KB, What makes this whole thing bizarre and ironic is that we the oppressed are even paying our opressors with the the hard earned moneys we pay through taxes! As i said earlier, we must ask ourselves as conscientious free beings whether it is not about time we question assenting the moral authority of of an illegal regime that is oppressing us each day? The contract between us and the State has been breached and since the basis of the contract is our implicit consent to being governed, then we must therefore ask in the name of that consent, the moral imperative to be handed back our consent. If this is resisted, we must do all within our limited powers to wrest our consent from the immoral regime that the gov't has become. Your point that the opposition should question whether to participate in elections if there ever is any, is a good observation. I have made that suggestion earlier before this crisis erupted. Another politician who intimated such views is Hamat Bah in an interview with the Independent sometime ago. The opposition should not involve in anything where the playing field is not level and where a player is also a referee as we saw in the 1996 presidential elections. Hamjatta Kanteh ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------