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] <<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>