Kejau Being human or citizen as in this case to perform your civil rights is different from holding to the professional standards/ethics/norms of journalism. Equally a lawyer can/should legally defend his/her client but that is not to say s/he should lie at court, which in itself is a crime. America's democracy is in many problems partily because of those things you just sighted. When people's watchdogs become interested parties...... Burama On Tuesday, September 23, 2014, Kejau Touray <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Mr. E!. > > Journalists are human and as such support of political parties of their > choices in healthy democracies. I remembered I argued with Suntou Touray > when I started Gambia Daily News around 2008, well before Kibaro, Kairo > news or even Gainako, here or on Gambia Post. > Gambian journalist often pride themselves as not supporting any political > party openly whilst in the Western world, newspapers and their owners are > lobbied by political parties to support their stance and they always take a > stance. For instance in UK, Mirror supports Labour whilst the Sun supports > the Conservatives. > > Kejau > > ------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 13:34:23 -0400 > From: [log in to unmask] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml',[log in to unmask]);> > Subject: Re: Journalist Taking Side > To: [log in to unmask] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml',[log in to unmask]);> > > Demba > > Thanks > > Burama > > On Tuesday, September 23, 2014, Demba Baldeh <[log in to unmask] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml',[log in to unmask]);>> wrote: > > You right Burama... But I think one of the reasons these other forces for > example the UN is because they don't have a unified command under one > system as you said. Nato is a success story as they have a unified command. > They succeeded in Libya, Afghanistan, in Yugoslavia etc... They did a lot > better than the UN peace keeping force. > > We should give credit to the UN peace keeping force as well in Darfur, > Siera Leone, Estimo etc. As I mentioned a similar idea was floated in > Africa where Nigeria who has more resources and military force can take the > lead commanding a security force where they can intervene... > > I also think it is a good strategic idea for America to move away from > Unilateralism - going it alone as if they break it their are often stuck > with the burden to fix it. Their intervention in Libya was a good example > where they refused to go it alone as compared to Iraq. This is a good > strategy for the US because problems of the world must be shared with > others. > > Once in a while though America elects a neocon... like George Bush who > think America should intervene in every part of the world. I like Obama's > resistance to invading countries. War is expensive and often the poor > people and soldiers pay for the cost.. So why go it alone if Saudi can pay > half of the cost to protect their own kingdom... American? Yes, can you > blame them - well every nation should be protecting their interest first > and foremost.. > > Thanks > Demba > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Burama Jammeh <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > Demba > > I could go along on the idea of Global Force. > > Easy in theory & hard in practice. Remember there is UN and supposedly > should take care of these global issues that cut across national borders. > It couldn't work well (even peace keeping roles) because there is no > international standards uphold by all. Equally interests are different. > > NATO is another we could consider here. Besides the core role of defending > the member nation against external aggression, they can hardly agree on > anything - latest example is Libya intervention (some participate some > not). In addition NATO is 80/90% America. > > The other concern at least from Bill's position is to fill that force with > non Americans with American command. What's going on here? Is Gambian (any > other nationality) son/daughter expendable than American son/daughter? In > short I am troubled with the idea that they will be in the air and someone > else take the ground - at least the manner is sold! > > America may not police the world nor should they pay for all these > conflicts but if America ID ISIS as a national security problem, unless > they can find someone else who view that organization the same they have to > do the job to take them out. I don't think that a problem for instance for > Gambia today. And Gambia may participate in an international effort but > when you tell us to grad the worst end....... > > The Arab leaders and the trillions.......another story! > > Regards > > Burama > > > On Tuesday, September 23, 2014, Demba Baldeh <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Burama, > > I don't agree with O'reilly much but I like that idea of a global force > (just like the UN peace keeping).. The fact is that will prevent America > from not only using its military but paying for everything to police the > world... Those ignoramus leaders in the middle east and Africa sitting on > trillions of wealth will pay for the wars and America can safe some money... > > Since they are expected to intervene in every conflict zone in the world, > why not form that global force? I think Africa can benefit from forming its > own peace keeping force to force those petty dictators from killing their > people for nothing... > > thanks > > Demba > > > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Burama Jammeh <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > Did you listen to Bill Oreilly’s Talking Point Memo this evening……..He > suggested forming a Global Mercenary fighting force under American control. > > Am all for routing out evil. But America has National Army - why not > deploy them? I guess my question is - who’re the alien people to be this > supposed fighting machine (the expendables) and not Americans? Sounds > familiar - ‘no booths on the ground’ but expecting someone be there. > > The second point is - if the threat is serious enough, its the president's > responsibility to explain to citizens why the need to fight that > fight………instead public opinion is dictating their thoughts and action. > Unfortunately the public are not preview to all intelligent matters. > Journalists! Politicians!…….. > > Home front………many of us also settled on the notion that someone will solve > our problems. Different nation and different subject matter but the same > mindset. It hardly work! > > Burama > > On Sep 22, 2014, at 4:35 PM, Husainou < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Solo that is why we've got two parties and also one of reasons Fox News > Network and MSNBC are around .The country is colored in red,blue ,purple > states. I'm New York resident, always love to read the Daily News and > favorite news channels are MSNBC and CNN. I'm sure folks in Texas will do > quite the opposite from me. C'est la vie > Hous > > > > > On Sep 22, 2014, at 1:11 PM, Burama Jammeh <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > How scary journalist publicly taking side in America democracy? > > What was/is good/bad under Bush maybe another thing completely under > Obama. And you can use any 2 presidents of opposing parties - only > differences are is now getting more obvious. > > I always thought journalism is something opposite to that. > > Burama > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To > unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web > interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html To Search > in the Gambia-L archives, go to: > http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the > List Management, please send an e-mail to: > [log in to unmask] > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ > > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To > unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web > interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html To Search > in the Gambia-L archives, go to: > http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the > List Management, please send an e-mail to: > [log in to unmask] > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ > > > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To > unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web > interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html To Search > in the Gambia-L archives, go to: > http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the > List Management, please send an e-mail to: > [log in to unmask] > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ > > > > > -- > *"Be the change you want to see in the World"* > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To > unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web > interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html To Search > in the Gambia-L archives, go to: > http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the > List Management, please send an e-mail to: > [log in to unmask] > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ > > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To > unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web > interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html To Search > in the Gambia-L archives, go to: > http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the > List Management, please send an e-mail to: > [log in to unmask] > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ > > > > > -- > *"Be the change you want to see in the World"* > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To > unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web > interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html To Search > in the Gambia-L archives, go to: > http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the > List Management, please send an e-mail to: > [log in to unmask] > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ > > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To > unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web > interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html To Search > in the Gambia-L archives, go to: > http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the > List Management, please send an e-mail to: > [log in to unmask] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml',[log in to unmask]);> > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To > unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web > interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html > > To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: > http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the > List Management, please send an e-mail to: > [log in to unmask] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml',[log in to unmask]);> > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤