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From: Jabou Joh <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2001 12:21 AM
Subject: Re: Election Boycott-Attn: Jabou Joh
> In a message dated 12/24/2001 4:05:49 AM Central Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
>
> > Jabou,
> >
> > I am very disappointed that you have come to this conclusion. One thing
I
> > can assure you is that you can call me anything but phoney or a Jammeh
> > apologist. I have been as truthful as can be unlike some of you. What I
> > write/say may not be that palatable to many, but belief you me, what I
> > write/say on this forum, I can defend to eternity. Jabou, I don't lie!
> > Anyway, like you said, history will be our judge.
> >
> > Have a good day, Gassa.
> >
> Gassa,
>
> I never said you lied, and i did not call you phony, although i did call
you
> a Jammeh apologist. Forgiving the Jammeh regime and moving on cannot
> realistically happen unless and until he moves to put a closure to the
cases
> that need to be investigated and addressed, and stops running the country
> like a police state.
>
> From the look of things, this is not likely to happen either because
Jammeh
> may incriminate himself if this is done, or he may incriminate others who
> can equally make public all the skeletons in his closet, or they may
simply
> take their revenge in another way and he fears this.
> The things you have said about how the Jawara regime virtually destroyed
the
> economy in the provinces is all true and much more, but any progress that
> this current regime makes cannot be a substitute for freedom of speech
and
> human rights nor can it be an excuse for them to continue to run the
country
> in a heavyhanded manner, and you have chosen to wear blinders when it
comes
> to these facts. We cannot afford to make excuses for the oppressors of our
> people and then stand up to say we are on the side of truth.
>
> Wherein lies our hope? Certainly not with the UDP/PPP allinace either.
> Let me say that I at least am not clueless enough to believe that if the
> UDP/PPP alliance had won the elections, we would not have another
> tribalistic, ( oh, don't say that word, but yes, we will say it) and
agenda
> driven government because based on their actions, public or supposedly
> private it certainly looked that way.
>
> What I am really tired of is the fact that when it comes to politics in
our
> country, we have a collection of people in one camp or other who think
that
> they are cunning enough to use and fool the people to further their own
> agenda when it is only themselves they are fooling. The future is quite
bleak
> indeed.
>
>
> Jabou Joh
>
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