What I read about Jammeh and his speeches in the papers back home is very
encouraging to me. He is well aware of our potential to peacefully dispose
him and is very afraid of a well organized group that he has no ability to
control or can terrorize spearheading efforts to remove him using the ballot
box. He can notice a bounce in the steps (confidence) of the opposition
parties that attended the discussions in Atlanta. His strategy is to
lambaste the opposition leaders, threatened Gambians in the diaspora with
deportation, and I think he will eventually start harassing our family
members to neutralize us. He will not enjoy his last 3 years in office
because we will work day and night with all our might to legally dispose
him.

So let’s keep on with our noble cause knowing that we are the last resort to
save our nation.

Regards,
MJohnson



>From: Joe Sambou <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Politics Gets Dirty as Jammeh Pours Vitriol On the Opposition
>Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 19:21:49 +0000
>
>Folks, I told you we are going to see and hear more bizarre things from
>Yaya
>and the APFRC.  The 2006 elections is going to be won now and I appeal to
>all and sundry to stop procrastinating and join the movement for change in
>the Gambia.  Yaya is paranoid because he is afraid of us getting organized
>and we cannot afford to sit and just ignore him.  While he engages in
>mudslinging, we need to continue to expose him, just like Halifa Sallah did
>and I hope Waa, OJ, Ousainou, Hamat, and Sidia to further expose him.
>Folks, we cannot say we want change, yet we are more concerned with
>semantics and irrelevant issues.  The real fight has just begun.  Please
>read on.
>
>
>
>Politics Gets Dirty as Jammeh Pours Vitriol On the Opposition
>
>The Independent (Banjul)
>
>July 28, 2003
>Posted to the web July 28, 2003
>
>S.b Camara
>Banjul
>
>President Jammeh has poured scorn on the idea of an opposition coalition to
>unseat him in the 2006 elections branding a whole colony of opposition
>elements in The Gambia as "dangerous combinations, parasites, devils,
>reptiles and notorious drunks, which will never be allowed to lead this
>country".
>
>The Gambian leader told a youth rally in Tallinding Buffer Zone Thursday as
>part of activities in remembrance of his military takeover nine years ago,
>that the opposition were unfit to replace him in view of their shady and
>questionable integrity and intentions for the country. He also reminded
>them
>that "whether they like it or not I am the president of both good and bad
>Gambians". Making reference to his trip to the United States the president
>said the opposition were always glad to live under the notion that his
>administration was in bad blood with the Americans.
>
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>He said his political opponents were happy that his relationship with
>certain Western states like the U.S and Britain was sour after they refused
>to recognise his government at the time.
>
>"But that was yesterday, and today they (the opposition) are ashamed" he
>said. He also said that he was amazed by newspaper reports of an opposition
>coalition bid for a regime change or system change in The Gambia.
>
>He noted that the political parties involved couldn't differentiate between
>a regime change and a system change. "In a bid to fool the masses, they
>want
>to intellectualise it. Advocates of such a system change are backward
>people
>as evidence in the hairstyle of one of them, which is like Jackson five of
>the 1960s. I am sure that even his electorates have regretted voting him
>into parliament" he charged.
>
>President Jammeh went further to re-define the initials of opposition
>political parties as Parasitic, Deceptive Organisms, Identified as
>Socialists for PDOIS, Universal Devils Platform as the UDP, Notorious
>Reptiles and Pythons as the NRP and NDAM as Notorious Drunkards and
>Maggots.
>
>He accused the UDP of "never intending good things for this country but
>only
>evil things. He also described NRP's Honourable Bah as a snake who has his
>own interest in the political platform. He said NDAM are Notorious
>Drunkards
>and Maggots because they survive on dirty things.
>
>"For the PPP they are Pah-ye Palpal Partu as they are aimless old daddies"
>he said.
>
>He singled out some opposition figures for some personal attacks, beginning
>with Halifa Sallah whom described as a "so-called sociologist who has not
>bagged any degree in his field of study". He challenged Honourable Sallah
>to
>publish his credentials in newspapers if his claims were to be proved
>wrong.
>
>"In terms of religion, he never uses the name of Allah in his
>deliberations.
>Will you Gambians allow such a person who doesn't speak about God to lead
>you" he asked, making pointed reference to Honourable Sallah and the
>Foroyya
>newspaper.
>
>If PDOIS are socialists, they should have worked for such things that will
>benefit our society," he charged.
>
>Turning to Honourable Bah, Jammeh quoted the NRP leader as saying shortly
>after the APRC's election victory in 2001 that "it is high time the
>Americans and the British recognised Jammeh because he has been elected".
>He
>said if Honourable Bah were a noble he would have done something good to
>take this country forward.
>
>"But after that Hamat Bah went on to sat that The Gambia is not democratic.
>If there is no democracy here today compared to Jawara's era then democracy
>exists nowhere in the world, because even an entertainment manager from the
>Kombo Beach Hotel is now an opposition leader" he charged.
>
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