Gassama, you are just one pathetic soul. Look at you again. Here we have you pledging to be apolitical, yet you used this totally unrelated posting to propagate your LIES (again) on G_L. What does the killing of our children have to do with what I said about Yaya stealing money from us and receiving bribes from Taiwan? See how sick you are? You are the one that always run away with your tail in between your legs when we talk about Yaya’s corruption. Let us discuss that if you want. Let us also discuss the massacre of our children in broad daylight by the government you unashamedly support. In short, let us discuss about the HELL you live in. This is NOT about politics. This is about people’s lives. When Yaya orders the massacre of children in broad daylight, it is NOT political to condemn that. When Yaya steals from ordinary Gambians and render them destitute, it is NOT political to expose that. When you come here and LIE about roads that do NOT exist in the country, it is NOT political to debunk you. Spare us from your blatant hypocrisy by ‘pledging’ to not discuss APRC/AFPRC ‘exaggerations’ because you care about our children. We know that even if your own child was slaughtered on that fateful day, you would NOT even protest. You are so scared and so selfish, you do NOT even want to admit that our children were killed in cold blood. All you try to do is blame other people for the heinous acts of Yaya and his trigger-happy thugs. Look at you shamelessly trying to deflect attention to ‘unscrupulous people’ that defrauded the families of the victims of the April Massacre. This just goes to expose your hypocrisy and your misplaced priorities. Here you overlook the people that slaughtered the children and instead focus on people that are stealing from the victims. The ‘unscrupulous’ people as you put it, should be condemned. But the worse condemnation should be reserved for the people that necessitated the fund in the first place. I am sure Barrow’s family would rather have Barrow alive than receive some donation given to them as a result of Barrow’s murder. See how despicable you are? You are too scared to blame Yaya and his thugs. But you would rather blame some nameless person for stealing from the families. Yaya stole LIVES from the families. That is more precious than a few thousand dalasis. You can blame nameless people all you want. What I know is that G_L archives is replete with evidence showing some selfless individuals that went out of their way to raise money for the victims of the massacre. Those people did not have to do what they did. I am confident that they did NOT steal the money meant for the families. It is despicable for you to make such inflammatory reports and not tell us who actually stole from the families. What you did leaves some to think that everybody involved in raising funds have something to explain since your report did NOT specifically name anyone that defrauded the victims. I wonder what good the location of your office near RVH Mortuary is doing to the discourse. I also wonder what your acquaintance with the pathologist adds to the discussion. You know when that would have been of some help? When your government was lying about using rubber bullets. Did we hear you say that you know the pathologist and he told you that life ammunition was used on our children? You are just disgusting. Coming today telling us all sorts of rubbish. We know exactly how you feel about the massacre of the children. No amount of pretense from your side can bamboozle some of us. You are in denial because you do not want to place blame where blame lies. Your coming here to spin the heinous events of April 10 and 11, 2000 just goes to expose you for the despicable vermin you are. Like I told you, if you want, you can stop your LIES to commemorate the massacre of our children. That is neither here nor there for me. Your LIES on G_L does NOT bother me. As I promised you, each time you tell a lie here, I will debunk it. I know you are morally bankrupt and it is a sheer waste of time to appeal to your conscience to look at our slain children and quit your sycophancy. So, pledge with others to stop your lying for a day or two. I will always be where I was. If you stop for April 10 and 11 and come back with more vicious lies on April 12, water would be settling where it always settled. I wonder what you are calling wild allegations against the AFPRC/APRC regime. None of your lies have been vindicated. When you lied about the roads, I exposed you. The bottom-line you CANNOT run away from is that people are POORER under Yaya’s watch. You CANNOT run away from that. You CANNOT run away from the plight of our farmers. You CANNOT run away from the power black-outs and the shortages of running water. You CANNOT run away from the classrooms without desks and chairs. You CANNOT run away from the fact that thugs like Baabaa Jobe and Yaya have overnight enriched themselves on the back of poor Gambians. Are these the wild allegations that recent visitors to Gambia told you are untrue? Are you telling us that Dumo et al have been freed? Are you also telling us that our children were not slaughtered in broad daylight? Address specifics that ‘Opposition’ elements have lied about. When I cornered you about roads (Westfield-MandinaBa) that do NOT exist, I addressed specifics. I asked you a direct question about how AFPRC/APRC policies helped you to build your own house. You NEVER responded. Instead, you point at houses built by ‘Diasporans’ to exaggerate AFPRC/APRC achievements. I am glad you said that you made 15 ‘wild and sweeping statements’ about AFPRC/APRC ‘achievements’. You yourself recognize that those were off-the-wall statements. Most on G_L also noticed that and that is why they IGNORED you. Don’t think that people do not know that you are NOT with all your faculties intact. We know that something is wrong with you. I wonder who you expect to waste his/her time talking about things you yourself know is stuff lunatics try to make up. If you come here and pretend that Gambia is Singapore and Gambians are living large, there comes a time when people IGNORE you because you are NOT making any sense. Do NOT mistake the snub for ‘tacit endorsement’. If you come here and tell us that you live in a mansion back home and no one says anything, that doesn’t mean that people believe you. Most likely, people are just saying that: ‘ignore Gassama. He must be taking something that is bad for his brains.’ The way you tried to bring the Taiwan issue to this debate is just mind-boggling to me. You had the opportunity several times to take me on about what I wrote about Yaya stealing from us. You always run away. Why didn’t you dispute what I said when I said it? Instead, you craftily hide behind another posting to send these ridiculous arguments. I wonder what you meant by me being an ‘arch enemy’ of Yaya. You are just a funny character. You think by saying that, you will make people doubt what I said as lies from Yaya’s enemies. Your childish gimmicks are always glaring to me. Your problem is that what I said is NOT just talk from ‘enemies’. EVERYTHING I say is corroborated with EVIDENCE. You know you tell a blatant LIE when you say that what I sent here about the Taiwan scandal ‘exonerates’ Yaya. Maybe it exonerates him in your sycophantic mind. As I told you, you are in denial. You will take anything to convince yourself that Yaya is a saint. I told you before to ask Bala Jahumpa about the Taiwan millions if you are interested in getting to the bottom of the matter. I give you Bala Jahumpa’s name because you said that you do not believe a word Ebou Jallow says. Needless to say, you are NOT interested in truth. Now you are changing your stance after I exposed you again. Previously, you had argued that it was impossible for Taiwan to give us that amount of money in cash because no responsible democracy would do that. Now you are saying that it is possible, but you are right that there must be a paper-trail. You are just pathetic. I am laughing my socks off writing to you. I just exposed your naivete by showing that this type of bribery takes place. Before this article, you were clueless. But trust Gassama to twist and turn to wriggle out of sorry situations he puts himself in. I am glad that now we have settled the issue about whether it is possible for the Taiwanese government to give out large CASH payments to unscrupulous African Dictators. Now, as I understand you, you are NOT disputing the payments. You are simply saying that there has to be a paper-trail, as the article I forwarded showed. What is perhaps more hilarious is the example you used to show that there are inconsistencies in what some of us have been saying and what the article said. For your information, we are NOT only talking about $30 million. We are talking about more than that from Taiwan. We are talking about something in the region of $45 million. Now, that blows your mind. Where have I or anyone else ever said that the whole $45 million came from the ‘slush fund’ exposed in the article I sent here? You are the one making that ‘wild allegation’ again in order to scavenge for ways to exonerate Yaya. You are the only one arguing that the money that came to Gambia came from this fund. I hope you realize that. Your argument that Gambia could not have received more than South Africa is also without merit. I hope you read the article carefully and understand it. There is a difference between bribes and ‘legitimate’ loans to a country. The former was the focus of the article. The reason I sent the article was to show the APRC sycophants that after all a ‘democracy like Taiwan’ pays people in CASH. Period. The millions Yaya stole from us have been exposed elsewhere. I already gave you account numbers in Swiss Banks. You also see the flamboyant lifestyle Yaya is leading. You know about his plane and his wife’s shopping sprees. The ‘Taiwan Papers’ did NOT even mention him. He is a small fry in the larger scheme of things. Remember that Gambia is no longer a member of the Security Council. I hope you read between the lines here and realize why Taiwan needed us. Now it might be more interesting to journalists to write a story attempting to embarrass Nelson Mandela than to write about a small time Dictator in a small African country that is no longer a member of the UN Security Council. Again, I reiterate that no one (other than yourself) is arguing that the money that was paid to Yaya PERSONALLY came from the fund that was exposed in the article. I hope you get that in your skull. KB >From: Jungle Sunrise <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: One Step Towards Justice! >Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 20:44:45 +0000 > _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~