Ya Soffie, Camara, and other List managers, I hope you all know that we have the utmost respect for you and we appreciate what you are doing. I must say for the record that I am willing to give the List managers benefit of the doubt and I do not believe that Yaya is behind this ruling of yours. Frankly, when I saw Landing Jatta's complaint, I thought that Baba Keita made a mistake by using the wrong mail address. I simply could not imagine that he has been delisted. I think most of you attempting to police the contents of our messages are missing a very fundamental point. We are not propagating the idea that it is all right to come here and haul insults at people. What most of us are complaining about, is the selective manner in which these rules are being applied. What is appropriate language according to G_L List management? And please do not tell me that we should know, because we do not know. To me, it is more egregious for Alieu Keita to come here and tell blatant lies about me than for some one to call Alieu Keita stupid or to call Yaya a moron. When Alieu Keita came here and said that I was the one who wrote about Yaya's dad and went on to lie about my family, did G_L List management tell Alieu Keita to cease and desist? I do not even want to get into the way this man was insulting Ebrima Ceesay who is putting his life on the line for the freedom of people back home. Yet with all the garbage coming from this man (up to his last posting) he is still allowed to insult people. G_L List management should tell Alieu Keita that if he tells another lie, he will be delisted or if he says something offensive to Ebrima Ceesay, he will be delisted. If you find it justifiable to protect Yaya's feelings, I think it is incumbent upon you to also protect the feelings of those that are trying to speak for the people Yaya murders. Why is it that only people like Tombong, Essa Sey, Yaya and Alieu Keita get this preferential treatment? Is it because we do not whine about our hurt feelings? This ruling is wrong. I am very offended by what Alieu Keita has been doing here. But I would have been the last person to suggest that he be kicked out of the List. I was prepared to take all his abuse and ignore the ignoramus until he had something substantive to say. That strategy was working, because soon enough, the moron started interviewing / talking to himself. I was not upset because the List managers did not tell Keita to keep his mouth shut. I simply did not want to give the self-promoter his fifteen minutes of fame. Left to me alone, no one will discuss with this person. It is unfair to the people Keita was attacking to delist someone that was giving Keita a dose of his (Keita's) own medicine. It is not right to kick George Sarr out of this forum for attacking a Yaya crony and then when George is attacked by Keita, List management goes mute. List management should know that we are the ones on their side. If Yaya had his way, there will be no G_L. G_L's contributions to the political discourse in Gambia, is unquestionable. For instance, just a few days ago, Camara sent us a mail from Foroyaa talking about the Alimenta debacle. What I found in that article were issues we discussed here more than two months ago. There are numerous issues like that. And all these issues were not brought to the G_L by our politically correct, holier-than-thou friends. These were mainly issues brought by Ebrima's Sources and expanded upon by people List management is now portraying as undesirable elements. What is going on? In conclusion, I respectfully urge List management to reconsider the decision to delist Baba Keita and also endeavor to apply the rules more uniformly. I also promise to start complaining about language I think should not be used on G_L. Since that is the slippery road we want to go, let us all play by the rules. Let me just remind all of us that none of us has intellectual property rights on what is good for our people. All we can do, is contribute our little parts. KB _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------