Tuesday and this will take my concentration till further notice.
Thanx

>From: Bamba Laye <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Malik>> Manners of A Ruler
>Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 09:09:11 -0500
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>Malik,
>
>I think we will just have to agree to disagree on some points we raised.
>Overall, we share the same sentiments on most of the issues albeit from a
>different perspective. You will probably agree that the current government
>structure is such that there appears to be an elite group of experts in
>their various capacities who are effectively underutilized by a leadership
>structure that operates in the most haphazard manner. One that “operates as
>an independent mind.” You know such would be the most dangerous case of a
>public machinery that will ever exist; because critical decisions affecting
>the livelihood of all citizens will in effect, rest on the shoulders of one
>person who, unfortunately, is not the best of the crop. It effectively
>defeats the notion of pluralism in a government that is supposed to be the
>mantle of collective power emanating from the common. It appears that these
>elite groups of experts in their own rights are torn between the loyalty
>to “thy self”, “thy people” and “thy leader”. There will exist a conflict
>between these three categories of loyalty only when the interest and the
>common weal are not safeguarded. Our brothers and sisters in the national
>army are no exception in this dilemma. The tendency is to deny oneself of
>being in such a chaotic web. The next thing we see is total control of the
>mind and spirit of the experts who have effectively reduced themselves into
>toadies for self-aggrandizement by the leader who “operates as an
>independent mind.” A dangerous state of affairs indeed!
>
>Thanks for an enlightening discussion.
>
>Abdoulie A. Jallow
>(BambaLaye)
>
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