HAMZA:

I couldn't agree more. You hit the nail firmly on its head. Such kinds of
INTELLECTUAL PROSTITUTION, TERRORISM and JABBERWOCKY stuff will not be
allowed in this forum. We have these JACKASSES who have long mortgaged their
souls, integrity and all that they believe in take upon themselves to
intrude us with their garbage and grudges with the ultimate intention just
to come to smear fine Officers like Colly, who had put their lives and their
families's lives at risk, just to defend the constitution of our country.
These jackasses who try to paddle such garbage here are solely motivated by
sheer PAROXYSM, and they are the type of PANJANDRUMS who don't even care
about the plight of even their own families, whiles they try to protrude
their nostrils here in an attempt to do the ugly work for the vermin,
period. Such kind of slavery and prostitution always make me puke up to my
neck.

Prostitutes like Samba, despite their brilliant ability to communicate, are
often easily taken by subliminal and impulsive circumstances, which tend to
hypnotize their fine intellect. This is pathetic and absolutely detrimental
to INTELLECTUAL INDEPENDENCE. Sometimes I do wonder why some Gambia
intellectuals become so self destructive and always box themselves in a
keyless lock box because of out of passion and hatred. Frankly, Samba is a
big hypocrite here, because he has described Colly as someone who possesses
high esteem, and has the audacity to label him a 'tyrant'. In my book, some
one with high esteem is an individual who has integrity, honesty and his
deeds are always guided by moral prism. And that was Colly's attitude during
his tenure as Army Chief. In fact, it was because of his high esteem, as I
already stated it in my response to his Bigger Picture last week-end, that
he once again put his own life on the line to foil both the Farafenni and
Kartong attacks. As HAMZA put it best, not every body working for the state
is pro-Moron, and also not every body against the moron is also pro-jawara.
This is what prostitutes like Samba has to comprehend, period.

Ansumana.


>From: Hamjatta Kanteh <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: THE BIGGER PICTURE (Ebou Colley)
>Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 09:42:20 EDT
>
>This is utter garbage and i strongly urge Colly to completely ignore this
>gentleman. It is becoming an article of faith amongst some that Gambia-L
>provides them with an outlet to settle past personal grudges with certain
>individuals. The charges this gentleman filed against Colly are not only
>risible but along the same wave-lenght of this deplorable trend of personal
>vendettas Gambia-L is becoming accustomed. For instance, the gentleman
>queried:
>
>"When I first took issue with you, my central point of emphasis was
>two-fold
>- one, the way and manner in which you went about mystifying the so-called
>"impregnable" fortress of State House where your biggest demon still hides;
>and secondly the brutality that the captured "mercenaries" were subjected
>to
>by having their hands handcuffed together at their backs, and the signs of
>merciless torture that was so naked on their bodies. Of course, you tried,
>as much as you could, to portray me as an insensible hardcore saddist who
>was not prepared to take cognisance of the brutal mutilation of those young
>and innocent soldiers.
>
>Sam, people in positions of authority, like you were, must never see
>themselves as ordinary people. Your words are not also ordinary and
>meaningless. You must understand that your every word carries weight and
>authority to the ordinary mind, and can invoke passive influence,
>especially
>if they are not enlightening words. This was the crux of my argument."
>
>This is nonsense. If i recall properly, chief on the gentleman's previous
>charge sheet was that: Colly, by virtue of his uncompromising statement
>that
>State House security being impregnable, is culpable for the illicit
>activities carried out against the Farafenni Attackers. I suppose the
>torture
>these people underwent is part of the charge sheet??!! Where is the _ACTUAL
>EVIDENCE_ that indicts Colly for such heinous crimes? The gentleman
>provides
>none. The best he could come up with is guilt-by-association innuendoes and
>self-righteous moralising. I have said before that i've watched the video
>the
>gentleman tendered as part of his arsenal of evidence. The worst that could
>have been said of Colly then was his stringent warning that the sovereignty
>of the Gambian State will not be left untended to or compromised by attacks
>from unsavoury bandits hell-bent on an anarchy along the lines of Sierra
>Leone and Liberia. Is this not the reason why we have an Army in the first
>place? To defend the soveriegnty of the Gambian State? Was Colly not then
>an
>employee of the State? There is world of difference between working for the
>State and carrying out your duties as a State employee - as Colly was - and
>being loyal to the gov't of the day. Going by the gentleman's yardstick,
>each
>and every State employee is part and parcel of the "nurturing" of the
>Jammeh
>Mess. Has he cautiously paused to consider the logical implications of his
>sweeping assertions? I implore people to do the decent thing to think
>through
>their garbage before cluttering our mail boxes with the filth.
>
>Nothing makes the gentleman more ridiculous where he plays a literary
>sleight
>of hand  when he declared how he still holds Colly in "high esteem" - says
>Colly is still his much admired "koto" - but didn't flinch from labelling
>him
>a "tyrant"! Hold a "tyrant" in "high esteem"???!!! Silly stuff. Never mind
>the euphemism and the latent hypocrisy inherent here. The intent and
>purpose
>of the gentleman is laid bare in this graphic illustration of the contempt
>in
>which he holds Colly:
>
>"That you
>Samsudeen Sarr, who have been educated from the tax money of the people;
>you
>who have enjoyed all privileges as army commander by virtue of the tax
>money
>of the ordinary Gambian person can stand in this public forum and abuse the
>ordinary Gambian person so ruthlessly is beyond comprehension. These are
>the
>paternalistic tendencies that you have always displayed. You have no
>respect
>for decency and humility. You are just what you are - a tyrant; and as
>always with tyrants, they are  brave when they are victors, but cowards
>when
>they are vanquished.  You are the type who, after being born poor, grew up
>to hate poverty and anybody who is poor. You are the type of military
>saddists who will not hesitate to order the army to raze to the ground the
>slumps of the ghetto people in the name of development."
>
>I need not go any further to prove the real intentions of this gentleman;
>i.e. to assault the integrity of Colly. Its an abject shame these days that
>when you ride in town to point out these things, a self-styled group of
>Ethical Commissioners on this forum wax indignant on an imagined "cabal" of
>interest who tend to side with only one particular point of view. More's
>the
>shame that our Ethical Commissioners are not as honourable in what they are
>proseltising as they pretend to be. Their records speak for themselves.
>Speaking for myself, i'm not only open-minded, but i'm fiercely
>independent-minded. I have not only broken ranks with friends and family
>during the Jawara era but went to support a party my dear father unkindly
>calls "the party of the atheists" - he meant the PDOIS. Equally, the
>positions i've staked out on Gambia-L are based on solid principles and a
>genuine drive for what my conscience dictates to me as the right thing. I
>do
>not defend simply because something has got to be defended. I defend only
>because it is defensible. I will never defend the indefensible. The two
>individuals i tend to ally with most of the time on this List are Brothers
>Saul Khan and KB; and with each of these two, i've had my public
>disagreements. The archives of Gambia-L are there for all to check the
>relevant threads. I will never hesitate to condemn what in my mind appears
>as
>injustice.
>
>  I will just end this by reiterating my earlier position that anyone who
>was
>a public figure or held public office - elective or non-elective - is a
>fair
>game in our quest for justice for all Gambians. This includes every public
>figure from Jawara to Jammeh. What is, however, unacceptable is to bring
>unsubstantiated charges against individuals and labelling them either as
>"tyrants" or "worst monsters". Even if i don't share the same convictions
>of
>those unfairly labelled with such unsavoury epithets, i shan't hesitate to
>defend them from such unfair assaults on their integrity.
>
>Mean time i will patiently await our self-righteous Ethical Commissioners'
>condemnations - direct or indirect.
>
>Hamjatta Kanteh
>
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