Mr. Dampha,

Joof's action goes to show what these people are made of.  With the whole
arsenal behind them, they'll say and do anything. But let them venture out
without that protection and they become the wimps!! Cowards who can't even
stand up to defend their heinous acts.  They can run but they can't hide. It
won't be long now.

Lamin Jeng


>From: Dampha Kebba <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Joseph Joof: Running with Tail Between His Legs
>Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 10:38:51 -0400
>
>That the coward RAN AWAY from the audience and REFUSED to answer questions
>is no surprise to me. Matter of fact I was surprised he even mustered the
>courage to show up in the United States. Guess the Per Diem he was going to
>receive was too tempting for him to pass on. So he decided to kill two
>birds
>with one stone. He will receive his Per Diem and he will also regurgitate
>the APRC propaganda and then run away from questions.
>
>The reason I am not surprised that Joof absconded is that I consciously set
>the stage for Joof and with the help of people like Lamin Jeng, Saul Khan
>and Saiks Samateh, we told Joof what to expect in Washington, DC. Joof is
>not a moron like Yaya and his junta. He knew exactly what was laying in
>wait
>for him. He knew that the hostility that barricaded his boss (Yaya) in New
>York when the latter came to the UN was alive and kicking in Washington,
>DC.
>Frankly, I even thought that Joof will smell the coffee and not venture
>outside Gambia and come to DC. So, I was surprised when some friends
>stalked
>the APRC entourage and placed them at a TGI Fridays Restaurant in
>Alexandria, Virginia (just outside DC). Information reaching us confirmed
>concretely that Joof was in the States. My surprise was however was
>short-lived when I thought about Joof's love for money and his desire to
>receive Per Diem. I said to myself that at the end of the trip, Joof will
>discover that no amount of Per Diem is worth the humiliation he is going to
>live with for the rest of his life.
>
>The fact that the vermin is caught running with his tail in between his
>legs, will live with him for the rest of his sorry life. His children will
>be reminded of his cowardice. His wife will be informed of his cowardice.
>His colleagues in the Gambian Bar will hear about his cowardice. The morons
>Joof calls Boss will also know what transpired in DC. Whether they will
>hold
>that against Joof, is another matter. We must remember that the master
>moron
>(Yaya) also ran from us when he came to the United States. But decent
>Gambians like Joof's colleagues in the Gambian Bar (Ousainou Darboe, Ousman
>Sillah, Emmanuel Joof and Mariam Denton) know a coward when they see one. I
>bet Joof will henceforth have a tough time looking these people in the eye;
>knowing that his cowardice in DC is well publicized in the country.
>
>Joof knew that he cannot defend the indefensible. He can give press
>conferences in Gambia and threaten to ban all ex-PPP politicians that want
>to stand for the Opposition. But the vermin knows that he cannot come to DC
>and peddle that garbage here. Gambians in Gambia should make the whole
>country as inhospitable as DC was made for Joof and New York City was made
>for the master moron last year. Do NOT allow the vermin to peddle their
>lies
>and defend the indefensible. Boo them. Ask them tough questions. Point out
>their lies. Make them feel and appear like the morons and criminals they
>are. Do NOT let them defend the indefensible. Slaughtering children in
>broad
>daylight and denying the victims justice, is indefensible. Abducting and
>incarcerating innocent and defenseless citizens without trial, is
>indefensible. Looting government coffers and rendering Gambians poorer than
>they were seven years ago, is indefensible. Gambians should not allow these
>vermin to show their faces in public to defend these indefensible
>positions.
>
>No one banned Joof from speaking. No one threatened to bury him six-feet
>deep if he said something the Opposition did not like. No one threatened to
>victimize Joof and his family if he even insulted our parents. None of us
>had the power to fire Joof from his job or put him in jail. But we had a
>more potent power. We had the power to hit at Joof's conscience. We had the
>power to be critical and articulate the horrendous AFPRC/APRC record. We do
>NOT suffer from the deadly disease (ALES). With mere words, we had the
>ability (power) to reduce Joof to 'Musa Melentan' (a nonentity). The
>intangible here, was Joof's self-worth. The vermin did not want to suffer
>the humiliation of being put on the spot. He had very limited options. He
>knew he cannot hoodwink or intimidate some of us to swallow his garbage. He
>revisited his options and decided to take the easy way out. When placed in
>between a rock and a hard place, he decided to run away. He knew that he
>could Either come out and implicate Yaya and his criminal government Or he
>could make a total fool of himself by trying to defend child-murderers and
>thieves. Seeing the limited options he had, he decided to make a fool of
>himself rather than tell the truth and implicate Yaya. He knows that the
>truth comes with a heavy cost for him. He tells the truth, he is another
>ex-Attorney General (bringing this disgraced class of 'professionals' to a
>record-setting eight AGs in seven years). So for Joof it is easier to make
>a
>fool of himself than to alienate Yaya and lose his 'job'. It is easier for
>the vermin to mortgage his soul to the Devil than to tell the truth about
>the Massacre of our children, the torture and murder of Ebrima Barry, the
>illegal incarceration of Dumo et al, the rampant corruption in the country
>etc.
>
>Joof would rather be humiliated together with his family and friends, than
>tell the truth and annoy a criminal like Yaya. Should this man not be
>ashamed to call himself a lawyer? He belongs to a profession where people
>are taught to stand up and argue honestly for their different causes.
>Gambian taxpayers paid to educate Joof. Gambian taxpayers are currently
>paying Joof's salary. The same taxpayers paid for Joof's Per Diem to come
>to
>the United States; paid for his air-ticket. What did Joof deliver to the
>Gambian taxpayer? A 'lawyer' that CANNOT argue his position. This man is a
>disgrace to his profession. This man is a disgrace to Gambians. He is a
>disgrace to his family and friends. I feel sorry for his wife and children.
>The husband and the father that could not stand his ground. The 'lawyer'
>that ran away from a debate forum because he does not have ideas. The
>whiner
>that will run home and cry that he was scared of the names people were
>going
>to call him. Let Joof and his sympathizers give us a break. If they are
>whining about verbal abuse, I wonder what victims of AFPRC/APRC atrocities
>should be saying. Are people now telling us that Joof is so fragile that he
>cannot endure name-calling from the Opposition? To those people I say: If
>the vermin cannot take the heat, he should get the hell out of the kitchen.
>Who asked him to leave his private legal practice to be the enforcer of the
>criminal that is leading us? Did we in the Opposition force Joof to author
>the Indemnity Decree and help further victimize our children that were
>slaughtered by the government he works for? The vermin is lucky he came to
>a
>civilized country where the worst thing that can happen to him is verbal
>'abuse'. If we were them, they will not go to Alexandria, Va. and dine at
>TGI Fridays. We would have done like the thugs in the July 22 Movement and
>ambush them and incarcerate them incommunicado and deny ever setting eyes
>on
>them. Let them get to Hell with their whining. Darn right we will not allow
>them to defend the indefensible in a debate forum. If that means calling
>them names, we will gladly do so. Is it not this same Joof that went to a
>press conference in Banjul and said that all the ex-PPP politicians were
>corrupt? Is this not name-calling? Worst still, this is baseless
>name-calling; Lies.
>
>Let the shameless vermin and whiner say what he wants. We all know what
>happened. He was caught cowardly running with his tail between his legs.
>KB
>
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