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Hamjatta, you have a unique way of reducing these vermin to the nonentities
they are. Before I move on, let me caution you to stop using the word vermin
or else Essa Sey will also think that you are Samsudeen Sarr. Now Sarr has
intellectual property rights to certain words in the dictionary. I also
noticed the vermin but I was just going to play along with him until he
makes a bigger blunder under his nomme de guerre and then we will deliver
his head to Yaya on a plate. He is the same fellow that sent that
nonsensical mail to Dr. Touray the other day. He thinks his hot air will
deter people from speaking the truth. Well, he cannot be further from the
truth. I do not care if he comes here as Alieu Keita or Essa Sey or Paul
Gomez or Sedat Senghore. Let us just engage him if he has something
important to say.

But if all he does is obsess about Sarr, let us just ignore him. It makes
him sick if he is ignored. Remember how Essa Sey begged Colly to read his
mails? Remember how Alieu Keita suddenly started interviewing himself when
both me and Ebrima Ceesay ignored his gibberish? See how he is desperately
trying to gain people's attention by regurgitating garbage about Sarr? The
man suffers from low self-esteem. Sick puppy. Let us not give him his
fifteen minutes. He is a man mad that cannot even write coherent sentences.
Ooops!! I must be Samsudeen Sarr because I am criticizing his writing. Guess
that also makes you and Prince extra Samsudeen Sarrs because you too
criticized Essa Sey's writings? This man is sick. But I am going to make him
become sicker.

Brother, you know that these vermin cannot move us. Now, if you or someone
like Saul were to sell-out (God Forbid), that would be devastating to me.
But these low-lives? Let them go to Hell. I care less what they think about
me or if they want to mortgage their souls to the Devil. Let them call us
hateful liars that tell horror stories about Gambia. Talk is cheap. What
they cannot do, is look us in the eye and debunk our 'lies'. The fact that
we do not have top APRC people coming here to defend the indefensible, is no
accident. They would love to stick it to us. Their problem is, the facts are
not on their side. Don't you think before running all the way to Banjul,
John Bojang would have loved to face Karamba and call Karamba a liar? Bojang
does not have the guts to do so in the brother's face. You see, there was
some comments from Sedat Jobe about the London Briefing that went unnoticed
on G_L. Jobe did not have the guts to criticize the Meeting in a forum where
the Movement participates. Jobe did not even have the guts to talk about the
Meeting in Gambia knowing that Hamat Bah and OJ were there. The coward went
all the way to Dakar where he was pimping for Yaya in order to muster the
courage to utter derogatory words about the Meeting. All for what? Two
houses he built courtesy of Yaya. Houses we are going to seize (in order to
teach the parasite a lesson) when all is said and done?

If they have to sell their souls, they should at least ask for bigger
prizes. You see, one fellow by the name of Lamin Jeng just demolished the
infantile and bogus story Yaya, Essa Sey and John Bojang peddle to Gambians.
I think I know this Jeng fellow, but I am not sure. In any case, if he is
the fellow I think he is, here we have a hardworking Gambian young Gambians
should be proud of and emulate. He did the right things as legislated by
society. Worked hard at school, got the good grades, hustled his way through
school, got a great job in a highly competitive society (where we all know
the odds stacked against people with our backgrounds), mind his own business
and raising his family. Not to take away anything from this man, I am glad
to report that there are many Gambians like Jeng in the U.S., in Britain,
Scandinavia, Ivory Coast, you name it. Contrast these people with the
low-lives that are running our country. High School drop-outs, no wives or
children before July 22, 1994, drunkards, drug addicts, liars, hypocrites,
thieves, any vice you can think of.

Instead of grown men like John Bojang addressing this bizarre situation,
what do they do? They tell their children to emulate Yaya. Essa Sey tells
Gambians to be grateful that Yaya is giving them the money he, Yaya, is
stealing from them. To these vermin, the world has turned upside down. Now
lies make sense. And the truth and good societal norms? They do not want to
hear it.

Bojang would rather go to Gambia and lie to the press that the Lamin Jengs
and Saul Khans and Damphas of this world are all asylum seekers, hateful
liars, that are only opposing Yaya because their fathers were
disenfranchised by Yaya. Essa Sey would rather come to G_L, ignore the fact
that people like Kabir Njie are working mighty hard in Scandinavia, instead
brand all of them as dole collectors simply because these people oppose
Yaya. All Bojang or Essa Sey need to know, is whether one opposes Yaya and
one is critical enough to realize that they (Sey and Bojang) have mortgaged
their souls to the Devil. Once they identify you on the other side, they
brand you as a good for nothing Gambian. What is more illogical than that?

As I said, I do not know this Jeng fellow for certain. If he turns out not
to share my views about Yaya, I might call him some things. But I will never
lie about the man. I will not say that his a loser that is seeking asylum in
the U.S. That is not true. I will engage the man on the ISSUES if we
disagree. But I will not smear the man and lie about him. That is exactly
what Bojang and his cohorts are doing. They lie about people that do not
share their views about intellectual prostitution. But, what they do not
realize is that their audience is more intelligent than them. The audience
they are preaching to, are our families we send money to every day. No
matter how many lies Bojang tells, Jeng will not be an asylum seeker or lose
his job and his family. They can lie till day break, but they cannot take
away people's hard earned degrees and their integrity. On the other hand, no
matter how hard they try, they will remain uncouth nonentities. No amount of
honorary degrees can make Yaya and engineer. No amount of massaging his
resume will make Essa Sey a fine soldier like Sarr or a fine gendarme like
Chongan.

These Yaya people do not realize what they are dealing with. Hamjatta, these
barbarians should be calling you Mr. Kanteh for teaching them how to lead
decent lives as human beings. Your focus on this breed of Gambians now
towards the election is quite timely and a noble endeavor on your part.
Thanks again for your contributions.
KB



>From: Hamjatta Kanteh <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Evil, Its Proxies and  Intellectual Rationalisation
>Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 12:43:55 EDT
>
>KB,
>You are spot on about how "Jobe's" alibis, sophistry and hypocrisy have
>been
>grazed to the ground. "Jobe" is damaged goods and i'll be surprised to see
>him on the List again touting foolishly idiotic APRC "projects" in his
>attempts to rationalise the evilry of Jammeh. His mission has completely
>failed - as i warned him earlier. Now, the Dictatorship would be advised to
>pull him away from the scene before it is too late; they can't afford
>gaffes
>like the one "Jobe" has been pulling off of late. I noticed that Essa
>"Bokassa" Sey has returned to the List again under the nom de guerre of
>Paul
>Gomez. Good luck to him in his chimeric pursuit of Samsudeen Sarr. I wonder
>what this Samsudeen Sarr fellow has done to him? Have you noticed his
>bizarre
>obsession with Sarr? It has that dreaded and horrible acute low inferiority
>complex written all over it. Where are these people from?
>
>In any event, I'm glad i have on my side, patriots with the calibre of
>giants, in the fight against the criminal syndicate running the show in the
>Gambia. In you,  Brother Saul Khan and else, i take comfort in the
>knowledge
>that the Gambia still has patriotic and conscientious sons who wouldn't
>mortgage their souls for the gains of this world. Patriots that are
>hard-working and conscientious; never flinching from doing the Good as
>their
>consciences  and beliefs dictate to them. Patriots who are smart and have
>better alternatives to the madness imposed upon us by this bunch of rag tag
>fraternity of slimeballs, acute low inferiority complex ridden vagabonds,
>and
>philistines thanks to who we have a system of gov't in the Gambia called
>MEDIOCRACY, i.e., gov't based on the whims and caprices of mediocrities and
>in which mediocrity has a greater moral value than anything else.
>
>Brother, when "Jobe" under pressure and or interrogation from Saul Khan
>made
>this Freudian Slip by stating this give-away prize: "I personally believe
>that as commander in chief the
>president must have given the order to shoot or his VP, Mrs. Isatou Njie
>Saidy, as Ag. Commander in chief then", i believe it was mischieviously
>uttered and indeed intended for an applicable purpose. See, my hunch is
>that
>Jammeh is readying another sacrificial lamb come the next general
>elections.
>And Njie-Saidy  is the perfect candidate. Her reputation amongst the
>metropolitan "feminists" or middle class female dissenters, their radical
>male allies and other fellow travellers, is at an all time low. She is
>simply
>dispensable in the current scheme of things - especially the re-eclection
>bid
>. And to correct the huge "error" of not prosecuting anyone for the April
>Massacres, Jammeh knows a big fish has to be fried. Since those who are
>part
>of the inner coterie of his evil - like Badgie, Jatta, Jobe, et al - are
>still indispensable, logic points towards Njie-Saidy, who circumstantial
>evidence heavily incriminates in the April Massacres. This is why "Jobe"
>deliberately flew that kite and admitted to Njie-Saidy's culpability in the
>scheme of things.
>
>But this misses a fundamental point: the procedure leading to the
>PREMEDITATED order to shoot at the children. As i understand it, the Veep,
>i.e, Njie-Saidy, CANNOT make unilateral decisions the magnitude of the
>order
>to shoot at the children; this requires delegation of duties from the
>president to the Veep or such other juniors. And in so doing, the Veep has
>to
>deliberate/consult cabinet colleagues in a "National Security Council"
>meeting. Hence the culpability of ALL those who had prior information that
>orders had been given to shoot at the school children and lend their
>credence
>to it by staying mute and or trying to defend the gov't despicably in
>public
>after the shootings. I will stretch it to include those proxies of evil
>like
>tenured civil servants, cabinets members and the rest of the  sycophantic
>Jammeh crowd who continue to peddle lies and cover-ups in these heinous
>crimes against the Gambian peoples. All these people bear a measure of
>responsibility and should as you pointed out earlier, face such charges
>like
>accessories to murder, trying to stymie the cause of justice, contempt of
>court for lying to the toothless commission and coroner. Be that as it may,
>i
>seek not to exenorate Njie-Saidy but to point to the despicable attempts to
>deflect and indeed disarm charges against Jammeh that "Jobe" is hell-bent
>on.
>Njie-Saidy, bears a measure of responsiblility for the callous murder of
>these school children and for this, she shall be indicted by both the
>present
>and posterity.
>
>"Smart" people like Njie-Saidy, Sarjo Jallow, Joseph Joof, Dr Sedat Jobe
>and
>our mutual friend "Kebba Jobe" today represent what shall call the
>intellectual rationalisers and proxies of evil in the Gambia and against
>the
>Gambian peoples. When Jammeh pillages, murders and maims, these people will
>come and tout such absurd "projects" like the Arch 22 to vouchsafe the
>legitimacy of Jammeh's illegal gov't. These people have more than
>anyone/thing - Jammeh himself included - contributed in strengthening,
>aiding
>and rationalising all the evil that Jammeh has and continues to wreak on
>the
>Gambia and the Gambian peoples. These people like their intellectual
>proxies
>of yesteryears, especially during the Cold War in the West, think that evil
>through, what Michael Oakeshott, the leading Conservative thinker in
>Britain
>of that period, aptly labelled as "constructivist rationalism". By
>"constructivist rationalism", Oakeshott meant it to mean the attempts made
>by
>leading Leftists, socialists and their fellow travellers to rationalise the
>evilry inherent in the Soviet system by touting such ideals like social
>justice, equality, etc, etc, which they claimed albeit the Gulags, the
>Soviet
>system embodied. But Oakeshott courageously argued, against such leading
>luminaries like Brian Barry, Harold Laski, G.D.H Cole, etc, etc, that evil
>is
>evil. Period. Evil cannot be rationalised. It must be isolated and
>exterminated. Any attempts to make it look or feel benign will fail
>miserably.
>
>Similarly, the same rationale is what is given/provided by those whoring
>their intellects to the killer of our brothers and sisters. This is quite
>understandable: virtually all of the sophisticated intellectual defence
>that
>attempts to act as a credible bulwark against us battling against the
>tyranny
>comes from people who in their youth cut their teeth in Leftist agitation
>against Jawara. That people like Sarjo Jallow can rationalise the continued
>illegal detention of former comrades like Dumo Sarho is reminiscent of
>Leftist apologia for the barbarity of the Communist menace during the Cold
>War. If you ask me, people like Jallow are barbarians in the Schumpeterian
>interpretation of that term. Let Schumpeter argue for me on what
>differentiates a civilized man from a barbarian: "to realize the relative
>validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what
>distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian."
>
>If people like Sarjo Jallow had the tiniest measure of human civility in
>them
>and indeed still adhere to the ideals that propelled them to agitate
>against
>Jawara, the least they could do, is to resign in disgust at the injustices
>meted out to a former colleague. This is simply too much to ask of these
>toe
>hypocrites and Leftist turn coats. All they are engaged in basically is to
>tell us: yes Jammeh has downsides but hey look he has built roads and
>bridges. I say: Poppycock! No amount of material is measurable to the
>dignified existence of a human life. No amount of materail gain warrants
>the
>callous and heinous crimes Jammeh has and continues to unleash on the
>Gambian
>peoples. Come to think of, what has these so-called "improvements" done for
>the average Gambian? Zilch! By their own admission, Gambians are now poorer
>than when Jawara was there. So what significant " improvement" is there to
>tout as indicative of the benevolence of this prehistoric gov't or
>measurable
>to the ills it has and continues to wrought on the Gambian peoples? Yet
>proxies of evil like Dr Jobe persist in their damnable and despicable
>attempts to rationalise the evilry of Jammeh. Do these peoples sleep at
>night? How do they manage with life knowing fully well that they aiding and
>abetting with a man who callously ordered the slaughter of children as
>young
>as three and whose departure from this world was not only a tragic
>interference with young lives, but a heavy indictment of the Gambian
>peoples
>willingness to let an imbecile to ruin our nation.
>
>As you rightly pointed out in your original message - which "Jobe" has
>shabbily tried to disfigure with his sophistry - the onus is on us adults
>to
>say to Jammeh that we want our country back. If children can go out in the
>streets and boldly send out a message to our meat head "president" that
>liberty is liberty and that our freedoms belong to none but us, then  it is
>incumbent on us adults to take on evil and uproot it from our midst. The
>children have done their part. Our lack of collective resolve in assaulting
>the dictatorship is an indictment and betrays the trust of the fallen young
>ones. The ghosts of these fallen young ones are restless and hovering over
>us
>stupefied that we can stay largely complacent with Jammeh's evilry after
>what
>he has visited on us.
>
>As my intellectual hero, Isaiah Berlin, wrote of his hero, Chaim Weizman,
>"...... when great public issues are joined one must above all take sides;
>whatever one did, one must not reamain neutral or uncommitted, one must
>always - as an absolute duty - take part in the world's affairs with all
>the
>risk and blame and misrepresentation and misunderstanding of one's motives
>and character which this almost inevitably entails." I brought this
>specifically to your and Colley's attention because i noticed how your
>motives and characters has been under constant attack by those whom you
>aptly
>call vermins. Please take comfort in the knowledge that you are acting out
>of
>an **absolute duty** to your beliefs and conscience and a common humanity
>with those fallen ones whom you probably never knew in real life. Again, to
>paraphrase Schumpeter, in your attempts to realize the relative validity of
>your convictions and stand up for them unflinchingly you have made it
>abundantly clear to all that yours is distinguishable from the spineless
>barbarians who intellectually rationalise evil and thus act as its proxy.
>
>Hamjatta Kanteh
>
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