Mawdo you killing me with laughter. Loony is very interesting. We are eagerly waiting for 21
Muhammad Bai Drammeh
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On Fri, 3/2/17, Baba Jallow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Subject: [G_L] Smiling Forest Revisited - 20
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Friday, 3 February, 2017, 23:55
Loony’s last stand and how he stoutly insisted he
was the winner
By Baba Galleh
Jallow
As the deadline for Loony to step
down drew nearer, the
confused fox grew more and more insistent that he was the
true winner of the
contest in which he was smashed to the ground before the
very eyes of all the
animals of Smiling Forest and the entire big wide world. He
insisted that the
referee had stolen the match for his opponent and that he
was never going to
step down unless there was a rematch in which he would
appoint new, God-fearing
referees. He lodged a complaint with the Supreme Court whose
judges he would
appoint from the neighboring forests of Sirali and Nigari to
come nullify the
results of the match and declare him the winner. Every day
brought a new
barrage of meaningless threats to never quit power from
Loony. And every day
saw him more and more isolated as members of his inner
circle fled and members
of his cabinet absconded to neighboring forests and issued
statements asking
him to accept the reality of his defeat and step down.
But Loony remained adamant. He
increased the number of heavily
armed foxes on the streets of Smiling Forest and bragged
that he would fight to
the death to safeguard the independence and territorial
integrity of Smiling
Forest. Having trampled upon the rule of law and the
constitution of Smiling
Forest for 22 years, Loony suddenly became an ardent
advocate of respect for
the constitution and the rule of law. He suddenly became a
fanatic disciple of
constitutionalism and frequently quoted constitutional
provisions that he tried
to tweak to suit his purpose of abrogating his opponent’s
victory and staying
on in power. But the majority of the animals of Smiling
Forest called his
bluff. The victor insisted that come the end of Loony’s
term, he would be sworn
in as the new president of Smiling Forest. Movements cropped
up everywhere with
defiant and revolutionary slogans like
#SmilingForestHasDecided and
#LoonyMustGo! A furious Loony ordered the Mental
Surveillance Unit to crack down
and arrest any animals seen wearing T-shirts with these
slogans and to close
down all radio stations that dared to talk about his defeat
or any of these
movements. Four radio stations were immediately shut down
and several animals
picked up and sent to Loony’s notorious “five star
hotel.” Armed foxes that
were thought to be sympathetic to the victor were also
grabbed and taken to
unknown destinations. But nothing shook the animal’s
determination to bring
Loony’s reign of terror to an end. The hashtags
#NoRetreatNoSurrender and #WeAreTakingOurForestBack
mushroomed and multiplied around Smiling Forest, encouraging
the animals to
stand their ground and show Loony that true power belonged
to them and not to
Loony and his brutal government.
But many ordinary animals were
scared of war and decided to
leave Smiling Forest. The once happy and peaceful animals of
Smiling Forest
suddenly found themselves displaced and becoming refugees
either in the rural
areas of Smiling Forest or in neighboring forests. They
cursed Loony and
expressed their amazement that Loony could be so cruel and
hard-hearted as to
want to hang on to power even if it meant bringing war to
their peaceful
forest. Whole families fled Smiling Forest and often had to
beg for food and
shelter in neighboring forests in an attempt to save their
lives. Curses rained
down upon Loony like a violent hailstorm, but the mad fox
firmly shut his eyes
and stuffed his ears with mud to make sure that he neither
saw nor heard the
voice of reason and the world urging him to step down,
convincing him that his
time was up and that the Great God Yallah had indeed spoken.
Just nine days to the end of his
term, Loony’s evil plot to
hold the animals of Smiling Forest suffered another
devastating blow: The
mercenary judges he hired from the distant forests of Sirali
and Nigari refused
to come to Smiling Forest. They declared that they were not
ready to back up
his unjust claim to power. Loony was more furious and
confused than ever before,
but there was little he could do as the lone mercenary judge
in Smiling Forest
Chief Justice Fagbe da Log declared that the court could do
nothing unless it
had a quorum in several months’ time. Fagbe da Log
suggested somehow that Loony
should just negotiate his way out of the mess he had
created. But Loony, his
teeth firmly clenched, decided to immediately launch another
attempt at hanging
on to power. He declared that he was going to make a law
that would grant
amnesty to any animal that had committed a crime for the
past two months and
that he was in fact a forgiving fox, a fox of peace and
security and a fox who
had the greatest faith ever in the Great God Yallah. Opening
his horse’s mouth
big and wide, he thus addressed the animals: “I know that
some of you are
running away saying that Loony wants to bring war into this
forest. That is not
true. I am a fox of peace and security. I assure all of you
animals that peace
will prevail. But only my own personal Supreme Court can
validate the results
of this match that that crooked referee stole for my
opponent. The so-called
Association of Neighboring Forests is interfering in the
internal affairs of my
personal forest, and they are declaring war on my personal
forest. But let them
come here. I will show them who I am. I will face them and
fight them and
defeat them so badly they will leave their shoes and flee
for their lives. I
will rule this forest for a billion years and if any one
doesn’t like it they
can go to hell.”
The truth was that by this time
Loony was extremely rattled
around both by the approaching fierce armed foxes of the
Association of
Neighboring Forests and especially by some strange stories
making the rounds
around Smiling Forest about something called “Dragon
Fire”. He was particularly
troubled that this so-called “Dragon Fire” was said to
be ‘quasi invisible’ and
had laser beams and other frightful capabilities for
ferreting out its targets
and incinerating them. Loony heard the strange rumors but
was both mollified
and petrified when he read about them from someone called
“Winged Scorpion.” What
do they mean dragon fire and winged scorpion? Whoever heard
such frightful
names? Loony shivered and his teeth clattered like plates as
he sat alone in
his big private room pondering these strange things. He was
so shaken that
several times, he got up and prowled around the room,
shaking from head to foot
and wondering just what they mean by dragon fire and winged
scorpion. The
latter name sounded particularly frightening; for while he
was certainly no
stranger to scorpions, the idea of a winged scorpion sounded
too spooky for his
rattled nerves.
Meanwhile, efforts by the
association of neighboring forests
to mediate the impasse and convince Loony to step down
peacefully continued.
The neighboring forest of Nigari, whose president was the
chief mediator kindly
offered Loony asylum if he agreed to step down. Less than a
week before Loony’s
term expired, Muhari the giraffe, president of Nigari Forest
traveled for a second
time to Smiling Forest in a last bid to make the mad fox see
reason. But the
animals of Smiling Forest were not optimistic. They knew
Loony was a psychopath
and psychopaths never see reason, unless it is reason that
serves their own
interest or reason backed by force or a very credible threat
of force. While
his victorious opponent slated to become the new leader of
Smiling Forest in a
few days sounded optimistic that the impasse could end
peacefully, and said
Loony could stay in Smiling Forest, many animals were
skeptical and believed
that Loony would only leave power if he were to be
physically grabbed and
forcefully dragged or driven out of power. Some of them
reasoned that the Great
God Yallah was a God of miracles and would perhaps perform a
miracle that would
make Loony accept his faith to become an ordinary fox again.
Everywhere in
Smiling Forest and around the world, animals hoped and
prayed for such a
miracle as they waited to see what became of Muhari the
giraffe’s latest trip
to Smiling Forest. The animals were not surprised when they
saw Muhari the
giraffe stomping angrily out of Loony’s palace, his
mediation efforts having proved
futile. In fact, Loony had rudely told Muhari to his face
that he should go take
care of the rebels in his own forest rather than meddle in
the internal affairs
of Smiling Forest. He roundly told Muhari and everyone in
the Association of
Neighboring Forests and the whole big wide world to go to
hell because he would
never allow himself to be cheated of his legitimate victory.
“I will rule this
forest for a billion years and if you don’t like it you
can go to hell Muhari!”
he angrily ranted. “You say your armed foxes will attack
me. Let them attack. Bulay
bulay bulay, I will show them who Loony
is!”
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