EBOU, IHAVE ONLY THIS TO SAY TO YOU AND IF YOU REALLY UNDERSTAND WOLLOF YOU WILL NOT TAKE IT LIGHTLY " YOW DANGA NYAKA JOM, TEH AMULO NAWLEH AMULO ANDADO....CHEM...DEMAL FAYLEH ..." <html><DIV><EM><FONT face="Lucida Handwriting, Cursive" size=4>sams</FONT></EM></DIV></html> >From: Ebou Jallow <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Not Ebou Jallow and Yaya Jammeh >Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 13:16:15 -0800 > >Mr. Small, > >Thanks for the honest inquiry. However, I believe that I also need >to deconstruct the gist of your questions in order to establish a >level playing field. Your "principle of public accountability" is >essentially a political process, and that means the fundamental >issues of judicial objectivity and impartiality are subordinate to >passioned interests and strategem. The teleological agenda of such a >practice is not justice but political control through opprobrium. >Politics cannot generate neither the truth nor justice, it helps only >in establishing the preference of one discourse over another i.e. >everything in politics is essentially relative, their is no objective >standard of justice or truth. Now if the Gambian people had the same >concerns that you apparently have, then they should have voted >President Jammeh out of office in the last elections. After all, it >was former President Jawara who use to say that "Vox Populi, Vox >Dei". Now the people have spoken and entrusted the state in >President Jammeh's hands. He is the sole authority to speak on >behalf of the Gambians, and not me or the Gambia-L. I am not a >public servant but a private individual like you living humbly >overseas. > >Finally, I want to ask you Mr. Small who shall write the "history"- >is it you, me or G-L? History, at least as the accretion of >evolutionary facts, is the synthesis of our individual narratives and >and the collective discourse as a people. The last time I check >lately, history has been so far on President Jammeh's side. We can >either choose to collaborate and ignore our differences for the sake >of the Gambia, or tear each other apart like little children >wrestling for toys. The choice is ours to make and write that >history. > >Thank you Sir. > >===== >Ebou Jallow >Georgetown University >Washington, DC > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. >http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 > ><<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>> > >To view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface >at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html >To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: >[log in to unmask] > ><<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>> _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp <<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>> To view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] <<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>