Quite right Haruna. One remembers Juvenal and Orwell, among others. Thanks 
for the analogy.

Baba


>From: Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: John Yahavich on the Rampage
>Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 22:43:41 EDT
>
>
>Thanx for sharing Galleh. I find enormous value in your John Yahavich  
>series
>in addition to peerless satire. This is what nurtured the cultures of  Rome
>and London. I hope it has similar effect on Gambia's culture. There is much
>development to be derived from literature if one is so pre-disposed.
>
>Haroun. Abdallah. MQDT. Darbo. Masoud.
>
>In a message dated 10/8/2007 4:51:21 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
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>
>John  Yahavich on the Rampage
>
>By Baba Galleh Jallow
>
>When I say this  you say that and when I say that you say this. And now all
>of you are  saying John Yahavich has arrested this man, John Yahavich has
>arrested  that man. You open your big mouths and say John Yahavich has 
>sacked
>this  man and John Yahavich has sacked that man. Do you know why I arrested
>this  man or why I sacked that man? Do you know what I know before you open
>your  big mouths and start talking nonsense? Well let me tell you one 
>thing:
>You  and your stinking mouths can all go to hell or even beyond hell. I 
>will
>do  what I like and if you think you can challenge me, I will tell you that
>you are the biggest liar in the world. If you are a wrestler and you want  
>to
>challenge somebody, you should come into the wrestling ring. But you  stand 
>a
>thousand miles away from the ring and you shake your hands and  stamp your
>feet and you call yourself a wrestler. I will tell you that you  are not a
>wrestler but a fool and a liar.
>
>You think I am not  hearing what some of you are saying about me? You think
>because I cannot  read your so-called western writing I will not know what
>you are saying?  But I say you are a thief and a liar because I can hear 
>you
>ten thousand  times more than you can even hear yourself because I have 
>ears
>in every  part of my body and every part of the world. And what makes me 
>even
>more  angry is that everybody is shouting about some so-called court case
>against me. Who are those people to take me to court? Who is that court to
>command me to appear before it? If you think you can take me to court why
>not come into this country and take me to court here? But you stay out of  
>my
>country and you try to say you are taking me to court. Well I repeat  that
>you can all go to hell – both you and that so-called court and all  the
>judges and lawyers in the world.
>
>I am sick and tired of fools  and cowards sticking their poisonous tongues 
>in
>matters that are none of  their business and matters that they do not
>understand. And if some of you  think you can meddle in my personal 
>affairs,
>then I will ask you to go and  wash yourself in the river because you must 
>be
>dirty. And I must warn some  of you who think that these so-called courts 
>can
>order me around that you  are all cowards and liars. This is my personal
>country and everything in  this country is my personal property. If I say 
>the
>birds must not fly in  this country, or that the wind must not blow or even
>that the sun must not  set, no one can challenge my words. I do not come 
>into
>your compound and  tell you how to treat your property and you think you 
>can
>come into my  compound and tell me how to treat my property. Then you must 
>be
>the  biggest fool and liar in the world.
>
>I want to tell all those fools who  open their stinking mouths and say John
>Yahavich do not care about  so-called human rights to go to hell. Who are 
>you
>to tell me about  so-called human rights? What do you mean human rights? If
>you go to the  western world – all their prisons are full of Africans – 
>and
>they come  here and try to talk about human rights. They send their spies
>into my  country to come and try to throw me into the river by putting 
>stupid
>ideas  into the ears of the people and they think they can get away with 
>it.
>If  that is what they think, I will tell them that they are all fools and
>liars. Anyone who comes here and starts talking about so-called human  
>rights
>or even animal rights will go six-feet-deep. And you can take me to  any
>court you want on the face of this earth. I am not afraid of anybody  in 
>this
>world or even the next world if there is such a thing.
>
>You  see me holding things in my hands and you think I care about those
>things?  That is why you are all fools, liars and cowards because when you
>see  something you should not jump up and say I know what this thing is or
>what  it means. Only I, John Yahavich, know what they mean and if you want 
>to
>
>know you have to come and face me and ask me. Belay, belay, belay, you  
>will
>then know who John Yahavich is.
>
>Some of you jump up and say  John Yahavich wants to sacrifice this man or
>that man to his gods. Well,  what if I want to sacrifice somebody? What can
>you do about it? If I want  to sacrifice anything in this country I will
>sacrifice it because  everything in this country belongs to me, and no one
>can do anything about  it. And if you don’t like it, you can go to hell 
>and
>wait for me there.  And those of you who write funny stories full of lies 
>and
>even try to make  me feel bad, I must tell you that you are all wasting 
>your
>time and that  you are all fools and liars who will never come into this
>country as long  as you live. I have all your names on my list and for the
>next hundred  years or even thousand years, I dare you to come here if you
>are truly  your mother’s son. Belay, belay, belay, you will then know who
>John  Yahavich is.  It’s-a-mad-day.
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