Brother, i called it sick joke.Jammeh has make the
condition of our country more fragile with deepen
poverty and mass unemployment.With his tribalistic
ideas he think that he can divide and rule the country
with our intellectual prostitutes.But with struggle
from determine Gambians freedom shall come. It is has
clearsa the sunrise and sunset on the Gambian sky.
Abdou Karim Sanneh
Manchester UK
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> When it is all said and done, ideas and their
> propagation constitute  a
> significant component of the human experience.
> Nowhere is the captivating
> nature of ideas felt than in a literate and free
> society with it's endless
> supply of people with an equally endless stream of
> imagination. Perhaps an
> even greater benefit for people in these highly
> literate societies is the
> fact that ideas and their propagation have long gone
> beyond academic or
> organizational circles to become widely and readily
> available. This has
> resulted in not only the expansion of the knowledge
> base, but also continue
> to spur the very intensely curious nature of man
> which most people would
> agree is at the heart of our very essence. Whereas
> free societies tend to be
> natural incubators of ideas of all kinds, enabling
> individuals to think for
> themselves and compete, repressive regimes who
> invariably demand a herd
> mentality always find themselves in a staid and
> stagnant disposition. Take
> our Gambian situation as an example. It is not hard
> to safely predict where
> we are heading because anyone with good ideas in
> their head could not
> effectively function in that country. I don't care
> what sphere one chooses,
> the dynamics are the same. You couldn't run a good
> business, operate an
> independent advocacy organization or try to make a
> meaningful difference
> within the government bureaucracy. The reason is the
> entire national setup is
> averse to the concept of independent thought and
> idea generation. The
> government who should be nurturing a can-do spirit
> amongst the people by
> respecting them and concentrating on the basic tools
> Gambians would need to
> fend for themselves is instead actively trying to
> enslave them through
> terror, murder and corruption. The recipe for moving
> The Gambia forward would
> only come from a nurtured and sustained pool of
> ideas generated by our
> people, of their own volition and under
> circumstances strongly grounded in
> the rule of law. It would have to be a Gambia in
> which all her sons
> especially the talented among us can actively
> participate in a meaningful
> way. What we hear from this current regime on their
> socalled bid to marshall
> Gambians to join in their version of national
> development is a creul  joke.
> They have no ideas of any lasting value and they
> aren't interested in any
> arrangement that would respect the citizen and
> uphold constitutional and
> institutional inviolability. It has and will always
> be a vicious regime  more
> interested in co-option than meaningful
> transformation.
> Karamba
>
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