WHEN IT HURTS THIS DEEP EVEN A CORNERED CAT TAKES A DEFENSIVE PUSTURE
TO SELF PRESERVE GAMBIANS ARE NOBODIES SACRIFICIAL LAMBS BY ANY STRETCH OF
THE IMAGINATION!!!


>From: Sigga jagne <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
><[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: The Alternative
>Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 07:52:13 -0700
>
>Brother, it seems as if you were echoing my thoughts.
>There is indeed a profound need for action.  I for one
>am ready to act whenever a sound mechanism of action
>is activated.
>
>--- [log in to unmask] wrote:
> > There comes a time in the life of a nation in which
> > people simply have to
> > choose. In our case Gambians must now make a choice
> > between subjecting
> > themselves to the machinations of an evil man at the
> > helm of a brutal regime
> > who will stop at nothing in imposing himself on them
> > or they would resolve to
> > stop at nothing in their bid to terminate once and
> > for all the very ominous
> > trend toward enslavement. Yahya Jammeh is intolerant
> > and barbaric and has
> > designs that bode ill for all decent human beings.
> > In light of that fact it
> > is near folly for one to believe that he has any
> > intentions of fostering an
> > environment in which our people can choose their
> > leaders. Every available
> > evidence point to a regime bent on fomenting
> > violence by attacking, abducting
> > and attempting to assassinate innocent citizens.
> > Their strategy is meant to
> > make the political atmosphere so noxious that the
> > Gambian people would be
> > overwhelmed by hazards of theregime's tactics that
> > they would just succumb to
> > their Libyan Jamahirriyya model of  a no election
> > dictatorship. They have
> > convinced themselves that if Gambians are killed and
> > tortured in sufficient
> > numbers the people would simply surrender their
> > nation . The regime is
> > acutely aware that they can't win any nationwide
> > election regardless of the
> > circumstances in which it is conducted. They simply
> > can't. They have hence
> > crafted  what they deem to be the perfect fall back
> > position . At the heart
> > of their plan is to manufacture the appearance of
> > tension and blame it on
> > their most potent opponents (UDP). This way they can
> > use their corrupt
> > administrative apparatus to come with bogus
> > sanctions that are solely aimed
> > at hobbling the opposition to a point where they
> > won't be able to campaign
> > but falling short of an outright ban . This way they
> > can always say
> > opposition politics is alive and well while at the
> > sametime doing everything
> > to to make the UDP functionally handicapped in doing
> > the kind retail politics
> > that relies heavily on rallies. Rallies are also the
> > only way the UDP can
> > reach voters who have little access to the private
> > media that covers them
> > since GRTS as a matter of policy just tows the gov't
> > line.  Consequently  I
> > believe Gambians preferred route to democracy may be
> > doomed  by Yahya
> > Jammeh's penchant for violence and evil. He will not
> > compete fairly or
> > squarely and he is prepared to murder people to
> > sustain himself. The fact
> > that lawyer darboe and his supporters excaped
> > assasination in Basse gives no
> > solace to those who still harbor the believe that
> > there is a chance the
> > nation can limp along till the scheduled elections
> > within the next 12 months.
> > If anything it portends greater  bloodletting as a
> > recalciterent tyrant faces
> > an increasingly defiant citizenry no longer willing
> > to lie down and play
> > dead. The time has come for us all to come to the
> > inevitable conclusion that
> > Yahya Jammeh is a monster  intent on devouring our
> > nation  and removing him
> > must take precedence and would have to be at all
> > cost. We must all put
> > together a battleplan  and do what it takes to
> > execute it. There is no middle
> > ground because attempting to either work within or
> > moderate a regime that
> > excels at destroying the very fabric of our society
> > is a losing proposition.
> > It will only prolong an already aweful situation.
> > There will be plenty of
> > time for all of us come together and bicker about
> > the intricacies of various
> > issues of governace. For now we must get rid of this
> > monster.
> > Karamba
> >
> >
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