Ebou, I very ardently share your hopes in this regard! Omar Joof. >From: Ebou Jallow <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: [log in to unmask] >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: [>-<] Spinning Liberty >Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:06:45 -0800 (PST) > > >I find myself on line with the idea argued by Jurgen Habermas that >modernity is an unfinished project and postmodernism is an offshoot if not >a perversion of history after the Enlightenment. This sensation dawned on >me yesterday whilst listening to Pres. Bush’s inaugural address at the >Mall. Americans love to believe in a Heavenly Father who endows mankind >with inalienable rights. A commendable act of faith indeed but the >foundation of that creed is misplaced. America is born during the >Enlightenment…an explosive epoch during the history of human that reverses >the excesses of the religious clergy and reinstates humanism as understood >from the ancient Greeks. > >The three spinning Goddesses of Fate, Moirae in white robes are ancient >deities that even the Zeus feared. I found myself entertaining the notion >that even the White House is purposively painted white in sanctification of >the Goddesses of Destiny. Ever since the presidency of James Madison >there has been a national feeling of a moral crusade towards liberty as >John O’Sullivan in 1845, once wrote that "it was the nation's manifest >destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which >Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of >liberty and federated self-government entrusted to us." The spinning of >liberty has been the business of America as Americans understand >themselves, and an ongoing project as President Bush eloquently >demonstrated yesterday before the world: > > > >“All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know the United States will >not ignore your oppression or excuse your oppressors,” President George >Walker Bush > > > >President Bush’s new found crusade against tyranny and for a world wide >experimental democracy is a reconciliation of noble American intentions and >interests…a synthesis that has never been before in modern human history. >Lady Liberty is on the march again, and hopefully she shall tear down all >the garrisons of oppression around the globe. So the Yaya Jammehs of this >world beware because Uncle Sam has had enough. And for the oppressed >Gambian people, America has made a pledge: > > > >"When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you” Pres. Bush > > > >Almost half a century ago President Woodrow Wilson helped end colonialism >and European imperialism with his 14 point address at the League of >Nations. Let us also hope that President Bush’s second inaugural address >shall motivate heroic spirits and freedom fighters to end autocracy, >tyranny and all types of oppression. President Bush has promised to spin >the thread of liberty, and I pray it reaches all dark corners of the globe. > > > >Ebou Jallow > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ 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 Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤