Friends, sorry for this comment, but I could not held back, that when I read
the speech I was thinking if it was a coincident or it was like a rite, a
mantra repeating "seven years ago".
I know that the President wanted to stress all the improvement that has
happened in APRC´s 7 years in power. That they made a line in the sand and
here is the list of what APRC has achieved.
Like 3 is it in adventures and fairytales (you have three wishes, after
three years, three sons, three big threats, three tests to pass before
getting the princess etc etc) , 7 seven is also a special number.
Seven is often mentioned and repeated in the Bible. f.in.
- after 7 good years 7 bad years will follow
or the living rules put up for Moses, which I quote out of memory and has
not checked, so excuse me for not being precise:
- every seventh year you will take a so called free year or year off, and
in that year you will release everyone from his dept to you, and God will
provide and bless you, etc....
- in the month of abib you will make an offer and in seven days you may not
eat loaf of leavened bread, and for seven days you may not have leaven in
the house.....
- count seven weeks forward from the day you harvest and then celebrate the
weekly feast....
etc. etc.
So is it just coincident that The President want to stress those 7 (seven)
years, or is it intended ? What will he promise if these seven years were
the good ones ? I´m sorry but could not put that feeling aside when reading
the speech.
Asbjørn Nordam
on 01/08/01 10:14, Mr Makaveli at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Folks,
> I don't know about you all but what I saw and heard from this moron is just
> 4^<k!ng incredible. It seems this guy got our entire country by the balls.
> I'm taking about addressing all those dignitaries and the entire audience
> as boys and girls and god knows how many doggone times he keeps repeating
> "7 years ago". For a moment I thought he was making a mockery of our elders
> and he was funny at some point, and he kind of reminded me of Chief
> Zebudia (Nigerian comedian) with his "7 years ago" speech. He said, "7
> years, Gambians were ashamed to show visitors the old Yundum airport for
> it look more like a cattle ranch and not an airport. And that today we
> gambians would go to the extent of waking up those visitors, if they were
> asleep, just to make sure they see our new state-of-the-art Yundum airport.
>
> You have to see it and hear speech for yourself, then you'll agree that
> the guy should have pursued a career as a standup comedian than becoming
> a president for any country. Yes, he maybe the president for now but
> Jammeh is not presidential. You should have seen the reaction from the
> crowd. One guy had to adjust his pair of glasses when Jammeh said without
> any regard for diplomacy that the opposition and their alliance "can go to
> hell" and anyone trying to instigate any kind of trouble "will not even be
> able to regret it, because he or she will be six-feet deep". I know what
> some of you might be thinking and hey, I probably would say it's a hearsay,
> but that's why I think his website is a blessing in disguise for those in
> the opposition and we thank him for making such speech available online,
> unedited, raw and uncut.
>
> I tell you, you got to give him dues. The guy renders his speech writers
> useless. No notes, no draft, no speech-writer needed. No wonder he went
> bezerk. I mean the guy has added a new meaning to dictatorship and you
> forget Hitler, considering how small Gambia is compared to Germany. He can
> have his troops perform routine around the country in less than five minutes
> just to show you small gambia is.
>
> His speech didn't stop there. A Jammeh's speech is off record without him
> disrecpecting our parents and people old enough to be his grandpa. Noooo!
> He went on telling parents how they should raise their kids, blaming
> gambian workers for letting foreigners take their jobs, on and on he went.I
> asked why the double standard ladies and gentlemen? For starters, the guy
> is married to a foreigner( Moroccan to be expilicit). Why then did he said
> we cannot allow the foreigners to feed the nation. Curious minds would then
> hasten to ask Who is feeding him then? A gambian woman? Well, as he said in
> his closing comments, he is the president and he has the right to exercise
> his freedom of speech. Therefore I would give him the benefit of the doubt.
> Nonetheless, I wished others were allow that same freedom of expression he
> valued so much.
>
> Anyway, I'm not even going to stoop any lower than I already have into
> this but I just found this mansa in his white oversized 'nyeti abdou' with
> a samurai sowrd on one hand and sheik's prayer beads on the other, quite
> contradicting to say the least. Hell, we may not have a glittering airport
> to show off 7 years ago but we had peace and without peace and stability,
> that very airport he is bragging about may fall into bits and pieces if all
> indications are that what happened in Liberia and Sierra leone might
> invariably and God forbid happen in the Gambia come doomsday.
>
> Looking through the crowd, one could easily identify some 50 to 80 yr olds
> being addressed as boys and girls. Never did I hear him refer the crowd as
> ladies and gentlemen but boys and girls. So what if the vast majority were
> students. Just look around the number 50 years sitting at the edge of
> their seats." Yahya Jammeh, Gadu Gna Bakarr". To him, they are just boys
> and girls and it's either his way or six-feet deep. What gave me cramps in
> my stomach was that people were cheering for him. God help us all.
> As the saying goes, " Video means Wadi Whut" in wolof and here is the
> 'Wadi Whut' nicely packaged by his excellency for public consumption. GOTO>
>
> http://www.jammeh2001.org/realvideo/j22speech/j22speech2.rpm
> AND http://www.jammeh2001.org/realvideo/j22speech/j22speech3.rpm
>
> Mr Makaveli! (o-:)
> PS: Normally, I'm a little leery about hearing Jammeh speak because not
> that it's the embarassment I'm bound to stomach but the fact that I'm
> simply allergic to him speak, period. But try it just once like I just did.
> 4^<k!ng incredible..
>
>
>
>
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