To paraphrase brother Saul Khan in one of his brilliantly written pieces on ffdig.org: ‘it is foolish to cut the hand that feeds you’. Well, that is exactly what the morons back home are doing. This erratic move by the government to expel yet another Western diplomat from the country goes to show that little (if anything) has changed in the Dictatorship we suffer back home. These people to do not have the wherewithal to do the right thing. We are not just dealing with a paranoid government. We have a government that does not want to hear criticism. Yaya and his cohorts just want to hear the pathetic whimpers of the sycophants in the country that call themselves civil servants when we all know that we are dealing with mental midgets that are too scared for their jobs to think straight. If we have a diplomat in the country that is prepared to stand up and tell these morons that they are leading the country to the abyss, Yaya et al do not want to hear that. Few months ago it was a high-ranking British diplomat. This time around it is the top-ranking EU diplomat in the country. Next, it is going to be a high-ranking American diplomat. When that happens, the diplomatic community in the country will then know that they are dealing with certified lunatics. We keep telling you that what we have home is the inmates running the asylum. I understand that Blaise (who is now leading the Foreign Service) was the only diplomat at the Commonwealth that supported the heinous actions of Dictator Sani Abacha against Sarawiwa. If this government and its diplomats had their way, Abasanjo will still be rotting in jail and Abacha would have by now annihilated his opponents. These are the kinds of people running our country. People that think that it is OK to murder, in cold blood, Human Rights activists like Sarawiwa. People that will unashamedly stand in front of the United Nations, before the whole world, and hold brief for certified criminals like Baabaa Jobe. Yaya has not changed one bit. This diplomat is being expelled because he had the ‘audacity’ to stand up for ordinary Gambians that were unjustifiably fired from their jobs. Imagine what would have happened to those Gambians if they stood up for themselves. They would not have the ‘luxury’ of being deported to other countries. NIA thugs will visit them and abduct them at the dead of night and accuse them of sabotaging the country. This is just sick. Thanks (partly) to this man that is being expelled the EU last year gave our country $12 million to settle a case that crippled our groundnut industry for more than three years. This illegal government (thanks to Baabaa Jobe and some dubious Libyans that wanted to take over the groundnut industry in the country) exposed our country to legal liability that virtually destroyed our most important sector in the economy. The EU stepped in to rescue the vermin. And this is what the EU get in return? Not only did they fail to take the life-line the EU gave them by settling with Alimenta, the morons are now alienating the people that are helping them. Despite that the major hurdle in the groundnut sector was lifted by the EU, this inept government is still incapable of solving the problems of our farmers. To add insult to injury, now the government is putting the Gambian people under further jeopardy. This government is attracting sanctions for us again. Now if we are sanctioned because of these irrational and erratic moves, the mental midgets will not blame themselves for being stupid. No! Instead, they will blame the Opposition and journalists in the country for pointing out their stupidity. They never take responsibility. And we can always rely on the sycophantic ‘civil servants’ to try and rationalize these ridiculous and indefensible moves. I wonder where Famara Jatta and Alieu Ngum and Blaise Jagne stand on these latest moves by the Dictatorship to alienate the World Bank (by creating havoc at Gamworks); alienate the EU (by deporting their top diplomat); alienate the UN (by ignoring Baabaa Jobe’s proscription as a dealer in ‘Blood Diamond’). These people cannot help themselves. They do not have the wherewithal to run households let alone run a poor country like ours. Unless they expel all the ‘critical’ diplomats in the country and incarcerate all ‘critical’ Gambians, they would not be satisfied. Whichever way one slices it, Gambians are living under a Dictatorship. KB _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx <<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>> 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] <<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>