Forwarded on behalf of Hamjatta Kanteh. Hamjatta, welcome back. I will read your piece when it comes out on G_L and respond approriately. Glad you are back. KB To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: The Ebrima Barry Case - Adjoinder to KB's Position >Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 12:07:04 -0700 > >KB, >Brother could you please forward this to the List for me. Apparently since >i was delisted and enlisted again, i have not been able to send a message >to the List though this is the first. >Hamjatta >**************************************************************** >KB, >As ever you have struck the right chords here. I have over the five past >months droned on here about the opposition's tactical inconsistencies, the >fraudulent gestures and postures of the gov't and the lack thereof of any >measure of success in bringing to trial those responsible for the murder of >the students during the April demonstrations. As you cogently noted, what >we keep seeing here is that the breath-takingly nauseating and unrepentant >actions of the Jammeh goes unpunished but ironically rewarded >internationally with increased assistance and respectability. The >opposition is largely silent on these huge political deficits. Yet, >surprise surprise, they are in high gear for the coming elections of which >we know neither head nor tail. Such are the ironies we live in our daily >existence as a beseiged people. It won't be long, if the situation is not >tempered with moderation of mild agitation i advocate for, when armed >anarchists will strike. And most certainly, they will find a potbelly of >mass discontent to support them. >If, as you suggested, the Barry case, which sparked off the April >demonstrations, is going down the drain and the culprits let off the hook, >then this is the biggest scandal ever and another major source of mass >discontent. The fact that the Executive/Jammeh could personally orchestrate >such mind-boggling attempts at engineering the acquittal of the firemen who >murdered Barry is tell-tale sign of the chronic break-down of the rule of >law in the Gambia and what people should expect of these idiotic midgets >determination to cover each other's back when they commit heinous crimes. >No-one should be surprised if the recently submitted report of the >Commission fails to indict anyone one individual for the heinous murder of >our slain brothers and sisters. Talk less of the top hierarchy responsible >of these crimes. As it is, the Gambia is on the brink of a make-or-break >point. If the Commissioners fail to indict any big fish in their submitted >report, then they might as well have signed and ratified the order for >social implosion. On the other hand, if they did indict some big fish and >his/her butt is covered by the Establishment, take it from me it will >back-fire for the People will see through the smokescreen and skulduggery. >Unbeknownst to these half witted charlatans and wannabees, the Gambian >People are not only disguted with Jammeh's scheming, but equally see >through him like the idiotic bambino he really is. The blips on the radar >of our national vessel read very grimly. We hope and pray sanity and the >Providence of our forebears hold sway in whatever ensues. >When i lace against and indeed, expose the tactical inconsistencies in the >opposition strategy, cynics and genuine critics alike accuse me of being an >insincere, naive, neophyte theorist who theorises without evidence. Well, >time that refuter and repudiator of inconsistencies, fallacies and frauds >certainly has been throwing everything back in their faces. That the >British gov't could conceivably perceive of Jammeh as being credible enough >to be helped militarily to be part of peace keeping efforts in the >sub-region is a vindication to my earlier thesis that whilst Jammeh wreaks >havoc on the home front, he is duly rewarded with international >respectability and assistance. A real life repudiation of the "idealist >camp's" strategy? You bet! >Hamjatta Kanteh > >Hamjatta Kanteh > > >___________________________________________________________________________________________________ >Get your free e-mail account with *unlimited* storage at >http://www.ftnetwork.com > >Visit the web site of the Financial Times at http://www.ft.com > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. 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