Yes, George, the tragedy is much more than Yaya Jammeh. It is people who do not even know that they have rights, and that their rights are being grossly abused by these incompetent brutes. During the height of the Civil Rights era, some Black folks used to say that people like Malcolm X and Martin Luther King were trouble makers, that they should not "rock the boat". Malcolm X once made a remark about those people that "we will set them free, even if we have to shove freedom down their throats". Boy! do some of those same people and their offspring enjoy this freedom from those dark days of segregation and bigotry that people like Martin Luther King and others gave their lives to accomplish. If they were to shut up and stay in their place as advocated by these folk, why, Black people would still be using segregated bathrooms here in the South.Imagine that. We continue to struggle and to hope that we can open the eyes of people such as this individual, so that they can come to a realization of what to expect from our leaders, and that every Gambian does infact have the right to expect competence from our leadership, to criticize them, and make a concerted effort to remove them forthwith if they fall short of our expectations. But the challenge is to bring people to that realization that they are the represented, that it is the people who make a leader. It is very obvious that some of us still have not made that simple connection. Jabou Joh In a message dated 8/3/00 10:56:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: << I'll close with this final question to this lady: What if one of the victims of the students massacred is your very own daughter or son? Would you still remember the new roads, new schools and new airport or would it be the nightmare of having lost a loved one? Maybe then you would understand why we care less about those infrastructures when many people are going through hell in Gambia. But That is if you know a thing or two about getting one's priority in order. This government is CHAOTIC. REGARDS, Mr Makaveli. >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------