Dampha wrote: "To paraphrase brother Saul Khan in one of his brilliantly written pieces on fdig.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." Dampha, The illusion that, without western aid we will not survive was shattered way back in 1994/95 when they did their worst. They imposed santions on us, paralysed our tourism industry and guess what; we survived it. The EU and the US are only returning part of what they stole from us in the first place; and like it or not, this government will not tolerate or accept any foreign government or individual to lord it over us. No, we will not accept it. Our sovereignty is not for sale or bargain. We have survived worst. Whatever we may have learnt from the west, survival isn't/wasn't part of it. They have suppressed us and even tried to annihilate us through the most barbaric means vis-a-vis through slavery and we survived it. Rest assured that we are not going back that way again. We would rather die than be enslaved again. Have a good day, Gassa. _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com <<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>> 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] <<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>