I'm surprised that Mr. Collins can use such desultory, indeed racist language to react to Ebrima Ceesay's source of information. What is more shocking, though, is that Mr. Collins threatens legal action against a people who are expressing genuine concerns about their own country. He claims dual US-UK citizenship, countries where the rule of law does not condone the cold murder of school children, the abduction and murder of government officials, the arbitrary arrest and detention of critics, and the blatant siphoning of public money. Show me your friend and I'll tell you who you are. Mr. Collins shares the same bed with a President whose human rights record is one of the worst in Africa. Yet, he threatens to contact the INS about these 'illegal aliens' that are using St. John's University to question his business interests in The Gambia. Does he know he is dealing with a mailing list hosted on a server at St. John’s. Duh! I wonder whether Mr. Collins is a Republican? His high sounding and glaring racism (rhetoric about illegal aliens, etc.) shouldn't be shocking if we should assume that he is from the Deep South-if his company address is anything to go by. Yes, the Deep South, the hotbed of racism in the US, whose history is full of horrifying stories of 'Jim Crow', mob lynching, the mass murder and rape of black people… and yes, cotton growing and peanuts shelling. No wonder that his friend, President Jammeh, has hurriedly congratulated the man who helps grease the Texas death chamber with the bodies of black children. Almost four decades after our 'independence', African governments are still allowing our countries to be used as junkyards and our people as guinea pigs. 'Funny', and seedy little companies like Hilo (Kilo?) led by dubious characters would be implanted on African soil while the top executives of the host country would connive with the expatriates to milk our economies. No doubt Mr. Collins thinks we're stupid, that he can scare us away like weaverbirds on a cotton field. At the end of it all, it is the Gambian farmer who will be taken for another ride. They'll be handed promissory notes of dirt-cheap prices for their crops, humiliated if they should protest, and intimidated to vote for President Jammeh the next round of elections. Meanwhile, most of them cannot afford the exorbitant costs of education, they eat good meat maybe once a year (during Tobaski), and they eventally die of birth pangs on a donkey cart or succumb to a curable tropical disease due to the absence of drugs. All what Mr. Collins has said in his various emails is peanuts! As concerned citizens, we need to know the credibility of Hilo (Kilo?)and what recipe it is about to force down the throats of our parents. Mr. Collins should think again before getting himself knee-deep into mud. Hamadi. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.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 and remember to write your full name and e-mail address. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------