Mr Sillah,

This pain you are felling is ours too as Made Joberteh rightly pointed out in
that wonferfull article and parlimentarians who voted against.Some of us will
not let you fight this war alone,please feel fri and tell us what  we can do
from here.Take care.

For freedom
Saiks












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>Karamba,
>
>From this end, we are very hopeful that we are going
>to win this battle. I can see your concerns but i want
>to beleive that if  my brother's two year old toddler
>was given this case to handle he would surely throw it
>in the dust bin. Why? because it is written black and
>white as an entrenched clause of the constitution that
>the book is the supreme law of the land. So how can a
>bill eventhough a valid enactment of the national
>assembly pass the test of that constitution? How can a
>country with an Attorney General and all the legal
>advisers at his chambers draft such a law without
>seeing the loopholes? Just like in the case of other
>unsuccessful attempts to silence journalists
>unjustifiably, this other attempt will surely fail
>woefully. I am definately optimistic that we will win
>this battle in any form because we are in order.
>Probably after crossing this river, it will be the
>last attempt to gag the press. No frredom is gained in
>laziness. Our government is only suffering from a self
>inflicted paranoia because there are ample laws in the
>country as far as liable and defamation are concerned.
>We are not asking for any special treatment. What we
>saying is treat everybody equally. There is no
>gurantee that after a journalist is convicted at this
>commission, the complainants will not take their case
>to the high court because the liable laws are still
>active, all other repugnant military decrees against
>the media are not repealed either.` So there is no
>gurantee again that journalists will not suffer from
>double punishments for a single complain. These and
>other reasons strenghten our resolve to challenge
>this law in court and all what it stands for. Have to
>contunie with my work now...i can see more BBC
>messages are popping up on my screen.
>
>E Sillah.
> --- [log in to unmask] wrote: > Madi is ofcourse correct
>in the entirety of his
>> objections to this illegal
>> garbage of a law just passed. Mr Sillah and his
>> colleagues at the GPU are
>> geared up for a vigorous defense of their rights as
>> a constitutionally
>> protected class of professionals by pledging
>> outright non cooperation. For
>> their courageous stand the Gambian people shall be
>> with them throughout this
>> entire battle. For those Gambians who are about to
>> throw in the towel and
>> declare our nation beyond redemption hopelessly
>> mired in sycophancy, lies,
>> corruption and decay, please remember that there are
>> good people who will
>> stand up for what is right. We must join their
>> battles and continue to fight
>> with them. There are decent people in the length and
>> breadth of our country
>> who want no part of this government of murderers,
>> liars and cheats.
>>        As for seeking judicial redress, I think it
>> is fine for the GPU to
>> proceed to the courts purely as a matter of process.
>> I don't believe they
>> will get a fair shake because the Gambian courts as
>> currently constituted
>> have ceased to be either fair or effective. Infact
>> they have often times been
>> accessories to repression and misrule. I have zero
>> confidence that the courts
>> would uphold the constitution based on what has
>> transpired over the last
>> several years. Yahya Jammeh and his cronies are
>> effectively running a Banana
>> Republic in which Gambians would be tied in a string
>> of repressive knots
>> through brute force, a corrupt legislature and an
>> equally corrupt judiciary.
>> The people would have to decide if they would submit
>> to real enslavement in
>> their own country or free themselves. The latter
>> starts with standing up and
>> flatly refusing cooperation with ones own
>> destruction.
>> Karamba
>>
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