Essa,
No i just have the ramnents in my mind iam sure someone can help!
I will ask my musically inclined mind friends around someone got to know!
      u welcomed  karl


>From: Elow Wole <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: RE (There is beauty in diversity)
>Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 17:15:04 GMT
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>Kalilu:  I like your piece and it reminds me of a poem I read a few years
>ago.  Can you polish the edges (show the actual stanzas etc) and resend it?
>Do you remeber the title?  Thanks!
>
>Essa
>
>
>>From: kalilu camara <[log in to unmask]>
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>>Subject: Re: RE (There is beauty in diversity)
>>Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 16:54:29 GMT
>>
>>My Dear Brother,
>>Can i agree with you more, no ,noway.There is beauty in diversity,
>>both in look and deed!What seem to be the missing link here is trust.
>>My dear sister wants to learn? Well this is how you can tell.
>>You can tell the tree by the fruit that it bears. We need a system so that
>>no body will mess us up either my thwist or sear ignorance.We need armed
>>forces that will not tolerate being molded by false decrees
>>and everchanging constitutions.We want to protect you my sister.We are so
>>far away in abroad we could sit still and say nothing and let young
>>flesh bake in the oven. But we can imagine and our conscience will
>>not allow us to be silennt anymore! This is not always of our free will
>>all the time to scream and shout from a distance.My dear sister i suggest
>>this song (From a distance God is Watching Us)? I dont know the singer but
>>someone up in here knows.My sister if we want to dance the dance we have
>>to
>>work the work.Work has we have discovered is not
>>a muscular strain alone even Donkeys do that!What we need is a collective
>>application of our God given presence to make an urgent
>>difference we need you and your kind to trust in our endeavour.
>>Nothing is going to come without our collective spirit.Many more are on
>>death row!Its so apparent and yet still so invisible like the infamous
>>statue! If  the fruit  is testated stinky and offensive then the time to
>>remove the tree is now.How many more Young Gambians lives
>>do u want us to sacrifice in silence; now dont shake your head tell me!
>>How many 12 !00,?100? the oven is bought and portable! It is new and never
>>been used the fingers are itching and uncertain!The natural
>>course of action is to find the sense inwards and say forgive me for i
>>know
>>not the pain i cause you,the natural response is yes you are forgiven for
>>the sake of God! And wisedom of time you a free to leave!
>>Now away go and find the soldier within u! Give him that.God is the
>>council.
>>NO one is going to reduce me to their level!I have seen big
>>lights deem in the distance, i have seen stars die young, riches
>>reduced to same and anger, I have nothing to proof to no one including
>>myself! I have a painful conscience that is dogging my souls, while
>>statues
>>of fools swallow the young, can you imagine that!!!None is made of wood
>>everyone hurt all the same.Let Yaya do his own laudary and leave us alone
>>there are much more things in life more fulfilling than being
>>the"President"
>>that he is, he keep saying i dont want that title. Then resign! dont you
>>have the guts to face the uncertainty!This is the uncertainty you are
>>unknowingly subjecting more than a million others like yourself to!Dont
>>deny
>>our emotins because u dont live in us we do!
>>And dont dare talk about you understand us better than bla bla bla....
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>From: saiks samateh <[log in to unmask]>
>>>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
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>>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>>Subject: RE (There is beauty in diversity)
>>>Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 06:24:14 PDT
>>>
>>>Dear Sister,
>>>
>>>Your mail was brought to my attention yesterday almost at the same time
>>>when I
>>>was informed of the arrest and detention of the General(Momodou Domo
>>>Saho)who
>>>could have also been another SOS or another commissioner if he wanted,but
>>>will
>>>never  identify himself with a regime that goes on murdering defenceless
>>>students,he spent must of his time and energy giving support to students
>>>who
>>>have been drop-outs from school because they either did not have money to
>>>pay
>>>their fees or something else,such people will never be spear by a fascist
>>>regime.
>>>To your points,at one moment I decided not even to reply since it was too
>>>personal,nothing political,nothing objective.
>>>See here, you said;
>>>Being anxious like Pa Dacosta I want to know who gave the orders...
>>>
>>>Hmm ,is it not ridiculous if we have an army that can shot and kill
>>>innocent
>>>students and yet we do not know "who gave the Orders"what type of army is
>>>this?should  such and army not be dissolved immediately before it happens
>>>again since the order of command could come from no where,lets call for
>>>it
>>>now
>>>before some else close to us becomes a victim,my dear sister.
>>>
>>>You wrote;
>>>You believe in your self.You believe that you are incorruptible.Why are
>>>you
>>>not able to recognize the fact that somebody else might be in possession
>>>of
>>>a
>>>similar positive trait....
>>>
>>>Sister,I have gone again through what I wrote and I found nothing there
>>>of
>>>such statement,this is your own story.I have many friends and political
>>>friends,it is a question of being a schizophrenic to believe that one is
>>>the
>>>only "incorruptible"person in the Gambian with a population of more than
>>>one
>>>million people.I have no personality problem to the extend of seeing my
>>>person
>>>in this light.
>>>You wrote:
>>>I can contribute some crowns to the funds,order Soffie Ceesays Gamsu
>>>T-shirt
>>>to name a few.At the same time allowing others too to do their duty.Saiks
>>>where is your collective spirit.
>>>
>>>Sister,history could sometime be very short,believe me but it is only
>>>life
>>>human beings who make history !!!Sofie is part of a collective,it is a
>>>collective spirit that produce those T-Shirts and not Soffie as an
>>>individual,there are no "Soffie Ceesays Gamsu shirt" but Gamsu T-shirts
>>>produce by the labour of a collective spirit and for the collective
>>>struggle
>>>against this fascist regime.I am also a member of that collective.
>>>You see the struggle is not a struggle for collection of charities,it a
>>>struggle to bring about social change in the interest of our
>>>people.Sister
>>>this is an issue concerning among other things the brutal murder of
>>>innocent
>>>children,the torture and illegal arrest and detention of ordinary people.
>>>
>>>You wrote again,
>>>
>>>During your stay abroad what in the name of the struggle you doing in
>>>London-Oslo?During your stay abroad what contacts have you made during
>>>your
>>>studies to be able to channel medical resources Home?
>>>
>>>If perhaps you dont know I leave in Oslo and not in London.We perhaps
>>>have
>>>agree here that we have a different interpretation of what the struggle
>>>is
>>>all
>>>about.If you have the liberty to ask me what I have done to better the
>>>condition of that dirty and poor RVH and yet still demand from me not to
>>>question those who collect tax monies,go the world round taking loans in
>>>the
>>>name of the Gambian ,only to use that money to buy bullets and murder
>>>children
>>>instead of incubators,or x-ray machines, build bunkers and palacess or
>>>buy
>>>an
>>>airplane instead of creating jobs,by bandage and medicines for the
>>>hospitals,give our children a better education,then my dear sister the
>>>intention of your response have a hidden agenda.
>>>One of my boss received this letter from the RVH,reference
>>>nr.RVH/36VOL.II,dated16 july 1998,
>>>
>>>......On behalf of the Hospital management board,I seize this opportunity
>>>to
>>>extend my sincere gratitude for the generous donations.......
>>>
>>>Sister even though these things were sent to the Gambia,they never
>>>changed
>>>the
>>>condition of the people,in fact in the same letter there was the demand
>>>for
>>>more.Who should you bring to accountability ,me ? because I am speaking
>>>against the brutality of this fascist regime ?
>>>
>>>You wrote again:
>>>
>>>You were home guess during the crisis,where you at the hospital to render
>>>your
>>>service ?
>>>
>>>Yes my dear Sister I was home then.No I was not at the hospital but right
>>>there where does children were brutally murdered under my very eyes,one
>>>of
>>>them was even dying in my own hands,I hope you get this because I have
>>>said
>>>this before.And I will tell you if not good luck who knows I might have
>>>been
>>>another victim,that does not concern this forum and I will not go into
>>>details
>>>here,but I wash my hands and feet from blood stain of the innocent
>>>children
>>>at
>>>the Red Cross ground.
>>>
>>>To conclude my dear sister,the struggle is something permanent,there are
>>>no
>>>short cuts to victory,the masses them selves must come to that end,to
>>>believe
>>>that one can make a revolution through military coups is wrong.Why did we
>>>not
>>>learn from Burkina Fasso,from Liberia,from Chana,fron Grenada etc.The
>>>consequences are the very one we are having,the murder of Ousman Koro
>>>Ceesay,the murder of innocent students,the farmers ground-nuts,the
>>>bunker,the
>>>zoo,the palace,the roots coming home festival,the lack of jobs,the
>>>unlawful
>>>arrest and detention,how can we defend all these things.Or do we have to
>>>conclude with what  C.L R James said,that "The question of men who carry
>>>out
>>>certain progressive agitation and then betray the cause is a commonplace
>>>of
>>>history" The struggle continues.
>>>
>>>For freedom
>>>Saiks
>>>
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