Gambia-l must be the only place where you can get your writing copy- edited for free! Perhaps we should start posting our dissertations and such....:) On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Haruna Darbo wrote: > > Mr. Krubally, > > You seem sincere in your call to withhold judgement in O.J's defense > until we hear both sides and I want to thank you for that. I am going to > try to speak with you interactively. I am sometimes amazed at the > capacity of the human mind to reason. We are all endowed by rabbi'l > aalameen to recognise the truth even when couched in blasphemy. So > Indulge me. > > here goes. > > I enjoyed reading your fair stance. I could not help but make a few > observation that will make for a better reading of your position. > > Peers not pears. > > travelled not traveled. > > I would (n't) caution you to get the fact straight before taking sides. > > Let us not allow our party affiliation (TO) affect our reasoning. > > I know these were unintentional mistakes on your part, but for the > benefit of some of L-readership, I will offer the corrections. I hope you > don't mind. > > Now, Mr. Krubally, back to the more important issue: > > Do you know my party affiliation? I brought this up first because you are > right that party affiliation can cloud the judgement of the insincere. If > you do know my party affiliation, please feel free to share it with the > rest of the L-readership. That way they can consume my commentary with a > tinge of salt. > > Every Gambian, including you and me, is entitled to a recognizable means > of travel to access the right of free movement without let or hinderance. > Pass-ports are not issued by parties and are not issued to felons or > those citizens who are fugitives of law or flight-risks thereof. O.J. > returned to Gambia, so evidently, he is not a flight risk, neither is he > a fugitive of Gambian law. are you with me so far? stop me when I write > too fast. ok? ok. > > Mr. Krubally, you informed us: "but most of O.J's colleagues have > traveled out of the country on numerous occasions without their passports > been (being) confiscated. Alh Omar Sey, Alh M.C. Cham, and Alh. Yahya > Ceesay. > > Mr. Krubally, are you comparing O.J.'s stature and position in Gambian > society to that of the personnages (not unimportant in their own rights) > you mentioned here by virtue of collegiality?Was it wrong to kill some of > the student demonstrators even though some were spared? You know the > tanks did not raze all the demonstrators in Tiananmen square don't you? > or is that sheer luck on the part of the survivors? > > Mr. Krubally, you continued: "In fact, it will be fair to say that he and > most of his pears have misled us all our lives." > > Misled you about what Mr. Krubally? After O.J. and his peers misled you > and your peers all your lives, you are yearning for more misleading from > Jammeh and his peers? I'm sure your whole life and that of your peers is > not meant to be misled, is it? If it is, I sense a case of Misledomylitis > and a smidgen dose of quiet reading does the mind some good. > > Mr. Krubally speaks: "From the way O.J came running to the list with his > side of the story,..." > > Oh yeah? which way was the right honourable running to the list? I > suppose you regard O.J.'s rights being trampled upon as payback time for > all the misleading he and his peers did you? Or have you not made up your > mind? Has your judgement been clouded by your perceptions of O.J and his > peers' past conduct? You did inform us that the misleading was done by > O.J. and his peers but none of the peers had their pass-ports > confiscated. Why do you suppose that is? And if it were payback time, > would it not have been sweeter if all your culprits paid for their crime > of the misleading of Krubally and his peers? This is an opportunity to > amend your allegation to just O.J. committing that crime. Are you still > with me? remember, stop me when I dribble. Here, O.J.'s rights of free > movement and association are infringed upon illegally. Share with us how > that improves your misled life. Since O.J. and his peers are not in the > habit of properly informing the citizenry, Jammeh and his peers must also > mis-inform. I wonder if that makes sense. I know I will not knowingly > submit to mis-information from any one or any quarter. How about you? > > Mr. Krubally, I take umbrage at your assertion that the defense of an > impounded civil right is a game. I'm sure you were just trying to be > cute. You did not really mean that did you? Remember, when you write an > opinion, re-read it for sense, and then read it a third time for typo. I > have enjoyed you and I'm sure I will have numerous other opportunities to > do so in the future. I hope I have asked pertinent questions and if you > are enlightened in the process, Allaahu bas A'alam. > > I look foreward to a clearer position from you. Hold your peace if you > still claim you are a NEUTRALI. (lol). > > Les plus importants transformations sont les modifications > "accidentelles". > > Amoebic movement is effectuated by the sum-total of cellular > reconfigurations. > Yours truly - Haruna. > > ________________________________________________________________________________ > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: Click Here > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To > unsubscribe/subscribe or 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] > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To unsubscribe/subscribe or 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] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~