Mr. Jallow,
Thanks alot.
Alieu
>From: Dawda Jallow <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: POLITICAL RECONSTRUCTION
>Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 04:34:59 EST
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>culled- Merriam Webbster
>
>This Election Day we cast our investigatory eye on two political practices
>now familiar chiefly to psephologists: petalism and ostracism. First, let's
>look at the term psephologist. That name for someone interested in the
>scientific study of elections has its origin in the Greek psephos, meaning
>"pebble." What's the connection between pebbles and elections?
>Paleo-psephologists know the ancient Greeks used pebbles to cast their
>votes.
>The ancients didn't only cast votes with pebbles, and they didn't only vote
>to put people into office, either. Occasionally, long-ago Athenians would
>vote to banish someone considered a threat to the stability of their city;
>when they performed this civic duty, they did so by writing the name of
>their
>candidate on broken pieces of pottery. The victim voted into this
>ten-year-exile was said to be ostracized after ostraca, the Greek word for
>"potsherd." Now that you know the story behind ostracism, you may be able
>to
>figure out how petalism got its name. Eligible voters in Syracuse, that
>ancient city in southeast Sicily, used olive leaves—petalon—to vote on
>the
>fate of their citizens suspected of having dangerous influence or ambition.
>Such exiles were sent away for five years, not ten.
>
>WORD FOR THE WISE
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>My general veiws: ---
>
>1- To elevate the people politically you must educate them firstly
>2- hold them accountable and discipline them
>3- motivate them and trust them
>4- allow them to train and let in their feasible initiatives
>5- allow 100% opinion without prosecuting them for differences held
>6- exchange ideas and let free debates
>7- let them believe and feel secured and loved ex. the Clintonian
>presidency
>8- elect not only educated people but those who are certain to deliver
>9- honest officials and determined minds are usually successful
>10- team work in all areas of gov't or areas
>11- international political survey
>12- fully elected democratic gov's with demand and supply
>13- the people should control the leaders and not vice versa
>14- the leaders should understand that it's a job and they could be fired
> and not the other way, firing
>15- elections are games and not wars
>16- cheating or dictatorship or power clinching are all undemocratic
>17- no leader is indispensable - others show up if others leave
>18- all the people should be respected and represented
>19- the leaders should not be arrogant or pompous but act as servants
>20- always ready for a better change and to correct the mistakes
>21- behave like a scholar and not Mr. Knowall or Mr. Alwaysright
>22-never to be possessive to the people's wealth
>23- say people's gov't to void the feeling that is yours
>24- never do things without mutual consultation or act angrily
> rather sensibly in all people's affairs
>25- ask for ideas or help even from your citizens abroad.
>26- the gov't must invest domestically and internationally
>27- must recruit the youth's intelligence and provide world
> class education
>28- make education cheap and healthcare affordable.
>29- the people must have food to understand other things
>30- never lavish or steal the nation's wealth or trust
>31- never harass the weak or opposition
>32- people should help in the nation's unity and development
> as well as gov't----create good jobs
>33- no one should be angry to destroy the nation's peoples
> or structures or whatsoever
>34- no coup should be democratized
>35- all military regimes should remain unconstitutional internationally
>36- there should always be a multiparty system of gov't
>37- avoid any form of tribal inflammatory
>38- have a free and fair elections
>39- have an alternative if you lost the game and not cause war
>40- evaluate yourself realistically, whether you are first or the country
>41- evaluate whether you or the nation is benefiting from you most
>42- be determined to leave the people better than you found them
>43- make even the opposition see that you are not a destroyer
> by working hard
>44- have a real insight and vision that is futuristic- must be educated
> for a proper leadership to compete globally-----technologized
>45- make promises that you will deliver
>46- remember that the voters expect that you will improve the country
> superbly--- a big task
>47- never go to bed if the people do not feel satisfy- leadership
> is sleeplessness not a pleasure seeking.
>48- it takes responsibilty, trust, honesty and dedication to barely survive
>it
>49- it should be by the people, for the people and of the people
>50- last but not the least have faith in God, practice it and ask for His
>help.
>
>"Until Africa changes her psychic setup of war, stealing, faithlessness,
>self-doubts,
>and authoritarianism our political structure shall remained a theory or ice
>for African."
>
>Dawda Jallow2002
>
>THIS MAY NOT BE WHAT YOU WANT EXACTLY, BUT IT MAY BEAR
>POINTS TO ELABORATE ON OR FOR OTHERS TO READ. Good Luck!
>
>
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