"So in effect why would you turn Femi's persecution into settling intractable scores with Ousainou" Uncle Haruna.
Uncle Haruna, with the above quote fo yours, why also use the moment to accuse PDOIS in the same way way you want joe to be blamed?
--- On Tue, 4/6/10, Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: I Lost Faith In the Gambian Justice System; A Miscarriage of Justice - Says Femi Peters Junior! Culled from Gainako
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Date: Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 4:34 PM
Giuseppe as you said, you haven't said anything that Kemo doesn't know or is not aware of. Even the opposition leadership you rail against, they already know what you're blurting and more. So in effect why would you turn Femi's persecution into settling intractable scores with Ousainou. It is now that you have diffused your fosse outrage for the opposition leadership at large. And even then, why would you turn Femi's persecution into disdain for the opposition leadership. Did anyone stop you from leadership yourself? Gandhi and Mandela did not get the hell out of the way during all those years of oppression of themselves and their people. Nor did they prattle around calling for fire and brimstone. It is common knowledge that during Gandhi and Mandela's efforts, there were people like Sambo and yet others who feign like Sambo... for braun. But they fashioned the solution they fancied. In the end, brains won over braun, but with the help of braun.
At this rate therefore, if all the opposition leadership were to resign their positions, and Sambo hasn't begun to lead, you will be back to square one. You idiot.
Haruna. I have never known non-violent resistance to be a crime of conscience or other. Alas the charlatan is oblivious.
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From: Joe Sambou <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: I Lost Faith In the Gambian Justice System; A Miscarriage of Justice - Says Femi Peters Junior! Culled from Gainako
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Kemo, the answer is the same the world over. There is no way our opposition will be left alone as long as they continue to show Yaya that they are afraid. First, the opposition contrary to what folks have been telling them from day one, do not see wisdom in injecting militancy within their grassroots. It is very naive for one think that they can coax a dictator whose life depends on dictating and will use any means unnecessary to maintain their own, to all of a sudden see Jesus. You can stop or slow them down by only standing up. The way the opposition has been operating makes everyone vulnerable. Therefore, Darboe cannot stop Yaya from plucking his grassroots and the grassroots are not energize to protect Ousainou from being plucked or murdered. This is what obtains. All because the opposition fail to understand that Yaya must continue to kill until he is put out of his misery. All those agencies you named, combined, is a drop
in the bucket in relation to the opposition support. When folks rise up, nothing can stop them. Are there going to be casualties, absolutely. Look at every one of the "Democracies" around the world and name just one that did not spill blood to get to their current state. We celebrate South Africa, imagine what would have happened if the blacks did what we are currently doing in the Gambia? The Boers had a nuclear bomb for God sake. They would have still be under apartheid and more potent. To bring it closer to home, What brought about the end of physical colonialism in our neck of the woods and around the world? How about slavery? Thus, it is irrational for one to then think that they can get rid of a dictator with love and flowers. This is why some of us think the leadership in the opposition must lead the people of get the hell out of the way. They are encouraging the current environment that Yaya created for his own end.
It is also a fallacy that all the armed forces are behind the scum. They themselves are vulnerable and if they have an opportunity they will get to Yaya and Yaya knows that. Thus, he is using the element of surprise to at intervals bulldoze the soil around him looking for that accidental gem of a conspirator. In the process, even those that were bulldozed would turn back to profess to be ten times more loyal to him only for him to repeat the same when they begin to get comfortable. Just watch, if he releases Lang Tombong, do not be surprised to see the idiot accept a post from Yaya and act like nothing happened before.
In short, the opposition leaders need to stop their naivety and realize that they cannot cuddle a serpent and pray that the serpent will be inspired. You not only risk your life, but all those around you. As I write, Yaya can arrest all the opposition leaders and not a thing will happen and they all know that. All because they are afraid to protect themselves by inculcating militancy within their ranks. The militancy can take various forms to match what the dictator aspires. If the dictator aspires just to scare, it is enough for folks to use just civil disobedience. However, if the dictator will use any means necessary, as Yaya postures, then you are best served to also show him a posture that whatever he starts might also finish him. After playing with docility for fifteen years, the opposition leaders know that they will get the same result if they repeat it for the next fifty. If they want to emulate Gandhi, then they are a poor
excuse, for Gandhi rose up with the people. MLK was non-violent, however, he rose up for African Americans to be where they are today and many of us to enjoy the rights and liberties they fought for. Many were lynched, shot to death, jailed, etc. That is the price of freedom. I said nothing that you do not already know. This is my take and frustration with our current crop of leadership. They asked to lead, then by God, they must lead or get the hell out of the way. If we do not demand that from, then will will continue to give us more of the same - empowering Yaya to his natural life and for Mo to pick up for Papa Doc.
Joe
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 00:00:20 -0700
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: I Lost Faith In the Gambian Justice System; A Miscarriage of Justice - Says Femi Peters Junior! Culled from Gainako
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Uncle Joe
How can we (Gambians) stop the illegal detention, jailing and torturing of innocent Gambians ?.. Can you please give ideas or suggestions on how to stop it. Jammeh have the police,GNA ,NIA and the judiciary.
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"My dad just clocked 64 in January and not in the very best of health. Do the math on what a year in the direst of conditions in the state prison, throw in unpalatable food and hard labour would do to a man his age and see what you come up with it. Might as well start putting away for a casket!"
Brother, I feel your pain. Your title below summed it all and any honest person cannot but say that loud. How long must we continue to be plucked one by one while we stand and watch. This illegal detention was calculated and deliberate. At 64, a go slow urgency is like a death sentence. Now, watch the Judiciary play their real role - delay, postpone, sleep over, vacation, and upcountry this case to death. They were given the luxury, thus, they will milk it until blood comes out. As long as we could never see the urgency in stopping the continued illegal detention of the innocent we will come here time and time again reacting. We should not wait until we are in your shoes to realize where the shoe hurts. Continue to stand up even if you are alone.
Joe
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 20:25:23 +0200
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: I Lost Faith In the Gambian Justice System; A Miscarriage of Justice - Says Femi Peters Junior! Culled from Gainako
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I Lost Faith In the Gambian Justice System; A Miscarriage of Justice - Says Femi Peters Junior!
Femi Peters Senior UDP
By: Femi Peters Jr (Chelsea)
I would have given a lot for it to be a joke. Sadly, the matter at hand wasn’t. It was about as hilarious as cackling at a funeral.
April 1st 2010...the day justice in The Gambia hit the buffers. Drew its last. Curled up and gave out. Ceased to be. Got coffined and earthed.
Take your pick.
We all have dates in our lives etched in our minds forever. Mine are 29th October and 9th November. I will explain why some other time. I will always remember where I was, what I was doing, what I was attired in when I got the call that my dad (the man who sired me, gave me all his names, paid my fees, raised me right and instilled in me the love for books) has had his freedom curtailed. I mean, it is not daily the average Gambian guy’s dad gets accommodated in Mile Two.
I was reading the Metro paper on a bad weathered Thursday afternoon when my phone shrilled. It was my dad’s baby sister, aunty Acy to me. ‘I got news about your dad. Guess what?’ My heart took a leap. Ever the pessimistic one, I blurted out, ‘h-he got jailed?’ hoping I was wrong. ‘Yeah, he got a year plus D10, 000.00 fine and hard labour.’ I had the experience of being mad and sad at the same time and, take it from me; it is not a very pleasant one. It is that sinking feeling when you feel there is not much left to breath for.
When the miserable red mist cleared, my first thought was my ten year old brother, Lenrie Peters. Growing up, I was lucky to have my dad around me, help with my home work, help me transform from a baby to a toddler, boy to a man, answer my questions and simply being there. As I write this, it’s not with pride I say I took those things for granted. You know, daddy leaving home in the morning and be back in the evening is as guaranteed as scorching, throat-parched weather on any given Friday afternoon in Banjul.
Now my baby brother will be denied that opportunity of having dad around. All the basic, normal things dads do for their seeds has been heartlessly yanked away from him. All because the APRC government thought my dad possessing a loudspeaker and initiating a rally is worth a year behind bars.
My dad just clocked 64 in January and not in the very best of health. Do the math on what a year in the direst of conditions in the state prison, throw in unpalatable food and hard labour would do to a man his age and see what you come up with it. Might as well start putting away for a casket!
I lost faith in Gambian justice when, ten years ago this week, students were gunned down and it was left at that. Forget me being caught that day and given a pasting my dad has never given me, which resulted in a bad knee I will take to my grave. My dad being banged up for exercising his right as a citizen leaves a bad taste in the mouth of any sane individual. I can’t remember knowing anyone who had to grow up with his dad in jail. To have to happen so close to home, to my baby brother, is a nightmare.
I’ve been made to understand the order to jail my dad came from above and I’m not on about the flaming sky.That don’t surprise me one bit. If journalists can get detained, tortured, one killed, one disappeared completely off the face of the earth, printing press torched, political opponents get arrested, refuse permission to hold rallies and existing in a society where such is how it unfolds, jailing the man whom I’ve looked up to all my life is a drop in the ocean, if you look at the bigger picture.
Home, since 22nd July 1994, is not what we know it for what it had been. It has transformed in a very un-Gambian kind of way and it is not getting better.
Today, it is my dad down for a year for his political beliefs. Tomorrow it would be your mum doing a bid whose only crime was looking funny at a portrait of the president. This madness will not stop. A complete change at the helm is called for and the opportunity for that is at next year’s general elections should it be free, free and held in a conducive environment. Knowing what we all know, there is a better chance of God lowering a ladder and we all scurry up to heaven than that happening.
I had always thought April 10th 2000 was the day I felt less good about being Gambian. I erred. April 1st 2010 it is and will always be.
God willing, my dad will survive this and I pray his dream of a democratic Gambia would be in his lifetime…
PS: Thanks for all your calls and emails during these trying times. You know who you are. God bless and keep you all.
Courtesy of the Gainako newspaper
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Yero,
I hope it is ok with you and your fellow editors at Gainako by my sharing this poignant write-up of a son on his father's unfair, unconscionable and illegal incaceration. Yaya and his goons will not break and connot suffocate the will of good and truthful persons.
Best,
Mboge
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