I salute you brother,
Yours are indeed true words. For if we tolerate those
who deny us and our families that very pleasure, then
we empower them to be even more intolerable to us and
to do with us as they please. Yahya and his Junta
have continually shown their lack of respect for the
Gambian people's rights and their lack of teolerance
in any way shape or form. Why then should we tolerate
them at the expense of our freedom and basic rights?
Keep speaking your truth brother, and those who see
the truth and are not afraid to speak it, will always
rally behind you and give you solidarity. FOR NEVER
AGAIN MUST OUR CHILDREN BE SLUTTERED WHILE WE STAND
AND WATCH!!!!!
SIGGA
--- Hamjatta Kanteh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> It seems this case of tolerance will never die
> and it will be the new
> tour de force for apologists of the dictatorship to
> revamp their flagging
> support online. One can understand the historical
> amnesia of some of these
> Fascist apologists because with some people,
> personal relationships no matter
> how corruptible they may sound in defending, is
> dearer than the truth.
> Perhaps it will not be remiss of me to remind
> these people that no one is
> keeping any Jammeh supporter from making known
> his/her views. I don't board
> flights to Banjul or Paris to stop people from using
> their PCs/Laptops and
> sending their postings in. If at any rate these
> Jammeh lickspittles have
> suddenly become reticent, it is because they don't
> have a case worth arguing
> in front of rational beings. And they know lies and
> twisted facts will
> inexorably be shredded to pieces once they appear
> here.
> Who on earth can justify THE ORDER OF JAMMEH TO
> PARAMILITARY FORCES TO
> SHOOT AT UNARMED SCHOOL CHILDREN ON A PEACEFUL
> DEMONSTRATION? These children
> were not tolerated but we should tolerate the lies
> and fabrication from
> Tombong, Essa et al in the name of tolerance? Are
> you people serious? Or is
> it simply you have no blood relatives murdered in
> broad daylight by these
> Jammeh goons and so it easy to day dream in your
> relative comfort of that
> ideal world of tolerance whilst people are in pain
> and nothing is being done
> about it? The perpetrators of these crimes are
> walking the streets of Banjul
> in relative comfort whilst the victims bleed in
> hospitals with little or no
> basic medical care whilst some of them are rotting
> beneath the ground, and
> you expect me to tolerate such a situation? Young
> lives wasted unnecessarily
> and in the defence of a crazy kleptomaniac who is
> taking the Gambia fast down
> the drain. You expect me to tolerate such an
> intolerant situation? You expect
> me tolerate someone who wouldn't tolerate me? If
> this is not gross naivety
> then it must be petty hypocrisy masking itself as
> benign well meaning concern
> for tolerance.
> I have said that I can tolerate virtually all
> kinds of people
> irrespective of their leanings or origins socially,
> politically and
> economically. I have friends, colleagues, intimates
> and the rest of it who
> are as different from me as night is of day. Yet
> [and rightly so] they expect
> tolerance and do get it from me. But this comes with
> a price tag; they have
> to tolerate me as well. If they don't, then they
> forfeit the right to expect
> of me tolerance. In short tolerance is hinged on the
> principle that you live
> and let live. Like rights, the day you encroach on
> another's or stop being
> tolerant, you cease having the right to expect it
> from another. As Karl
> Popper once put it lucidly, "we should therefore
> claim, in the name of
> tolerance, the right not to tolerate the
> intolerant." Like my forerunner
> Popper, I'm claiming that it is incumbent on us to
> be intolerant to an
> intolerable person like Jammeh in the name of
> tolerance.
> If the tolerance that some of you had just
> realised as missing in Gambian
> discourse was something in Jammeh, then people
> wouldn't even adopt such
> stances as being sick and tired of the situation
> back home. I wonder when you
> will have the guts to write to Jammeh directly or
> call him personally and
> preach to him the need to tolerate others with
> opposing view points. If that
> message gets into his thickhead, we wouldn't have to
> express our disgust each
> time he orders the maiming, shooting and murder of
> Gambian lives with such
> impunity. Of all the people that had either directly
> or indirectly been
> killed/murdered since 1994, none of them's family
> has had any chance to
> access to social justice. And we still have people
> who have the nerve to
> expect us to be tolerant of such a situation? The
> long and short of it is
> that with Jammeh and everything he stands for,
> Gambians have come to the
> point of no longer accepting any nonsense from these
> people. Enough is enough.
> With respect to the lady who raised the whole
> issue, if you can name me
> any Scandinavian/European country where intolerant
> and extreme groups like
> the neo Nazis/Fascists are tolerated then I will you
> know that you are just
> great. It is all very well to sit in the relative
> comfort of your house in
> Europe drooling about tolerance whilst those who are
> at the receiving end of
> Jammeh's intolerance each day has to suffer and
> expect of them to tolerate
> such a situation. History does have a buck you know.
> That is worth
> remembering in these difficult periods.
> Till then I shall continue to be intolerant to the
> intolerant notwithstanding
> all the heckles and uneasy glances I get from
> people. Each time the Jammeh
> gang send anything preposterous on the List, I shall
> not relent in throttling
> it of the life force and dancing on its grave. Call
> it intolerance and by God
> it is Intolerance with a capital I.
> Hamjatta Kanteh
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> hkanteh
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