I join Dampha to appeal to folks who want to delist
from the L.I think that will make the devil and his
gang of criminals happy.We should challenge the
management of the L to give free speech a chance than
delisting.
Abdou Karim Sanneh
Manchester UK
--- Dampha Kebba <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> This is just ridiculous. What Jaiteh needs is a darn
> dictionary. This is the
> same man/management that would tolerate people using
> the ‘a-word’. Several
> people on this List have used that word and they
> were NOT summarily
> ‘delisted’. I hasten here to add that I am NOT
> advocating for the
> ‘delisting’ of anyone that uses that word either. To
> me LIES are more
> offensive than the use of these words. Now, someone
> uses a relatively benign
> word (albeit distasteful to some in List Management)
> and the next you know,
> he is summarily ‘delisted’. At the risk of sounding
> like a broken record, I
> would like to reiterate to List Management that
> CENSORSHIP and DICTATORSHIP
> does NOT work anywhere. Mboge CANNOT be gagged by
> these childish gimmicks;
> Jaiteh sitting in a computer lab continents away,
> playing Dictator and
> imagining putting people on the ‘chopping block’
> CANNOT do it. More brutal
> Dictators like Yaya have tried and failed to silence
> the people. List
> Management should quit this nonsense and get a life.
>
> At the very least, List Management should apply the
> ‘rules’ in a uniform
> manner. Let Jaiteh explain to us how consistent one
> would be perceived if
> one ignores the use of the ‘a-word’ from Yaya
> supporters, but ‘delist’ Mboge
> for what Mboge said. List Management is acting like
> a typical Dictatorship
> that moves the goalpost willy-nilly. They know that
> if we set out CONCRETE
> ‘rules’ that would be applied EQUITABLY, in no time
> I will get Jaiteh
> ‘delisted’. I will query his words, and unlike them,
> I will make sure that
> my queries stick. This is no idle threat. If List
> Management tells us what
> is acceptable and what is not and also tell us the
> mode of adjudication and
> what would get someone ‘delisted’, Jaiteh would soon
> be ‘delisted’ or would
> be relegated to hiding in the background and sending
> ridiculous one-liners.
>
> I have no patience for these hypocritical
> moralizers. These are the very
> people that sit around and watch someone’s dead
> parent’s name being dragged
> in the mud. They sit and watch someone’s mom being
> falsely accused of the
> most heinous crime in the Koran. And now they pounce
> on people for using
> perfectly normal English words to aptly characterize
> a person or a
> situation. To List Management vulgar LIES is more
> acceptable to distasteful
> truth? Reminds me of a funny line I read the other
> day. Jaiteh should grab a
> tequila and have a lap-dance now he is at the
> bachelor’s party. In other
> words, loosen up. I beg the pardon of people that
> found the ‘definition’
> repetitious. But you have to realize that nowadays
> on G_L you have to break
> it down for the Jaitehs. Before the man takes
> offense at my mention of
> alcoholic beverages and lap-dancers, I have to tell
> him in no uncertain
> terms that I merely meant for him to loosen up and
> quit pretending. I do NOT
> mean to insinuate that the GREAT and UPRIGHT Jaiteh
> would EVER want to drink
> alcohol or be entertained by exotic dancers. It is
> pathetic what the
> Dictatorship wants to reduce this List to. Geez!
> Can’t these people
> understand simple English? Don’t they have children
> they can lord over at
> home?
>
> Karamba and Kabir, please reconsider your decision
> to ‘delist’. You do that,
> the Dictatorship (List Management) wins. Let us
> ensure that they come
> face-to-face with their deeds. Their conscience
> CANNOT be clear knowing that
> they have allowed people to use more vulgar language
> while picking on Mboge.
> Moreover, with the exception of Ya Soffie and Ndey
> Jobarteh, List Management
> stood by and watch the most outrageous and vulgar
> LIES being perpetrated on
> G_L. The biggest weapon against a Dictatorship with
> a conscience is constant
> reminder of their despicable deeds.
> KB
>
>
>
> >From: Ngorr Ciise <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing
> list
> ><[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: Your removal from the GAMBIA-L list
> >Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 11:19:21 +0000
> >
> >The mail below is from Brother Momodou Mboge.
> Apparently, he has been
> >delisted for using the word "dickhead". Now, one
> would have thought that
> >political correctness has its limits, and Gambia-L
> is no exception to this
> >observation. "Dickhead" roughly translates as a
> "moron" or "mental midget".
>
>
>
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