This is just ridiculous. What Jaiteh needs is a darn dictionary. This is the same man/management that would tolerate people using the ‘a-word’. Several people on this List have used that word and they were NOT summarily ‘delisted’. I hasten here to add that I am NOT advocating for the ‘delisting’ of anyone that uses that word either. To me LIES are more offensive than the use of these words. Now, someone uses a relatively benign word (albeit distasteful to some in List Management) and the next you know, he is summarily ‘delisted’. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I would like to reiterate to List Management that CENSORSHIP and DICTATORSHIP does NOT work anywhere. Mboge CANNOT be gagged by these childish gimmicks; Jaiteh sitting in a computer lab continents away, playing Dictator and imagining putting people on the ‘chopping block’ CANNOT do it. More brutal Dictators like Yaya have tried and failed to silence the people. List Management should quit this nonsense and get a life. At the very least, List Management should apply the ‘rules’ in a uniform manner. Let Jaiteh explain to us how consistent one would be perceived if one ignores the use of the ‘a-word’ from Yaya supporters, but ‘delist’ Mboge for what Mboge said. List Management is acting like a typical Dictatorship that moves the goalpost willy-nilly. They know that if we set out CONCRETE ‘rules’ that would be applied EQUITABLY, in no time I will get Jaiteh ‘delisted’. I will query his words, and unlike them, I will make sure that my queries stick. This is no idle threat. If List Management tells us what is acceptable and what is not and also tell us the mode of adjudication and what would get someone ‘delisted’, Jaiteh would soon be ‘delisted’ or would be relegated to hiding in the background and sending ridiculous one-liners. I have no patience for these hypocritical moralizers. These are the very people that sit around and watch someone’s dead parent’s name being dragged in the mud. They sit and watch someone’s mom being falsely accused of the most heinous crime in the Koran. And now they pounce on people for using perfectly normal English words to aptly characterize a person or a situation. To List Management vulgar LIES is more acceptable to distasteful truth? Reminds me of a funny line I read the other day. Jaiteh should grab a tequila and have a lap-dance now he is at the bachelor’s party. In other words, loosen up. I beg the pardon of people that found the ‘definition’ repetitious. But you have to realize that nowadays on G_L you have to break it down for the Jaitehs. Before the man takes offense at my mention of alcoholic beverages and lap-dancers, I have to tell him in no uncertain terms that I merely meant for him to loosen up and quit pretending. I do NOT mean to insinuate that the GREAT and UPRIGHT Jaiteh would EVER want to drink alcohol or be entertained by exotic dancers. It is pathetic what the Dictatorship wants to reduce this List to. Geez! Can’t these people understand simple English? Don’t they have children they can lord over at home? Karamba and Kabir, please reconsider your decision to ‘delist’. You do that, the Dictatorship (List Management) wins. Let us ensure that they come face-to-face with their deeds. Their conscience CANNOT be clear knowing that they have allowed people to use more vulgar language while picking on Mboge. Moreover, with the exception of Ya Soffie and Ndey Jobarteh, List Management stood by and watch the most outrageous and vulgar LIES being perpetrated on G_L. The biggest weapon against a Dictatorship with a conscience is constant reminder of their despicable deeds. KB >From: Ngorr Ciise <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Your removal from the GAMBIA-L list >Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 11:19:21 +0000 > >The mail below is from Brother Momodou Mboge. Apparently, he has been >delisted for using the word "dickhead". Now, one would have thought that >political correctness has its limits, and Gambia-L is no exception to this >observation. "Dickhead" roughly translates as a "moron" or "mental midget". _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~