BROTHER ML CONTEH:

You got it right. PDOIS is once again fruitlessly engaged in "DRY
INTELLECTUALISM": Sheer journalistic contentions of basic facts about the
laws and procedures of elections, which becomes absolutely confusing to the
average man in the street because they are always lost in the galaxies. How
could MALAMIN KINTEH in the streets of BADDIBOU and LANG MANJANG in the
streets of KIANG who could not even complete standard four be able to
comprehend what the HECK PDOIS is YAPPING about? We do not need such kind of
COLLEGE-SOPHOMORE-STYLE of essay presentation, in which there are only BONES
in the essay, instead of MEAT, and all that the professor needs to do is to
suck the BONE MARROWS. In fact, in PDOIS's text book of analyses, there is
zip bone marrows for Malamin Kinteh of Baddibou and Lang Manjang of Kiang to
suck. At this point in time, we do not need 15 MINUTES to be stretched into
24 HOURS of fruitless arguments. We want to know what PDOIS's CONTRIBUTIONS
to rectify the situation will be, period.

But instead, PDOIS is still caught up in comparing the PAST and PRESENT.
What does the 1970 LAWS about elections have to do with the 21st Century.
PDOIS is still obsessed with the past than the present. The MORON has
altered the Constitution which supposed to entail election laws and
procedures; but why is PDOIS still dwelling into the past instead of the
present? And worst of all, PDOIS will NEVER design their own solutions to
FIX the problems and confusion, period. Instead, they will continue to
distract the Forum with lengthy unnecessary "DRY INTELLECTUALISM" about mere
procedural matters. PDOIS do NOT still get it.

Ansumana.


>From: MLJ Conteh <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: PDOIS POSITION ON THE BOYCOTT
>Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 06:29:54 -0400
>
>Comrades/Foroyaa:
>
>I have read with amusement precise analytical
>review of PDOIS's stand on the presidential
>and parliamentary elections in The Gambia.  This
>again shows simple description of facts for voters
>that PDOIS is trying to educate is buried in
>sentence structure and as such becomes difficult
>for the intended voter to actually understand what
>the heck thEsE intellectuals are talking about.  Please
>simply give us directions from Banjul to Sera Kunda.
>Don't tell us machinery or elements that we have to get
>before taking off.
>
>Mr. Sallah intimated at a meeting in Tobokoto that PDOIS
>will not participate in future elections if Rev. Johnson
>and Mr. Fatty are not reinstated.  The gentleman's
>message to The Gambian people was precise to the point.
>I am asking, why then do you have to go that far in
>explaining a simple logic?
>
>Having said that, I quote the following from Foroyaa:
>
>"... Commission created a state of total paralysis, how can its
>independence be safeguarded?
>
>This is clear that if the executive can actually remove members of
>the cohy PDOIS considers it a matter of principle to wait for the Supreme
>Court decision on the removal of the two members of the IEC one of whom is
>the chairman before working with the IEC.
>
>The issue therefore is not whether PDOIS intends to
>participate in elections or not. That is a foregone conclusion. As long as
>we are convinced that the Gambian People can go in a voting booth and vote
>in secret; as long as our polling agents can be present in every polling
>station to monitor the exercise; as long as all the ballot boxes are opened
>at the beginning to be checked and closed in front of our polling agent; as
>long as those ballot boxes are at all times within the sight of our polling
>and counting agent; as long as counting takes place in front of our
>counting
>agent, PDOIS will participate in elections. Inducement and intimidation can
>only work if the people are not properly sensitised and emboldened.
>
>As long as there are rulers who see themselves as
>monarchs instead of leaders who are mere public trustees and who should
>perform their duties according prescribed laws, constitutional provisions,
>which are designed to safeguard standards of governance and the integrity
>of
>the sovereign people will always be encroached on.
>
>The obstacle therefore at the moment is our
>commitment not to compromise with the culture of impunity and the failure
>of
>the Supreme Court to act with immediacy to redress such impunity.
>
>If the Supreme Court acts with
>speed to resolve the constitutional dilemma, there will no obstacles to
>PDOIS's participation."
>
>I am then of the opinion that PDOIS will not
>participate in future elections if the Supreme
>Court of The Gambia does not reinstate Rev. Johnson
>and Mr. Fatty.  If this seems to be the case, then
>our call for boycotting the presidential election,
>in its infancy will pick momentum.  We are
>convinced that the Supreme Court of The Gambia will
>not reinstate Rev. Johnson and Mr. Fatty.  The sad
>fact of the matter is that dictator jemus interpretes
>constitutional law in The Gambia.
>
>Naphiyo,
>
>Comrae ML Jassey-Conteh
>
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