Thanks again Hamjatta. Are you accessing your private mailbox? KB >From: Hamjatta Kanteh <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: The Alternative >Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 18:57:41 GMT > >KB, >What makes this whole thing bizarre and ironic is that we the oppressed are >even paying our opressors with the the hard earned moneys we pay through >taxes! As i said earlier, we must ask ourselves as conscientious free >beings >whether it is not about time we question assenting the moral authority of >of >an illegal regime that is oppressing us each day? The contract between us >and the State has been breached and since the basis of the contract is our >implicit consent to being governed, then we must therefore ask in the name >of that consent, the moral imperative to be handed back our consent. If >this >is resisted, we must do all within our limited powers to wrest our consent >from the immoral regime that the gov't has become. >Your point that the opposition should question whether to participate in >elections if there ever is any, is a good observation. I have made that >suggestion earlier before this crisis erupted. Another politician who >intimated such views is Hamat Bah in an interview with the Independent >sometime ago. The opposition should not involve in anything where the >playing field is not level and where a player is also a referee as we saw >in >the 1996 presidential elections. >Hamjatta Kanteh >________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L >Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------