Yusupha, Your points have been taken. For those who want to forge a way forward, our strength lies in not only what we already can, but accepting our weaknesses and finding ways and means of improving. The opposition should take note of what you have raised and devise methods of remedying the situation instead of seeing you as a trouble-shooter. But what does one expect when people are so bent on screaming instead of doing concrete things? Who is really interested in rolls of theory when, as a good friend pointed out, all you have to do is go to www whatever theory.com and you have as many matches as you want? Once again I need volunteers to free our country. Not paper tigers or is the word cyber Gorrillaz.Can I count on the most outspoken? Minos. >From: Yusupha C Jow <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: On The Original Voter Buyout Theory >Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 21:06:48 EDT > >Brother Hamjatta: >I did not want Yusupha Jow (please note the spelling) to become the central >point of this debate. Thus this title as opposed to the rather misleading >one you chose to use. I also choose not to bite on the 'charlatanry and >such' bait. Those are character accusations which simply create unnecessary >strife. Let's discuss your theory. > >Dampha has already withdrawn from his original stance: The 'theory' being >the >number one reason for the loss in Kiang and close victory in Baddibou. >This >new stance, in my opinion, completely rubbishes his earlier support of it. >Nevertheless, the colorful adjectives you have used to describe my >arguments >are to be expected in lieu of the 'overly thinking alike' mentality which I >described in my original piece. It is not necessarily always a bad thing >except that at times it tends to obscure or bias perfectly reasonable >opposition to a generally accepted shaky theory (as in this case). But >this >is your prerogative which I shall accept except that I think it is >perfectly >reasonable for me to put your original buyout theory to the test since you >have submitted it in it's entirety. > >Unfortunately, I have an appointment in another city this evening and a >long >drive awaits me. So closer scrutiny of your widely accepted voter buyout >theory will have to wait till tomorrow perhaps. > >Have a nice evening! > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >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. >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------