Burama,
It is not be about what you or I prefer, it is what the situation
demands. The Gambia under Jammeh is nothing new in this world, from the
"immortal" Pharoah in the people of the book to infamous mortals like
Pinochet, Idi Amin, Bokassa, Samuel Doe, Mobutu, Saikou Toure, Saddam,
Qadafi and now Campoare. All comes down to man consumed by urge to be
alpha-dog among their peers. I am not a psycho-analyst but these
people can hardly contained themselves when challenged. And history has
taught us that none of these chaps wake up in morning and say they
give-up or retire. In fact the contrary is true. To them each day is
consumed by what can they do to last even longer, first making sure they
"newlal" their hair as gray suggests mortality. In addition to
maintaining their youthful image, they want to us to perceive them as
daring machos who will bring down the sky if provoked! And they mean
that too. Those infected by this power bug can not safe themselves, and
literally have to be subdued!
Subdue does not necessarily mean we must go to war. We were told the
Pharoah was so powerful that the Almighty God had to be directly
involved in his subdue! Our most recent mortals had to be wrestled,
sometimes forcefully. The trouble is even in the dog world, a deposed
alpha-dog is at best kicked out of the pack and often left to die a
miserable death! Unlike you and I who do not live the life of alpha-dog,
these guys know exactly what it means to lose and as such will do
everything in their power to prolong their tenure! The fact is the
longer these folks stay in control the more damage they do themselves,
the country and people they claim to love.
As to responding to you question on "how do we subdue the knife guy
(Yahya) .."? The people of the book taught us that even the Almighty
God conspired against the Pharoah by hiding from him the identity of
"boy" (Musa) or his methods, whose destiny would be to end his rule. In
other words, such methods are best discussed in backrooms and not chat
rooms!
Malanding
On 11/11/2014 12:29 AM, Burama Jammeh wrote:
> Malanding
>
> Share how do we subdue the knife guy (Yahya) first - if that’s your
> preferred approach?
>
> If others preferred the various approaches you referred to - I
> preferred as in the original posting - where am I wrong?
>
> Burama
>
>
>> On Nov 10, 2014, at 5:55 PM, Malanding Jaiteh <[log in to unmask]
>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>>
>> Burama,
>> Some will argue that Mr. Jammeh's hold on the Gambia is no different
>> from a lone guy holding hostage a bus load of passengers. It's all
>> about "hedging one's bet". When life is threatened some prefer to
>> "play dead" or "surrender the cash box" so to speak until they are
>> sure what the future holds. Yes we can blame the "enablers",
>> "collaborators" or the Almighty God who created mankind that raised
>> the knife-wielding thug? Most people will want to first subdue the
>> knife wielding maniac, " jump on the guy when the chance is right"
>> before putting in place controls to avoid another incident.
>>
>> Malanding
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11/10/2014 4:35 PM, Burama Jammeh wrote:
>>> Your rationale at best is flawed and worst is wrong. You said bunch
>>> of smart people but one person (Yahya) trampled on is all. You may
>>> be right many smart people but our problem has nothing or little to
>>> do with smartness. After all of our political problems are the
>>> creation of these supposed smart people and not the farmers, vendors
>>> and tax drivers, etc. More importantly though, if your
>>> characterization of Yahya holds did you ever told other efforts
>>> such as contesting elections against Yahya is futile?
>>>
>>> I mentioned that in fact our laws weren't too bad but the
>>> implementation - that until enough requisite capacity obtain amongst
>>> our people functioning democracy will never show up at our shores.
>>> These problems started long before Yahya and likely to continue if
>>> we should succeed with the current election agenda. The only
>>> difference is - it will be another person.
>>>
>>> Let me agree with you for a moment - let the smart people come out
>>> and tell us what we can/could do. Is not enough to say Yahya is so
>>> bad that about 2 million population has not solution with all that
>>> smart people.
>>>
>>> I will submit that the supposed smart folks are our problem - they
>>> created everything that's wrong in country. Fifty years and counting
>>> - cut a check at the office of accountant general - 5 minutes later
>>> no one can trace its route with documentation.
>>>
>>> I salute the farmers, vendors, masoner, carpenters, tax drivers,
>>> etc. who pay their taxes and/or royalties and in return not loot the
>>> public coffer.
>>>
>>> This is not insinuating that every learned Gambian is bad - am only
>>> saying amongst them we grow all these problems.
>>>
>>> Burama
>>>
>>> On Monday, November 10, 2014, Malanding Jaiteh <[log in to unmask]
>>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Burama,
>>> To answer your question at the end, this is pure poppycock to
>>> put it mildly, as long as Mr. Jammeh calls the shots in Banjul!
>>> The Gambia's problem is not about lack of smart people, or lack
>>> of good ideas or good laws. The problem is twenty years ago
>>> someone decided to take the government BY FORCE!! During these
>>> years he removed long-term civil servants at will and without
>>> compensation for their service, incarcerated citizens for
>>> refusing to give up their properties and businesses, executed
>>> military officers for "conspiring against him" without the right
>>> to a fair trial, and even denied the remains of opponents to be
>>> interred in the Gambia. Go read the current constitution and
>>> tell me where such acts are condone.
>>>
>>> Now how do you re-write the constitution, create environment and
>>> mechanisms to uphold the constitution when Mr. Jammeh is calling
>>> the shots in Banjul? Really?
>>>
>>> Malanding Jaiteh
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/10/2014 1:32 PM, Burama Jammeh wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 1)Rewrite the constitution:
>>>>
>>>> -that recognizes The Gambia as a republic and the people have
>>>> collective responsibility to manage it (the constitution didn’t
>>>> create the republic)
>>>>
>>>> -that numerates our rights as a recognition but not creation
>>>> hence guarantee their maximum protection
>>>>
>>>> -create a limited, separated and decentralized governance
>>>> structure with clearly defined authorities
>>>>
>>>> -free the constitution of matters are should be legislated such
>>>> as parastatal divesture
>>>>
>>>> -limit the role of the presidency to half a page (font 11) and
>>>> the whole constitution 25 pages or less
>>>>
>>>> -etc
>>>>
>>>> 2)Create environment and mechanisms to uphold and defend the
>>>> constitution. This is difficult than writing one. This is where
>>>> we have always failed. Our constitution as is not terrible but
>>>> the adherence is almost 100% none existence. To ensure such
>>>> will not be a one off activity but multiple level and task efforts.
>>>>
>>>> 3)Rule of law the dictator of everything state
>>>>
>>>> 4)Due process of law dictator of everything state
>>>>
>>>> 5)Maintenance of basic social data for inform decision making
>>>> and accountability
>>>>
>>>> 6)Capacity building – a people can’t sustain democracy if they
>>>> do not acquire the requisite capacity to live a life of a democrat
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Numbers 2 is the most difficult task here. Numbers 6 is the
>>>> most important and is only possible with a tangible republican
>>>> environment.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is the(a) only common agenda. This is the only agenda that
>>>> guaranteed equal opportunity Gambia for all of us.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Giving the current political and socioeconomic environment in
>>>> The Gambia and our disjointed struggle – how do we do this?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The first essential step is communication…lets begin the
>>>> discussion of what really matters.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Burama
>>>>
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