Brother, it seems as if you were echoing my thoughts.
There is indeed a profound need for action.  I for one
am ready to act whenever a sound mechanism of action
is activated.

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> There comes a time in the life of a nation in which
> people simply have to
> choose. In our case Gambians must now make a choice
> between subjecting
> themselves to the machinations of an evil man at the
> helm of a brutal regime
> who will stop at nothing in imposing himself on them
> or they would resolve to
> stop at nothing in their bid to terminate once and
> for all the very ominous
> trend toward enslavement. Yahya Jammeh is intolerant
> and barbaric and has
> designs that bode ill for all decent human beings.
> In light of that fact it
> is near folly for one to believe that he has any
> intentions of fostering an
> environment in which our people can choose their
> leaders. Every available
> evidence point to a regime bent on fomenting
> violence by attacking, abducting
> and attempting to assassinate innocent citizens.
> Their strategy is meant to
> make the political atmosphere so noxious that the
> Gambian people would be
> overwhelmed by hazards of theregime's tactics that
> they would just succumb to
> their Libyan Jamahirriyya model of  a no election
> dictatorship. They have
> convinced themselves that if Gambians are killed and
> tortured in sufficient
> numbers the people would simply surrender their
> nation . The regime is
> acutely aware that they can't win any nationwide
> election regardless of the
> circumstances in which it is conducted. They simply
> can't. They have hence
> crafted  what they deem to be the perfect fall back
> position . At the heart
> of their plan is to manufacture the appearance of
> tension and blame it on
> their most potent opponents (UDP). This way they can
> use their corrupt
> administrative apparatus to come with bogus
> sanctions that are solely aimed
> at hobbling the opposition to a point where they
> won't be able to campaign
> but falling short of an outright ban . This way they
> can always say
> opposition politics is alive and well while at the
> sametime doing everything
> to to make the UDP functionally handicapped in doing
> the kind retail politics
> that relies heavily on rallies. Rallies are also the
> only way the UDP can
> reach voters who have little access to the private
> media that covers them
> since GRTS as a matter of policy just tows the gov't
> line.  Consequently  I
> believe Gambians preferred route to democracy may be
> doomed  by Yahya
> Jammeh's penchant for violence and evil. He will not
> compete fairly or
> squarely and he is prepared to murder people to
> sustain himself. The fact
> that lawyer darboe and his supporters excaped
> assasination in Basse gives no
> solace to those who still harbor the believe that
> there is a chance the
> nation can limp along till the scheduled elections
> within the next 12 months.
> If anything it portends greater  bloodletting as a
> recalciterent tyrant faces
> an increasingly defiant citizenry no longer willing
> to lie down and play
> dead. The time has come for us all to come to the
> inevitable conclusion that
> Yahya Jammeh is a monster  intent on devouring our
> nation  and removing him
> must take precedence and would have to be at all
> cost. We must all put
> together a battleplan  and do what it takes to
> execute it. There is no middle
> ground because attempting to either work within or
> moderate a regime that
> excels at destroying the very fabric of our society
> is a losing proposition.
> It will only prolong an already aweful situation.
> There will be plenty of
> time for all of us come together and bicker about
> the intricacies of various
> issues of governace. For now we must get rid of this
> monster.
> Karamba
>
>
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