Some one call my attention this morning to the mistake that I was referring to
1789 and 1792 in Paris and not 1879.This is very true and sorry for the
mistake.

For Freedom
Saiks








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>Whether it is the Aprc, the UDP or the PPP that is in power, if the
opposition
>to that power is reduced to simple self interest the line of loyalty becomes
>constantly redefined. Our opposition to this regime is an opposition to all
>forms of social, political and economic injustice the call to move on  is
>missing this very important point.
>                  I see no deference between this call to move on with that
of
>“Cyber Heroes” who have displayed all the characters of a fascist out of
>political power in dealing with their opponents at a time when they have no
>political power let alone should they manage the affairs of our country and
>their opponents at reach. Let  us forget the past and forged an alliance with
>UDP/PPP and move on. Some are not even saying so; they keep denying the
>history of those long years of political nightmare of the Gambian people,
with
>so much arrogance and infantile behaviour. We can only move on by learning
>from the past and those who deny history or are interested in rewriting
>history belongs to the opposition that did not have as its objective a
>permanent and consistent struggle against political oppression and economic
>exploitation.
>  This is even the problem that the article by Mr Daffeh,”The new Majority”,
>seems to be struggling with, the article almost spell out Gambia as a society
>with the immidiate objective to fight the old order and it becomes not so
>accidental that the author was faced with another problem when he did tried
to
>free the State from the very ideology it represent. The murdering of
>defenceless students is fascist, Mr Daffeh insisted. That Mr Daffeh refusing
>to see the link between this act of barbarism and the Indemnity bill passed
in
>parliament by a great majority to be in line with the ideology of the
>rullingpower is very unfortunate, because, in the first place the author
still
>remains an important ideological  authority in Gambian politics. Secondly,
>that Jammeh is been voted in as the president of the Gambia, that there are
>only 3 opposition members in parliament and the rest APRC is no objective new
>situation, what is new perhaps, is the open and more clear stand of the
>different opposition forces. We have never in the history of our country
faced
>with both a petty bourgeois backward military turned to civilian leadership
>and on the other hand, representative of neo-colonial forces at the same
time.
>Our position in this situation should neither be, the enemy of my enemy is my
>enemy or any talk of the rolling back of what has been won. Unless the author
>is speaking of a new law of dialectics beyond my comprehension.
>Yes that APRC won both the parliamentary elections and presidential election
>what more is there to tell? That Gambians have spoken? That Gambians will
have
>Jammeh as their leader? That the brutality, the harassment, the daily
>humiliation should just continue. I am of the opinion that the Gambian people
>are still to be convinced to speak their minds at the poling station. Was
this
>not the same routine that they have been involved in during the 30 years of
>the PPP.Where there any election that Jawara did not win and the PPP being
the
>majority in Parliament. Who was dancing in the streets of Serre kunda and
>Banjul when the AFPRC took over power ?It was not people from another planet,
>but the very Gambians who go to the poling stations to vote every five years
>for the man who oppressed them and keep oppressing them. It is my opinion
that
>the opposition to the APRC regime will never be found at the poling stations,
>not this time around anyway, otherwise one could find it in the every day
life
>of the Gambian people. I am of the believed that the people must be convince
>that what is at hand, m is not that a parliamentarian should be voted in
>office to a new status. I am of the opinion that if Gambians were convinced
>that voting on election day has to do with their day to day struggle for
>survival they will be more than able to handle a president whose army can
just
>open fire on their defenceless children, murdered them and demand that they
>forget. I have on several occasions,when talking politics with ordinary
>Gambians, been told that “We “ (referring to us with the formal school
>education ) are birds of the same fearther. To me here lies the whole
problem,
>because what they mean is that  we are opportunist, this is what they have
>learned in practical experience. Some of them having been voting in people to
>office that claimed to be educated, since the time some of us were just
little
>babies,know better what they are talking of. What have they gained out of
>routine voting of every five years? Did they move from their huts? Did they
>have good and safe drinking water? But they have seen one after the other
>growing big fat bellies with all type of possibilities and opportunities.
They
>even have to make long lines at the office doors to get their children to
>school. It is  under such circumstances some of us accused these people for
>selling their votes for money and or do otherwise on Election Day and even
>take them to be the most backward people. We might wait to see for parliament
>to vote that all farmers who are not able to sell their groundnuts have a
>right to compensation from the State, that they have a right to pension money
>when they are no longer able to work on their farms, that they have a right
to
>negotiate the price of their groundnuts with the buyer, that their children
>have a right to free and compulsory education, that force marriage is
illegal,
>etc, yes they are tax payers and they are not paying tax to live and die in
>hut houses and or go in rags for the rest of their lives.A little bit of
>respect for their ability to think might even get some political parties to
>nominate them as candidates rather than decorating them as   YaYe
>Compins,District Chairpersons etc,my boots.Perhaps we might wait long before
a
>farmer enter the parliament to discuss the national budget in Mandinka ,but
we
>might not wait long ,not as long as  the day when the Chinese start to
discuss
>their national budget in English.
>You see, I don’t mean that Daffeh was equating 1879 in Paris with the
>situation in the Gambia after the presidential election, Daffeh is too
>intelligent for such, but he should have tell us that if there is anything to
>learn from that situation in Paris, is the insistent of the most oppressed
>Parisian in demanding total political power and putting the parliament under
>serious control and a continuous declaration of loyalty. The new majority
that
>arises out of that situation was neither with the bourgeoisie nor with the
>left forces and this gave them the free zone of consistency, putting every
>parliamentarian under their control.But the most important lesson migh have
to
>be directede to those in power,that when the people demanded political
>power,nothing  was to stop them. Gambians have now forgotten that they have
>been to the poling station and the next five years will be another struggle
to
>survive.
>We are not going to move on by denying that this regime is oppressived, we
>must continue to tell this regime that they are brutally oppressing g people
>who can at anytime put their political power to rest, it has happened all
over
>the world and there are no reason for them to be dreaming that this could not
>happen with them. They should not fool them selves that because they
organised
>elections and people voted for them, as if  this is enough for them to
>continue their oppression, for it was not that long a go that they themselves
>overthrew a government that the people voted for every five years .The day
the
>opposition is able to solve its contradictions with the people, the day the
>Gambians people are convince of the facts that they are going to the poles to
>vote for a genuine change in their day to day life, we might be a witness to
a
>new political situation. I did not stop a single moment and will not even
>after this day. The Gambia must be liberated, “no Compromising,no sell-out”
>Malcom X
>
>For Freedom
>Saiks
>
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