Sorry for the spelling and other errors. Here is a corrected version of my previous posting. Jabou Joh > 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 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 and stay home for 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 they > are 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 is 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 BOTH FRONTS, AND WE WANT THOSE WHO HAVE > COMMITTED CRIMES AGAINST THE PEOPLE TO BE TRIED AND WE WANT THE UNSOLVED > MURDERS AND THE POLICE STATE ATMOSPHERE TO STOP. > WE WANT OUR CONSTITUTIONAL 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 does not 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 they have that day given up > their self respect and their ability to 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 should be dancing the jig because the government of > Yaya Jammeh has built some structures while they continue to also build 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. > > Jabou Joh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~