Hi Bro J, What happen to your sister Jabou Joh,or she is now APRC(laugh). Please kindly let me know. Best Wishes, Sis Hon. FJC Joe Sambou wrote: > Bambalaye, you are right on the money and everyman/woman has a inalienable > right to self defense. Thus, if these thugs come to administer their > thuggry in any neighborhood, then it should not only be the business of his > family alone to run these thugs down but all well meaning persons in the > neighborhood. The courts are not going to do a darn thing about it. This > abuse persists because we are too consumed with the self to the point that a > whole compound of twenty or more individuals would stand and watch 3 to 5 > thugs come and yank one of their members without just cause, beat them to a > pulp and disappear with them without a flinch from their relatives, > neighbors, and friends alike. Gambians know who these thugs are but they > chose to look the other way. You do not have to be educated to know that > wrong is wrong. If these thugs get a beating of their life once, twice, > etc., this abuse would stop over night. But as long as we have this "Not My > Problem" attitude, then we are going to see a continuation of this thuggry. > These thugs have a mandate from the top and anyone who thinks that Jammeh is > ignorant of these events in really delusional. This is an extension of the > "Machine" and all tyrants worth their salt would have one - Rwalins, Doe, > Amin, Habre, Mobutu, etc. These thugs are what keeps the "Fear Factor" > alive and they do not need a special event to remind the public that they > are around and watching. But characteristic of our attitude, Gambians want > a "sacrificial Lamb" before they can act, just like what happened in 1981, > with the Kukoi, rampage. That event showed what some of our people are > capable of. These thugs were dormant because the environment was not > conducive for them prior to Jammeh and the tone from the top was not > supportive of them. However, we saw tid bits with the then CID and Police > thugs. Remember that outfit, with Lie Joof (Mooti), Nickola Kujabi (Mooti > Saharr), Tex Khan and others. What we call the NIA today is nothing but the > new and improved CID with a tyrant's blessing. What Dumo is going through > with the NIA is the same thing he and countless others experienced with the > CID. Growing up, I cannot count the number of times Dumo was arrested for > extended periods, with no just cause by the above listed individuals and > their colleagues. Now, they do not arrest you with bogus warrants, but > would kidnap you to some dingy place some where until their bestiality is > satisfied and just let you loose at any street corner of their choice and > Gambians just go on their business. > > Fear killed many a persons before their death. Our people need to stop > complaining and start defending themselves. No one wants violence, but if > violence is the only way we can defend ourselves from these thugs, then that > we must do and it is a universal human law. Folks need to stand up for > their fellow countryman/woman if the courts and law enforcers would not do > their jobs, for the life you save my be your very own, the next time around. > Keep the faith. > > Chi Jaama > > Joe Sambou > > >From: BambaLaye <[log in to unmask]> > >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list > ><[log in to unmask]> > >To: [log in to unmask] > >Subject: Re: The Thuggry Continues > >Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 22:33:22 -0500 > > > >Joe, > > > >It is unfortunate that we continue to see and hear these forces of crude > >thuggery at work. I have said it before that the maintenance of civil order > >and social democracy cum tranquility is in the hands of the masses. The > >people of Gambia. It has been there since the advent of the constitution of > >the republic. It was never anywhere else. We are bordering onto naivety and > >laziness by believing that anything remotely affecting our individual > >rights can be safely entrusted to criminals and thugs through any process > >that resembles the rule of law. > >Self-defense against individual criminals – or criminals sanctioned by the > >APRC – can no more be delegated to some body else, like the judges in those > >courts than eating can, or sleeping, or any other natural function. These > >stories of disruptions of legally certified gatherings, abductions and > >torture should warn us that delegated responsibility becomes power and that > >power becomes inevitably abused when in the wrong hands. If civil order and > >social democracy are to be upheld in the Gambia, the emphasis must be on > >finding a definite and absolute way towards enforcing the basic human > >rights as entrenched in the constitution – the constitutional enforcement. > >We must find a way to take that power out of the hands that are abusing it > >and break it down. We must break the power down into units so small that it > >cannot be called power, but simply “responsibility”, which unlike power, > >comes not from the barrel of a gun, but from the mind and heart of the > >human behind that gun. > >A refusal to see the obvious, a failure to question the doubtful, if > >grossly evident, may provide proof leading to an inference of collaboration > >and gross abuse of power so as to impose responsibility for abuse suffered > >by those who rely on the laws. In other words, heedlessness and reckless > >disregard of consequences may take the place of deliberate intentions. We > >must be weary of such. We must stand up to do the best we can to revert > >this cycle of abuse. It is clearly taking its toll in bits and pieces, here > >and there, today and perhaps tomorrow. > > > >(BambaLaye) > >Abdoulie A. 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