Today, going by conservative estimates (because like everything else useful, his government finds it necessary to lie to
Gambians about how much debt they’ve tied around our neck,) Yaya Jammeh has stuck us with close to $800M Dollars
in debt! We won’t know the real figure until we kick him out. But when he is gone, I’ll bet anything that Gambians will find
that our national debt is around One Billion Dollars or over! And all we have to show for that is a “network of roads” less
than 400 miles in total (the main South Bank road artery has been a death trap for over ten years); less than ten shells
of hospitals without any drugs; dozens of school buildings without neither teacher expertise, adequate furniture or
stationery; public infrastructure that is generally moribund, and a clogged and stifling public sector that operates on
blatant nepotism and crude patronage.

Yaya Jammeh is a poseur of the worst kind, and a cankerworm on the character and conscience of the Gambian nation.
He cannot give Gambia peace because he is at war with himself; he cannot engender trust because he lacks character
and integrity; and he is intolerant of free political discourse because he lacks the intelligence to defend the copy-cat
ideas he plagiarizes from others.  

He suffers from the worst types of Inferiority Complex and insecurity there is: cultural as well as intellectual. He routinely
trashes Mandingo people yet he cannot help but fashion himself after medieval Manden royalty because nothing in his
background offers him comparable radiance; he trashes titled intellectuals, yet he craves the titles they’ve earned
through mind-sweat so much so that he shamelessly buys the titles. As if people cannot see through him. Anyone who
expects this man to relinquish power willingly is being delusional. He was an ignorant lowlife before we allowed him to
lord over us, and he’s terrified of going back to that life. His fear is, without the trappings of power, nothing about his
illegitimate lifestyle is sacrosanct.

"Running through the few opinions on how to take on Jammeh, I identify with a Mr. Lang Colley wholeheartedly. We need
to learn from the countless false starts in the past, and coalesce around issues, NOT any person, or personality.
Especially, as some of us can attest to the ageless adage – “bitten once, twice shy.” There are too many phony “anti-
Jammeh” characters among us, who seem to hate Yaya Jammeh out of jealousy. Given the opportunity, some of us who
hate Jammeh and are always blasting him, will be worse than him!   

That’s why I’m more frightened of the average Gambian than I am of Yaya Jammeh. He, I figured out a long time ago.
Which is why despite the protest of friends and family, I go to Gambia to take care of my business. This fact, to anyone
who thinks Jammeh is invincible, is instructive: if someone like yours truly, who for over a decade hasn’t made any secret
of his desire to work towards Jammeh’s uprooting by any means necessary, can go to Gambia, visit military locations,
and interact with his soldiers unscathed, then how solid can the man’s security be?  

The only thing that gives me pause is the countless double-talking, two-face hypocrites among us. These are the types
that scare the bejesus out of me. To all those who are sincere about putting up to see the back of Yaya Jammeh, do be
careful of such funny characters. " Saul
 
Yero
Don't mind Fankung, have the time he is only interested in creating jokes. To him, the whole exercise to call for decency for the average Gambians is a big joke. This is why, he is not interested in uncomfortable subjects. Such are the ingredients of dictatorships. However Fankung like those of his orientation too have the right to mock us and make fond of what we are calling for. This kind of human dynamics can never be eradicated.
So we need a Fankung, the Green Boys and girls, the NIAs and many more sad and pathetic individuals who will always sell their soul at the lowest price. No amount of moral adjudication will change Fankung or his ilks. There are those whose personal comfort means everything, let the rest rot, let them burn. Sadly, we Gambians aren't immune from cancers like that. I understand Demba's wisdom, but Fankung or Cherno Kebbeh is only here to wind up. 
Suntou 


On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 3:49 AM, Y Jallow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Mawdo Demba,

 

Jokingly, Jammeh couldn’t even stand the GMC flag. I need a GMC flag myself.[lol]

 

The green boys are a bunch of terror and a hand full. They might engage in some recruitment exercise to neutralize the level to which their crimes have been getting exposed. I certainly cannot tell who is better, whether those using guns and terror to deal with Gambians, or their duplicates online aggressively polluting us with some nonsense, time and again, while loaded with an attitude of self-denial of the crimes perpetuated by Yaya Jammeh aka ‘Nasiru Saitan’ and his dangerous goons. There is something very inevitable, that is to say, Jammeh must go! It is time to come out of the shameful veils of supporting this criminal regime in the name of national development. It is an irony to believe that Jammeh has brought about development. What development one would always ask? Development is for the people. With the wind of change blowing in North part of Africa, Jammeh and his goons still didn’t get a clue out of this reality.

 

Yero

 

Yaya Jammeh's Time is UP! Opinion

     

    By: Saul Saidy-khan ([log in to unmask])


    For lack of time, this will be brief. Let me just say that with regard to repatriating to take back our country, I'm in 100%. My only question is whether Gambians on the ground will be willing to stand up and show the world that they are human beings worthy of respect. Allah will NOT come down and liberate Gambians. Neither will foreigners - until Gambians start something. And Yaya Jammeh cannot be wished away.
    In my book, Yaya Jammeh lost his legitimacy the moment he lied to Gambians about his true intentions in 1996. His entire helmsman-ship is based on brutality-induced fear. But as is now clear from ongoing events in the Maghreb, when ordinary people decide to value themselves as human beings, fear disappears. And with it, dictators' only arsenal against the people. See how the tough-talking geriatric punk call Hosni Mubarak folded when ordinary Egyptian people stood their ground? And mark my words, Muammar Kaddafi will be toast in a few weeks as well! Very soon, they'll rob him of his planes, and immobilized, he'll be brought to his knees. If you think Saddam Hussein peed his pants by going rat on us, wait till Kaddafi's hour comes.
    In 1994, before Yaya Jammeh settled in, he swore "even ten years is too much" for one person to be president. After he did, he started claiming that he should rule twice as long as his predecessor who ruled for thirty years "because of his debolopmens." What he and the many fools that cheer him on don't tell Gambians is that, just within the first year of his reign, he had saddled us with tens of millions of dollars of debt just so he could beat his chest at what he has "done in such a short time." Yet, any ten years old can do what he did: spend money wantonly without regard to the long term implications.
    Today, going by conservative estimates (because like everything else useful, his government finds it necessary to lie to Gambians about how much debt they've tied around our neck,) Yaya Jammeh has stuck us with close to $800M Dollars in debt! We won't know the real figure until we kick him out. But when he is gone, I'll bet anything that Gambians will find that our national debt is around One Billion Dollars or over! And all we have to show for that is a "network of roads" less than 400 miles in total (the main South Bank road artery has been a death trap for over ten years); less than ten shells of hospitals without any drugs; dozens of school buildings without neither teacher expertise, adequate furniture or stationery; public infrastructure that is generally moribund, and a clogged and stifling public sector that operates on blatant nepotism and crude patronage.
    Yaya Jammeh is a poseur of the worst kind, and a cankerworm on the character and conscience of the Gambian nation. He cannot give Gambia peace because he is at war with himself; he cannot engender trust because he lacks character and integrity; and he is intolerant of free political discourse because he lacks the intelligence to defend the copy-cat ideas he plagiarizes from others.
    He suffers from the worst types of Inferiority Complex and insecurity there is: cultural as well as intellectual. He routinely trashes Mandingo people yet he cannot help but fashion himself after medieval Manden royalty because nothing in his background offers him comparable radiance; he trashes titled intellectuals, yet he craves the titles they've earned through mind-sweat so much so that he shamelessly buys the titles. As if people cannot see through him. Anyone who expects this man to relinquish power willingly is being delusional. He was an ignorant lowlife before we allowed him to lord over us, and he's terrified of going back to that life. His fear is, without the trappings of power, nothing about his illegitimate lifestyle is sacrosanct.
    Running through the few opinions on how to take on Jammeh, I identify with a Mr. Lang Colley wholeheartedly. We need to learn from the countless false starts in the past, and coalesce around issues, NOT any person, or personality. Especially, as some of us can attest to the ageless adage - "bitten once, twice shy." There are too many phony "anti-Jammeh" characters among us, who seem to hate Yaya Jammeh out of jealousy. Given the opportunity, some of us who hate Jammeh and are always blasting him, will be worse than him!
    That's why I'm more frightened of the average Gambian than I am of Yaya Jammeh. He, I figured out a long time ago. Which is why despite the protest of friends and family, I go to Gambia to take care of my business. This fact, to anyone who thinks Jammeh is invincible, is instructive: if someone like yours truly, who for over a decade hasn't made any secret of his desire to work towards Jammeh's uprooting by any means necessary, can go to Gambia, visit military locations, and interact with his soldiers unscathed, then how solid can the man's security be?
    The only thing that gives me pause is the countless double-talking, two-face hypocrites among us. These are the types that scare the bejesus out of me. To all those who are sincere about putting up to see the back of Yaya Jammeh, do be careful of such funny characters.
    Fatou Manneh is right: if Gambians, especially men, are ready to be counted, Yaya Jammeh will not last a day! Lack of spine among Gambian men has been the bane of past attempts to speak "Jammeh's language."
    But times seem to be changing in inspiring ways. What makes this time different is the sterling example of ordinary Libyans standing up to mad-dog Muammar Kaddafi. Even people who have chided some of us as "too militant" or "radical" in the past, are now calling and asking why we Gambians cannot copy Libyans, Egyptians, Tunisians, Yemenis, etc. I don't know of an answer. I haven't for a long time. In my book, we've had our Libyans, Egyptians, and Tunisians in April 2000, only we Gambian MEN faltered. The youngsters did their part then, it's us Gambian men who failed them!
    The one thing that is abundantly clear at this point is, given what is going on in Libya, WE NO LONGER HAVE ANY EXCUSE NOT TO TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY FROM YAYA JAMMEH! Anyone who tells you our situation is substantively different from the North Africans is a darn liar. There is not a more oppressive ruler than Muammar Kaddafi, who has been Yaya Jammeh's role model. So if Libyans can stand up to Kaddafi, we can stand up to Jammeh. That moment is now.
    The differences between North Africans and Gambians are all in their favor. Matter of fact, except for the Big Brother, oppressive rulers, Gambians would die to be in the shoes of north Africans. Libyans especially have a lot to be thankful for. Kaddafi, for all his madness, gave them first rate schools, hospitals, roads, energy resources, etc. Libyans are well-fed, and healthy. They are unburdened with national debt, and such things as monthly mortgage bills and rents are unknown to them. Even unemployment in Libya is a matter of choice. Kaddafi has established a very strong social Safety Net for Libyans. The only reason they're fed up with him is the oppressive environment he rules under. Just like Yaya Jammeh.
    In a nutshell, Yaya Jammeh oppresses Gambians just like Kaddafi does to Libyans, only the latter are at least taken care of by their oppressor. Gambians on the other hand don't even have the basic necessities of life while their oppressor lives an extravagant lifestyle at their expense. Yaya Jammeh is all about Yaya Jammeh. He is the only sacred cow, and The Gambia and the rest of us are no better than a Two-Dollar whore at his beck! He uses the country and its citizens anyway anyhow. The Gambia today is no more than an over-rated slave plantation. And we let him.
    We Gambian men need to stop defining our manhood by how many children we sire, or how many wives, courtesans, or Little-Girlie girlfriends we have all over the place. Any man who willingly submits to being another man's slave, like many of us Gambian men have apparently submitted to Yaya Jammeh, is not worthy of being called a man. It's time for us to man up.
    While we're knocking heads on what steps to take, we have to beware of knee-jerk, adrenalin-driven actions. I mention this because I browsed through some opinions and comments that don't seem to be well-thought out to me.
    Right off the bat, I'm thinking Plan A and Plan B.
    First, the idea of a demonstration, or protest anywhere outside Gambia against Jammeh is silly and futile. We have been doing that for sixteen years, and I don't know what good it has gotten us. Those of us who are serious about uprooting Jammeh need to be ready to go back and join the protest on the ground. The criticism of expat Gambians egging their countrymen on to protest from their comfortable Western abodes is justified. It's hypocrisy at its worst. It's time we actually Walk The Talk we've been doing online for over a decade.
    Some are already saying, people will be arrested on arrival at the airport and nothing will come of it. That would be true if only a few people go back. If expatriate Gambians are ready to go back in large numbers, we have enough clout to inspire resident Gambians to come out on the streets in the requisite numbers to shut down the country, and hit the Snooze Button on Yaya Jammeh's rule.
    Second, we need to fine tune the modalities of the protest itself, specifically to plan for various contingencies (Locations, "Protest leadership succession," various "What If" scenarios, etc.)
    For starters, we need to hold simultaneous protests in several major towns (from Brikama to Banjul) to force Jammeh's mercenaries to be spread thin. In the worse case scenario, it would be easier for ordinary people to defend themselves against an isolated group of Yaya Jammeh's only reliable defenders - his Cassamance Tribal Vanguard, in different locations, rather than at a single location. (For those that are afraid of these people, tell us what town in the whole of Cassamance they've been able to control in the past thirty years.)
    We need to plan our response for situations where Jammeh's agents, as they've done in the past, arrest "leaders" of movements. We need to have enough dedicated people willing to step up immediately to take over whatever the arrested "leaders" were doing. Also, each time they try to arrest one person, five others should voluntarily jump in the car to go with those arrested. This is to deliberately overwhelm them with our numbers. Needless to say, whatever facilities our arrested members are taken to, we will have surrounded and besieged until they are released- be that the NIA building or the Mile 2 hellhole.
    This would be my Plan A. It is based on the assumption that Yaya Jammeh will refrain from using violence against the people. Scuffles ok, -guns, beatings, etc, not. This choice is in Jammeh's best interests to choose, though knowing him, I wouldn't hold my breadth.
    Then, we have Plan B as a last resort. Sierra Leone, the Congo, and Liberia have shown us that a soldier is really nothing more than an armed person. (Those that doubt this and have access to a computer should Google Child Soldiers from the cite countries or elsewhere.) If Jammeh decides to go April 2000 redux, or Muammar Kaddafi on us, we should be ready for him.
    What is also very encouraging this time around is, many former soldiers already on the ground in the sub-region are sending signals that they are ready and waiting for ordinary Gambians to make the first move. To me, this is the most crucial piece of information. Many are telling us that friendly neighbors are ready to help "any way we want." This is very good news, because knowing Yaya Jammeh, it would be foolish to believe he'll do the honorable thing by resigning to avoid unnecessary bloodshed. Like I stated earlier, we have to plan and expect him to behave EXACTLY like Muammar Kaddafi. This is what I'm telling everyone in private. I repeat here.
    In the meantime, here is what we need to be doing in the background:
    1. Every straight-headed Gambian should call or talk to every soldier, police officer, Para-military or miscellaneous "security" personnel he/she knows either directly or through family, and inform him/her to defy ANY orders to fire on, beat, or restrain demonstrators in defense of Yaya Jammeh. When we make our move, it would not be a matter of "if," but "when" Yaya Jammeh will go. And any soldier that sides with Jammeh and harms, or kills a Gambian will be held to account for that crime. They need to be informed of the noose being tethered around Kaddafi's neck as I write this. Yaya Jammeh will have a similar fate if he is mad enough to copy his mentor.
    2. Gambian soldiers should emulate their Egyptian and Libyan counterparts and stand side by side with the Gambian people against Yaya Jammeh. They have been abused and brutalized by Yaya Jammeh more than any category of Gambians. This is their fight as much as any Gambian's. Besides, there's no better way for them to redeem their tattered image.
    3. All NIA agents should be ready not just to switch sides, but to deliberately engage in counter-intelligence. If ordinary Gambians make the move, the NIA should deliberately start feeding Yaya Jammeh the opposite of what is happening. We will collect their contact information, and will be reaching out to every single member of the organization. It is in their best interest to cooperate with us, to help isolate the few Jammeh loyalists we already know about. Anyone whose loyalty to the Gambian people is in doubt, should be identified.
    4. The NIA in particular is called upon to monitor Jammeh's associates, and should do everything possible to stop them from escaping when we make our move.
    5. We need hundreds of volunteers to help form and coordinate Cells within the Gambia from Brikama to Banjul. They should begin to sensitize people that it might not be a one week or two weeks project. But however long it takes, we'll persevere and endure, until victory over Yaya Jammeh and his forces of darkness.
    6. Volunteers should call on all the thousands of Gambians who have been directly touched by Yaya Jammeh's madness: friends and relatives of the countless murdered, tortured, falsely imprisoned, disappeared, wrongfully terminated, victims of the Kaninlai monster, be they professionals like Ousman Korro Ceesay, soldiers like Sgt. Ello Jallow, journalists like Ebrima Manneh, students like Omar Joof, or civil servants like Yaya Sarr. At the right time, they need to come out in full force to play their part. We will remain in the streets for as long as it takes to drive Yaya Jammeh out.
    7. We should link the many small Cells already established both in the sub-region and the Diaspora, to form the United movement we envision. Together, we'll take our country back from Yaya Jammeh.
    Finally, our resolve to be free of Jammeh is greater than our fear of his Killing and Torture Machine. Yaya Jammeh's prisons are not large enough to hold us all, and his loyalists are not numerous enough to kill us all. If he decides to go the way of Kaddafi, he can be sure that would be the end of not just him, but everyone else around him. God willing, we will match him, man for man in that area as well.
    Despite some of the pussy-footed pessimism or cynicism being put out by some, the only thing stopping us from removing Jammeh is baseless fear. We won't face any more danger than Libyans are facing against Kaddafi. Yaya Jammeh is poorer, and his loyalists are fewer than any of the three North African autocrats who have been uprooted (or are in the process of being,) in the past two months. Yaya Jammeh can NEVR match Muammar Kaddafi or Hosni Mubarak in terms of wealth, connection, or personal security. If ordinary people can defrock them, what are we afraid of?
    I understand some people are trashing Mathew Jallow for calling for the drawing of a Line In The Sand. That's simply disgraceful. For once, Mathew is saying something incontestable base on verifiable facts. Those that are queasy about risking their lives and limbs should just pray for those of us that are not. There is no escaping this confrontation. We simply don't have a choice. We can put it off, but eventually, it will have to be faced. That is because Yaya Jammeh will never relent in his oppression. He simply knows no better. So we can either let him kill, maim, imprison, torture, or abuse us in the cruelest ways quietly, or we can stand up and tell the world what we think of him.
    Since it is being suggested by some people that there are alternative avenues through the established Opposition Parties or Gambia's elaborately named "elected Parliament" to rising up against Yaya Jammeh, we can take a realistic look at that. When we do, it would be clear to all that, nothing of substance will be forthcoming from those two channels. For pointers, to anyone who tells one such, ask simply what either medium has done in the last fifteen years to check Yaya Jammeh's run-away brigandage.
    If the Gambia's opposition parties were anything near effective, this would be the time to call for an end to the charade going on regarding the country's status and the Democracy Simulation going on. The Gambian people want regular change of leaders - every ten years max! Yet, not a single party is demanding this as a top agenda. Yaya Jammeh has a reason to maintain the lie that the Gambia is a democracy. Sadly, no opposition party sees it necessary to expose the fraud for the world to see.
    Next, we'll answer a simple question that many ask of opponents to Yaya Jammeh: "what do you guys want?"
    To be continued...

    There is no god but Allah (SWT) and Muhammad (SAW) is His messenger. Fear and Worship only Allah alone!




     
    Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 16:05:24 -0800
    From: [log in to unmask]
    Subject: Your moral support for a regime that arrest innocent parents!!!
    To: [log in to unmask]


    Now Fankung has gone hiding again after Mai Fatty's parents were arrested. Anytime this regime act shamefully these supporters run into hiding. Do you ever question your moral support for a regime willing to detain innocent parents exercising their god given rights...
     
    How much did they gain arresting these people? Negative publicity??? Didn't you know being arrested and detain is now a pride in the Gambia for only those who don't do anything wrong gets arrested and detained. Those who openly commit heinous crimes are loitering the streets of Banjul.
     
     
    Demba
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