Quite right Haruna. One remembers Juvenal and Orwell, among others. Thanks for the analogy. Baba >From: Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: John Yahavich on the Rampage >Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 22:43:41 EDT > > >Thanx for sharing Galleh. I find enormous value in your John Yahavich >series >in addition to peerless satire. This is what nurtured the cultures of Rome >and London. I hope it has similar effect on Gambia's culture. There is much >development to be derived from literature if one is so pre-disposed. > >Haroun. Abdallah. MQDT. Darbo. Masoud. > >In a message dated 10/8/2007 4:51:21 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, >[log in to unmask] writes: > >John Yahavich on the Rampage > >By Baba Galleh Jallow > >When I say this you say that and when I say that you say this. And now all >of you are saying John Yahavich has arrested this man, John Yahavich has >arrested that man. You open your big mouths and say John Yahavich has >sacked >this man and John Yahavich has sacked that man. Do you know why I arrested >this man or why I sacked that man? Do you know what I know before you open >your big mouths and start talking nonsense? Well let me tell you one >thing: >You and your stinking mouths can all go to hell or even beyond hell. I >will >do what I like and if you think you can challenge me, I will tell you that >you are the biggest liar in the world. If you are a wrestler and you want >to >challenge somebody, you should come into the wrestling ring. But you stand >a >thousand miles away from the ring and you shake your hands and stamp your >feet and you call yourself a wrestler. I will tell you that you are not a >wrestler but a fool and a liar. > >You think I am not hearing what some of you are saying about me? You think >because I cannot read your so-called western writing I will not know what >you are saying? But I say you are a thief and a liar because I can hear >you >ten thousand times more than you can even hear yourself because I have >ears >in every part of my body and every part of the world. And what makes me >even >more angry is that everybody is shouting about some so-called court case >against me. Who are those people to take me to court? Who is that court to >command me to appear before it? If you think you can take me to court why >not come into this country and take me to court here? But you stay out of >my >country and you try to say you are taking me to court. Well I repeat that >you can all go to hell – both you and that so-called court and all the >judges and lawyers in the world. > >I am sick and tired of fools and cowards sticking their poisonous tongues >in >matters that are none of their business and matters that they do not >understand. And if some of you think you can meddle in my personal >affairs, >then I will ask you to go and wash yourself in the river because you must >be >dirty. And I must warn some of you who think that these so-called courts >can >order me around that you are all cowards and liars. This is my personal >country and everything in this country is my personal property. If I say >the >birds must not fly in this country, or that the wind must not blow or even >that the sun must not set, no one can challenge my words. I do not come >into >your compound and tell you how to treat your property and you think you >can >come into my compound and tell me how to treat my property. Then you must >be >the biggest fool and liar in the world. > >I want to tell all those fools who open their stinking mouths and say John >Yahavich do not care about so-called human rights to go to hell. Who are >you >to tell me about so-called human rights? What do you mean human rights? If >you go to the western world – all their prisons are full of Africans – >and >they come here and try to talk about human rights. They send their spies >into my country to come and try to throw me into the river by putting >stupid >ideas into the ears of the people and they think they can get away with >it. >If that is what they think, I will tell them that they are all fools and >liars. Anyone who comes here and starts talking about so-called human >rights >or even animal rights will go six-feet-deep. And you can take me to any >court you want on the face of this earth. I am not afraid of anybody in >this >world or even the next world if there is such a thing. > >You see me holding things in my hands and you think I care about those >things? That is why you are all fools, liars and cowards because when you >see something you should not jump up and say I know what this thing is or >what it means. Only I, John Yahavich, know what they mean and if you want >to > >know you have to come and face me and ask me. Belay, belay, belay, you >will >then know who John Yahavich is. > >Some of you jump up and say John Yahavich wants to sacrifice this man or >that man to his gods. Well, what if I want to sacrifice somebody? What can >you do about it? If I want to sacrifice anything in this country I will >sacrifice it because everything in this country belongs to me, and no one >can do anything about it. And if you don’t like it, you can go to hell >and >wait for me there. And those of you who write funny stories full of lies >and >even try to make me feel bad, I must tell you that you are all wasting >your >time and that you are all fools and liars who will never come into this >country as long as you live. I have all your names on my list and for the >next hundred years or even thousand years, I dare you to come here if you >are truly your mother’s son. Belay, belay, belay, you will then know who >John Yahavich is. 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