Mr Kanteh, this might be my last posting to you. I've mailed you privately on two occasions but got no answer. I know you might be busy but would appreciate it if you let me know whether you are still interested in a public debate with my beloveth 'Saint Halifa'. You've indicated that you were to peruse our 'bible Foroyaa' at Birmingham Africa Centre. I'm sure with your erudition you must be very much prepared to debunk our most revered 'saint Halifa of Churchill's Town'. It is your prerogative not to reply to my mails since my understanding of the English Lanquage is very limited which will obviously irritate your very honed mind. When i offered to facilitate a debate, i was hoping that, as concerned Gambians we were in favour of openly espousing our convictions at any public platform. I hope i will not be reminded that the L is a public forum. If the L is public enough for you to get through the minds of the Gambians,good luck. I just thought there would be no delay on your part to expose those 'spineless' politicians with an 'infantile' tolerance of the buffoon Yahya in another forum. I was humbly thinking that this will be just an extension of the 'good job' you've embarked on. Regardless of the anticlimactic disclaimer from you, i still take my hat off for you in your determined effort to upbraid our so-called intellects. As you stated, you have no inhibitions in expressing your views about these so-called intellects of which you lumped my hero, Halifa, i would have thought then that a face to face encounter will further help your course. Your intellectual guru, the Russian-born British philosopher,Isiah Berlin, who dominated the Oxford establishment during his life time penned a very interesting work on intellectuals, the group you never want to be associated with. He observed that there exist two categories of intellectuals: 1) there are intellects who he wrote behave like hedgehogs and 2) the second group he wrote are like foxes The first group Berlin observed knew only one thing and all their energies are channelled towards that one single thing they know,just as the hedgehog pursues its one interest. The second group are fox-like in its interest. THe fox has got different ways of approaching it's prey which in Berlin's observation is a better ideal. I am starting to see you as a hedgehog with a determined wrath to expose Halifa/PDOIS/FOROYAA. HAlifa and his party have impeccably proven their dedication to the upliftment of the GAmbian nation. I see nothing wrong in telling people what is right and wrong through persuasion. If this is criminal, God help me. As one of those who you claimed you lobbed your posting 'Taking Stock' and who cannot in your own words again'see anything beyond what Foroyaa and our Saintly Halifa tells us' is disappointed about your seeming silence on the proposed debate. My endeavour is to learn from those with a better remedy to our countries woes. However, i shall opt to join the rank of those who you called 'Programmed Fanatics' and shall remain with our 'beloveth Saint Halifa of Churchill's Town' until you and your esoteric colleagues(the KBs and Bamba Laye Jallows who are more concern with the plight of the Gambians) come up with a coherent formula to get rid of the menace in the Gambbia. I shall be praying for him(Halifa) to redouble his efforts in penning more 'posh' letters to the crack-pot dictator. 'I will again concur to Buharry's piece' and would like you to answer the questions he asked. Tell us the variables we can use to gauge PDOIS's success in the political arena. What forensic method did you use to conclude that PDOIS's system of addressing the problems in the Gambia are 'lamest'? The onus is on you to prove that PDOIS's course is a lost one and should help us come away from a discredited political system. PDOIS never claimed anything. Please educate me in the empirical system you use to come to your conclusions. Since a critique shall always be forthcoming from you, we also shall be 'heckling' you to get your attention to lift us from that abysmal fountain you once guzzled from. I do want to see you as a clone of Paul 'Loony Bins' Johnson or a Peter Hichens both of whom suddenly saw the light after being known leftist. Or maybe Oxford produces leftist who later repent their sins and welcomed at the alter of 'woolly' Liberals. I stand to be educated on better ways to help my beloveth Gambia. God Bless you my friend. With concerted effort we can build a better future. Gambia deserves better. Sincere greetings, MBoge >From: "Hamjatta Kanteh" <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Debate >Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 11:21:42 GMT > ><< text1.html >> ________________________________________________________________________ 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 You may also send subscription requests to [log in to unmask] if you have problems accessing the web interface ----------------------------------------------------------------------------