Mawdo you killing me with laughter. Loony is very interesting. We are eagerly waiting for 21


Muhammad Bai Drammeh

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On Fri, 3/2/17, Baba Jallow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

 Subject: [G_L] Smiling Forest Revisited - 20
 To: [log in to unmask]
 Date: Friday, 3 February, 2017, 23:55
 
 
 
 
 
 Loony’s last stand and how he stoutly insisted he
 was the winner
 
 By Baba Galleh
 Jallow
 
 As the deadline for Loony to step
 down drew nearer, the
 confused fox grew more and more insistent that he was the
 true winner of the
 contest in which he was smashed to the ground before the
 very eyes of all the
 animals of Smiling Forest and the entire big wide world. He
 insisted that the
 referee had stolen the match for his opponent and that he
 was never going to
 step down unless there was a rematch in which he would
 appoint new, God-fearing
 referees. He lodged a complaint with the Supreme Court whose
 judges he would
 appoint from the neighboring forests of Sirali and Nigari to
 come nullify the
 results of the match and declare him the winner. Every day
 brought a new
 barrage of meaningless threats to never quit power from
 Loony. And every day
 saw him more and more isolated as members of his inner
 circle fled and members
 of his cabinet absconded to neighboring forests and issued
 statements asking
 him to accept the reality of his defeat and step down.
 
 
 But Loony remained adamant. He
 increased the number of heavily
 armed foxes on the streets of Smiling Forest and bragged
 that he would fight to
 the death to safeguard the independence and territorial
 integrity of Smiling
 Forest. Having trampled upon the rule of law and the
 constitution of Smiling
 Forest for 22 years, Loony suddenly became an ardent
 advocate of respect for
 the constitution and the rule of law. He suddenly became a
 fanatic disciple of
 constitutionalism and frequently quoted constitutional
 provisions that he tried
 to tweak to suit his purpose of abrogating his opponent’s
 victory and staying
 on in power. But the majority of the animals of Smiling
 Forest called his
 bluff. The victor insisted that come the end of Loony’s
 term, he would be sworn
 in as the new president of Smiling Forest. Movements cropped
 up everywhere with
 defiant and revolutionary slogans like
 #SmilingForestHasDecided and
 #LoonyMustGo! A furious Loony ordered the Mental
 Surveillance Unit to crack down
 and arrest any animals seen wearing T-shirts with these
 slogans and to close
 down all radio stations that dared to talk about his defeat
 or any of these
 movements. Four radio stations were immediately shut down
 and several animals
 picked up and sent to Loony’s notorious “five star
 hotel.” Armed foxes that
 were thought to be sympathetic to the victor were also
 grabbed and taken to
 unknown destinations. But nothing shook the animal’s
 determination to bring
 Loony’s reign of terror to an end. The hashtags
 #NoRetreatNoSurrender and #WeAreTakingOurForestBack
 mushroomed and multiplied around Smiling Forest, encouraging
 the animals to
 stand their ground and show Loony that true power belonged
 to them and not to
 Loony and his brutal government.
 
 But many ordinary animals were
 scared of war and decided to
 leave Smiling Forest. The once happy and peaceful animals of
 Smiling Forest
 suddenly found themselves displaced and becoming refugees
 either in the rural
 areas of Smiling Forest or in neighboring forests. They
 cursed Loony and
 expressed their amazement that Loony could be so cruel and
 hard-hearted as to
 want to hang on to power even if it meant bringing war to
 their peaceful
 forest. Whole families fled Smiling Forest and often had to
 beg for food and
 shelter in neighboring forests in an attempt to save their
 lives. Curses rained
 down upon Loony like a violent hailstorm, but the mad fox
 firmly shut his eyes
 and stuffed his ears with mud to make sure that he neither
 saw nor heard the
 voice of reason and the world urging him to step down,
 convincing him that his
 time was up and that the Great God Yallah had indeed spoken.
 
 
 Just nine days to the end of his
 term, Loony’s evil plot to
 hold the animals of Smiling Forest suffered another
 devastating blow: The
 mercenary judges he hired from the distant forests of Sirali
 and Nigari refused
 to come to Smiling Forest. They declared that they were not
 ready to back up
 his unjust claim to power. Loony was more furious and
 confused than ever before,
 but there was little he could do as the lone mercenary judge
 in Smiling Forest
 Chief Justice Fagbe da Log declared that the court could do
 nothing unless it
 had a quorum in several months’ time. Fagbe da Log
 suggested somehow that Loony
 should just negotiate his way out of the mess he had
 created. But Loony, his
 teeth firmly clenched, decided to immediately launch another
 attempt at hanging
 on to power. He declared that he was going to make a law
 that would grant
 amnesty to any animal that had committed a crime for the
 past two months and
 that he was in fact a forgiving fox, a fox of peace and
 security and a fox who
 had the greatest faith ever in the Great God Yallah. Opening
 his horse’s mouth
 big and wide, he thus addressed the animals: “I know that
 some of you are
 running away saying that Loony wants to bring war into this
 forest. That is not
 true. I am a fox of peace and security. I assure all of you
 animals that peace
 will prevail. But only my own personal Supreme Court can
 validate the results
 of this match that that crooked referee stole for my
 opponent. The so-called
 Association of Neighboring Forests is interfering in the
 internal affairs of my
 personal forest, and they are declaring war on my personal
 forest. But let them
 come here. I will show them who I am. I will face them and
 fight them and
 defeat them so badly they will leave their shoes and flee
 for their lives. I
 will rule this forest for a billion years and if any one
 doesn’t like it they
 can go to hell.”
 
 The truth was that by this time
 Loony was extremely rattled
 around both by the approaching fierce armed foxes of the
 Association of
 Neighboring Forests and especially by some strange stories
 making the rounds
 around Smiling Forest about something called “Dragon
 Fire”. He was particularly
 troubled that this so-called “Dragon Fire” was said to
 be ‘quasi invisible’ and
 had laser beams and other frightful capabilities for
 ferreting out its targets
 and incinerating them. Loony heard the strange rumors but
 was both mollified
 and petrified when he read about them from someone called
 “Winged Scorpion.” What
 do they mean dragon fire and winged scorpion? Whoever heard
 such frightful
 names? Loony shivered and his teeth clattered like plates as
 he sat alone in
 his big private room pondering these strange things. He was
 so shaken that
 several times, he got up and prowled around the room,
 shaking from head to foot
 and wondering just what they mean by dragon fire and winged
 scorpion. The
 latter name sounded particularly frightening; for while he
 was certainly no
 stranger to scorpions, the idea of a winged scorpion sounded
 too spooky for his
 rattled nerves.
 
 Meanwhile, efforts by the
 association of neighboring forests
 to mediate the impasse and convince Loony to step down
 peacefully continued.
 The neighboring forest of Nigari, whose president was the
 chief mediator kindly
 offered Loony asylum if he agreed to step down. Less than a
 week before Loony’s
 term expired, Muhari the giraffe, president of Nigari Forest
 traveled for a second
 time to Smiling Forest in a last bid to make the mad fox see
 reason. But the
 animals of Smiling Forest were not optimistic. They knew
 Loony was a psychopath
 and psychopaths never see reason, unless it is reason that
 serves their own
 interest or reason backed by force or a very credible threat
 of force. While
 his victorious opponent slated to become the new leader of
 Smiling Forest in a
 few days sounded optimistic that the impasse could end
 peacefully, and said
 Loony could stay in Smiling Forest, many animals were
 skeptical and believed
 that Loony would only leave power if he were to be
 physically grabbed and
 forcefully dragged or driven out of power. Some of them
 reasoned that the Great
 God Yallah was a God of miracles and would perhaps perform a
 miracle that would
 make Loony accept his faith to become an ordinary fox again.
 Everywhere in
 Smiling Forest and around the world, animals hoped and
 prayed for such a
 miracle as they waited to see what became of Muhari the
 giraffe’s latest trip
 to Smiling Forest. The animals were not surprised when they
 saw Muhari the
 giraffe stomping angrily out of Loony’s palace, his
 mediation efforts having proved
 futile. In fact, Loony had rudely told Muhari to his face
 that he should go take
 care of the rebels in his own forest rather than meddle in
 the internal affairs
 of Smiling Forest. He roundly told Muhari and everyone in
 the Association of
 Neighboring Forests and the whole big wide world to go to
 hell because he would
 never allow himself to be cheated of his legitimate victory.
 “I will rule this
 forest for a billion years and if you don’t like it you
 can go to hell Muhari!”
 he angrily ranted. “You say your armed foxes will attack
 me. Let them attack. Bulay
 bulay bulay, I will show them who Loony
 is!”
 
  
 
 
 
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