Thanks Bro Fankung. Hope our "great leader" is paying heed. It is never too late to learn. Baba On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Fankung Fankung Jammeh < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Great commentary Baba > On Oct 25, 2011 6:09 AM, "Y Jallow" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Mawdo Baba, >> >> >> >> 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? >> >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> >> Keep them coming … >> >> >> >> Kind Regards, >> >> Yero >> >> >> *There is no god but Allah (SWT) and Muhammad (SAW) is His messenger. >> Fear and Worship only Allah alone!* >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:38:17 -0500 >> Subject: [>-<] Discourse with Dr. Jammeh: Nation Body and Nation Mind >> From: [log in to unmask] >> To: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; >> [log in to unmask] >> >> *Discourse with Dr. Jammeh: Nation Body and Nation Mind* >> >> >> >> By Baba Galleh Jallow >> >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> 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. 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