Great commentary Baba
On Oct 25, 2011 6:09 AM, "Y Jallow" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>  Mawdo Baba,
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> Unfortunately dictators don’t learn, so there Jammeh too will wait for his
> turn, for his skull to be smashed to pieces. What is really funny, just look
> at the shameful endings. Saddam was found in a hole and the same as
> Ghaddafi. What is it worth after all, being in power for 42 years, and to
> only end in the scenarios observed?
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>
> I equally believe that Jammeh just like Toure are just like father like
> son. The death of prominent Guineans like the OAU’s first Secretary General
> Telli Diallo is all you need to grasp to conclude that Toure was just
> another monstrous devil dressed in a grandbuba.  Their breeds have
> shamefully succeeded in defaulting by historical accident to the human
> species. With the North African spring flaking white snow everywhere, it is
> without a doubt we conclude that God is ready to conquer them one by one.
>
> The so-called development is mere white elephants projects.  Jammeh has
> failed woefully. The free education for girls was nothing but a political
> propaganda. The hospitals and some the schools are empty.
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>
> Thank you for continually enlightening us Baba. I think your discuss with
> dictator Jammeh sums what Gandhi said, and to paraphrase that there will
> always be dictators and tyrants in this world but their ending is shameful.
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> Keep them coming …
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> Kind Regards,
>
> Yero
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>
> *There is no god but Allah (SWT) and Muhammad (SAW) is His messenger. Fear
> and Worship only Allah alone!*
>
>
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> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:38:17 -0500
> Subject: [>-<] Discourse with Dr. Jammeh: Nation Body and Nation Mind
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> *Discourse with Dr. Jammeh: Nation Body and Nation Mind*
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>
> By Baba Galleh Jallow
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> Dear Dr. Jammeh, let us first start by asking you to accept our condolences
> on the death of your erstwhile friend and mentor, Muammar Gaddafi. Who would
> have thought that just about a decade after he conferred upon you the
> glorious titles of Grand Commander of the Order of Al-Fatah, the Grand Order
> of Bravery, and The African Medal, he would meet with such an inglorious
> end? Well, as the adage goes, he who lives by the sword dies by the sword;
> he who specializes in inflicting violence on his fellow humans will have
> violence inflicted upon him. So it has been in the past; so is it in the
> present; so shall it be in the future. It is an immutable law of nature that
> humans reap what they sow, a lesson that unfortunately for them and their
> victims, dictators and tyrants never learn.
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>
>
> Talking of dictators, you have loudly declared to us that you are a
> dictator for development. What exactly did you mean dictator for
> development? What development? Whose development? Are you a dictator for
> development because Gambians are stupid and you are the only Gambian clever
> enough to know what development means and the only one capable of bringing
> it for Gambians? Or are you a dictator concerned primarily about the
> development of your own personal interests? Since Gambians are not stupid
> and incapable of bringing about their own development, we can only imagine
> that you are a dictator for your own personal development. And so you
> proclaim that you are a dictator for development – your own personal
> development hiding behind the façade of national development – a concept we
> are certain you do not fully understand and to which we will return shortly.
>
>
>
>
> You see Dr. Jammeh, you are not the first African dictator to proclaim that
> you a dictator for development. Guinea’s late dictator Sekou Toure comes
> readily to mind. To rebuff claims that his regime was a dictatorship, Toure
> argued that all governments were by nature dictatorships. Dictatorship, he
> claimed, “is the concentration of powers exercised by a man or group of men
> over the whole. . . . If the dictatorship exercised by the governmental
> apparatus emanates directly from the whole of the people, this dictatorship
> is popular in nature and the state is a democratic state - democracy being
> the exercise of national sovereignty by the people.” It was in this sense
> that Sekou Toure espoused his paradoxical concept of “democratic
> dictatorship” which was a clear contradiction in terms. Having imposed a
> dictatorship and assumed a position of infallibility and omnipotence, Sekou
> Toure was condemned to live in a world of conspiracies, real and imagined.
> Paranoia born of despotism led him into a constant tirade against
> imperialism and neocolonialism and “fifth column” elements out to kill him.
> Indeed, his voice could daily be heard over Radio Conakry railing against
> perceived enemies of the revolution and chanting down imperialism and
> neocolonialism. Like all dictators, Sekou Toure routinely “unveiled” alleged
> plots against his life which he then used to imprison, kill or exile his
> opponents – real or perceived. In the end, he left a country pregnant with
> the kind of mayhem and chaos we have seen through the reigns of Lansana
> Conteh and Musa Dadis Camara. His dictatorship brought zero development to
> Guinea and set the country on a tortuous path to destruction after his
> death. Sadly, the saying that history’s greatest lesson is that man never
> learns from history has a lot to commend it.
>
>
>
> The position of Gambianism is that The Gambia’s one and only legitimate
> dictator is the Constitution of the Republic of The Gambia. As two bulls
> cannot drink from the same calabash, the lesser and weaker of the two has to
> withdraw its horns before they get broken by the stronger force. In our
> particular case, you, Dr. Jammeh, are the lesser of the two bulls because
> you are a mere mortal, a human being and a fellow citizen like all the rest
> of the Gambian community. You can only be a dictator over a country
> inhabited by unimaginative nitwits or one that has no constitution and
> therefore one in which the rule of law is out of the question. In a country
> such as ours where people are intelligent and the Constitution is the
> supreme law of the land, there is no room for a personal dictator – of
> development or otherwise.
>
>
>
> Now Dr. Jammeh, let us turn to the question of development? What exactly is
> development? Because of the elusive nature of this concept, Gambianism
> believes that it is more profitable to focus on what is there to be
> developed rather than what development is. In our conception of what needs
> to be developed, we think in terms of two major components of our national
> entity: the Nation Body and the Nation Mind. The two complement each other
> and neither can develop in a healthy manner without the other.
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>
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> The Nation Body refers to the economic and physical structures of our
> country – the roads, hospitals, banks, schools, hotels, parks, and other
> physical infrastructure and financial institutions that facilitates physical
> and bureaucratic mobility. The Nation Body would include all the trappings
> of modernity, all our documentary institutions, our constitution, our laws,
> the media, and that collective Gambian voice that lays legitimate claim to
> ownership of the country. Obviously, there is no denying the fact that the
> Nation Body needs to be healthy and beautiful – that infrastructure needs to
> be built and maintained, that the economy needs to be carefully tended, that
> the constitution and laws of the land need to be given supreme respect and
> that the collective voice of the nation needs to be given the space it
> requires to make itself heard and to contribute its quota to the task of
> national wellbeing. We know, Dr. Jammeh, that you have made some progress in
> developing some aspects of the Gambian Nation Body. You have built schools
> and hospitals and roads. But you have miserably failed to attend to those
> facets of the Gambian Nation Body whose blossoming threatens to question
> your right to impose yourself as a dictator on the Gambian people. That
> needs to be corrected.
>
>
>
> The Nation Mind is that which nurtures or drives the healthy development of
> the Nation Body. It is manifested in the collective intellectual energies of
> the Gambian people. It is expressed in the varied, conflicting or
> complimentary views and opinions of the Gambian people. It is the spirit
> that animates and is animated by love of country and that sense of true
> patriotism which causes people to sacrifice their personal security and even
> their lives for the betterment of the whole. It is that most important
> aspect of the Gambian Nation that must be given unchallenged priority if we
> are ever to rise above the petty obstacles and bottlenecks that hold us back
> as a people. Whoever wishes for genuine human progress must selflessly
> nurture the Nation Mind, a task that demands more humanity and more honesty
> and integrity than could be found in a human dictatorship. This is because
> by definition, human dictatorship is always inspired by a selfish desire to
> preclude opinions, views and practices that run counter to its own personal
> interests.
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>
>
> Now Dr. Jammeh, we would concede that at least one Gambian body has indeed
> seen some rather remarkable development since 1994 mostly to the exclusion
> of others.  We note that this particular Gambian body has been transformed
> from a slender structure with a rugged face and cracked lips to a large
> structure with a rotund and oily face that shines even in the darkest of
> nights. We note that it now dons neat white caps and flowing robes with
> bulging chest pockets, and habitually clutches a tool in one hand and a
> weapon in the other ostensibly for security and mystification purposes. We
> note that it owns an increasing number of hotels and banks and businesses
> and houses and large plots of land – and many other distorted symbols of
> Gambian modernity. Unfortunately, we note that its development has been
> warped, distorted and one-sided, feeding as it were on a very unhealthy diet
> of the blood and sweat of innocent persons and their God-given rights. In
> any case, Dr. Jammeh, it is with the development of the Nation Mind – a Mind
> that you stand accused of starving – that we are especially concerned about.
> God willing, we will elaborate on this theme in our next conversation.
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