Now Joof and his paymaster, Jammeh, have really gone bonkers. Fancy now spurrious charges/rulings by a kangaroo court that is illegal - by all sense of definition of that word - suffices to legally rule out Mr Darbo as the Alliance's presidential candidate. Has the APRC leadership really thought through the logical implications of what they are trying to hatch here? Have they considered the political impasse that will ensue when they try to stymie the Gambian people's peaceful and polite efforts - through democratic means - to ask Jammeh to go? Any astute political observer would not fail to recognise the potentiality of Joof's declaration or veiled threat to the Alliance to draw Gambia into the political territory of violence and uncertainty. To avert such a scenario, the goofballs "running" our country should stop using and or invoking these legalese subversions as a masquerade to force through their illegal political agenda. The APRC, still reeling from the after-effects of the Alliance's Brikama rally, know fully well that if they don't go about subversively meddling with the electoral process, their days are definitely numbered; and the countdown may have well started last Sunday in Brikama. So they decided to get their consiglieri - i.e., a mafiosi legal adviser to make underhand tactics look legal and normal - Joof to get to work on possible means to legally rule out the Alliance's endorsed candidature of Mr Darbo. They are in for a rude shock if they imagine they can subvert the Alliance's legitimate endorsement candidature of Mr Darbo. For all that it is worth, if the APRC presses ahead with this legalese sleight of hand, the first consequence would be a complete disarray of the presidential elections; and from there, things can only go downhill. I hope Joof was honest enough to tell that to his paymaster. There are no ifs, buts and maybes here: any legalese subversion that seeks to undermine the Alliance's legitimate democratic pursuits, will result to a complete political disengagement and in extension political choas. We are talking about a total boycott of the elections if the APRC goes ahead with its underhand tactics. There is no middle course here. As far as things go with the Alliance, i strongly recommend that this new legalese nonsense from the APRC be given the contempt it deserves. This is nothing but a legalese sleight of hand the APRC intends to invoke when the going gets tough vis-a-vis the current presidential elections. The Alliance ought to out come with a strong condemnation of this current legalese sleight of hand from the APRC and say that under no cirmcumstances would this illegal regime dictate to them how they pursue their inviolable democratic freedoms. It must be made unequivocally clear that no executive meddling of the current electoral process would be tolerated. The Alliance should never dither when the APRC illegally try - through its executive powers - to subvert the political process: it must resolutely condemn such actions and or threats and appropriately deal with them. Which takes me to the question: since was Joof as AG empowered to police who is eligible and ineligible to stand for elective office in the Gambia? I thought their toilet paper constitution has divested those powers away from the executive and they reside with the IEC? Is Joof doing his homework these days? Signs of a man losing his grip? Knowing fully that their goofball of a candidate - Jammeh - is going down come October, the APRC resorts to these underhand political shenanigans to subvert the wishes of the Gambian peoples. The Gambian peoples would under no circumstances acquiesce to these underhand tactics; these illegal tactics shall be met headlong with the contempt they deserve from the Gambian peoples. And if the goofballs don't get it this time around, it won't be just a case of people merely bewailing corrupt electoral shenanigans; but marching all the way to State House. That is a warning Jammeh and his acolytes ought to heed. If they think for a minute that they can bully the Gambian peoples into submitting to their underhand tactics and bullying as they did in 1996, they are in for a rude shock in October. This time around, it is a totally different ball game. The gloves are off! Hamjatta Kanteh ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------