Jabou, I hope peole like Kebba Dampha, the master of all read your lines well. His most be on his head. Or my back.I did not mean to say that. Lamin Ceesay >From: Jabou Joh <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: WHAT HAPPEN TO US AT RIP/may I? >Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 09:04:14 EDT > >People, > >I just wanted to put in my two bututs.What Ous Ngum said about Chongan's >past >is a good point. We must commend people for having the decency to come >forward with their stories that will help us put the present criminals >occupying the seat of government in our country, but never for one minute >must we forget those who also abused power and metted out brutality to our >people in the past. > >If we do, history will keep repeating itself in our country. The Jawara >gov't >gave us 30 years of corruption and incompetence, only to be succeded by a >murderous gang. We cannot afford to forget this even if the present >brutality >has us thinking that it was at least a little bit better in the past. > >Finally, I just want to ask why it is that we Gambians seem to wear our >egos >on our shoulder. We cannot afford to have fragile egos that prevent us from >addressing the issues intelligently and sticking to the facts without >making >it personal. Otherwise, we will never accomplish anything because we will >spend all our time arguing and nursing fragile egos. > >Jabou Joh > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >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 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------