We are getting reports that members of the UDP leadership on a campaign tour have been viciously ambushed by terrorists riding in unmarked pickup trucks yesterday somewhere in the provinces. An initial assessment points to a shadowy group under the leadership of Baba Jobe consisting of thugs trained, armed and actively encouraged by the government to essentially perpetrate violence on law abiding citizens. This time it seems these state sponsored criminals lied in waiting to essentially kill these politicians. Cold blooded murder, an attribute that has tragically gained currency during this administration is something we the people have to constantly confront. Bereft of support, ideas or direction, this government has concluded they must wield the ultimate leverage of a tyranny and that, list members, is to use murder and the threat of general violence to muzzle people into submission. Knowing they can't delay, rig or otherwise alter the upcoming elections, they are resorting to conspiring to kill their opponents and the rest of the country that is firmly set at ousting them. The Gambian people will never succumb to the whims of heathens and despicable folks like Yahya Jammeh and Baba Jobe. The only reason the scope of violence did not go beyond the already severe injuries was the relative size of the UDP delegation and the fact that they did what they could under the circumstances to defend themselves. We have to move from the understandable but self defeating notion that in the face of overwhelming force a people must roll over and play dead anytime a gun wielding thug sees it fit to brutalize them. Why should I let you murder me or by people? Life isn't worth much if one can't exercise the freedom to live it. The only reason the spates of killings or attempts thereof have not abated since Yahya Jammeh has instituted his Ghadaffi style of pacifying an uncooperative population through terror is the fact that Baba Jobe and other killers like him have always gotten away with their crimes.Killing those who set out to kill you is considered legitimate self defense even in Sharia. I know well meaning pacifist would prefer somethingelse . To them I say with people like Yahya Jammeh your available options are nil. Tyrants the world over are not interested in genuine contest of ideas. What drives them is the raw exercise of power. In the process they treat the lives of dissenters and ordinary folk as expendable commodity that must be disposed off if and when it stands in their way. I will try to kill to kill Baba Jobe if and when he tries to kill me. For that I will never apologize. I have had it with these people! Karamba ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------