Hi Bro J,
What happen to your sister Jabou Joh,or she is now APRC(laugh).
Please kindly let me know.
Best Wishes,
Sis Hon. FJC

Joe Sambou wrote:

> Bambalaye, you are right on the money and everyman/woman has a inalienable
> right to self defense.  Thus, if these thugs come to administer their
> thuggry in any neighborhood, then it should not only be the business of his
> family alone to run these thugs down but all well meaning persons in the
> neighborhood.  The courts are not going to do a darn thing about it.  This
> abuse persists because we are too consumed with the self to the point that a
> whole compound of twenty or more individuals would stand and watch 3 to 5
> thugs come and yank one of their members without just cause, beat them to a
> pulp and disappear with them without a flinch from their relatives,
> neighbors, and friends alike.  Gambians know who these thugs are but they
> chose to look the other way.  You do not have to be educated to know that
> wrong is wrong.  If these thugs get a beating of their life once, twice,
> etc., this abuse would stop over night.  But as long as we have this "Not My
> Problem" attitude, then we are going to see a continuation of this thuggry.
> These thugs have a mandate from the top and anyone who thinks that Jammeh is
> ignorant of these events in really delusional.  This is an extension of the
> "Machine" and all tyrants worth their salt would have one - Rwalins, Doe,
> Amin, Habre, Mobutu, etc.  These thugs are what keeps the "Fear Factor"
> alive and they do not need a special event to remind the public that they
> are around and watching.  But characteristic of our attitude, Gambians want
> a "sacrificial Lamb" before they can act, just like what happened in 1981,
> with the Kukoi, rampage.   That event showed what some of our people are
> capable of.  These thugs were dormant because the environment was not
> conducive for them prior to Jammeh and the tone from the top was not
> supportive of them.  However, we saw tid bits with the then CID and Police
> thugs.  Remember that outfit, with Lie Joof (Mooti), Nickola Kujabi (Mooti
> Saharr), Tex Khan and others.  What we call the NIA today is nothing but the
> new and improved CID with a tyrant's blessing.  What Dumo is going through
> with the NIA is the same thing he and countless others experienced with the
> CID.  Growing up, I cannot count the number of times Dumo was arrested for
> extended periods, with no just cause by the above listed individuals and
> their colleagues.  Now, they do not arrest you with bogus warrants, but
> would kidnap you to some dingy place some where until their bestiality is
> satisfied and just let you loose at any street corner of their choice and
> Gambians just go on their business.
>
> Fear killed many a persons before their death.  Our people need to stop
> complaining and start defending themselves.  No one wants violence, but if
> violence is the only way we can defend ourselves from these thugs, then that
> we must do and it is a universal human law.  Folks need to stand up for
> their fellow countryman/woman if the courts and law enforcers would not do
> their jobs, for the life you save my be your very own, the next time around.
>   Keep the faith.
>
> Chi Jaama
>
> Joe Sambou
>
> >From: BambaLaye <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
> ><[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: The Thuggry Continues
> >Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 22:33:22 -0500
> >
> >Joe,
> >
> >It is unfortunate that we continue to see and hear these forces of crude
> >thuggery at work. I have said it before that the maintenance of civil order
> >and social democracy cum tranquility is in the hands of the masses. The
> >people of Gambia. It has been there since the advent of the constitution of
> >the republic. It was never anywhere else. We are bordering onto naivety and
> >laziness by believing that anything remotely affecting our individual
> >rights can be safely entrusted to criminals and thugs through any process
> >that resembles the rule of law.
> >Self-defense against individual criminals – or criminals sanctioned by the
> >APRC – can no more be delegated to some body else, like the judges in those
> >courts than eating can, or sleeping, or any other natural function. These
> >stories of disruptions of legally certified gatherings, abductions and
> >torture should warn us that delegated responsibility becomes power and that
> >power becomes inevitably abused when in the wrong hands. If civil order and
> >social democracy are to be upheld in the Gambia, the emphasis must be on
> >finding a definite and absolute way towards enforcing the basic human
> >rights as entrenched in the constitution – the constitutional enforcement.
> >We must find a way to take that power out of the hands that are abusing it
> >and break it down. We must break the power down into units so small that it
> >cannot be called power, but simply “responsibility”, which unlike power,
> >comes not from the barrel of a gun, but from the mind and heart of the
> >human behind that gun.
> >A refusal to see the obvious, a failure to question the doubtful, if
> >grossly evident, may provide proof leading to an inference of collaboration
> >and gross abuse of power so as to impose responsibility for abuse suffered
> >by those who rely on the laws. In other words, heedlessness and reckless
> >disregard of consequences may take the place of deliberate intentions. We
> >must be weary of such. We must stand up to do the best we can to revert
> >this cycle of abuse. It is clearly taking its toll in bits and pieces, here
> >and there, today and perhaps tomorrow.
> >
> >(BambaLaye)
> >Abdoulie A. Jallow
> >==============================================
> >"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
> >-Martin Luther King Jr.
> >
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