In a message dated 8/4/02 8:41:40 PM Central Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: > As a matter of fact the majority of the Gambia-l members are now APRC > supporters. Tombong. Please post a list of the majority of G-L members that are now members of the APRC. This is utter nonsense, and yes, those who join do so out for survivial reasons because even the civil servants who are not members get preyed upon. It is a matter of coercion for the helpless, but for those who know the truth and still choose to join this murderous regime, they do so to feed their own greed. You and the others keep talking about these sturctural improvements and the hospitals and schools. Well, these are good, but they are part of what a government does with the people's money. It is just that in Africa our leaders tend to sprend the dough on themselves so that if they direct it where it belongs sometimes, they then present this as major accomplishments. In the case of Yaya Jammeh, the hospitals and the schools are empty, and even his wife flies to Washington for a routine pediatric visit for her child, so what is the point? Surely she should be able to partake of the wonderful improvements in our medical care to stay home these visits. These empty structures you and others constantly point at goes to prove the poor planning skills of the APRC government because some of the resources to erect these structures should have gone to improving the existing schools and hospitals and equiping them, with perhaps additions of a few new ones. However, for the APRC regime, the emphasis is on visual effects, i.e, as many new structures as possible so they can be pointed at for the gullible to be impressed. Structural improvements are not the only issue in the development of a country. Even as you and other s continue to try to sell this garbage about the APRC, there are more and more decrees designed to by-pass our constitution, and journalists are being detained by the NIA for printing a story that the VP got married for heavens sake among other stupid reasons? Paranoia is the order of the day, and people who are confident in what the yare doing and who know that they are competent and are serving the people well do not display this kind of paranoia, nor do they employ devious tactics to divide the people. Here si a fact that everyone with a brain cannot miss. HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS ARE WORSENING BY THE DAY IN GAMBIA, WHILE WE HAVE MORE NEW STRUCTURES? WE WANT IMPROVEMENTS ON BOT HFRONTS, AND WE WANT THOSE WHO HAVE COMMITTED CRIMES AGAINST THE PEOPLE TO BE TRIED AND WE WANT THE UNSOLVED MURDERS AND THE POLICE STATE TO STOP. WE WATN OUR CONSTUTUTIONAL RIGHTS NOT TO BE ABBROGATED AND DONE AWAY WITH BY THE APRC REGIME. THEN WE WILL AGREE THERE IS REAL AND TRUE PROGRESS We have the structures while people are starving in The Gambia, farmers who depend solely on their crops being unable to sell those crops for years now. Civil servants are being fired illegally daily, and even the Judiciary is under the grips of the APRC. The saddest part of it is that people like you who know the truth are still trying to sell this garbage to us. Perhaps we over-estimate the APRC and assume that when we complain about the human rights violations, they are intelligent enough to understand that we are trying to tell them that the improvements have to be in all areas, not just the structural improvements. That we want the murders solved and the human rights violations stopped.Tombong, how do you and the rest of the APRC gang explain the human rights violations that continue even today? Will you tell us that the Gambian people deserve that and that we are to substitute our freedoms for structures? PEOPLE, UNDERSTAND THAT THIS TACTIC OF STATING THAT MANY HAVE JOINED THE APRC BUT ARE SILENT ABOUT IT IS ANOTHER DEVIOUS TACTIC EMPLOYED BY THESE THUGS. Those of us who used to write amost daily about this regime but do less of that now realize that these are not people to reason with simply because they were not motivated by high ideals to serve their country, but were and are motivated by what they can do for themselves in the guise of serving their country. However, rest assured that this does not mean that we will ever compromise our principles and join those whom history will not laud as the best amongst us, but rather those amonsgst us who will always choose their own interest over the truth, and there is nothing honourable or even sensible in that, ,and time will prove this. Rest assured that not writing about this regime daily translates to selling our souls and joining the devil or that we have given up exposing this regime for what they are. To the statement about silent members of the APRC, I say, if someone joins a political party and feels a need to hide that fact, then something is wrong, ,and if it was my party, I would not want such membership unless if I was desperate for members or simply engaged in a false campaign to sell the nonsense that people are joining the APRC by the drones. To anyone who joinss he APRC, I feel a deep sense of sadness not just because of the character trait it unfolds, but also because the yhave that day given up their self respect and their ability ot hold their head high in our society in the long run. Why? Because joining the APRC is not just exercising the constitutional right to join a party which would have been fine if the party was not one with the record of the APRC. Joining the APRC is signing on to be identified with the present regime who have the blood of Gambians on their hands and are flaunting this fact before us daily by refusing to investigate these criminal acts, ,and who also violate our rights daily and have turned our country into a police state. Who have incarcerated Gambians without any charges they can prove and who refuse to let these people have their rights under our constitution., and who engage in silencing anyone who dares to complain about these illegal acts they are engaged in. Who have tured our country into a place where even members of the judiciary cannot make rulings in a case according to the law without being harassed or terminated from their positions. Man, I would say anarchy has come to be the rule of the day in The Gambia, and yet, Tombong Saidy and company come daily to tell us we shoudl be dancing the jig because the government of Yaya Jammeh has built some structures while they continue to also built an ever worsening police state? THIS ALLEGATION OF PEOPLE JOINING THE APRC IS JUST ANOTHER TACTIC OF DIVIDE AND CONQUER. TOMBONG AND HIS LIKES WHO MAKE THESE STATEMENTS HAVE AN AGENDA TO PLANT DISTRUST AND CHAOS EVEN AS THEY APPEAR TO BE PEACE MAKERS AND JUST ANOTHER WELL MEANING MEMBER OF THE LISTS. Tombong, produce your list of APRC members or cease and desist from your devious tactics. 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