Essa,
Thanks but I think you miss my point. If there is any organization or U.S
Congressional office soliciting or gathering information of this nature to pass
on to a law making body here, this will not be a covert operation at all
because it is public information. Even if a third party was receiving the
information to pass on to the Cogressman's office, they would also not be something
hidden and should be able to provide their information freely to the general
public so that they will feel comfortable and know that they are a legitimate
operation.
I would never want to collect information from people and then send it on to
any entity that is not transparent and the process is not done in an open
manner, especially if they say they are connected to a congressional office that
is supposed to be passing information to a law making body in the U.S. Such an
operation I would assume would have the full backing of the U.S gov't or at
least be something allowable under its' guidelines that a Congressman's office
would operate under and those sending them information would have no need to
hide their identity.
This place is no Banana Republic and the U.S Constitution still works when it
comes to things like these where public officials such as Congressmen are
public servants and very much answearable to the people.
On your part too, I think it will be in your best interest to provide the
information i mentioned regarding this set up simply for the sake of legitimacy.
Any information gathering apparatus for the offices of Congressmen/women is
by and large sent to their offices through the normal channels and where this
information is collected by someone else, say a non-profit organization working
in the field of human rights, e.g Amnesty International, they clearly
identify themselves and give their full contact details. An example is this RHADDO
whose website you gave. They are not based in the U.S, but did not hesitate to
identify themselves as people who report to the U.N organization on economic
and human rights, and they gave their full coordinates. A process liek this has
to be transparent so that people know they are not sending information to a
black hole or to the wrong people.
I hope this clarifies where I am coming from.
As far as sharing information with the Gambian public, I commend this and
believe that the best venues for anyone who has genuine information that is
valuable to the struggle to rid ourselves of tyranny and wants to sincerely share
it with the people, is through the two lists that are accessed by all,
including some representatives of foreign governments I believe.
Thanks.
Jabou Joh
In a message dated 1/18/04 12:57:56 PM Central Standard Time,
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>
> Jabou,
> Without doubts I fully concur with what you said regarding people
> being comfortable to send their names,adresses etc to these
> emails.However,these people wanted to avoid exactitude in order not be exposed to the side being
> "scrutinised"-I think you understand what mean.The UN has tracked some phone
> calls etc and those details were possible because of covert operations that
> took place before.There are other options Jabou let say we share the
> information between us and then you receive the complaints yourself and then forward
> them to these people/me.I can give you the actual names and adresses of these
> offcials provided that you will keep them private(laugh).
> I have been informed by Elhadj Mustafa, that you are a good person i will
> talk to you.
> Do you believe that Demba has your phone numbers?(laugh).
>
> Essa.
>
> Jabou Joh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> In a message dated 1/18/04 3:30:38 AM Central Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
> >
> > Hello Readers,
> > Any party ie,person,family,community back home that has
> > some compliants that they wish to share with some policy analysts or law
> > makers in the states or Europe can forward such information to the
> following
> > emails which will be directed to a program that is being handled by a
> > particular congressman's bureau in the US. A branch of that bureau is
> interested in
> > receiving such stuff, in trying to understand how some people are affected
> back
> > home.
> > [log in to unmask]
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
> >
> Essa,
>
> Can you tell us exactly who these people are and which Congressman's bureau
> this is? Such things are deemed public information here in the U.S,
> especially
> in a situation like this, and knowing who they are and which policy making
> bodies they will give this information to will allow people to contact these
> sources and make enquiries to feel comfortable, as well as to find out
> exactly how
> this information and what they are doing can eventually effect the situation
> back home.
> Thank you.
>
> Jabou Joh
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