Thanks for the observation Lekbi, it is appreciated.
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>Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:44:06 -0500
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>Malik,
>
>Your points are well taken and you make a good argument defending your
>position , but I think you might also be equally guilty in your style of
>writing. Using words like superlatives, verbosity,quagmire is in my
>opinion "OBFUSCATING" meaning you are using big words.
>
>Your arguments are very constructive, but yet not easy to understand by
>the average reader.
>
>Just an observation!
>
>
>Best Regards,
>
>Lekbi
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> malik kah
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>Ngorr, I did not realised that you could rival Stanley Unwin, the comedian
>that made talking nonsense an art. As I read your piece with the
>hyperboles, the velvety adjectives and superlatives, I concluded that
>something most be missing with you up there!, instead of engaging on issues
>of substance you hide behind high sounding superlatives and adjectives
>convinced that you are talking sense, how sad.
>
>I presume that you do not read the stuff you write, because if you do, you
>would have realised that it is all waffle, impregnated with high sounding
>words and no substance. After reading through your last posting I became
>convinced that am dealing with a desperate self styled so called
>intellectual nonentity, who assumes that to impress one must employ
>linguistic sophistication, with velvety adjectives and superlatives, I beg
>to differ. I belong to a school of thought that advocates for simplicity
>in
>communication and not verbosity.
>
>We must cease mystifying the people and express ourselves in the simplest
>term. That way we can reach out a variety of readers, but people like your
>type are never happy unless you employ high sounding words interwoven in
>phrases that are so intricate that the essence of the content is lost in
>the
>linguistic quagmire.
>
>My intention is to refute your misleading assertions, and not to engage
>you in your intellectual gimmicks and semantics.
>
>In your last piece of garbage you have demostrated a high level of
>intellectual dishonesty. All your efforts in that piece were geared to
>discrediting PDOIS and HALIFA, you desperately tried to show that Halifa is
>inconsistent and you submitted Halifa's interview on Jawara to compliment
>your assertions.
>
>Halifa's intergrity as an individual needs no defending, he has
>demonstrated
>to the Gambian people his humility, sincerety and above all
>consistency,hence for you to cover up behind Jawara's pardon and make
>personal attacks on him would be fruitless, you cannot dent his genuiness.
>
>The Gambia has in him an individual that is selfless and comitted.
>Testimony
>to this is the fact that he is constantly invited by students,
>professional
>bodies, the Radio, TV and the general public, to give lectures and share
>his
>wisdom, he is never found wanting. Needless to tell you that he has written
>more than any Gambian, on all social, economic, political and cultural
>issues. His and his compatriots style of politics is a novelty and that is
>what dunder heads like you have problem with. Halifa consistently defends
>the intrest of the Gambian people. From day one of the coup, it was him and
>his compatriots that stood in defiance of the coup makers. This was at a
>time when Jammeh and his colleagues were much more crude and could have
>easily killed them, but for them, defending the rights of the Gambian
>people
>was of a highier consideration than any parochial issue. It was Halifa and
>PDOIS almost single handedly fought the no election agenda, they fought for
>a consultative committee to which the APRC eventually yielded and eminent
>Gambians such Baba Galleh with many others were enlisted to carry out the
>consultation exercise.
>
>Preceeding that process PDOIS distributed a lot of civic literature and
>conducted radio programmes to enlighten the people about what was
>transpiring. Day and night these people committed themselves to ensuring
>that ultimately the Gambian would decide. Eventually the Gambian people
>won
>and elections has become the way of determinig who runs the affairs of the
>country. It is clear that Halifa and compatriots, more than anything else
>has been consistent. They have always stood and defended the Gambian people
>in the most desperate of times, yet people like you still castigate their
>efforts. You and your breed cannot deter them or distract them from this
>voacation they are as focused as ever before, teaching the Gambian people
>so
>that they will become the comanders of their own destiny. To be making
>refrences about statements that Halifa made regarding Jawara's pardon is
>completely mischievious deliberately designed to camouflage and muddle up
>the issues. Jawara's presence or absence is of no consequence to what PDOIS
>does.
>
>Jawara is not a relivant factor and if he is so imporatnt to you as a
>political figure head then you better brace yourself, before you are caught
>pants down, for rumours are rife that he is engaged in behind the scenes
>negotiations to work as a good will ambassador for the APRC!. If this
>happens to be the case I expect to see you in your consistent inconsitency,
>belabouring, in an effort to wriggle yourself out, in a cacophony of
>sounds.
>
>I am absolutely convinced that you do not understand the issue of class
>intrest, because if you did then we would not be holding this discussion.
>The reason why PDOIS can never assume a role in Jammeh's government or be
>apologetic to Jammeh is embeded in in this contradiction and conversley
>this
>is the reason precisely why Jawara and Dibba could easily fit under
>Jammeh's
>fold. To understand this would have save you the naive conclusion you
>arrived at regarding Jammeh and PDOIS. PDOIS will never play second fiddle
>to Jammeh because they are diametrically opposite one stands to liberate,
>educate and empower whiles the other stands to dominate, exploit and
>oppress. With such opposing aspirations they can never converge, unlike the
>petty burgoise aspirants. This is the reason why to continue to accuse
>PDOIS
>of being an apologist is either due to political naivety or deliberate
>propaganda, designed primarily to misled the gullible.
>
>Jammeh more than anybody knows where his biggest opposition lies, despite
>all the fuss I positive to assert that Jammeh fears the process of
>enlightenment more than anything else for if the people become aware then
>they can be able to distinguish the the genuine from the fake until then,
>they will be wittnessing politicians changing sides with lots of excuses.
>The road to liberation is education eventhough it may be long.
>
>Needless to remind you that at the onset of the military take over it was
>only Sidia and Halifa who stood up in defence of the Gambian people and
>this
>position remains. Their refusal is based not on sentiments but on
>principle.
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