In a message dated 06/05/2001 14:45:41 GMT Daylight Time, [log in to unmask]
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> << Hamjatta, I must congratulate you for an excellent piece. Your
> observations
> reflect the views of many and **that's what I've been trying to explain**.
> The
> UDP has woefully failed to explain to the electorate what it will do for
> them when elected into office. Like I've said before, here you have a party
> of intellectuals who cannot even develop a good strategy that can appeal to
> even our educated folks down here. Had they done that, those people would
> have really helped spread their message. A good indication of that is the
> very limited number of people living here, who bother to try to defend them
> even in cyberspace.
>
> Have a good day and bye 4Now, KB Jobe. >>
>

"Jobe",
Another off-the-wall-nonsense. You and i are not saying the same thing. I
dare say that your intervention was mere attempts to mischieviously implant
in the minds of my compatriots that my constructive criticisms are akin to
the destructive ones you have peddled here so far. Unlike you, i believe that
the UDP leadership has the calibre to LEAD. I believe that albeit Darbo's
past political mistakes, he is at heart a good decent man who would NEVER
give orders to security forces to callously shoot at unarmed young school
kids. I believe that the UDP leadership is comprised of men of decency,
tolerance and refined intellect. The only difference i have largely with them
is that i believe sometimes they send the wrong signals to Jammeh and the
rest of the country. This is not a fatal failing and can be rectified. Also i
believe i hold more "radical" views on Jammeh and think that Darbo should be
using not more fiery rhetoric in his messages against the Dictatorship but
prepared to play resolutely the an-eye-for-an-eye tactic - when the situation
calls for it. Aside, perhaps the biggest difference between us is an
ideological one which can never be finessed by short termist political
expediency. This is a matter of personal choice and not something you or your
likes should see as material for mischief-making.

On a related topic, i was quite bemused to read in your final submission of
May 04 2001,  15:16:48 GMT Daylight Time, your reasons for preferring the
APRC gov't over a UDP one. Here is what you wrote:

<< To conclude, I would like to state that my support of the APRC government
(NOT PARTY)is neither because of its development projects, which are
laudable nor is it because I don't care for the abysmal human rights record
of this regime. **My support for them is purely based on my total abhorance of
the UDP message and the way they incite their followers**. It is my firm
believe that the Gambia cannot ever afford chaos, lawlessnes or anarchy.
That will be very disatrous for our dear nation. Unfortunately the UDP seems
to give that impression. Their rhetoric and campaign style really borders on
incitement. >> Emphasis mine

Good grief! You are actually telling people here that you would rather panic
over fiery rhetorics from an unarmed civil association than an ACTUAL
murderous group of philistines who have literally and practically done all
you claim to "abhor". Let's closely examine your twisted and totured logic.
As i understand it, the UDP is not in power but the APRC is. Meaning - and
this is within the context of  African Despots despoiling the thin fragile
sheet that seperates the notion of gov't from the State, which you still lack
full understanding - that if anyone has the pedigree of unruliness and a
propensity to create "chaos, lawlessness or anarchy", it is those in power
who don't have the wherewithal to comprehend Thucydides' dictum that "of all
manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most". Clearly, if your key
concern about the Gambia today was about the propensity of things to descent
into " chaos, lawlessness or anarchy", you are betting on the wrong horse.
For it is the AFPRC and its mutation the APRC, which you support, that had
and has demonstrated ill-will towards Thucydides' call for restraint from
those who hold power. Had the APRC any virtue worth calling restraint, then
April 10 and 11 would not have become a watershed in the "chaos, lawlessness
or anarchy" they have forced down on the Gambian conscience. Need i go into
all the gory details of the wickedness and monstrous barbarity reeking of
prehistoric sense of civility that Jammeh et al have committed against
Gambians? Need i remind you the gory details of the murder of an innocent
young selfless Gambian like Koro Ceesay who was murdered callously by the
same very people you think should keep leading the Gambia? Need i remind you
of the disgusting manner in which a soldier by the name Dumbuya was chased
through the streets of Albert Market by security forces acting on the orders
of Jammeh himself to shoot-to-kill-on-sight this young man and how he fell in
the midst of a market crowd as he fought bravely for his dear life? Need i
remind you of 11 Noverber 1994 and the mass graves dug to bury people alive?
Is this your idea of civilise alternative to a UDP leadership that everyone
chides for being too meek and mild towards Jammeh? See how you finally
hammered the last nail on your coffin of hypocrisy? You said the UDP's fiery
rhetoric scares you shitless, yet you are prepared to tolerate a Jammeh who
stands in public and tells his audience that anyone who dares to challenge
him will he sent "six feet under" and has ACTUALLY carried out his death
threats. Have you any idea how many Gambians lost their lives due to the
political machinations of Jammeh and the need to perpetuate his mediocracy?
Unlike the UDP, Jammeh not only makes death threats and or fiery statements
of hate or inciting his followers to carry out hate pogroms, he ACTUALLY sees
to it that it is DONE! Remember that July 22nd fanatic's - presumably by the
name of Camara hailing from Jarra, LRD -  confession of how they were
constantly on the orders of Jammeh to terrorise innocent Gambians whose only
crime happen to be that they strongly believe that Jammeh is not good for the
Gambia? When did the UDP leadership ever incite its followers to engage in
terrorising innocent Gambians? Do you now see for yourself how crass an
imbecile you are for telling people you abhor more imaginary illusions of a
violent UDP charged mob than an actual APRC killing machinery killing,
maiming, torturing and victimisation of innocent Gambians all the while you
are drooling about a UDP incited hate mob? Your hypocrisy is simply
unfathomable.

When all is said and done, all the reasons you have stated for supporting the
APRC gov't falls on the sword of the wrongs it had committed and continues to
commit against the Gambian peoples - and your reasoning or alibi suffers an
instantaneous death. My hunch is that your active paricipation on this List
raison d'etre is purely therapeutic for an emotionally weird and
psychologically divided person with a conscience who finds himself within the
inner coterie of evil but is too weak to raise a finger against it, continues
to abet the evil unabated and in the process losing sleep over it. "Jobe",
you are a man on guilt-trip who can't sleep at night for fear of what he has
help wreaked on innocent people. And as the old adage has it, there is no
lighter cushion than a clear conscience. Clear conscience, i'm afraid you
don't have at this present stage. So inorder to clear the muddle in your
conscience, you decided to foolishly convince yourself that albeit the
blemishes here and there, you are doing the right thing. So you choose
Gambia-L as your shrink to put that point across. In the event, you have seen
the reception to the filth you peddled here: You are on the wrong side. Give
it up before you reach the point of no return.

In conclusion, i leave you with this grotesque, gory and barbarous vignette
Brother Ebou Colly painted for us on how fine goodlooking smiling gentlemen
like "Dot" Faal, Saye, Barrow et al were murdered and despicably mass buried
alongside those who were murdered in the so-called November 11, 1994 coup
attempt by the very philistines you would support at all cost.

<< He further gave the gruesome details of how Saye's
long legs (he was about 6ft. 8ins. tall) could not fit
in the ditch together with the others and how Kanyi
and co used a machete to cut off his legs before
force-fitting the body in the mass grave. It was the
mother of all evil that I know the culprits will
account for someday. It is hard to comprehend how
brutal these demons were on people who did not hurt
anyone in their existence. Why was it impossible for
anyone among them to stand up and say that this must
stop, for it is all-wrong? Where was god in the hearts
of these GAMBIANS? >>


Hamjatta - Kanteh
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