Hi Mr. Ceesay!
                        Points well taken. However, the response might have been to your post but the generalisations that warranted the intervention were derived from various posts. My sympathies still lie with PDOIS. Thanks for the clarification and have a good weekend.
                                                                                                    Buharry.
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  From: Ngorr Ciise 
  To: [log in to unmask] 
  Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 7:45 PM
  Subject: Re: To Those Who Profess Freedom


  In response to Mr. Buharry Gaasama,

  Mr. Gassama: << I think it is misleading to say that all those who do not share an
  uncompromising attitude towards the government are doing so because of
  opportunism. I for one do not agree with an "everything or else" stance and my
  stance is not based on any form of opportunism but rather on my understanding of
  issues pertaining to our country. I recognise and accept the presidency of Yaya
  Jammeh because in my opinion, the people have voted for him for the next five
  years. >>

  With respect to your objections, i think you are jumping at shadows: there is nothing in my original correspondence that states or insinuates - explicitly or implicitly - that if you want to compromise with Yaya and the APPPRC or accept his 'mandate', ergo, you must be a sellout. I made the point about those making a dash for the door, and joining the APPPRC en masse without so much witnessing any substantial change in the very things a while ago they claim to abhor about Yaya. To these folks, i proposed are now worshipping at the Golden Calf of opportunism. I don't recall you stating on this List that you have switched allegiance and now part of the APPPRC like the Jamfa-Conteh's of this world, say. 

  Granted, i have been offline for sometime as a result of being delisted from Gambia-L; and, as such, cannot lay claims to knowing exactly who and who have switched allegiance. Still, if the case is that you have switched allegiance from PDOIS to the APPPRC, without so much as seeing any of the things you earlier claimed as reasons for not supporting Yaya, then the charges of you prostrating at the Golden Calf of opportunism is mooted - even credible without slurring or attempting to besmirch your integrity. 

  This is by no means an attempt to forcefully herd you or else - that take a very different line from others - into the same convictions, and by no means signs of intolerance from those who think it is nonsense on stilts the idea that Yaya can be finessed. At the end of the day the dynamism and vibrancy of this List is what would be the casualty when we all take the view that when people take a different view, they ought not be criticised for they are entitled to such views. One can accept the view that people are entitled to their views - even if such views are outlandish and fraudulent to reasonable and honest people - and must be tolerated. Yet, toleration doesn't negate or obviate criticism: criticality is the life blood of an Open and Free society where terms of co-existence are openly negotiated and contested. Nor does toleration mean accepting what one tolerates: you tolerate what is outlandish and even fraudulent not because ! said outlandish and fruadulent views are sacred or true, and beyond reproach; rather, you realise that others are free to propagate such outlandish and fraudulent views, just as you retain the right to freely express critical opinions of such outlandish and fraudulent views. APPPRC sympathisers want to use this toleration line to obviate criticality of the nonsense on stilts they peddle here. That is something they are unlikely to see happen so long as i'm allowed to participate on this List: if someone expresses something i do not agree with, i retain the right to express opinions that are critical of them. If this is intolerance, then let's make all efforts to accomodate this intolerance.   







  Ngorr Ciise
   
  Fiat iustitia ruat caelum! - Let justice be done though the heavens fall!

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