Mr. KB: You are really hitting the nail. Your courage and determination cannot be challenged. Keep up the good work. You are one special Gambian. Naphiyo, Comrade ML Jassey-Conteh ------Original Message------ From: Dampha Kebba <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: April 4, 2001 8:26:54 PM GMT Subject: Acute Low Expectation Syndrome (ALES) APRC supporters and sympathizers want to condemn Gambians to this lethal ailment for ever. It is incumbent upon us not to fall for this ploy. The intelligent closet APRC supporter recognizes that the overwhelming majority of the actions of this government are indefensible. Some of the actions of the APRC government are illogical, some unethical and others downright criminal. The intelligent APRC supporter, having mortgaged his soul to the Devil, and with a mindset of an impotent intellectual prostitute, will not have the guts to challenge the APRC leadership to do what is right. They will not have the decency to look Yaya or Yankuba or Edward in the eye and tell the mental midgets that it is wrong to order the massacre of our children or to burn down private radio stations or to abduct innocent citizen and falsely accuse them of crimes they did not commit. What this Yaya supporter will do, is come out to decent folks, parade the token projects the government has been engaged in, and then tell them to just focus on the projects. This Yaya supporter if put on the spot, would confide in good folks and tell them that he condemns thuggery, corruption and dislikes all the evil things the government is doing. But when pressed further, this supporter will not be able to tell you how he protested to Yaya that it is wrong to massacre our children in broad daylight. This supporter will always try to cloud very clear issues. When you ask them about the plight of our farmers, they tell you it is not the government's responsibility to buy the groundnuts. When you tell them about classrooms without teachers and supplies, they tell you it is a start and there are bigger and better things to come. When you tell them about the rampant unemployment with our youths, they point to the number of people that graduated from Yaya's university. When you tell them about poorly equipped hospital facilities, they tell you that they have more hospitals now than during the Jawara regime. In other words, they want Gambians to have very low expectations from our government. Unfortunately, I do not get to talk to these supporters very often or when we talk, they avoid such issues like death. They know I will point out their gullibility in the bluntest terms. They know that I will question them about the basis of their loyalty to Yaya. They know that I will not let them get away with compartmentalizing Yaya and saying that let us accept the 'developments' and stay mute about the horrendous human rights abuses. The average Gambian does not have that luxury. When Yaya forced himself onto us in July 1994, we got him with all his baggage. We got a callous, semi-illitrate, inferiority complex-ridden vermin. We did not have a thinker that was just going to embark on development projects. We also had a dictator that would murder children as young as three in order to stay in power and continue to loot our treasury. By feeding the public this low expectation garbage, Yaya's intellectual prostitutes are telling Gambians that we should trade the lives of our children for some ill-equipped hospital clinic. We should expect more from our government and our leaders. We should expect to get thinkers that can move the country forward without visiting untold misery to the citizens. To the prostitutes that parade the 'development projects', I ask you, would you compartmentalize if you were in Dumo's shoes? Would you say that the level of lawlessness is acceptable to you so long as a road running from the airport to the hotels (a road you do not use) has been constructed from aid money? Why can't we ask for someone who will build better and more meaningful roads and who would not murder innocent citizens? Why are these prostitutes trying to cover the eyes of Gambians with wool and trying to sit on both sides of the fence? "We condemn the human rights abuses, but Yaya is a great leader". This is an oxymoron and smart and decent Gambians must not fall for it. Yaya cannot be a murderer and a benevolent leader at the same time. Let us not listen to hypocrites in our midst that want to convince us otherwise. Next time they bring to you this double talk, ask them to go tell it to Yaya. Ask them to tell Yaya that it was wrong to massacre our children or to continue to incarcerate Dumo or for Yaya to steal the people's money while the average hardworking farmer is rendered destitute. These prostitutes (one who sells his name or abilities to an undeserving cause) might see nothing wrong in trading the lives of their children in order to have a government job or other petty luxuries. The rest of us should not allow these prostitutes to bamboozle us into thinking that Yaya and his cohorts are doing us a favor. These are leeches after our blood. The bloodsuckers cannot be trusted to point us to the right direction. We deserve lot better than Yaya and we can have lot better than Yaya. Let us raise our expectation and refuse to compartmentalize. If the best these people can do, with all their callousness and corruption, is to slightly outdo Jawara, then we do not need them. Let us get people that will do a lot better in terms of development and safeguarding our human rights. 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