Well said Dagmar, this is a big lesson for the entire world to learn from.
The People elect the leaders not leaders electing themselves.

How is George?

King Solomon


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "adama jombel" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 7:41 AM
Subject: Re: US Election Card


> Aisha,
> My take on this is that,even though there is real dissent and opposition
> between these two parties, a state of emmergency has not been declared, the
> national guard has not been called out, people are not killing each other in
> the streets. On the contrary there is  a lot of dialogue and people are
> exercising their democratic rights in a civilized manner.!!!! Our African
> Non Leaders have a lot to learn from this event.
> Dagmar Christensen
> 
> >From: Aisha Sallah <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
> ><[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: US Election Card
> >Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 14:18:03 GMT
> >
> >Alieu
> >This is a real shame to the world's biggest democratic country. They are no
> >dictators but they can dictate and manipulate as they want.  Is this the
> >type of democracy we want to inherit in Africa. My goodness gracious had
> >this happened to any African country, what would we talk about then that
> >it's dictatorship?
> >
> >/Aisha
> >
> >

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