In a message dated 12/24/2001 4:05:49 AM Central Standard Time,
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> 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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