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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